Tag Archive: Lhakar Diaries

Fear of the Unknown

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For the past month, as the number of self-immolations climbed, my adviser and I sat down several times, trying to figure out activities we can do to highlight the situation better here at the University I’m currently studying at. Then last week, I saw the video campaign with messages to world leaders launched by SFT spreading in the web-sphere.

Pull My Spirits Up High

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Just when it felt like all news on Tibet was getting sadder, Shapaley dropped “Tsampa” this Wednesday on Lhakar.

Radiohead’s Unofficial Lhakar Pledge…and Maybe Bjork’s

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Earlier this week I landed in London and my on very first night out I got to see one of my favorite bands of all time… Radiohead!! I was super excited. The last… Continue reading

Samsara, the Fi-lim!

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I’m supposed to be grading papers so I’ll make this quick and dirty! There’s a new documentary called Samsara by the creators of Baraka (1992) and Chronos (1985), Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, and everyone must go see it.… Continue reading

Mao in Tibetan disguise: History, ethnography, and excess

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Guest post by Carole MCGRANAHAN, University of Colorado. (The original academic article with footnotes and bibliography can be found and downloaded here at http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/65) What does ethnographic theory look like in dialogue with… Continue reading

THE NEW GENERATION OF THE LAND OF SNOWS, WE WILL RACE WALK TOGETHER

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For a long time now, I’ve been wanting to do a post about sports and Tibet. And now with Choeyang Kyi from Tibet winning an Olympic medal just days ago in the 20km… Continue reading

kilo ༧༨།

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བདུན་ཕྲག་ དང་པོ་ ལ་ ང་ རྒྱ་གར་ སླེབས་ ཡིན་ ང་ མེན་ཁང་ པྱིན་ ཡིན་ དེ་དུས་ ང་ kilo ༧༨་ རེད་ འདུག་ ཟླ་བ་ གཉིས་ རྗེས་ལ་ ང་ kilo ༧༨་ གཅིག་པ་ རེད་ འདུག་ དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ། འདི་ གང་འདྲས་ རེད། ཟླ་བ དང་པོ་ ང་… Continue reading

Going back to Bir. TYC graces my hometown…

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It’s been three months that I last visited my hometown Bir. It is a small Tibetan settlement two hours away from Dharamshala, capital of Tibetan exiles, in Himachal Pradesh, North India. My brother… Continue reading

ཇོ་ལ་ vs ལྡོ་ཕད་

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དེ་རིང་ ང་ ་འབྲས་ལྗོངས་ ལ་ ཡོད་ འདེའི་ གནམ་ཤིས་ སྐྱིད་པོ་ འདུག་ ཁ་ལག་ ཡག་པོ འདུག་ དང་ ངས་ ཉལ་གྲི ཆེན་པོ་ འདུག་ ཚང་མ་ སྐྱིད་པོ་ འདུག་། ཧིཧིཧིཧི་  ཁ་སང་ གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ ང་ རྡ་རམ་ས་ལ་ ནས་ འབྲས་ལྗོངས་ ལ་ སླེབས་ པ་ ཡིན་ རྡ་རམ་ས་ལ་ ནས་… Continue reading

ངས་ ལྷག་དཀར་ དམ་བཅའ།

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ང་ བོད་ པ་ དང་ ཉི་ཧོང་ ཡིན། ང་ དབྱིན་ཡུལ་ ལ་ སྐྱེས་ པ་ རེད། ང་ བོད་ རང་བཙན་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་ ཙོ་གས་པ་ ལས་ཀ་ བྱད་ ཡིན་ ཡིན་ནའང་ ད་ལྷ་ ང་ རྡ་རམ་ས་ལ་ ལ་  བོད་ཡིག་ དང་ བོད་ཀྱི་ སྦྱང་ ཀྱི་ ཡོད། ང་ བདུན་ཕྲག་… Continue reading