Authenticity, Impermanence, and the Tibetan Origin Story: Rooted & Routed Tibetans in the Diaspora

It is also worth noting that the questions now gaining scholarly attention — Tibetan suffering and dispossession, the Srinmo origin story, embodied practices of impermanence — have long been alive in Tibetan homes, in the stories of our elders, and in the scholarship of those of us who grew up inside these conversations. This piece is offered in that spirit: as a reminder that these are not new discoveries, but inherited understandings that Tibetans have been thinking, living, speaking, and writing about all along — and should be acknowledged as such.