Tibet Lobby Day USA!
By the Young Turquoise Bee This week my sister and I decided to honor Lhakar a few days early. We joined a record number of Tibetan-Americans and supporters in Washington, DC for the 4th… Continue reading
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A Lhakar Pledge: Learning My Own Way, by the Young Turquoise Bee
The first time I was ever fully immersed in a Tibetan community was in Bloomington, Indiana at a Tibetan Youth Cultural Camp organized by the Office of Tibet. I was fifteen years old,… Continue reading
Thug Chi Che: Send a Twitter Message of Thanks
*A special thank you to International Campaign for Tibet for highlighting these journalists in a recent e-mail, and for inspiring this post* A few years ago, when I was working as national director of Students… Continue reading
Tubote, Tibet, and the Power of Naming
In response to my previous post, “The Significance of Naming or Terming,” Professor Elliot Sperling has offered a more in-depth look at this significance in the following article, originally published on Rangzen Alliance
Can’t Imagine; Can’t Stop Trying
Susan Sontag Animation: Regarding the Pain of Others from L Nordell on Vimeo. Susan Sontag’s animation, with its stark halting stop-motion images and its repetition of all that we (on the outside) cannot know… Continue reading
Are We Ignoring the Self-Immolation’s?
Guest Post by Ngawang Choephel.
Teaching Tibet Every Lhakar
I still have 2hrs until Lhakar Wednesday is officially over but I promise I have a good excuse. I’ve been very busy with my schedule today but here’s the great news,
Stomp Through Winter Weather Ethically
First a confession. NYCYak was once a Canadian yak. Vancouver, to be precise. As such, I have fared through my share of wet wet winters. Well, I’m back in my old pastures at… Continue reading
Talk Back: Tibetan Comics Workshop
This Lhakar, I’m working on putting together a Comic Book Workshop at the Rubin Museum with other Tibetan students from Columbia. We’re all part of a group called Plateau Engage – essentially, we’re… Continue reading
Lhakar in Kalachakra 2012
For Lhakar Students for a Free Tibet India staff Dolkar explains what they are doing today here in this video. Check it!