Tibetan Blog Station

Source: Merapsarpa Journal By Kalsang Wangdu Blue Lake One cold winter day in 1984, on the far edge of the Tibetan plateau that gives way to the lowland of Mainland China, a Tibetan composer sat by a piano in his office. The audience that day was composed of three Tibetan women in their early twenties, … Continue reading →

Source: High Peaks Pure Earth   The above photos are all taken from Sina Weibo. Picture 1 shows the “urgent notice to once more emphasise the regulations directed at people from the ‘four main Tibetan regions’ who want to enter Lhasa” issued by the Lhasa Security Bureau. Picture 2 shows the security checks located in … Continue reading →

Source: Tibet Telegraph By Tenzin Kalsang When I saw pictures of my classmate’s home in Ngari I wondered if I would also have been living in a stacked-stone hut upon a barren, rocky field if I were in Tibet. When we did projects in school about Tibet and we came across ethereally beautiful pictures of … Continue reading →

Source: Lhakar Diaries     ICT recently posted “Tibetans in the Chinese Communist Leadership” by Bhuchung K. Tsering on their blog. I became especially interested in this part of the blog-post: It was interesting to see that way back on March 16, 1953, there was an “Inner-party directive drafted for the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist … Continue reading →

Source : Les clichés de Jigmé Bondour! Me is Jigme, and like all Asians, I do not age, I eat rice, I have a small dick and I see nothing when I laugh. Come to me duck-liker on Facebook!

Source: Lhakar Diaries I have good reason to write a few words on my joys and sufferings. Therefore I pray of you master, write it down. To which her master replied, “There is no need to write a liberation tale for you — a woman…you must be silent! Many tears fell from my eyes, for … Continue reading →

Source: Echoes In Exile LEST WE forget Our birthright, Our rightful inheritance – The land of our ancestors. Sacred. Pure. Holy Tibet. Unique roof of the world. Take courage from our Guardian spirits. Struggle on. Struggle on. Lest we forget The innumerable, pure Enlightened beings Who’ve trod on Tibetan soil. Blessing and purifying all. Unique … Continue reading →

Source: SAMTSUL: Tibet Through My Eyes The dawn of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a hitherto unseen progressive leader on the Tibetan political horizon in the form of the thirteenth Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyaltso. Born in Thakpo Langdun in southeast Tibet in the year 1876, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the … Continue reading →

Source: Drifts & Drafts A little ditty I recorded, inspired and based off of Dead Prez’s “Hip Hop”. Lyrics: uh, uh, chig, nyi, chig, nyi, uh, one, two, one, two, uh uh, uh, chig, nyi, chig, nyi, uh, one, two, one, two, uh Uh, one, two, one, two, uh, chig, nyi, chig, nyi It’s bigger … Continue reading →

Source: Tibet Telegraph The original article on Tibet Telegraph contains a video of Lobsang Jamyang’s self-immolation By Gyaltsen It was just a month after my cousin brother, Lobsang Jamyang’s self-immolation in Tibet which I overheard a conversation of two students in my school in which one of the students said to the other “Why don’t … Continue reading →

Source: Tibetreport’s Blog   I wanted to say this before President Barrack Obama takes the stage tonight at the Democratic National Convention and all attention are focused on him. This is because I do not want to be seen as wanting 15 minutes of fame by milking the attention around the President. In sooth, I have … Continue reading →

Source: Lhakar Diaries (Tenzin Lobsang) 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 race walk event, I finally have something to write about. I don’t know much about Choeyang Kyi’s story … Continue reading →

Source: Tibet Web Digest Palmo is a prominent Tibetan women writer whose works have been published widely in literary magazines including Drangchar (Sbrang.char), Tibetan Art and Literature (Bod.kyi rtsom.rig sgyu.rtsal) and others. In 2006, she published an anthology of poems by twenty-three Tibetan women writers living inside and outside Tibet called Sholung (Bszho.lung), named for the … Continue reading →

Source: A Rambling Refugee A seed of unshakeable faith and honed sense of gratitude sown in this strained heart after reading Guru’s Kadhu, the concise life-story related with his sublime past, present and future projected reincarnations for the wellbeing of Buddha Dharma and, here, as supplicated by Mutri Tsenpo, the son of Trisong Dhetsen, related … Continue reading →

Source: Yuthok Lane (Originally published on Phayul on August 20, 2012) I was watching the recent Voice of America Kunleng discussion on contemporary Tibetan writing, with guests Tenzing Rigdol (artist, poet) and Dhondup Tashi Rekjong (editor, writer). There was talk about Rigdol’s recent book of poetry and talk about Bhuchung D Sonam’s recent book of … Continue reading →

Source: High Peaks, Pure Earth On May 7, early in the morning, CCTV rather mysteriously broadcast a special documentary about the self-immolations in Tibet, there was a Chinese and an English version. This 41 minute long piece describes the self-immolations from the point of view of China’s official media that serves as the mouthpiece of … Continue reading →