On Saturday I watched a short film: The Grasslands by Pema Tseden. It is Pema Tseden’s student film, and Latse Contemporary Tibetan Library* in the West Village has a copy in their video archives. Pema Tseden — or Wanma Caidan as the pinyin transliteration has it so awkwardly — is a talented Tibetan filmmaker who studied at the Beijing Film Academy and has made two feature films in recent years. I have seen both, The Silent Holy Stones and The Search. They are both amazing and excellent… I (...)
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The Grasslands - a film by Pema Tsetan
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Banned Lyrics, Reactionary Songs
26 July, byEver since the People’s Liberation Army first marched into Tibet in 1949-1950, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used propaganda to legitimize its occupation of Tibet and educate the masses on the virtues of its version of socialism. One means to achieve this has been music which overcomes the language barrier and has the power to convey any message immediately. In September 2008,Tashi Dhondup — a gifted 30-year-old singer from Amdo in north-eastern Tibet — was detained at gun-point by (...)
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New cases of Tibetan writers being arrested, attacked in Tibet
12 June, byReporters Without Borders condemns two new serious cases of detention and use of violence against Tibetan journalists and writers in the past few days. Two magazine editors were arrested by police in Chengdu on 5 June and were mistreated all night before being released, while a writer and monk was arrested without a warrant for the second time in 13 months on 24 May in Ngaba, in eastern Tibet, and has been held ever since without being able to see his family. “The Chinese authorities are (...)
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Bus Rides in Tibet
7 June, byI went on a lot of bus rides in Tibet. My first bus ride was along the Golok-Xiling route. It was an uncomfortable experience. The bus made a stop at 11 o’clock at a small Tibetan settlement along the road that looked exactly like the western town in High Noon. Dust, horses, leathery men, fat women, filthy restaurants, motorbikes. My friends said the bus would stop in the afternoon for lunch so I bought some plums and got back into my seat. Afternoon came and passed and the bus made no signs (...)
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Articulation and More
7 June, byNineteen ninety-one was a landmark for the Tibetan diaspora. That year 1000 Tibetans left for the US as a part of the Washington’s resettlement project for Tibetan refugees living in India, Nepal and Bhutan. I was then a young boy in TCV School. One evening I and a few friends got together to compose a petition to His Holiness the Dalai Lama stating that it was a wrong policy to send Tibetans to the US citing the brain drain as one of the reasons. "Most of our experienced teachers are (...)
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