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• March Reflections

  26 February, by Kathup Tsering
  A dark fog wrapped itself around Lhasa as if it had been created by a phantom shade moving silently it became a snake relentless encircling our highest mountain sunset signaled evening the wild wind cried Woo… woo… woo… life was twirling nights became restless tragedy was everywhere my people were suffering tears were falling down…down… down… into the center of my heart winds cried through the night… Woo… woo… woo… weeping… weeping… weeping… my life, my love, my poetry… (...)

• Tibet and the "Long Walk to Freedom"

  26 February
  It has been twenty years now since Nelson Mandela walked out of Robben Island prison and won the freedom for South Africans. The struggle against discrimination had gone for more than a century and under the African National Congress (ANC), it took on a more urgency and action. Civil disobedience action such as the Defiance Campaign propelled the people to show their strong disagreement and their grievances. One waits for a day when such a large movement would occur inside Tibet. The recent (...)

• Untitled

  26 February, by Kathup Tsering
  I dream the way my people do always my right hand fighting against the unfair so dictator divorces me from my beloved and my ring finger bleeding to hell and my body becomes a gun`s prey how shall I prepare my last sky burial ? In the last gesture of heart I can do what all I want to do a compassionated fire, blissful, burn on the chest of my corpse and cover my face with a lotus hand in my country There I died once then reborn For a freedom has human spirit and (...)

• A Herder’s Song

  22 February, by Tibetan Mastiff
  0 days in someone’s yard blowing the Jhangthang wind happiness born withered one snowflakes brings me peace a gentle mother’s touch salves my sobs two footprints on grassland steppes of my homeland calls me each night three endless tale telling of our ancestors their lives in heavy black tents grazing sheep and yaks four nomad girls singing songs that echo from the hills herder boys’ reply coming from shoulders of a mountain five each mountain has a peak pass (...)

• The Wealth of a Nation

  21 February, by Samdup Dhargye
  Pawa Trinley Tenzin passed away yesterday in Dharamsala. He was 90. He had no children and no relatives to mourn his death but he will be immensely missed by his friends and neighbors. His few possessions had an orphaned feel about them. A worn sling hung on the wall of his stark and humid room. His fragile figure, his constant drone of a muffled prayer and his critical and insightful remarks about the nature of the Tibetan struggle will always be cherished and referred to as a prized book. (...)

• Tibetan Women

  20 February, by Tsering Dolkar
  For a while now, I have thought about creating a blog focusing on Tibetan women’s issues. In general, women’s rights are important because of the patriarchal nature of societies, uneven power structure and male domination that have led to negative depiction of women in theological doctrines and in the secondary value placed on women’s roles and duties. Very briefly, these influences get translated into discriminatory attitudes and practices against women in their daily lives. However much we (...)

• Six Stars Crooked Neck: A Losar Diary

  20 February, by Khar Chen
  It has been two decades since I left my homeland Tibet. It’s been two decades I haven’t seen my parents. It’s been two decades I haven’t seen my fellow Tibetans from my hometown, loss and sadness written all over their faces. Now, Losar is round the corner. I too gave a thought to the Tibetan New Year. I haven’t made any preparations. I don’t need to make any preparations. This is because so far I have celebrated all my Losars at TCV, my alma mater. My school is my home. And that is where I (...)

• Dear Envoys, how was your trip to Peking?

  20 February, by Khar Chen
  This morning I received a phone call. It said you envoys arrived in Peking on January 25. It said you would make your first visit to the province of Hunan. It is said that Hunan is the birthplace of Mao Tse-tung. It is said that after a few days of sightseeing, real talks will take place in Peking. Unlike in the past, it is said, for the success of the talks, this time a special prayer and ritual is being performed in Drepung monastery, South India. Dear envoys of the Dalai Lama, have you (...)

• A Pale View of the Himalayas

  17 February, by Tsering Namgyal
  SONGS FROM A DISTANCE BY Bhuchung D. Sonam Published by TibetWrites During a visit to Dharamsala sometime in 2002, I saw a flier of Bhuchung D. Sonam’s book of poems, Dandelions in Tibet, in Gangchen Kyishong, on the bulletin board opposite the staff mess. I was intrigued. For someone who had also begun, rather hesitantly, the research for a novel, any work of imagination by a fellow Tibetan was a source of immense interest. Later, it was Tenzin Tsundue, the activist-poet, who told me (...)

• Losar

  6 February, by Bhuchung D Sonam
  We should celebrate Losar Some say… To open a new chapter Be Tibetan, Dress Tibetan Eat Tibetan Speak Tibetan To hold our heads high Walk a new path, mindful of the past. We should not celebrate Losar Others say … To respect the dead and the jailed Be Tibetan, Recite mani Pray for all Knead your rosary Remember that Our brothers and sisters are suffering. To celebrate or not to celebrate The essence is in the difference. Losar is a good way to assert (...)

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