The Red Forehead
Yet the same voice that calls you
Calls me
To invoke the mountain gods
To tell the warriors’ tales
To be a bit more like you.
Blackneck Books
‘I Will Carry the Sky’
Review of book A Home in Tibet by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Interpretations of our reality by outsiders telling fantastic tales have turned us into a mono-coloured one-size-fits-all single commodity.
About TibetWrites
is a not-for-profit site dedicated to Tibetan people, to writers, and to Tibet. It aims to bring together poetry and writings by Tibetans, and make it accessible to Tibetans around the globe. emerged from a core of writers and poets creating in the English language; we now include translators fluent in Chinese, English, and Tibetan, …
Predictable
Atop a trestle table / A Chinese man lays out / Four skinned dogs, / All equal sizes but one has
Bhuchung D Sonam
Bhuchung D Sonam is the author of several books, including Yak Horns: Notes on Contemporary Tibetan Writing, Music, Film & Politics and Songs of the Arrow. He has edited Muses in Exile: An Anthology of Tibetan Poetry, and compiled and translated Burning the Sun’s Braids: New Poetry from Tibet. Bhuchung writes at . His writings …
Q&A with Tsering Namgyal Khortsa
Poet/writer Bhuchung D. Sonam speaks to Tsering Namgyal Khortsa on his novel The Tibetan Suitcase.
Must We Love the Party?
Whatever reasoning compelled the prime minister to make this statement, it has stretched the Middle Way policy to an extent where it makes absolutely no sense.
Hu’s menacing dogs are they?
The bleak scenario in China, perhaps, is an opportunity for the Tibetans to renew their passion, recalibrate their strategies, and be even more focussed in their struggle for a free Tibet.
The Dalai Lama Will Retire
His Holiness simply wants to be one among the Tibetans and continue to serve the cause of Tibet.
Jasmine is ’inharmonious’
The Jasmine rallies are likely to spread to other large cities. Popular protest, it seems, has finally reached the shores of China.
Vital Lessons from Urgent Times
The biggest lesson we can learn from witnessing these furious global uprisings for justice and equality is for us to have an organized resistance that can provide a clear vision and strategic direction.
Freedom of Tongue
Tibetan people’s way of life and their outlook towards the world is inextricably linked with Buddhism, which in turn is firmly linked with Tibetan language.
A Diamond in the Dust
Review of film Acho Namgyal: Shey Kyi Jinpa by Sonam Tashi and Eric Henningsen
Shey Kyi Jinpa constitutes both a timely and, hopefully, restorative vehicle – offering the possibility of a renaissance of interest in Nangma, and the birth of a new generation of Tibetan musicians.
I am a Dog
I am a dog / A Tibetan dog from Kyegu / A few days before the earth shook
Dandelions in Debris
I am just a tiny one / All I wanted was to play / Hide-and-seek
A Pale View of the Himalayas
Review of book Songs from a Distance by Bhuchung Sonam
This is perhaps what pushes writers like Sonam and Tsundue to their desks every morning to sing the songs of freedom on behalf of their silenced brethren behind the pale hills of the Himalayas. Their songs are sad and touching of course, but they are never depressing.
Losar
We should celebrate Losar / Some say … / To open a new chapter / Be Tibetan,
Change Change Change
For any Tibetan who sees only familiar characters for the post of the next prime minister, — open up your universe a little more.
New Man Same Chair
The fundamental question that Beijing fails to understand is that negotiation — and not suppression — will solve the issue of Tibet.