Tashibod
Tashibod lives in China and writes in Chinese. Tashibod on Tashibod on TibetWrites Articles [1] Diary by Tashibod: A glimpse into life in a remote Tibetan area as the Olympics were being celebrated in Beijing. 7 September 2008
Once I had a Home
Once I had a home / A paradise called Sun City Lhasa / Once I knew a peaceful moon and blue sky
On the Wing
’… … to Lithang and back’ / That’s what he said
Nomad III Revisited
He slowly gathers up his shaggy herd / To prepares them for the lowlands,
‘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.
A Barred Blessing
In the cold snowy mountains / In Tibet / Her nomad parents — / named her Tenzin / A privilege worth risking it all.
Ketho
Ketho was born in eastern Tibet. In exile he lives in Dharamshala, India, and is the executive of Tibetan Writers Abroad PEN Centre. at PEN-International.org – in Tibetan Katho on TibetWrites Poetry [1] Once I had a home / A paradise called Sun City Lhasa / Once I knew a peaceful moon and blue sky …
Kathup Tsering
Translator, painter, poet, and writer, Kathup Tsering was born in Tsoe, a small town in Amdo, Tibet, and went to a local school there. In 1994 Kathup escaped from Tibet, and in exile, studied at TCV School. He writes in Tibetan, Chinese, and English. Currently Kathup works with Tibetan Writers Abroad PEN Centre. Kathup Tsering’s …
Tenzing Sonam
Tenzing Sonam, writer/filmmaker, was born in 1959 in Darjeeling, India. After graduating from Delhi University, he worked for a year in the Tibetan Government-in-Exile in Dharamshala. He specialized in documentary filmmaking at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a founder-member of the Bay Area Friends of Tibet. Along …
Jamyang Norbu
Tibet watchers know him as one of the most incisive and prolific commentators on the political scene, a writer with strong opinions but also the wide reading and intellectual depth to back them up, sometimes fiercely. — International Herald Tribune Jamyang Norbu is the author of The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes which won the Crossword …
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 Revolution Will Be Tweeted in Tibetan
One of the rare advantages of being born a refugee is that you become bilingual by default.
I heard someone in the street …
Poem by Tendor: I heard someone in the street say / This was the year when you lost
Two new films: Old Dog and The Sun-Beaten Path
Review of film Old Dog, The Sun-Beaten Path by Pema Tseden , Sonthar Gyal
The two films tell stories of everyday existence which are distinctively Tibetan stories, but which at the same time address universal themes of struggle and redemption without sentimentality or romanticization.
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.
Tiananmen 2.0: Why China Is Not Immune to the Tunisia Effect
Last spring, I was waiting for a bus in Cairo. Dawn was just breaking, and Tahrir Square, where the bus station was located,
In a muddle kingdom
It’s up to India to decide whether to host such a dharma avatar as the Seventeenth Karmapa as a refugee, or to hand the sceptre to a triumphant China.
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.
The Question of Linguistic Autonomy for Tibetans
If both the spoken and written language of a people die, then it is as if the entire population of that people has died and the people have been decimated.