Tiger of a Lamb
Sometimes I see, I hear, I know / My country men laying their lives
Tibet at a Crossroads
Given that China is a totalitarian state, there is no way it can accept the Middle Way approach without itself first undergoing a major transformation.
Rebkong
My feet are wandering neath the alien star, / My native land, – the road is far and long.
The Art of China
Poem by Tsoltim N Shakabpa: The Chinese have a way with art / That comes not from the heart
My Country
As the purple sky kisses the horizon once again / Life retires in the warmth of the chimney fire,
A Path Home
What the Tibetans have presented to the world is the extraordinary idea of a whole nation, not just individuals, resisting violence and terror through love and compassion. It is not a new concept in itself, but it is the one that has faced the toughest test of all.
The Burial
For a complicit people, / forgiveness must come first, / then perhaps freedom.
Mountain Patrol: Kekexili
Review of film Kekexili by Chuan Lu
While Kekexli: Mountain Patrol focuses on the attempts of a group of Tibetans to save the chiru — a quintessentially Tibetan animal — from being wiped out by indiscriminate hunting, the creature itself has been adopted by China as one of its mascots for the Beijing Olympics.
Secret Tibet
Dedicated to the imprisoned Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Bangri Rinpoche and Lobsang Tenzin.
Winds of Change
Review of book Winds of Change - An Autobiography of a Tibetan by Tsoltim N Shakabpa
Review by Jeffrey Bowe of Winds of Change – An Autobiography of a Tibetan, by Tsoltim Ngima Shakabpa. Provides a close and revealing insight into those forces which have crafted this biographical voyage from a carefree and privileged childhood in independent Tibet.