Decline of the Potala Palace
The Potala has never been, with the changing of time and space, so colourful, so odd, and even helpless and sad, as it has been during this half century.
Majnu Ka Tilla Dreams
How easily we forget that / A passionately new dawn / Sinks into cloudy darkness,
A Soldier’s Heart
In a faraway land, / Like a bird betrayed of its nest.
Flight of the Cage Bird
Silence of emptiness pierced through the air, / And forlorn feathers fluttered in the captive sky.
Deathbed
Sands of time slipping from my grasp, / Pages of my life, melodies of my unsung past.
A call from Home
Under the lazy sun, I basked / Reminiscing the past of joy and peace.
Tibet Speaks
The dawn is here now / I foresee, a happy free Tibet / And our day will soon be here.
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.
Never Give Up
Never give up / No matter what is going on / Never give up
Desperate Age
Kill my Dalai Lama / that I can believe no more./ Bury my head
Bread and Freedom
Review of book KORA by Tenzin Tsundue
Our final kora will be complete when we return to a ’free’ homeland after years of roaming in foreign jungles. But to fulfil this ultimate journey, we need writers, activists, statesmen, thinkers and most of all bread-and-freedom poets to paint our reality as it is — so that when the kora is complete we can plan our future ’in our own words, in our own silence, and in our own wisdom.’
Conflicts of Duality: Call of an Exile Poet
Review of book Conflicts of Duality by Bhuchung Sonam
Tempting as it is to quote and discuss more lines from this book, I would prefer the readers make their own judgement. But the temptation itself speaks to how profound an experience the read would be. For Tibetan readers, it will be like venturing into the familiar terrain as one after another recognisable characters/images pop up every now and then.
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.
Richard Gere is My Hero
Review of film Richard Gere is my Hero by Tashi Wangchuk
Review by Tashi Tenzin of the film Richard Gere is my Hero: The film’s richness in characterisation — some of the funniest characters like Love Guru, Acha BBC, Phuntsok Drunkard, and Cho Dargay can be compared to those of the best novels.
Telling the Exile Tibetan Story Like It Is
Review of film Dreaming Lhasa by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam
Review by Dechen Pemba of the film ‘Dreaming Lhasa’: For so many Tibetans born in exile, Tibet is significant as an absence, an omnipresent looming large all-encompassing void.
Freedom Shower
Review of book Tomorrow & Other Poems by Lhasang Tsering
The issue of Tibet is a remnant of the Great Game. Only now the playing fields are a tiny town in northern India and the Great Hall of the People via Hong Kong.
Secret Tibet
Dedicated to the imprisoned Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Bangri Rinpoche and Lobsang Tenzin.
Made in China
Review of book Buying the Dragon’s Teeth by Jamyang Norbu
Review of Jamyang Norbu’s ‘Buying the Dragon’s Teeth’ by Dr. Warren Smith: It is characterized by his usual superb writing style and should be read for its analysis of China’s human rights abuse alone.
After the Dalai Lama
With so much energy and spirit, perhaps the Dalai Lama can begin to accomplish in life what many fear can happen only after his death.