SHE WOLF
By Lhachap Jinpa Translated from Tibetan by Bhuchung D. SonamPursuing the realm of the realized onesAcross the chain of rocky hillsWhere the soul of my she-wolf is said to roamLetting her livid mind...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clik here to view.
A Song from a Distance (for Woeser)
布琼索南①：来自远方的歌——给唯色傅正明 译 我身陷一间灼热的房间光芒在天花板闪耀，一个皮沙发邀我放松一下脊背，可我的心在跳动，奔向村边的小河扶着皮绳小桥随风摇荡，在那布满灰尘的院子里我被捆在一块石头上，因为妈妈每天要在地里劳作。 这里的灰色房子盯着我。列车上的人们寒颤，躁动，疲倦，孤寂，迷茫，盼望另一种生活版本。我的心神奔向那个蝎子山头旁边的村庄，那里杨柳沙沙作响，那里我曾困在一间着火的农家茅房。...
View ArticleClik here to view.
བོད་ནང་མཆེད་འོངས་པའི་སེམས་ཀྱི་མེ་ལྕེ།
Note: This is an essay written by Gangsey or Snow Prince, a pseudonym of a Tibetan living in Lhasa. This is a trenchant analysis of China's rule and what it means to be a Tibetan living in occupied...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pussies Don't Riot in Dharamsala
October 26 was a fine Saturday. The sky was blue and the mountain air crisp. I was on my way to the screening of Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, a documentary film on all-women Russian rock band Pussy Riot...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Last Words of Tsultrim Gyatso
(My rough translation of Tsultrim Gyatso's last words. As you can see some parts are hard to read. If anyone comes across a picture in which the texts can be read clearly, please share and I will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Better Gun than God
Chushi Gangdruk fighters in Mustang, Nepal - 1960sWhen a posse of the occupying People’s Liberation Army shot dead his root lama in the middle of the Kyichu River on 10 March 1959, Jedung Jampel Lekmon...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Living at Gunpoint
Review of Voices from Tibet: Selected Essays and Reportage by Tsering Woeser and Wang LixiongFor over nine thousand years Tibetan nomads have skilfully managed their lives in the fragile environment of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BOOKS ....
Yak Horns: Notes on Contemporary Tibetan Writing, Music, Film & PoliticsTibet has been written about, commented on and described by travellers, ‘experts’ and scholars for centuries – each...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My Native Land
My Native LandBy Marjang Nyuk*Translated from Tibetan by Bhuchung D. SonamMy native land is written in a drop of tearsPrinted with a drop of blood.My native land is made of a single drip of sweat.Many...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Baba Phunwang and his Letters to Hu Jintao
Baba Phuntsok Wangal, popularly called Phunwang, was a life-long Tibetan communist, who had unfailing faith in the goodness of socialism. He was also a controversial figure, who guided the Eighteenth...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mishra Recommends
During the discussion last Saturday with Pankaj Mishra – who Pico Iyer calls 'a rare writer who is at ease as a historian, philosopher, traveler, and memoirist'– organized by Tibet Policy Institute in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A LETTER FROM PRISON
before arrest and tortureGoshul Lobsang was born to a nomadic family in Gyutsa Village in Machu, northeastern Tibet. In 1992, he came to India to study in a Tibetan refugee school. After his return to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pain Without Trace
Gepey, a young Tibetan musician from Ngaba, Amdo in northeastern Tibet, was arrested on 24 May 2014 by the Chinese security personnel from Barkham soon after a concert organized by a group of Tibetans...
View ArticleClik here to view.
News from the Hellish Realm
Note: This is one of the five poems in the first section of Written in Blood. Theurang wrote this particular poem on 15 December 2008, when Beijing's propaganda machinery was spewing out 'burning,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Under the Crimson Sky
My review (written in 2010) of Nagtsang Nulo's book appeared in Yak Horns, after Dharamsala-based Khawa Karpo Tibetan Culture Centre published the Indian edition of Nulo's book in Tibetan. Following is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ON TIBET
A review of YAK HORNSBy Swati Chopra, author of Dharamsala Diaries and Buddhism: On the Path to NirvanaThe review appeared in the Seminar JournalApril 2013http://www.india-seminar.com/semframe.html...
View ArticleMust We love the Party…
On 8 May, among many issues the Tibetan prime minister discussed at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank, Dr Lobsang Sangay said: ‘We don't challenge, or ask for, an overthrow of the Communist...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Their Last Words
All translations by Bhuchung D. Sonam except where mentioned Tenzin PhuntsokAge: 40Date of self-immolation: 1 December 2011 Place: Chamdo, Kham, TibetCurrent status: DeceasedLast message of Tenzn...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Last Words of Sonam Topgyal
To the leaders of the Chinese Government and particularly to the local heads of the minorities;I am the twenty-seven-year-old son of Tashitsang of Nangchen, Yulshul in Tso.ngon region. Currently, I am...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘I Will Carry the Sky’
Review of “Coming Home to Tibet” By Tsering Wangmo DhompaPublished by Shambhala Publications ‘I come from there and I have memories / I have a mother /And a house with many windows…’ wrote one of my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WHEN NYINJEY LEFT TOWN
When Nyinjey left townThe sun did not show up for three days,Rain went on beating the resilient leavesFog intercoursed with everything on its path,It sneaked through the cracked windowpanes,Germinating...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clik here to view.
Reclaiming 'the soil beneath his feet and sky above his head'
White Crane Lend Me Your Wings by Tsewang Y. PembaNiyogi Books. Rs.495/(This review was previously published in the Journal of Indian Literature)The Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso (1683-1706), was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Behind the Uniform
(I wrote this review of Tibetan Guerrillas in Exile, a documentary film by Tibetan filmmaker Kelsang Rinchen, in 2009 and is included in my book Yak Horns: Notes on Contemporary Tibetan Writing,...
View Article