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ལྷག་དཀར་ཉིན་ཀློག་རྒྱུའི་སྙན་དེབ་ཁག
Sungchuk KyiSungchuk Kyi was born in Amdo, Northeastern Tibet. She is, perhaps, one of the most accomplished exile Tibetan women poets writing in Tibetan. Her poetry books include Tomb, Corals' Fate...
View ArticleTo Whom It May Concern:
This is to certify that this man is A half-backed nut flew offFrom a disused frying pen,A black pebble shot forthFrom an un-owned sling,A broken eggshell Fallen off from an abandoned nest.He is...
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Fight of the Warrior Monks
At around 1 pm on 17 October, 20-year-old nun Tenzin Wangmo has set herself on fire while shouting ‘Free Tibet!” She is from the Mamae Dechen Choekhorling Nunnery in Ngaba in Amdo, North-eastern Tibet....
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Under the Grey Veil
Review of The Sun-Beaten Path directed by Sonthar GyalSonthar Gyal’s (a young Tibetan filmmaker in Tibet) film The Sun-Beaten Path— which won 2011 Dragons and Tigers Awards at the Vancouver...
View ArticleNews of Deaths from Far Away (a short story)
I sat down below the waterfall to read the letter, and sensed that a tragedy had taken place. I only needed to know how my brother had arranged the words to measure its gravity. Water keep hitting the...
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Things Happen Here
“Oh! You are still here,” said a monk, who I knew from my school days. “So good to see old Dharamshala faces who are still around.” He has come back for a short visit from the US, after twenty years....
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Tackling the Thuggish Beijing
Hollywood actor and musician, Johnny Depp, was bullied everyday in school by a big fat boy. "Punch him in the face once and he will not bother you any more!" said his mother one day. Depp did just that...
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ལྷག་དཀར་གྱི་གཞས་གསུམ། Three Lhakar Songs
There are many Tibets today – the occupied Tibet, the Tibet in exile, the Tibet in our hearts, the Tibet in transition and the online Tibet. All these Tibets are with us everyday. But it is the online...
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Think ...... pause ...... a long pause Think ..... pause ...... a long pause .......... a very long pause Think ..... Think ....Thinkuntil you are enveloped in black shadowsuntil all your knowledge...
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Youth, Power, Vision
When I was in school, ma’ong sontsa rey ta (you are the future seeds) was one of the most frequently used phrases by our teachers when students misbehaved or didn’t study hard. As a result, I often had...
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Hu’s menacing dogs are they?
In 2009, Kunga Tsayang — the imprisoned writer and environmentalist — wrote a bold essay titled Who are the Real Separatists?“China Television, Lhasa TV and others, while ignoring the truth, have...
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Lonely Trees in Dharamsala
Dharamsala these days is pretty much like bare trees in its cold December air. Shops are closed. Streets are empty - momo-sellers, no laphing-wallahs and even the regular beggars have...
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Reports from Serta
Serta Dzong in Kham, Eastern Tibet, has been a centre of Tibetan resistance since 2008. Peaceful protests have escalated in recent months amidst the Chinese authorities tightening control and...
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Raise the warrior’s sword, my fellow Tibetans
By Theurang or Tashi Rabten* Translated from Tibetan by Bhuchung D. Sonam Our courage is fading amidst stacks of religious textsOur self-confidence is weakening under foreign occupationMy fellow...
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Have you seen a yak?
གཡག YakMy name is Tenzin I am TibetanI was born in South India On a hot July day in 1984 When my mother was still weak from labour –Our neighbour Mr Malickarjun Broke a coconut for luck His wife...
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'...the day has come to sacrifice your life'
(This is my translation of the last written words of Pawo Jampel Yeshi, who has sadly passed away from burns at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi.) 16March20121Long Live His Holiness the Dalai...
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"I was his brother, Ralpachen's brotherBorn of the same flesh and blood.He who is one of the Three Great Dharma Kings,He who followed what the other two believedHe who spread what the other two brought...
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Last Words of Tamding Thar
These were the last words of Tamding Thar:''བླ་མ་ཡི་དམ་དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་ལ་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆིའོ།འཛམ་གླིང་ལ་ཞི་བདེ་ཡོང་བའི་རེ་བ་དང་།...
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Article 6
Monsoon Reading ListHere are six books that I thoroughly enjoyed reading and also made me think, act and frame myself differently. Hope that you will enjoy them during the monsoon as you spend more...
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YAK HORNS
'Bhuchung D. Sonam articulates the voice of a new generation of Tibetans in exile – voiceless and stateless – longing for a space to call home. He eloquently describes the hopes and aspirations of...
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