Article Archive for Year 2010
“The cause of Tibet, truly much greater and more significant than our individual lives,
will surely outlive us all and be ultimately redeemed.”
Tethong Tenzin Namgyal, 2006
As the Kalon Tripa battle waged on, I decided to look …
Unsung Tibetan Guerrillas
Forty years ago in 1971 on a cool and scary November 14 night in Chittagong a Pakistani sniper of Special Service Group perched silently on his hidden location near his camp felt he saw a …
Remembering John Lennon at Dharamshala
I remember the exact night, thirty years ago, when I heard John Lennon had been murdered. I was in the hall of the kashag (the Tibetan cabinet) building in Dharamshala, at a benefit dance for …
I have been noticing recently during my discussions with my friends, relatives, and fellow Tibetans that there is a real lack of understanding regarding my candidate for Kalon Tripa. Some know him as a person …
I was sipping on a drink in Goa,
away from all the silliness,
wading in the warm ocean,
I was minding my own business.
Two fish swam up to me
moving with the ocean sway,
they took a long look at …
An observation of the recently concluded preliminary election by a Tenzing Tethong supporter. I tried to be as objective as possible but if anybody finds it overly one-sided, you know which department you can forward …
Yangkup Gyal
Translated by DhondupTashi Rekjong
“From the east, the red sun is rising.” Have you heard this song before? If you haven’t, you can watch it here. (I tried to find it in Tibetan but failed). …
Language, Identity & Revolution in Tibet
The task of getting news out of Tibet these day has taken on the frustrating ambience of cold-war research methodology. Not exactly Sovietologists and old-time China watchers poring over precious photographs of Mayday line-ups for …
Laogai Research Foundation’s press release
WASHINGTON, DC, November 10, 2010. Laogai Research Foundation (LRF) Founder and Executive Director Harry Wu, along with distinguished scholar Robert Conquest and Lithuanian politician and activist Emanuelis Zingeris, received the Truman-Reagan …
Translated by Tenzin Dickyi
In Tibet, the issue and problem of language is growing. The situation is such that the Chinese language is pushing away the languages of minority nationalities to the edge.
Actually this situation …
