Articles by Topden Tsering
Writer/activist, born in Dharamshala, a small town in North India, is the former the editor of Tibetan Bulletin. He gallivants between his obsessions for films, books, art and writing.
The string of self-immolations inside Tibet—started in 2009 by a Kirti Monastery monk Tapey and which most recently on March 30 claimed two monks in Barkham County—sees no sign of letting up. On the contrary, …
If you thought it’s only in China-occupied Tibet that perils can be brought upon your head for asserting your Tibetanness, think again!
Last week, at the Dalai Lama’s Kalachakra transmission venue in Washington D.C., Kalden Lodoe, …
I am Tibetan
Not that anybody is asking
I am Tibetan
Just because…
I am a thousand different things; I am nothing
put a finger on me, you’ll dizzy yourself to death:
A bastard child of history, Superstar undefeated
I am a …
Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom
(As appeared in Berkeley Daily Planet)
Very rarely has it happened that the shooting for a documentary has begun and its subject has taken on a story of its own, both expanding and deepening its sense …
There comes a moment in the life of an exile Tibetan youth when he is seized by the need to express his Tibetanness.
It comes long after he’s suckled at his mother’s breasts, or shed copious …
(Am not a poet by any means, but to cope with the internal hurting, this was how the words tumbled out; hope the lines provide you some calm too)
How we had trusted it:
to help steady …
(As appeared in Berkeley Daily Planet’s News Analysis Section on Page One)
The 6.9 magnitude earthquake that ravaged eastern Tibet’s Kyegundo on April 14 has brought to sharp relief the region’s contentious place in China’s geopolitical …
Tibetan filmmaker Pema Dhondup’s “We are no Monks: A Struggle for Identity” is an important film. The last the Tibetans saw themselves on the screen, in all the scorching palettes of their oppression under the …
Middle Way Approach is the soft-edged noose that will spell the death of Tibetan freedom movement, slowly, gradually, without our having even realized it, almost like being killed in your sleep.
It is a miracle that …
