UNTANGLING A MESS OF PETRIFIED NOODLES II
REFLECTIONS ON GYALO THONDUP & MODERN TIBETAN HISTORY Power Struggle in Exile – The Opening Guns The above image by pioneering color photographer, Ernst Hass, compellingly captures the early...
View ArticleHILLARY AND TIBET
I am going to vote for Hillary tomorrow; if for no other reason than to keep Orange Mussolini’s fat little fingers away from the nuclear button. Then there’s Tibet. As far as any American election...
View ArticleWHY MOMOS MATTER
I guess most of us need cheering up this week. The only comfort food I know that might just begin to do that is a plate of steaming momos. Even writing about it makes me feel a little more positive and...
View ArticleTHE MYSTERY OF THE MARCH 10 PHOTOGRAPHER
Last year, when putting together the March 10th Memorial website, a major problem I encountered was obtaining photographs and film footages for this critical period in our modern history. Three...
View ArticleTHE EPIC OF TIBETAN RESISTANCE
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF TIBET’S ARMED STRUGGLE AGAINST COMMUNIST CHINA’S MILITARY OCCUPATION & TYRANNY On November 8th last year the Dalai Lama received a presentation set of eight books that...
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REMEMBERING KHEWANG ELLIOT SPERLING It’s a year now since my dear friend passed away. Although I have become, by default, the unofficial obituary writer in the exile Tibetan world, I could not,...
View ArticleTIBETAN RESTAURANT CULTURE: ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION
The Russian explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky in 1878 described Lhasa as the “Rome of Asia” We know that since time immemorial, an unending stream of pilgrims, mendicant and merchants flocked to that city...
View ArticleCENTENNIAL OF A HISTORIC TIBETAN VICTORY OVER A CHINESE INVASION FORCE
Exactly a hundred years ago, to the day – the 29th of April 1918, Tibetan government troops captured Chamdo. After a long and brutal siege the Chinese garrison finally surrendered. Following the...
View ArticleMY PERSONAL AUDIENCE WITH HIS HOLINESS
All the delegates at the 5th International Rangzen Conference received a group audience and a photo opportunity with the Dalai Lama on the last day of the conference. It was a large group and I was...
View ArticleTHE FIRST “SEED OF A FUTURE TIBET”
TSEWANG NORBU “TAK-GO”: IN MEMORIUM (1949-2018) I first met Tsewang Norbu-la at the Frankfurt Book Fair (the world’s largest trade fair for books) in the year 1999 (I think it was) where Tibet Forum...
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