Standing in Solidarity
October 7, 2014
Volunteer job at Lha: Writer for Contact and English Tutor One of the toughest decisions I made in my life was to quit my first job. I was a journalist at a well respected English daily for two years and enviable as it may have seemed to people who knew read more →
A Deeper Understanding
By Vanshika Tripathi / October 6, 2014
Volunteer job at Lha: Writer for Contact My first visit to Dharamshala took place during a visit to family in India in 2011, the summer before my senior year of high school. A usual trip to India would mean spending around two months shuffling from one relative’s house to another. read more →
Miss Tibet Speaks Out for Women and Tibet
By Tenzin Yangzom / August 23, 2014
My name is Tenzin Yangzom. I am 23 years old, and live in Gantok in Sikkim, and this year was the winner of the Miss Tibet – 2014 contest. During the contest, I was asked to introduce myself, and then walked the ramp in an evening gown and in full read more →
An Honour and a Privilege
By Migmar Dolkar / July 19, 2014
Volunteer job at Lha: English teacher, elementary class. I didn’t know anything about Lha when I reached Dharamsala in December 2012 and went to ask for a volunteer job. I was nervous as I was asking for a job for the first time, even though it was a volunteer job. read more →
Finding it all here in McLeod Ganj
June 19, 2014
Volunteer job at Lha: English Intermediate Class, English Advanced Class and Contributing writer It would be impossible to do justice to the kaleidoscope of cultures and beliefs that one finds upon arrival in McLeod Ganj. So where to begin? The cornerstone of my time in Dharamsala has been teaching the English read more →
Who is the 17th Karmapa?
By Annie Padwick / May 19, 2014
Karmapa means “the one who carries out Buddha activity” and the Karmapa’s role is to guide the millions of Buddhists around the world. Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, sees himself as “a voice representing a source of ancient wisdom from the East in an intercultural dialogue with the modern read more →
The Return Home
By Tsering Wangdue / May 13, 2014
I was born in Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet. I came here to India in the year 1995 when I was 8 years old with my younger sister who was 6 years old at the time. Since then I have been staying in India. I did my schooling at read more →
My Happiest Life
By Tamdin Yangzom / May 4, 2014
I come from a family of Tibetan nomads, known in Tibet as drogpa. My family kept more than a hundred domestic animals such as yak, sheep, horses, goats and dri. I want to make one thing clear: many people say “yak butter” and “yak cheese” etc. It’s a big mistake. read more →
A Woman of Courage
By Sarah Gittleman / April 16, 2014
Tsering Woeser has always been a story teller. “Thinking back, I have loved stories since I was a child. My earliest memory is narrating the story of the times before leaving Lhasa to a bunch of children in Tawo County, Sichuan. At the time I was four or five,” Woeser read more →
The Truth Always Wins in the End
By Sean Fitzpatrick / January 23, 2014
Tsewang Dolma is the International Relations and Information Secretary for the Tibetan Youth Congress* (TYC) and has served as the first female president of Kathmandu’s Regional TYC. After spending only a little time with Tsewang, it becomes very clear that she is a brave and dedicated woman, and this passion read more →