One of Seven Billion Human Beings
By Jamyang Tashi / December 19, 2014
Jamyang Tashi’s prize-winning essay entitled “One of Seven Billion Human Beings” is reproduced below. It won the prestigious $1,000 first prize in an essay contest initiated by the Office of Tibet, Washington DC, to commemorate 2014 as the Year of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The contest was open to all Tibetans read more →
The Courage to Move on and Live
By Uday Das, with Ambalika Singh / December 17, 2014
My name is Uday Das. I am from a village in Bihar; I have been working here in McLeod Ganj for the past ten or twelve years. Before opening my tea stall I was working as a chef in a restaurant. There I had eight or nine people working under read more →
Dust, Rain or Heat…
By Tenzin Tsomo, with Wendhe Choetsoe / November 27, 2014
Wendhe: I see this Tibetan woman almost every day, standing on the road side. She will smile as we greet each other and always offer me laphing*. I, one of her regular customers, asked her few questions and her answers tell her story. Besides being one of her regular customers, read more →
Testimony by a Self-immolation Protest Survivor
November 17, 2014
This article was published by Free Tibet * on November 14. The testimony was broadcast in Tibetan by Radio Free Asia and translated into English by Free Tibet’s research partner, Tibet Watch. For safety reasons, the voice of the self-immolator was disguised in the broadcast and the reporter does not 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 →
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 →