By Tenzin Yangjen Thar See the original article in Chinese
In recent time, more primary schools have been built in Tibet and computer courses are even being taught in some primary schools, but many Tibetans think the new times have met with old issues such as the mother tongue language is almost being forgotten. In the [...]
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By Tsewang Norbu see the orginal article in Chinese
Tsewang Norbu is one of the founders and editors of the most popular Chinese language blog on Tibet in China: http://www.tibetcul.com/Index.html. He writes in Chinese and has been living in Chinese cities for many years. The following are his notes on a few current issues that damage [...]
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By Laozangmin (Old Tibetan) See the original article in Chinese
Group photo of retired cadres and Aku Tenba (from the left: Drolma gyab, Dorje, Tseden, Youla, Dorje Tsering, Louba, Geri, Dorjetar, Guoba)
It is difficult to drive through Guomai pass’ wall of fog (“Guomai la” is “Laji Mountain” in Chinese, the watershed of the Yellow River and [...]
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By Laozangmin (Old Tibetan) See the original article in Chinese
Drolma, in charge of a beauty parlor, is in a thirty-square-meter building facing the street. From her eyes above the bridge of her nose and clear, white skin, she doesn’t look like a local (the local weather is fiercely hot, dry, and sunny), only upon speaking [...]
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TV Guide:
Leaving his home village
In what ways would he continue to write Tibetan culture
Walking towards the world
How would he regard preservation and development of culture?
“One on One” Dong Qian exclusively interviews Tibetan writer Alai, in broadcast
Commentary: In 1996, Alai joined Chengdu’s Science Fiction Magazine, and later became the magazine’s editor-in-chief. Despite leaving his home village, [...]
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“One on One” Program Witnessing Tibet Series:
The Writer, Alai (April 29, 2008)
(See the orginal article in Chinese)
Host: Tibetan writer Alai is an influential writer in contemporary literary circles, based on his full-length novel As the Dust Settles (English title, Red Poppies), he once won the Fifth Mao Dun Literature Award, and is up to [...]
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By Karze ba (See the original article in Tibetan)
In 1995 the then vice director of the education department, Ling-la, came to our school. He pointed at the eight auspicious symbols painted above the door. “These are religious designs”, he said, scolding the principal and other teachers. “They belong on monastery walls and have no place [...]
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By Tri Sempa (See the original article in Tibetan)
On April 14th 2007 I travelled to the Golok prefecture of our province. It was my first time. The land of which it was said “The earth is Golok and the sky is Golok” is far away, and so elevated that even though we were in early summer [...]
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Increasing numbers of Chinese tourists are going to Tibet to experience the ‘exotic’ culture that the Chinese Communist Party once described as backwards. On the one hand, some Tibetans view this development favorably, believing that the Chinese have acknowledged and gained a new appreciation for the uniqueness of Tibetan culture. On the other hand, some [...]
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By Kyabchen Dedrol (See the original article in Tibetan)
Alai, a writer of some repute in the PRC, grew up in an environment strongly influenced by Chinese culture, and the reason why his writings have attracted quite a high degree of interest is his choice of topic which he describes with affected naïveté as primarily relating [...]
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