So leaf; Upper Mustang tourism has meant the individual's gain and the community's loss.
Life was hectic enough before tourism came to Upper Mustang. In the
Etymologically, the name Bhotey is innocuous enough. Literally, it designates someone who lives in Bhot. The term Bhot comes from the late Sanskrit Bhotah, which derives from Bod, the Tibetan
Will the Tibetan refugees return to their homeland tomorrow, when the Dalai Lama decides to return to Lhasa? It might seem obvious that they will. A closer look, however, and
Which is the world's most beautiful mountain? The winner must be decided on the score of sheer aesthetic appeal and the ability to inspire wonder. Beauty does not
The political liberalization in Nepal came about at a time when Christian organisations were looking for new multitudes to convert. The country provides fertile ground for the development-missionary as
Becoming good Buddhists may well be a matter of people becoming something they look as though they might have been but never actually were.
Chogyam Trungpa, the renowned guru, once
For too long, the lowlanders of Nepal have neglected and denigrated them as unkempt "Bhoteys". The cultural and economic distress of Humla's Tibetan-speakers is fed
For the majority of the Buddhist population of Ladakh, the coming year will be a crucial one. Talks are entering a critical phase on the granting of Hill Council Status
The Baltis now have a global clientele on whose reflection they are beginning to fashion a new identity for themselves.
The summer 'window of opportunity' for the ubiquitous
With the collapse of Lhasa as the centre of its cultural world, the Tibetan periphery has had to devise new means of survival in order to preserve its identity. Among Tibetans of Tibet, there is a shift from defending the faith to defending the flag.
Tibetan ritual music is not a pastiche of gentle good feeling about the Universe. It is an alarm to the system, waking us up to the vibrancy of the world
It is not very often that someone who has contributed to the making of his country's history also finds the time to record for posterity his own interpretation
