Tibet

How Tibetans in Karnataka’s Dhondenling put down roots in refuge

The lush home gardens in India’s southernmost Tibetan refugee settlement tell stories tracing 50 years of exile

| Oct 10, 2023

Whose Himalaya is it?

John Keay, Erika Fatland and Ed Douglas’ books on the Himalaya exhibit ways of seeing, or failing to see, the mountains and their people

| Mar 01, 2023

Refusal and responsibility

The predicament and precarity of Tibetan intellectuals in China.

| Aug 26, 2022

In the embrace of letting go

A Tibetan writer’s personal essay on a death in the family.

| Oct 11, 2018

Beyond development and diversity

Historian Tsering Shakya on the state of contemporary Tibet.

| Jun 25, 2018

A Tibetan Daughter

Four poems

| Oct 07, 2016

Literary sandbox

Tibetan fiction’s two overused themes of politics and religion limits experimentation

| Sep 28, 2016

Arguing ordination

The debate over full ordination of nuns in Tibetan Buddhism remains unsettled.

| Sep 11, 2015

Subterranean shifts

The science behind earthquakes in the Himalaya.

| Jul 21, 2015

To another valley

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Earthquake survivors from the Langtang Valley find shelter at a camp in Kathmandu.

| May 11, 2015

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