Pa Topgyal is 79 years old. While speaking to his elder daughter on the phone he wails like a three-year old boy. She is in the USA, an illegal Tibetan without papers. He is a refugee living in India for 47 years.
Exile is a heavy burden. Negotiating the unfamiliar and often precarious road in strange lands test the collective endurance and also enriches people’s
A new movie- Tsampa to Pizza, directed and produced by a Tibetan youth, Sonam Tsetan, has been catching the eyes and inpsiration of Tibetans and non-Tibetans here in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala.
Entering Tibet at Gongkhar Airport, we drive around the base of a mountain to reach our hotel in Lhasa. Returning to the airport one amazing week later, we zip through the mountain instead
For a movie made by Buddhists about Buddhists for Buddhists, "Vajra Sky Over Tibet" is awfully dualistic. That paradox is partly the point: Writer-director John Bush filmed in Tibet without permission from Chinese authorities
I first saw Chinese director, Lu Chuan’s critically acclaimed Tibetan film – Kekexili: Mountain Patrol – in the unlikely environs of an ornate 19th Century opera house in the Brazilian city of
The sudden demise of Prof Dawa Norbu has left all of us shell-shocked creating a void that can never be filled. A true son of Tibet, he was a person far ahead of his time and one of the exceptional few who combined rare intellect
