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Looking back beyond Nangpa-La

As usual JN's article on the Nangpa-La's tragic incident and matters relating to our struggle against the dehumanizing treatment of our people in occupied Tibet is very interesting. Here I'm

13 going on 30

If growing up is hard in exile, going 30 may be even worse. Blessed are those who feel the 30s are the new 20s, rather than "the beginning of the end". I had had my "moment of truth" just about this time last winter,

IF I HAVE A DREAM….

Today is Monday. I don’t have to work because today is the holiday in honor of the American civil rights leader Dr.Martin Luther King. For this reason many government related offices are

The End of Tibet

As China tortures monks and drives Tibetans into poverty, many young activists are renouncing the Dalai Lama and resorting to violence. Is one of the world's most ancient cultures facing extinction?

Looking Back From Nangpa-La -Jamyang Norbu

In 1994 when I was the editor of the Tibetan language paper MANGTSO, an informant from Solokhumbu sent me a photograph of a Tibetan man, an escapee, who had died somewhere on the Nepalese side of Nangpa-la. His stiff curled-up

“Independence as Tibet’s Only Option: Why the ‘Middle Path’ is a Dead End”

“Independence may be 80 or 90% impossible, but autonomy is 100% impossible. That is why we must work for independence, and be ready for our opportunity when it comes.”(Anonymous Tibetan source, 2006)

LHASA CALLING: Why We Must Escape from Exile

Time has come for us to return. Night follows day, and day follows night. Exile, too, if meaningful, is followed by return. For the very goal of going into exile is but to refill our water bags and restock our armory

We Need to Revisit Tibetan History

I grew up with the traditional perspective of Tibetan history. It began with the beginning of the Tibetan race when Chenresig, manifesting in a monkey, and Jetsun Dolma, manifesting in a rock ogress, mated,

Protest Power: A people’s power that is once again revitalising the Tibetan freedom movement

Before it happened our Superintendent of Police, Kangra District, called me to his office twice and tried to advise me to keep silent. He even told some senior exile Tibetan government officials to

The Forgotten Anniversary – Remembering the Great Khampa Uprising of 1956

by Jamyang Norbu - This year the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution against Soviet occupation was observed with due ceremony and honour throughout Hungary, though in the capital, Budapest,

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