For a limited time, all books by @dukepress.bsky.social including "Ocean, as Much as Rain" by Tsering Woeser @woeser.bsky.social are 40% off! Use coupon code SPRING26 www.dukeupress.edu/ocean-as-muc...

A journal kept by Sybille Noel during a journey across Sikkim and Tibet offers a previously unknown account of the famous 1924 Everest expedition. Learn more about what it reveals with Jan Faull in our free lunchtime lecture. 📍 London and online 🎟️https://bit.ly/3QIi70r

Book of the month: Tsering Döndrup 'I wonder if you’ve considered any books from Tibet so far,' Chris Peacock wrote in a comment on this blog a few weeks back. 'In recent years, there have been an increasing number… https://ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2026/04/30/book-of-the-month-tsering-dondrup/

A moment in time frozen forever during an intense game of Mahjong. Look at the focus on the faces of Rai Bahadur Norbu and Doring Teji!

For a limited time, all books by @dukepress.bsky.social including "Ocean, as Much as Rain" by Tsering Woeser @woeser.bsky.social are 40% off! Use coupon code SPRING26 www.dukeupress.edu/ocean-as-muc...

Our final Poem of the Week for this National Poetry Month is "Few Years Later" from"Ocean, as Much as Rain," a collection of writings by prominent Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser, edited and translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain with Dechen Pemba. Find it on our blog: buff.ly/4dQkHGX

NEW: we caught 🇨🇳Chinese hackers... again. Twist: they're hacking journalists & activists, but we suspect they're private contractors. State repression... with a profit margin. Thread + how to protect yourself 1/ By my colleagues @citizenlab.ca + @icij.org citizenlab.ca/research/how...

The Frederick Williamson Memorial Fund application deadline is 30 April 2026! This grant focuses on furthering research relating to the society, religion, and material culture of the peoples of Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, and neighbouring Himalayan areas. 📸 Researching Himalayan textiles, 2025

When a British diplomat was found murdered in southwest China in 1875, near the Burmese border, a political spat was triggered that would have wide-ranging ramifications. Read Thomas Bird's review of A Murder in Yunnan by David Leffman: chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/16/y...

"There is always a delay in the print process while it goes through a body in China that checks up things. There are sensitivities about maps and anything that mentions Tibet for example"

"Necropolitics, Sino-Tibetan Relations, and the Panchen Lama" Seminar with anthropologist Charlene Makley (Reed College) at LSE on Monday, Apr 27 from 2-5 pm. More information and registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/necropolit...

The Eightfold Salt Path

The Great Amdo Rebellion was an uprising in the Amdo region of Tibet against Chinese Communist authorities in 1958. Learn more in Tsering Döndrup’s unflinching account of imprisonment, famine, death, and generational trauma. tricycle.org/magazine/don...

Baihanluo (Bahang) Catholic Church, set up by Father Jules Dubernard of the French Missions Etranger. The conversion of Tibetans greatly angered the local lamas and he was murdered by a mob in 1905.

What happens when children sent by parents in #Tibet to Tibetan #refugee schools in #India in the 1980s are forced to return to Tibet in the 1990s due to #Chinese gov orders? Tsering Dolkar tells us in this personal account in #Tibetan & English on Lhakar Diaries lhakardiaries.com/2026/04/05/o...

Check in at Cizhong guesthouse and the laoban is plucking a goose. Got a room with a view of the Catholic church. #China

The exhibition runs until 27 September 2026, well worth a visit! @nationaltrust.org.uk

Looking for new titles from well-versed writers? Our latest #PageOne includes Sonia Sanchez’s 24th book, This Is Not a Small Voice; Mark Haddon’s 15th book, Leaving Home; and Tsering Woeser’s 24th book, Ocean, as Much as Rain, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain + Dechen Pemba. at.pw.org/PageOne2026x2

BDG News: Revered Tibetan Buddhist Teacher Kyabje Chime Rinpoche Has Died at 85 🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/2y3a79s6 #Buddhism #TibetanBuddhism #Obituary #BuddhistTeacher #ChimeRinpoche #MarpaHouse #Parinirvana #Vajrayana

Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition. बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/6IbjP #Himalaya #Archives #IndigenousWork #Mountaineering #OtherEverests @hpeaks.bsky.social

Joining @tibetcurator.bsky.social Emma Martin with activists Te Nam + Tsering Passang discussing #Tibet in the Museum for the "Dissent! #Museums & Political Disagreement" conference on March 26 at the Uni of Manchester, UK Admission free. Click link for more info: www.eventbrite.com/e/dissent-mu...

ICT report: #Deepzang: the digital propaganda front in #China’s #Tibet narrative. "The very name DeepZang feeds into the CCP strategy of #Sinicization by including the Chinese term “Zang” for Tibet rather than using the Tibetan term “Bod.” " "གཏེར་ཚང་"རིག་ནུས་ཐོག་ང་ཚོའི་སྙན་ཐོ། savetibet.org/deepzang-the...

New Ethnic Unity Law Threatens Minority Languages and Cultural Identity

Looking for new titles from well-versed writers? Our latest #PageOne includes Sonia Sanchez’s 24th book, This Is Not a Small Voice; Mark Haddon’s 15th book, Leaving Home; and Tsering Woeser’s 24th book, Ocean, as Much as Rain, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain + Dechen Pemba. at.pw.org/PageOne2026x2

I will be screening of "Amala" tomorrow, March 17 at Leiden University. It traces Jetsun Pema's life in Tibet, escape in India, and four decades of leadership at Tibetan Children’s Village school for Tibetan refugee children in India. For info on Film & Location visit: www.iias.asia/events/amala...

This Thursday, on how #Chinese #colonialism in #Tibet persists through state-led discursive and ethnographic practices in the making of the Chinese #empire. QR to Register (Required). ⏰ March 19 | 4:15pm - 5:45pm 📍Wijnhaven, Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DP The Hague, Leiden University (Room 3.48)

Thank you to Druktalk Podcast for the book discussion on a cold and foggy east London morning! @woeser.bsky.social Watch the full video here (in Tibetan): youtu.be/SXS-7I7ZNv8?...

Thank you to Voice of Tibet for this discussion on "Ocean, as Much as Rain" by @woeser.bsky.social Watch the full coverage on YouTube (in Tibetan): www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXkt...

View photos from the successful London book launch event for "Ocean, as Much as Rain" by @woeser.bsky.social at SOAS with Dechen Pemba, Fiona Sze-Lorrain and Jemimah Steinfeld highpeakspureearth.com/photos-from-... @indexoncensorship.org @dukepress.bsky.social @mngupbooks.bsky.social

For those in Vancouver, "Ocean, as Much as Rain" by Tsering Woeser available! #AAS2026

New legislation will require schools to use Mandarin by default, taking priority over minority ethnic languages such as Tibetan, Uyghur and Mongolian. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Once passed, this law will finalize the collapsing of many ethnic identities in China that I write about in my book, Let Only Red Flowers Bloom npcobserver.com/2026/03/05/c...

Thank you to all attendees of today's book launch event for "Ocean, as Much as Rain" by @woeser.bsky.social at SOAS London @dukepress.bsky.social Such a great turnout and engagement! Thank you to @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social for moderating @indexoncensorship.org 🙏🏽

A new law in China will formalise a sweeping project to erase much of what remains of its ethnic distinctiveness. It marks a grim milestone econ.st/4lpeibQ Illustration: Hanna Barczyk

#China’s new “ethnic unity” law, to be passed this week, will accelerate the attempted forced assimilation of the country’s ethnic minorities into the dominant Han culture, according to academics and human rights groups. A piece by me: CLICK LINK TO READ www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Ocean, as Much as Rain: Woeser’s Testimony of Resistance Against State-imposed Amnesia" Read a new review of “Ocean” @woeser.bsky.social by Thinley Chodon of University College Dublin, published on Lhakar Diaries. Read the full review: lhakardiaries.com/2026/03/07/o... @dukepress.bsky.social

Wed: @hpeaks.bsky.social hold Book launch in London: 'Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet" w/ @woeser.bsky.social @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social & more & Berkeley (USA), talk from @jwassers.bsky.social "Symbols and Songs in East & Southeast Asian Youth Movements" 11/

A book of Tibetan poetry, stories and lyrical prose, Ocean, as Much as Rain by Tsering Woeser will be launched by SOAS Library on 11th March, 5.15–6.30pm. With Fiona Sze-Lorrain & Dechen Pemba in conversation with Jemimah Steinfeld. All welcome: https://ow.ly/Gks150YoGFS

Join the editors/translators Fiona Sze-Lorrain and Dechen Pemba, in conversation with Jemimah Steinfeld, for the book launch of Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet. 🗓️ 11th March 17:15 📍 SOAS, London 🔗 buff.ly/LfYaGvJ @dukepress.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social

Happy to be quoted by Joe Leahy of @financialtimes.com for this article about the new law in China that would further erode the language (and other) rights of non-Han people. Probably paywalled but happy to share. www.ft.com/content/94be...

Musician Jesse Paris Smith outlines her connections to Tibet and highlights Tibetan culture including the work of @woeser.bsky.social and many artists. Mentions "Ocean, as Much as Rain" from @dukepress.bsky.social Read the whole piece here: jesseparissmith.substack.com/p/new-beginn...

Attending #AASVancouver? Be sure to check out the Entangled Territories exhibition and special events at @moaubc.bsky.social #himalaya #tibet #anthropology #AAS2026

@bennoweiner.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com on new law that ends minority language education in core subjects in #innermongolia, #tibet, #xinjiang: It “overturns the multicultural promises upon which China was founded.”

Bhuchung D. Sonam reviews "The Red Wind Howls" Suppressed in China, Tsering Döndrup’s novel reaches English readers with an unflinching account of imprisonment, famine, death, and generational trauma. @badsonam.bsky.social @tricyclemag.bsky.social tricycle.org/magazine/don...

I wish that Tsering Döndrup’s 'The Red Wind Howls' had received a bit more attention. This brutal, blackly absurdist depiction of life in Tibetan re-education camps belongs on the shortlist of that most awful of genres, gulag fiction. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

The first Tibetan Buddhist monks came to Europe amid the surge of interest over attempts to summit Mt. Everest in the 1920s. Capitalizing on this excitement, a promoter in Darjeeling recruited men to pose as Tibetan cham dancers for the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924. 🧵 🗃️ 📜 #Tibet

Ongoing: @nationaltrust.org.uk host exhibition "How did we get here?" & screenings of "Encounters" & @moaubc.bsky.social host photo exhibition "Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images" 10/

New event! (Well to us anyway) 📆Ongoing -> 29th March @moaubc.bsky.social host photo exhibition "Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images" Details: moa.ubc.ca/exhibition/e...

Catch a DUP author near you: this spring @emmaamador.bsky.social @wolffdr.bsky.social @naylandblake.bsky.social @esraakcan.bsky.social @beliso-dejesus.bsky.social and many more are giving book talks free and open to the public. See the full lineup of March author events on our blog: buff.ly/1hPFt1c

New event! 📆11th March 🕔5:15pm UK time @hpeaks.bsky.social hold Book launch in London: 'Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet' by @woeser.bsky.social & discussion w/ @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social, Fiona Sze-Lorrain & Dechen Pemba Reg: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...