A Great List of Online Resources for #Tibetan Studies tibeto-logic.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-gr...

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Friends, if you are keen on music, justice, and Tibet, this series is for you/us—it stopped me in my tracks, and I can’t wait for the next episodes. Please share! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... @chemilhamo.bsky.social @lhadon.bsky.social @erinpotts.bsky.social

Our Film Club pick for June follows Kunsang Wangmo, known as “Mola” (grandmother) to her family, who has lived in exile from Tibet for more than 60 years. Watch now at the link below. tricycle.org/filmclub/mol...

Reflections on "Royal Cafe" by Tenzin Dazel 10 years on... "We can all find a piece of ourselves in this story of isolation and imperfection, now more than ever." asianmoviepulse.com/2026/06/roya...

BDG News: Robert Thurman, Buddhist Scholar and Co-founder of Tibet House US, Has Died 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4esnObc #Buddhism #Obituary #RobertThurman #DalaiLama #THUS #TibetanBuddhism #ColumbiaU #NewYork #Woodstock #TibetHouse #Vajrayana

What happens when solar farms get built on land where people have herded yaks for generations? A look at how Tibet's renewable energy boom, fueled by Chinese companies, is reshaping life on the ground: theconversation.com/how-the-deve...

A scholar of #Tibetan #Buddhism and a strong supporter of the Tibetan cause. Prof. Bob #Thurman Om Mani Padme Hum

Obituary: Lhasang Tsering (1952–2026) by Jamyang Norbu phayul.com/obituary-lha...

Thirty years on, the podcast Freedom Needs a Soundtrack revisits the star-studded benefit that brought Tibet’s struggle to a mass audience @freedomneedsasound.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

The first Tibetan Freedom Concert took place 30 years ago today

30 years ago this weekend marked the beginning of the Tibet Freedom Concerts for the Milarepa Foundation, first in San Francisco and then every summer for the next several years. R.E.M. played at the 3rd Tibet Freedom show, at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC…

#RIP On June 11, two prominent #Tibetans་passed away. Kasur Chope Paljor Tsering & Lhatsang Tsering. Both served H.H. the #DalaiLama and Tibetans in different ways. I worked with Lhasang la at DIIR as also in TYC & his contribution is multifaceted ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ།

Set in Toronto’s Tibetan community, Kunsang Kyirong’s ‘100 Sunset’ captures raw realities of diasporic life in sharp contrast to the false glamour migrants project to audiences back home. A review essay by Tsering Shakya: https://www.himalmag.com/tibet-canada-disapora-film-100-sunset/

Journal of #Tibetan Literature - Vol. 4 No. 2 (2026) www.journaloftibetanliterature.org/index.php/jt...

Alongside the ongoing oppression of Muslim and indigenous groups in Xinjiang and Tibet, China has been investing heavily in the economy - building massive energy and transport infrastructure, high tech factories and tourism. Part 2 of our Western China series: as.ft.com/r/cd1f62af-4...

Last year, we released fonts for the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. We are also committed to lesser-used scripts. Tibetan may not have the global reach of CJK, but it carries immense historical and cultural weight. Happy to launch this collection of fonts. www.typotheque.com/blog/a-new-c...

"The evolution of #Tibetan typography" by Jo De Baerdemaeker @typotheque.com @typojo.bsky.social www.typotheque.com/articles/the...

Packed with prose, poetry, stories, and reportage, Tsering Woeser's Ocean, as Much as Rain is essential reading for all Tibetans and for anyone who wants to understand what it means to live under colonial occupation. Read the review: mekongreview.com/wri...

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𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 # 𝟏 In “No Useless Poems: Tsering Woeser’s Greater Tibet”, Angus Stewart reviews Tsering Woeser's 𝑂𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛, 𝑎𝑠 𝑀𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑅𝑎𝑖𝑛: 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝐿𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑇𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑡 (Duke University Press, 2026), edited & translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain with Dechen Pemba. chajournal.com/2026/05/12/t...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—In “No Useless Poems: Tsering Woeser’s Greater Tibet”, Angus Stewart reviews Tsering Woeser's 𝑂𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛, 𝑎𝑠 𝑀𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑅𝑎𝑖𝑛,edited & translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain with Dechen Pemba: "...a very new sort of work in English translation." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/05/12/t...

It never rains but it pours! Proud as ever to be @asiancha.bsky.social, this time reviewing something very new for me - writing from Tibet. So thank you to Woeser, and to all her translators, publishers, editors, and real life characters who are the stars of her writing, IMO.

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—In “No Useless Poems: Tsering Woeser’s Greater Tibet”, Angus Stewart reviews Tsering Woeser's 𝑂𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛, 𝑎𝑠 𝑀𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑅𝑎𝑖𝑛,edited & translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain with Dechen Pemba: "...a very new sort of work in English translation." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/05/12/t...

How do Tibetans express dissent under authoritarian rule? In “Satirical Tibet”, Timothy Thurston explores how comedians and rappers use humour as resistance. Read Palden Gyal’s review: https://www.himalmag.com/culture/satire-tibet-humour-china-surveillance

"Ocean, as Much as Rain" [...] is essential reading for all Tibetans and for anyone who wants to understand what it means to live under colonial occupation. Read Bhuchung D. Sonam's review in @mekongreview.com mekongreview.com/writing-back/ @woeser.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

Meher McArthur wrote a review of this huge show at LACMA—Realm of the Dharma—and provided some little-known history on their Buddhist collection. The whole time I lived in LA, I had no idea. I knew the collection was good, but not this good. They should do this more often. FREE LINK

Our Spring Sale continues through May 19. A reminder that if you want delivery outside North & South America, please order from our partner @mngupbooks.bsky.social, using the same SPRING26 coupon. buff.ly/mbKuTn1

#China #Tibet #colonialism "[Tibetan] Children are now taught to identify with the Chinese Communist party, idolise the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and identify themselves as part of the Chinese nation" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"Good satire spares no one. Zurza holds up a mirror to contemporary Tibetan life in all its complexity, producing an image that neither state propaganda nor diaspora nationalism could bear to look into. The trickster, it turns out, was a truth-teller all along." https://ow.ly/RZOH50YVt8o

Seminal piece on how Tibetans inside Tibet find ways to satirise their world, a refuge from oppression whose origins are much older than you might imagine.

New events! 📆21st, 28th May & 11th, 18th June 🕡6:45pm UK Time Kagyu Samye Dzong London hold "Tibetan Film Season", 4 evening screenings of short films & discussions curated by Tibet Film Festival. Details: www.london.samye.org/event-detail...

In 'Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo', the scholar Timothy Thurston shows how Tibetan artists have mastered the art of zurza (ཟུར་ཟ་), to deliver one of the most remarkably inventive forms of cultural resistance under the Chinese state : https://ow.ly/wgLE50YUStj

Satire under surveillance in #Tibet www.himalmag.com/culture/sati...

“Spring is here spring in Lhasa Every afternoon, ruined valleys will stir sandstorms Butter lamps from the Jokhang blaze in our hands every day” –Tsering Woeser Read the rest of the poem at the link below. tricycle.org/magazine/tse...

Our Spring Sale continues through May 19. Save 40% on in-stock books & journal issues, and save 50% if your order totals $100 or more. Use coupon SPRING26. buff.ly/fPGFs72

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...