There is a growing trend among non-Tibetan scholars—primarily those from Western or Chinese backgrounds—to analyze Tibetan women’s experiences through frameworks focused on gendered roles, marginal…| lhakardiaries.com
This public conversation brings Indigenous youths, activists, and scholars working across Nepal, Tibet and Canada to discuss Indigenous futures, climate change and solutions. Speakers ground the st…| lhakardiaries.com
Thank you to the Department of Asian Studies’ Himalaya Program, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia…| lhakardiaries.com
From the article: Are Tibetans Indigenous? The Political Stakes and Potentiality of the Translation of Indigeneity How does settler-colonial imperialism operate in Asia, and what are the ways in wh…| lhakardiaries.com
Interview with Phayul Media, a Tibetan news platform in 2022. I answered the following questions in the short video: How did the Lhakar movement become a medium for dissidence inside Tibet? Why do …| lhakardiaries.com
The panel began with a short introduction of what Janet, Amy, and I (in this order) mean when we say “Inclusive/feminist approaches to Buddhist translations” and shared a list of questi…| lhakardiaries.com
Long term readers of Lhakar Diaries know that Tsering Yangzom Lama is one of our founders. So it is a pleasure to share a video of us in conversation talking about her book, “We Measure the E…| lhakardiaries.com
“How do you translate intimacy? Recent news involving the Dalai Lama interacting with an Indian boy at a public event on February 28th, 2023 shocked the world. Over a month after the event, m…| lhakardiaries.com
The first poem “The Young, the Holy, and the Wealthy” is one version of my interpretation from the many stories I’ve been told about how key members of a family, who had been iden…| lhakardiaries.com