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Tibetan Women: Devotedly Defiant
Beijing, September 1995: nine exiled Tibetan women staged a silent protest at the United Nations World Conference on Women held in Beijing. The essay titled ‘Tibetan Women: Devotedly Defiant’ featured in the book ‘A Force Such As the World Has Never Known,’ which is an anthology of essays by 30 women authors, published in November…
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China’s Fear Remains Even After Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s Death
Tibetans across the world were devastated by the news of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s death in a Chinese prison on July 12 this year. The news opened fresh wounds for Tibetans who called his death a protracted political murder. Tibetans in Tibet braved gunshot wounds to protest against his death. A series of actions continue to…
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Vital Underpinnings of Tibetan Feminism
Decoding Feminism: The general notion of feminism in the Tibetan community is that it is a western import. It is therefore scoffed at as “white feminism” – one that is unwelcome and struggling to find its footing on the Asian turf. In the general Tibetan discourse, feminism is seen as women coming together to…
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My Tribute to His Holiness the Karmapa Rinpoche
རིག་པའི་གནས་ལ་མཁས་པའི་དེད་དཔོན་དང།། ཀུན་ཕན་བྱམས་བཙེ་རིན་ཐང་སྦྱིན་ནུས་པ།། ཁོར་ཡུག་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་སེམས་ཅན་བྱམས་བརྩེ་ཅན།། རླབས་ཆེན་ཀུན་སྙོམས་དབང་པོ་ཕྱག་གིས་ཡུལ།། A Spiritual Crusader An Environmental Advocate A Feminist Icon An Animal Lover A Prolific Writer A Steadfast Visionary His Holiness the Karmapa Rinpoche You are a divine gift for Humanity at large and For aspirants like me.
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Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet
༄༅། ས་སྟེང་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་བྱམས་བརྩེའི་བདག་ཉིད། འཛམ་གླིང་ཞི་བདེའི་དེད་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ། བོད་མི་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་མགོན་སྐྱབས། བདག་གི་ཚེ་སྲོག་ལས་ཀྱང་རྩ་ཆེ་བ། ༧གོང་ས་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་སྐུ་ཚེ་བསྐལ་བརྒྱར་བརྟན་ཅིང་བཞེད་དོན་ལྷུན་གྱིས་འགྲུབ་པའི་གདུང་ཤུགས་དྲག་པོས་སྨོན་ལམ་དང། རང་ངོས་ནས་མགོན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་དགོངས་བསྒྲུབ་རྒྱུར་སྒོ་གསུམ་གུས་པ་ཆེན་པོས་དམ་བཅའ་བརྟན་པོ་ཡོད།། His Holiness the Dalai Lama Global Icon of Peace Ocean of Wisdom Supreme Symbol of Tibetan Identity and Unity The breath of my life May you live for a hundred eons While I pledge to make efforts to fulfill your wishes and aspirations May I have the strength,…
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Tibetan Women: off field, on field….
This topic gained visual depiction when I sat watching the fitting finale of ‘Dhasa Women’s Basketball Tournament’ on the evening of October 27 this year. Two reasons why I accepted this genial invitation to be the chief guest at the final series are-firstly, my dear friend Tseyang [1], backed by her devout friends had taken…
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TOWARDS THE DREAM, How is it to be a Tibetan woman in today’s world?
Tenzin Dhardon Sharling opens new ways to Tibetan women. Text: Jaana-Mirjam Mustavuori Photos: Johanna Myllymäki Source: VOI HYVIN (Finland’s lifestyle magazine) Interview date: November 6, 2011 Place: Helsinki, Finland Translation from Finnish to English: Erja Sini-Kaarina Varis, edited by Albion M. Butters All expectations dissolve in an instant when I meet this speaker of Tibetan…
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Exile – the Nursery of Nationalism
This article appeared in the April 2013 edition of Seminar magazine. http://www.india-seminar.com/2013/644/644_dhardon_sharling.htm “There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of one’s native land.” ( Euripides, 431 B.C.) SINCE the beginning of the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1949, approximately 1.2 million Tibetans have been killed, a figure denied by the Chinese…
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Honoring Dr. Ama Jetsun Pema
On a cold winter morning in December 2012, the mother figure for hundred thousands of Tibetan children stood tall amid the dignitaries, luminaries and students of the University of San Francisco (USF). Ama (mother) Jetsun Pema was being conferred with the honorary doctorate by USF. The statement released by USF on the eve of the…
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The Fierce Force Fortifying Female Forte
Five golden years ago, standing on the tight rope of an ‘Ad-Zap’ rapid fire round; a culmination of the many literary events during the annual college fest, the seemingly witty male judge hurled accelerated questions on me, supposedly the key speaker for the group. My answer to the final question left the audience literarily zapped…
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