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 toContinue reading “Vital Underpinnings of Tibetan Feminism”
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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.
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,Continue reading “Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet”
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 takenContinue reading “Tibetan Women: off field, on field….”
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 TibetanContinue reading “TOWARDS THE DREAM, How is it to be a Tibetan woman in today’s world?”
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 ChineseContinue reading “Exile – the Nursery of Nationalism”
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 theContinue reading “Honoring Dr. Ama Jetsun Pema”
Unfulfilled Yearnings with my Chinese Friends
‘Where the yearning ends, there the sprouting stops’ – self (Pictured are University friends; they do not represent the three characters in the story) the names of the Chinese friends are altered to respect their identity The Year 2006 -07 was a touchstone year of sorts. It was the year I lived, studied, ate,Continue reading “Unfulfilled Yearnings with my Chinese Friends”
A reverential ode to the land that reaped and reaped: TCV
Nestled in the Dharamsala hills, overlooking the beautiful Dal lake, I perched on the window sill in the comforts of my family home located right in the heart of Upper TCV School. As July’s torrential rain overtook the otherwise sunny Sunday morning, I paused to reflect on the ‘whats’ and ‘ifs’ of my life. IContinue reading “A reverential ode to the land that reaped and reaped: TCV”
Autonomy: Scotland and Tibet; Birds of the same feather, daring to fly together
I wrote this piece for the journal Tibet Today in the year 2007 whilst pursuing my graduate studies in Edinburgh Living in Scotland, I am enamoured by its successful autonomous model. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama has admitted to being inspired by the Scotland Model. Imagining Tibet’s autonomy within the similar paradigm, I canContinue reading “Autonomy: Scotland and Tibet; Birds of the same feather, daring to fly together”
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