Is 2025 the Beginning or the End?

Unlike the onset of 2020, marked by the COVID-19 pandemic from which we eventually recovered, 2025 presents a climate emergency with no obvious turning point. To shift this trajectory, we must undergo a profound transformation of human consciousness. We must unite as a global community, embracing the teaching of “oneness of humanity,” as His Holiness the Dalai Lama often emphasizes.

An Ode and a Dedication: For His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his 88th Birthday

Today, it fills my heart with immeasurable joy and humility to share that I have authored a dissertation that explores the Dalai Lama’s discourse on human values, particularly during a critical moment in human history – the Covid-19 pandemic, set against the canvas of the existential threat of climate crisis. Through this scholarly pursuit, I present a unique communication perspective on the significant scientific and political conversations of our times. In doing so, my aspiration is to pave the way for interdisciplinary research that converges at the crossroads of human consciousness, communication, culture, digital mediation, and global environmental challenges

My talk on Tibetan Non-Violent Resistance at the Symposium on Non-Violence held in Germany

The video of the talk can be viewed here   The talk was delivered on September 19 this year at Darmstad in the presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lech Welesa, former President of Poland and leader of Solidarnosch movement, Rebecca Johnson, founding president of International Campaign for abolition of nuclear weapons (ICAN), recipientContinue reading “My talk on Tibetan Non-Violent Resistance at the Symposium on Non-Violence held in Germany”

My TED x Talk on Leading Freedom in Exile

58 years ago, on March 31st, 1959, His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, reached India with approximately 80,000 Tibetans, who had known no home but their own. It was an escape from persecution and oppression from our adversary; Rehabilitation in India started with insurmountable challenge. My father once told me a story that perfectly sums upContinue reading “My TED x Talk on Leading Freedom in Exile”

Reproductive governance in the Tibetan community in exile- Discrepancies and digressions

This piece originally appeared in December 2015 edition of hystericalfeminisms.com http://www.hystericalfeminisms.com/reproductive-governance-in-the-tibetan-community-in-exile-discrepancies-and-digressions/ Introduction – Reproductive Governance This paper analyzes reproductive governance in public policy and how it applies to the exile Tibetan discourse surrounding women’s reproductive responsibilities. Drawing heavily on Lynn Morgan and Elizabeth Robert’s ‘Reproductive Governance in Latin America’ (2012), this study explores how politicalContinue reading “Reproductive governance in the Tibetan community in exile- Discrepancies and digressions”

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 NovemberContinue reading “Tibetan Women: Devotedly Defiant”

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 toContinue reading “Vital Underpinnings of Tibetan Feminism”

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….”