Tag: Dhardon Sharling
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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), recipient…
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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 up…
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Reproductive governance in the Tibetan community in exile- Discrepancies and digressions
This piece originally appeared in December 2015 edition of 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…
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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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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…
Educator, Environmental Humanist, Digital Feminist, Changemaker 