Tag: exile Tibetans

• 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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  October 14, 2015

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  Ama Adhe, Defiance, Devotion, Dhardon Sharling, Drapchi nuns, exile Tibetans, Jestun Pema, Lhasa, Peaceful Resistance, Tibet, Tibetan, Tibetan nuns, Tibetan Women, Tibetan Women’s Association, Tibetan Women’s Uprising, Tsering Woeser

• 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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  August 1, 2015

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  Buddhism, Dalai Lama, Dhardon Sharling, exile Tibetans, Feminism, Gender, Gender equality, Karmapa Rinpoche, Tibet, Tibetan, Tibetan Feminism, Tibetan Women, Women Empowerment