Tag: Tibetan
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A Dreamer, Believer, Doer: Why Kasur Gyari Dolma is my choice for Sikyong 2021
In early December this year, I received an invitation to speak at the public felicitation being organized in New York City for Kasur Gyari Dolma la. I gave a 20-minute speech in Tibetan language. I thought it would serve a deeper purpose to publish the English translation of the speech in hopes of reaching out…
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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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Tenzin Palkyi on Gender, Feminism and Women’s Empowerment
Palkyi’s ground-breaking talk on Gender, Feminism and Women’s Empowerment The talk was delivered at the first ever Tibetan Women’s Empowerment Conference- October 2016 organized by RTWA NYNJ Good Afternoon everyone. First of all, I want to start by thanking the Regional Tibetan Women’s Association of New York and New Jersey for organizing this very…
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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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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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Unfulfilled Yearnings with my Chinese Friends
‘Where the yearning ends, there the sprouting stops’ – self (in the photo are Chinese friends at the University and they do not represent the three protagonists of 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…
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