King Gesar of Ling

Ling Gesar's epical tale and cham is a flourishing popular tradition in Golok, as you can observe it in this authentic recent amateur video. http://youtu.be/SA969VJV0sE Ling Gesar's epical tale and cham is a flourishing popular tradition in Golok, as...

Of all exiled people from Golok, Shingza Rinpoche is one that I respect the most, for his determination, courage, honesty. VOA's Kunleng invited Shingza Rinpoche, abbot of Ragya Monastery in Golok, to discuss his escape into exile in 1997, and his subsequent...

Tibet Times reports a new case of self-immolation today morning, February 6, 2014 at Tsekhok in Malho district. In township of Do Karmo one Tibetan selt himself on fire in protest against the Chinese rule. www.tibettimes.net དེ་རིང་སྔ་དྲོར་བོད་ནང་གི་རྨ་ལྷོ་ཁུལ་རྩེ་ཁོག་རྫོང་རྡོ་དཀར་མོ་ཞང་དུ་བོད་མི་ཞིག་གིས་རང་ལུས་མེར་བསྲེཊ་ཀྱིས་རྒྱ་གཞུང་ལ་ངོ་རྒོལ་གནང་ཡོད་འདུགད་ལྟ་རང་གནས་ཚུལ་འབྱོར་གསལ་ལྟར་ན།...

Golok modern spoken language and Tibetan classical written language are very close. This has an historical explanation. Not only Ling Gesar epical tale is still living oral tradition there, but also written Tibetan is originaly from Golok. Golok Tharlak...

Happy birthday to my younger sister, Aleksandra

This Amdo guy celebrated Chinese new year, not "Amdo new year" or "Mongolian new year". Inside Tibet, people will try to celebrate Tibetan new year, on March 2 this year, knowing that their roads and communications will be blocked by Chinese during all...