At 38, Dawa Tsering often recalls with fondness how hard he used to practise Tibetan writing as a child. "I often wrote on a birch board with a bamboo stick dipped with soya sauce on its sharpened end ...

"In granny's stories, I learned to be kind, brave and always keep a deep reverence for life," said Khandro Tsering, now also a middle school teacher based in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Golog ...

Language has a strange place in the intangible cultural heritage safeguarding efforts of Chinese governments and UNESCO. Languages themselves are not recognized on UNESCO’s lists nor are there ...

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Tashi Wangchuk was sentenced to five years in prison after telling The New York Times that Tibetan language education was being repressed. By Chris Buckley See more of our coverage in your search ...

The voices of a score of children and teens rose in songs of prayer. Barefoot or in stocking feet, they stood in rows of four or five before a shrine honoring the Dalai Lama, singing in the Tibetan ...

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High Peaks Pure Earth translates “The Lhakar Pledge”, a manifesto for the growing Lhakar or “White Wednesday” movement. Proponents make a point each week of trying “to wear traditional clothes, speak ...