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ཤིང་སྦྲུལ་ལོའི་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ། Happy Year of the Wood Snake.February 28, 2025, marks the start of the Wood Snake year (2152) in the Tibetan calendar and across many Himalayan and Mongolian communities. We wish you all Happy
Join us for an event with Zhao Zhong, the Director of Green Camel Bell, on Nature Conservation and Public Participation in the Tibetan Plateau. He will share his work titled "Nature Conservation and Public Participation: Practices of a Grassroots
Date: December 5, 2024Time: 12:15 PM - 1:45 PMLocation: Gugg 201EJoin us for an event featuring Nepalese scholar Nabraj Lama, who will share his research titled "Indigenous Affairs of Nepal through a Political and Economic
Professor Dan Hirshberg is offering the following courses in the Spring term of 2025:ASIA 1700: Introduction to Tibetan CivilizationASIA 4700: Enlightened Visionaries, Dirty Tricksters, and Warrior HeroesRLST 3550: Tibetan BuddhismAdditionally, a
On February 24th, 2023, the 鶹Ѱ ushered in the new Tibetan year of the Water Hare with Losar celebrations. Losar (ལོ་གསར་) meaning New Year in Tibetan is celebrated widely across the Tibetan Plateau and in the Himalayan
Join us for an extraordinary event, a book reading and dialogue with Tsering Yangzom Lama about her award-winning debut novel, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies.When: Thursday, March 2 5:30 Reception, Meet the
Tukdam: Between Worlds, is a brand new feature documentary that explores the phenomenon of tukdam, where deceased mediators show no signs of death for days and weeks. Synopsis We tend to think of death as something clear-cut
This photo essay captures the dreams and realities surrounding artificial glaciers in Ladakh. Informed by three months of preliminary research, it presents some visual evidence to accompany the authors’ reflections while on
Doctoral student in ethnomusicology, Mason Brown, shares vignettes of his dissertaton fieldwork on Tibetan folk music in Nepal.Visit the full photo essay, "Folk Songs in Nubri" here.
THI Visiting Scholar, Andrew Grant, shares his experiences between 2010-2017 at the Tibetan festival of Lurol in the village of Sadjye (Sa dkyel ས་དཀྱིལ) near to the heart of Rebgong (རེབ་ཀོང་།) in Qinghai