High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on February 10, 2013 for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia, as well as the Tibetan service and published on her blog on February 11, 2013. Following on from the last translation where Woeser looked back on the year 2012, the post below turns to Losar (Tibetan New [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written between December 27, 2012 and January 1, 2013 for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia, as well as the Tibetan service and published on her blog on January 3, 2013. The blogpost is a look back on 2012 and, despite being several months old, is still a moving read. [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a speech by a Tibetan called Byangkar held at a conference of Tibetan scholars in late 2012 and posted online. The conference was also attended by well-known Tibetan intellectual Jamyang Kyi, the only female speaker. The speech has been online on blog-hosting site Sangdhor.Com since November 4, 2012 and has stirred up a lot [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on December 20, 2012 for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on December 26, 2012. In this blogpost, Woeser highlights foreign media reporting on the self-immolations in Tibet, specifically efforts by French journalists to travel in Tibet and visit areas directly affected by [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth is very grateful to Elliot Sperling for his translation of a blogpost by Woeser originally written for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia on May 4, revised on May 6 and posted on her blog on May 7, 2013. The blogpost is an appeal to save Lhasa from destructive modernisation and has already attracted media [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a song by Tsultrim Gyaltsen titled “Tears of Blood”. The music video relays the hardship faced by Tibetan graduates in finding employment and competing in the job market. The song has been online since April 2012 and can be found on YouTube as well as featured on popular Tibetan blogs. Matters related to Tibetan education [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on February 5, 2013, for both the Tibetan service and Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on February 6, 2013. The subject of Woeser’s piece is the CCTV-produced TV drama “Secret Tibet”, previously featured on High Peaks Pure Earth in February when we translated [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by a Tibetan blogger that was written on March 3, 2013 and posted on their Sangdhor.com hosted blog on March 24, 2013. The blogger recounts a trip back to their home village and gives an insight into the lives of the people there and the issues that are discussed during informal gatherings. [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written in September 2012, for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on January 9, 2013. The post focuses on recent increased measures to “maintain stability” in Tibet Autonomous Region, also noticed by Human Rights Watch as detailed at length in their report of March [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth presents an English translation of a blogpost by Woeser written on March 30, 2013, and published on her blog on the same day. The blogpost was written by Woeser in immediate response to the fatal landslide in Gyama Valley in central Tibet that engulfed a gold mining area. As mentioned in the blogpost, Woeser has long [...]