Archive for category: Comment

“The Light of Freedom Illuminates the Land of Hope” By Woeser

“The Light of Freedom Illuminates the Land of Hope” By Woeser

9 / 01/05/2012 12:32

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on March 28, 2012 for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia and posted on her own blog on April 2, 2012. The post highlights one Chinese lawyer, Tang [...]

A Tibetan Blogger Shares Her Views on Tibetan Restaurants

A Tibetan Blogger Shares Her Views on Tibetan Restaurants

1 / 05/04/2012 15:04

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by a female Tibetan blogger that was posted on her AmdoTibet blog on December 19, 2011.  Here at High Peaks Pure Earth we love food and all things food-related, today’s blogpost reminded [...]

“Breaking out of Tibet’s Predicament Should Start from Village Autonomy” By Woeser

“Breaking out of Tibet’s Predicament Should Start from Village Autonomy” By Woeser

0 / 02/04/2012 13:59

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on January 15, 2012 for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and posted on her blog on March 27, 2012. This post is a follow up to last [...]

Satirical Poem “Treaty on Man” By Detained Tibetan Writer Dawa Dorje

Satirical Poem “Treaty on Man” By Detained Tibetan Writer Dawa Dorje

2 / 29/03/2012 12:14

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated extracts from a poem by Dawa Dorje titled “Treaty on Man” (མི་ཡི་བསྟན་བཅོས་). According to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Dawa Dorje, a writer in his 20s, has been detained since February 3, [...]

“How Do We Get Out of This Predicament?” By Woeser

“How Do We Get Out of This Predicament?” By Woeser

4 / 26/03/2012 22:49

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on January 15, 2012 for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and posted on her blog on March 25, 2012. Actually for this post it’s not strictly accurate [...]

“Self-Immolations Cannot Go On Like This!” By Woeser

“Self-Immolations Cannot Go On Like This!” By Woeser

1 / 20/03/2012 21:20

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on January 15, 2012 for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and posted on her blog on March 2o, 2012. The starting point for Woeser’s article is the [...]

A Tibetan’s Letter “To Some Government Officials and Leaders”

A Tibetan’s Letter “To Some Government Officials and Leaders”

0 / 07/03/2012 15:59

High Peaks Pure Earth presents the English translation of a blogpost that was re-posted on the site Sangdhor.com on January 11, 2012. Many thanks to Bhuchung D. Sonam of the website TibetWrites for this translation. Earlier this week, we posted [...]

An Open Letter by a Tibetan Cadre

An Open Letter by a Tibetan Cadre

1 / 04/03/2012 10:24

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated an open letter to the Chinese leadership written by Luo Feng, a Tibetan cadre, about the Communist Party Secretary of Ngaba (Ch: Aba), Shi Jun. The letter was written in the wake of a major [...]

The Online Debate Continues: “Do We Need a Common Losar?”

The Online Debate Continues: “Do We Need a Common Losar?”

3 / 20/02/2012 13:06

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost about Losar (Tibetan New Year) originally written in Tibetan and posted on a Tibetan-language blog site on January 4, 2012. This year, Chinese New Year fell on January 23, 2012, so this blogpost [...]

White Wednesday: “The Lhakar Pledge”

White Wednesday: “The Lhakar Pledge”

1 / 04/07/2011 11:59

  High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by a Tibetan blogger that was originally posted online on June 9, 2010 on a blog hosted by the now defunct site Tibet123.com. The topic of this blogpost is “Lhakar”, a [...]