High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a Tibetan song and a poem by a Tibetan blogger, each about missing an absent parent. The first translation is of the song, “Longing”, a very popular old song by perhaps the most famous [...]
1975 Performance of “Laundry Song” in Beijing High Peaks Pure Earth has noticed a plethora of recent stories in the media focusing on the upcoming 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party on July 1st. This year also marks another [...]
TibetCul’s Logo *UPDATE: March 30, 2011* High Peaks Pure Earth is happy to report that TibetCul is now back online. The founder of TibetCul, Wangchuk Tseten, wrote the following on his blog on March 29, 2011: Interestingly, TibetCul mysteriously came [...]
“Waterfall of Youth – Dhondup Gyal” by Yudrug (Green Dragon) from HPeaks on Vimeo Following on from the huge popularity of their music video “New Generation”, High Peaks Pure Earth has translated another song by Yudrug called “Waterfall of [...]
High Peaks Pure Earth has noticed several status updates and anecdotes by Tibetans on social networking sites recently that give an insight into everyday life for people in Lhasa. Previous posts on High Peaks Pure Earth that deal with the [...]
High Peaks Pure Earth is pleased to read the news reported by Radio Free Asia on February 8, 2011, that Tibetan singer Tashi Dhondup has been released from prison. Readers may remember the videos we posted last year from his [...]
Screen Title of the music video for “Telephone Rang” Following on from our earlier blogpost featuring two music videos about Tibetan unity, High Peaks Pure Earth has translated “Telephone Rang”, another song on the same topic, this time by [...]
Cover of “Index on Censorship”Issue dedicated to freedom of musical expression High Peaks Pure Earth is grateful to Index on Censorship for kindly granting us permission to publish their translation of Woeser’s article “Tradition in Protest” as published in [...]
High Peaks Pure Earth has translated two songs about Tibetan unity. “Mentally Return” was first performed in Rebkong in July 2006* for a large-scale outdoor performance by the giant of Tibetan music today, Yadong, and his three most well-known students, [...]
High Peaks Pure Earth presents five music videos by Tibetan singer Tashi Dhondup (also sometimes spelled Tashi Dondrup) from Amdo. According to this report by Radio Free Asia from March 5, 2010, Tashi Dhondup, 30, was sentenced to 15 months [...]
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