High Peaks Pure Earth is happy to present a guest post by Jonathan Mirsky. The guest post is a book review of “A Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone” by Naktsang Nulo, published by Duke University Press and translated by Angus Cargill and Sonam Lhamo.

High Peaks Pure Earth presents a guest post by Bhuchung D. Sonam. The guest post is a book review of “A Home in Tibet”, the first-full length book from US based Tibetan female poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa. “A Home in Tibet” has been published by Penguin Books India and will feature later in the year on the High Peaks Pure […]

High Peaks Pure Earth presents a guest post by Thubten Samphel*. The guest post is a book review of “The Tibetan Suitcase”, by first-time novelist Tsering Namgyal Khortsa. “The Tibetan Suitcase” was self-published in April 2013 and was featured on the most recent High Peaks Pure Earth Summer Reading List. Tsering Namgyal Khortsa is the fourth exile Tibetan to tackle the […]

High Peaks Pure Earth presents a guest post by Thubten Samphel*. The guest post is a book review of “Yak Horns”, the most recent publication by Tibetan writer Bhuchung D. Sonam. This new Book Reviews section on High Peaks Pure Earth is a place where we will publish reviews of writings by Tibetans which are also relevant to this site. “Yak […]

Newspaper headlines describe Woeser as Tibet’s most famous woman writer and blogger and a lone Tibetan voice, intent on speaking out. Until now, Woeser has perhaps been best known as a Tibetan dissident writer whose blogs are banned and have either been repeatedly shut down in China or hacked by Chinese nationalists. Her collection of poems, short stories and essays […]