High Peaks Pure Earth presents English translations of selected songs by Tibetan music duo called “The Tibet Patient” (བོད་ཀྱི་ནད་པ།). The Tibet Patient are two friends Jigshed Kyab and Pema Dorje from Amdo who met at university. This post follows on from the interview we translated with them and posted online last month.

High Peaks Pure Earth presents the English translation of a song from Tibet by Gyaltsen (Jason J) called “Red-Faced Tibetans” which came out in October 2017.

High Peaks Pure Earth presents the music video “City” by Lobsang Nyima which came out in January 2018. 

Going further into the back catalogue of songs by popular Tibetan duo ANU, High Peaks Pure Earth presents two videos from their debut “ANUism” EP which was released in July 2016. 

High Peaks Pure Earth presents two English-subtitled music videos byTibetan artist Uncle Buddhist(name: Lhundrub Gyatso) called “Do Whatever You Want” and “Tsampa”.

High Peaks Pure Earth presents the English-subtitled music video to “1376” by ANU which features both established and new singers and rappers from all over Tibet, TMJ, Dekyi Tsering, Tashi Phuntsok, Uncle Buddhist and Young13DBaby.

High Peaks Pure Earth presents the English-subtitled music video to “It’s All A Game” by ANU, translated by Bhuchung D. Sonam.

High Peaks Pure Earth presents a guest post by Tenzin Choekyi. Tenzin Choekyi is an environmental science and policy graduate. She has previously worked as interpreter, translator for Restored Voice Project, a non-fiction book project about exiled Tibetan nuns. 

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated the Tibetan pop hit of the year, “Fly” by ANU. For those who follow contemporary Tibetan music, there has been no escape from this catchy tune since it was released on May 19, 2017. 

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a music video called “The Bell at Dawn”, written and sung by Bantsang Lobsang from Nangchen in Kham, eastern Tibet.