High Peaks Pure Earth has translated two posts circulating amongst Tibetans on WeChat recently. Both posts are about the confiscation of passports belonging to Tibetans in Qinghai Province, despite the passports being acquired legally and the validity being for ten years.

  High Peaks Pure Earth has translated two more posts from social media related to the detention of Tibetan intellectual, writer and blogger Shokjang (aka Druklo), who was detained on March 19, 2015.

  High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a post from April 6, 2015, about Tibetan intellectual, writer and blogger Shokjang (aka Druklo), who was detained last month and whose whereabouts are currently unknown. 

  A Happy New Year to all High Peaks Pure Earth readers! 2014 was the sixth full year of translations and blog postings on High Peaks Pure Earth, thank you all for reading, commenting, supporting, sharing and getting in touch.

Ending the year on a lighter note, High Peaks Pure Earth presents this English translation of an interesting Chinese language post that has been circulating on social media and apps such as WeChat recently.

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a rather bold and surprising statement made by a collective of Tibetan journalists online earlier this month.

High Peaks Pure Earth is grateful to scholar Elliot Sperling for his quick translation of a Facebook post by Woeser of July 8, 2014, documenting the circumstances behind her and her husband Wang Lixiong’s house arrest in Beijing.

High Peaks Pure Earth presents the Summer 2014 Reading List – books on all aspects of Tibet!

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written in December 2013 and January 2014 for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on January 8, 2014.

On International Mother Language Day 2014 today, High Peaks Pure Earth presents the English translation of a blogpost that provides a good summary of a speech on education in Tibet by Jigme Gyaltsen. The opinions were posted to a Tibetan language blog on January 24, 2014.