Although published in December 2010 by Lexington Books, “Labrang Monastery: A Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958” by Paul Kocot Nietupsk only recently came to the attention of High Peaks Pure Earth via a Twitter recommendation.

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated an official notice issued by the police in Gyurme Township (Ch: Jimai) in Darlag (Ch: Dari) County, Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in eastern Tibet (Amdo). The notice was issued on December 24, 2014.

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a response from students in Ngaba, Amdo, to a speech that was given by the Director of Ngaba’s Education Department at the end of October 2014. The response was written on November 5, 2014 and subsequently widely circulated on social media.

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a public notice of September 17, 2012, as seen in Rongwo Township, in Rebkong County, Amdo, that has been circulating widely among Tibetan netizens over the last few days. With the combination of ongoing self-immolations in Tibet and the forthcoming 18th Party Congress next month, security in Tibet is high. What’s interesting to note is […]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost written by a Tibetan blogger and posted on their blog on April 5, 2012. The blogger is writing about Qinghai Tibetan Language Broadcasting (TV) in Tso Ngon, a major region of Amdo. This blogger brings up two main issues in this post. Firstly, health and safety issues in hospitals are clearly of major […]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on March 20, 2012 for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and posted on her blog on April 4, 2012. In this post, Woeser re-visits the topic of language rights a year and a half after mass protests in defence of Tibetan language broke out in Amdo, carried out […]

High Peaks Pure Earth presents the English translation of a poem by poet Adong Paldothar that was submitted to us by a kind reader of ours! Having read our translations of previous poems by Adong Paldothar, this reader was moved to translate this one, “Lake Kokonor, Please Forgive Me”. This poem was written on July 6, 2011 and posted on […]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a poem by Adong Paldothar titled “It Snowed on Tibetan New Year” that was written on February 22, 2012 and posted on his TibetCul blog on March 2, 2012. February 22 this year was the first day of Tibetan New Year, Water Dragon Year, 2139. It has been noted before on High Peaks Pure […]

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 self-immolation of Lama Sobha that took place in Golog, Amdo on January 8, 2012. For a report on this event […]