High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a selection of Woeser’s posts on her Instagram account from the two summers in 2018 and 2019. These are the times that Woeser either spends time in Lhasa or on travels.

Published by Garuda Books in April 2019, “The Jebumgang Temple: Ritual Architecture and the Defense of the Modern Tibetan State” by Matthew Akester tells the largely unknown story of the Jebumgang Temple in Lhasa.

Published by Serindia Publications in March 2019, “The Lhasa House” authored by the late André Alexander, is a comprehensive survey of the architecture of Lhasa based on Tibet Heritage Fund’s official five-year conservation project.

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a profile of Lhasa-based Tibetan artist couple Langdun Dedron and Tsering Namgyal. The profile was published on July 30 2018 on the WeChat channel of the Creative Centre for Tibetan Culture and was written by Dekyi Dolma.  

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser that reflects on her father’s photos of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet.

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a piece about Tibetan artist Traye Donne (བཀྲ་ཡེ་དོན་ནེ་ bKraye donne, 泽郎夺理 ) and his debut exhibition in Lhasa that was originally published on the “Melong Art” WeChat channel on July 12, 2018.

High Peaks Pure Earth is starting off 2019 with the English translation of a blogpost by Woeser that continues her long series about the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. Last year we published seven parts and this is the eighth.

A Happy New Year to all High Peaks Pure Earth readers! 2018 was a great year of translations, music videos and guest posts on High Peaks Pure Earth, thank you all for reading, submitting, commenting, supporting, sharing and getting in touch.

Published in September 2018 by University of California Press, “Islamic Shangri-La: Inter-Asian Relations and Lhasa’s Muslim Communities, 1600 to 1960” by David G. Atwill transports readers to the heart of the Himalayas as it traces the rise of the Tibetan Muslim community from the 17th century to the present.

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a selection of Woeser’s posts on her Instagram account from Lhasa posted in June 2018. Woeser’s return to Lhasa from Beijing in April was the first time she had been allowed to return to the city since November 2014. She has since left Lhasa again but we will continue to post translations of her […]