To be published in early 2019 by Columbia University Press, “The Handsome Monk and Other Stories” by Tsering Dondrup, translated by Christopher Peacock, describes the lives of Tibetans in contemporary China with wit, empathy, and a passionate sense of justice. “The Handsome Monk and Other Stories” brings together short stories from across Tsering Döndrup’s career to create a panorama of […]

  High Peaks Pure Earth presents the English translation of a letter written by the writer Tashi Rabten (pen name: Theurang) to his younger sister Guru Kyi while he was in prison in 2012.

We’ve updated our Summer 2016 reading list to include a staggering 17 more titles covering the span of the entire Tibetan Buddhist world.

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser, originally written for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on December 9, 2015.

High Peaks Pure Earth presents a translation of “Japanese People and Japanese Literature”, a short article from October 2013 by Tibetan writer and poet Kyabchen Dedrol discussing Japanese literature.