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  1. #CurrentlyWatching "#Ganden: A Joyful Land", the story of a #Tibetan monastery that was destroyed, relocated, rebuilt, and is thriving once again. Free online streaming may be available through your #PublicLibrary. 📿 ☸️ 🙏 #Tibet #Buddhism #TibetanBuddhism #Religion #Spirituality #History #Documentary #Asia #Dharma #Dhamma #DalaïLama youtube.com/watch?v=tKRFjDzrbiM

  2. BUTTER TEA.

    From writer/director Tenzin Tasur and starring Tenzin Phurpatsang and Dhamchoe.

    In a small #Tibetan #cafe in Queens, a cup of #ButterTea becomes a bridge between generations.

    Filmed at Ngatso Cafe, Queens, New York

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=uXo0efnN

    Festival Screenings & Awards
    • Official Selection: New York #ShortFilm Festival 2025 (U.S. Premiere)
    • Short Film Competition Audience Award Winner: Tibet Film Festival Zurich 2025 (European Premiere)

    Full film streaming free on YouTube starting February 17, just in time to watch for #Losar - the #TibetanNewYear.

    Visit: tenzintasur.com

    #AsianMastodon #AsianCultures #AsianFilmmakers #immigrants #GenerationalConnections #Displacement #AsianFilms #RecommendedFilms #Cultural #Educational

  3. Just returned from the field. This month, we ventured to Yema Haizi (野马海子), a breathtaking seasonally frozen lake perched at ~4,100m in Kangding, Sichuan (Ganzi, eastern Tibetan Plateau). We spent an unforgettable day recording the raw beauty of this remote landscape.

    The biggest challenge was still altitude sickness, and we're really glad we made it through.

    More stories (and sounds!) coming soon. Stay tuned!

    #fieldrecording #tibetan #sichuan #outdoors #sound #expeditions

  4. Job Klaxon! 📢
    We are recruiting for the post of Curator, #Tibetan Collections to join a team of specialist curators in the Asian and African Collections Department at the #britishlibrary
    For more info: ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752l

  5. No surprise - #China, alone, is calling for the removal of #minerals from the Just Transition Work Program at #COP30 #climate talks

    Well, no surprise to me. The press release from civil society makes the absurd claim that China is "uniquely positioned to champion a just and equitable approach to transition minerals."

    Do they really think a authoritarian country, whose #cleantech industry uses #forcedlabor and #landgrabs of #Tibetan and #Uyghur land/bodies will really "champion" justice?

  6. K'uei Hsing A Repository of Asian Literature in Translation by Jerome P. Seaton et al, 1974

    This appealing volume will introduce Western readers to the remarkable diversity and complexity, as well as the rich humanity, of Eastern literary traditions. A wide variety of ancient and modern literary forms is represented: poetry, short story, essay, folk song, and Jataka tale.

    #OpenAccess

    directory.doabooks.org/handle/

    #books
    #translations
    #Chinese
    #Japanese
    #Tibetan
    #Mongolian
    #literature

  7. Here's an example of #China using cinematic feature films as #nationalist #propaganda. It's a very well done, high budget film. You can see how dramatic films like these are used to promote nationalistic pride. These state approved propaganda films are disguised as entertainment & are designed to brainwash citizens, over time.

    It's really not that different than how the USA film industry creates a lot of state approved propaganda films that aid/abet nationalistic BS too.

    *Qomolangma is #Tibetan for #MountEverest
    ‐----------
    " It is based on the real-life expedition of four #Chinese #mountaineers in 1960. Two generations of Chinese mountaineers who scaled Mount #Qomolangma from the perilous north side in 1960 and 1975. Finally in 1975 they held the last chance and successfully reached the top of Qomolangma. It was the first success in the history of mankind to climb Qomolangma's north side. "
    m.youtube.com/watch?v=YqaIpOer

    #ChineseFilms #AsianMastodon #Filmmaking #PropagandaFilms #MtEverest #DramaFilm #mountaineering #FeatureFilm #Brainwashing #PsychologyOfFilm

  8. #China forces young #Tibetan children to indoctrination boarding schools to push state propaganda, report finds abc.net.au/news/2025-06-30/tib

    Distressed Tibetan children as young as four sent to #Chinese state-run boarding schools for indoctrination have been beaten for praying and wearing #Buddhist blessing cords, forced to sleep on sheepskins & taught only in Mandarin.

    #CulturalEradication #Genocide #FreeTibet

  9. #Tibetan #MusicalNotation Is Beautiful
    openculture.com/2025/06/behold
    Religions take the cast and hue of the cultures in which they find root. This was certainly true in #Tibet when #Buddhism arrived in the 7th century. It transformed and was transformed by the native religion of Bon. Of the many creative practices that arose from this synthesis, Tibetan Buddhist music ranks very highly in importance
    #musique
    #notationdelamusique

  10. Tsewang Lhamo, a #Tibetan singer I discovered on Youtube many years ago. #Mandarin is actually more similar to Tibetan languages (than to Cantonese) as they both have 4 tones (Cantonese has 6 tones). The 4-tone system is more "primitive", not just because of the lack of tones, but because with 6 tones (with flat and rising or falling tones), a language can be sung or spoken using the #pentatonic scale. I believe "true" #tonal #languages arose from the pentatonic scale.

    youtube.com/watch?v=cKgJOJennK

  11. #Tibetan people of the #Qinghai province. This bow reflects influence from the Manchu bows, featuring a prominently reflexed siyah and

  12. #Tibetan language #activist Tashi Wangchuk was detained for 15 days - #TibetWatch

    #Tibet Watch has learned that Tibetan language advocate Tashi Wangchuk was detained last month on 20 October. The #Yushu City Police Detention Centre released him last Monday after 15 days.

    The organisation responsible for his detention was the #CybersecurityBrigade (网安大队).

    Tibet Watch obtained the official arrest warrant dated 20 October 2024 by the Yushu City Public Security Bureau, which states that Tashi Wangchuk was given 15-day administrative detention penalty for having repeatedly fabricated and spread, since June this year, “unconfirmed, false, and untrue videos and speeches” that slander and defame the government organs on social media platforms such as #Douyin and #Kuaishou.

    tibet.net/former-political-pri

    #AsianMastodon #PoliticalPrisoner #Censorship #China #AsiaNews #WarOnActivists

  13. Denied Justice: Tibet's Activists Face Uphill Battle.

    #Chinese authorities deny a retrial for Anya Sengdra, an #EnvironmentalActivist serving a seven-year prison sentence for disrupting social order. Sengdra, known for opposing corruption and illegal activities, has faced rejected appeals and alleged #HumanRights violations, spotlighting #China 's tight control over #Tibetan #activists.

    devdiscourse.com/article/inter

    #AsianMastodon #AsiaNews #Tibet

  14. The #Bodpa #Show, a #Tibetan #fashion competition, took center stage in #Xiahe County of #Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, #Gansu Province, #China. This vibrant #event featured 64 young Tibetan models, all showcasing a blend of traditional and modernized Tibetan #attire, alongside Western suits and creations from Tibetan #brands. cnbusinessforum.com/bodpa-show

  15. The #Bodpa #Show, a #Tibetan #fashion competition, took center stage in #Xiahe County of #Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, #Gansu Province, #China. This vibrant #event featured 64 young Tibetan models, all showcasing a blend of traditional and modernized Tibetan #attire, alongside Western suits and creations from Tibetan #brands. cnbusinessforum.com/bodpa-show

  16. Dear Friends of #Magick and #Buddhism ​:ablobcatcoffee:​

    As we may know about the idea of
    #magical Buddhism, or magic in Buddhism. We can happily move along if not our cup of tea ... ​:ablobcatlurk:​

    A lot of people don't like this idea that there are magical concepts, ideas, very strange ways of dealing with things within Buddhism, but of course there are. These things have grown up over the years.

    Some people will prefer the very
    #linear processes within Buddhism, we sit, meditate, do the practices and eventually gain peace and wisdom and insight and enlightenment.

    People like that, that's a progressive path, but there is also a sort of random, chaotic element and that's what we'll discuss a little here. In
    #Vajrayana, some people are still using this term #Tibetan #Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhism is just Tantric Buddhism, it's very much based and dependent upon the system that was developed in Hinduism and a lot of the ideas are still there within Tantra. And so Tantra is very much a magical system, a system where the visualisation and the idea that the teacher is a #Buddha and therefore is a #personification of #perfection is very important and if that teacher is indeed an able personification of #qualities that people need, then it's very #helpful.

    Unfortunately, a lot of Western Tantrists have just taken this idea and manipulated it for their own preferences.

    Some has come from people who saw the way Westerners were and thought, oh, we can make use of this, we can get engaged with this. In
    #samsara, using samsara as a base to create the kind of chaotic magical system that some Tantrists do. That's fair enough, that's a way of approaching things, that's a way of doing things. Not always helpful

    So the idea of the Daka and Dakini, which is the magical, the wisdom practitioners, at a high enough level, they are in fact using chaos or chaos magic. And chaos magic is very unpredictable. Just like there's an approach in Zen where the Zen teachers are very, almost incomprehensible or very traumatic in their response or very dramatic in their response. But this is within the confines of a strict system. And again, some people have abused that power and that authority because it's a centralised authority.

    And this is different to the way a lot of us prefer to work, which is with our own wisdom base and our own understanding. And we have to take responsibility for that. So even though we may be using some of the tactics and techniques, if we use them in an unhelpful way, in a way that is based on our lesser capacities and our more mixed up feelings and thoughts and ideas, then we can do a lot more harm than good.

    So doing good is one of the primary understandings, or creating
    #sukha as opposed to #dukkha, creating good, happiness, peace, wisdom, compassion, all the things that actually unravel people. This is the point of utilising Buddhism in its highest aspect. And if you can do that with whatever it is, including, as I say, the magical aspects of Tantra, or whatever religion, or whatever thing that you wish to, whether it's psychology, whether it's using computers, whatever is the thing that interests you, grabs you, and makes some use of your #potential initially, because you have to create something for yourself initially.

    And then from there you can move on to improving those around you,
    #family, #friends, and perhaps eventually the wider #community. 🦞

  17. In terms of the alphabet and the ways in which the word sounds are composed, the #Tibetan script is not dissimilar from my own native #Burmese script. But on paper, no writing system beats the beauty of the Tibetan script.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_

  18. ☝️ 「In late August, authorities in Hong Kong raided the home of Andrew Chan, the founder of a Cantonese-language advocacy group called the Hong Kong Language Learning Association. National security police questioned Chan about an essay contest the group hosted three years earlier for literature composed in Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong. One of the finalists in the contest was a fictional futuristic short story about a young man seeking to recover histories of Hong Kong lost to authoritarian erasure.

    During a warrantless search of his home, they demanded that Chan remove the work from his website, threatening severe consequences for him and his family. Afterward, Chan put out a statement that he had no choice but to dissolve his group entirely, an organization that had worked to promote Hong Kong’s culture through the preservation of the Cantonese language for nearly ten years.」

    #china #PRC #CCP #dictatorship #Chinese #mandarin #pekingese #putonghua #colonialism #imperialism #Tibetan #Uighur #Hongkong #Cantonese #conformity
    @kerim

  19. ⚠️ 🇨🇳 #CCP is striking hard to homogenize all colonized 'minorities' (in their own homelands) in the image of #chinese #HomoJinguspingus 👇️

    China bans book about the early history of the Mongolian people
    rfa.org/english/news/china/mon

    「Chinese authorities have banned a book on the history of the Mongols, citing "historical nihilism" – a term indicating a version of history not in keeping with the official party line – in what appeared to be a concerted attack by Beijing on ethnic Mongolians' identity.」

    「Xi vowed to double down on China’s hardline policies toward the 11 million mostly Muslim Uyghurs who live in the region, warning that "hard-won social stability" would remain the top priority, along with making everyone speak Mandarin rather than their own languages.

    And his warnings seemed to apply to other regions, too. "Forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation is a focus of .. all work in areas with large ethnic minority populations," Xi said」

    「Ethnic Mongolians, who make up almost 20 percent of Inner Mongolia's population of 23 million, increasingly complain of widespread environmental destruction and unfair development policies in the region, as well as ongoing attempts to target their traditional culture.

    Clashes between Chinese state-backed mining or forestry companies and herding communities are common in the region, which borders the independent country of Mongolia, with those who complain about the loss of their grazing lands frequently targeted for harassment, beatings, and detention by the authorities.」

    「At the start of the academic year in 2020, China announced it would end Mongolian-medium instruction in schools, prompting angry protests and a wide-ranging crackdown across the region.」

    #china #HanChauvinism #imperialism #colonialism #genocide '#innermongolia' #SouthMongolia #mongolia #Tibet #Tibetan #EastTurkistan #Uighur

  20. Now that’s something new: Debugging a low-level babel error in typesetting #Tibetan in #LuaTeX. I thought we had modernized our multilingual typesetting pipeline to get rid of quite a few annoyances, but apparently one is never really done. #TeXLaTeX

  21. 14th-century #Buddhist Tibetan tangka of Amoghasiddhi with Eight Bodhisattvas. Amoghasiddhi is one of the five Transcendent #Buddhas who preside over the heavens of the cardinal directions, his realm being to the north. In this context, he is identifiable by his green color. The five Taras below are likely the consorts of this cosmic group; the green one relates specifically to the central deity.

    stellar-art.pixels.com/feature

    #Buddhism #ancient #Tibetan #art

  22. I’ve been in Delaware as my dad prepares to enter hospice. We’ve not had an easy go of it. While he’s Anglican & Maga I’m reading the #Tibetan Book of the Dead & oh goodness, we should all be so lucky to have this rite as we kiss off the mortal coil.

    Needing a break from the hospital, I hit #BombayHook NWR & the birds were everything. Below was my favorite bird, this fox. Such a rare sight for me, holy, quivering, tearful. I thanked the #trickster.

    Hopefully homeward tomorrow.

  23. Some say you can tell peoples' character by how they treat their animals.

    I'd argue you can also tell their character by how they treat their neighbours.

    #genocide #imperialism #colonialism #Ukraine #Ukrainewar #Tibet #Tibetan #EastTurkistan #Uighurs #SouthMongolia #russia #china