Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: June 27, 2009
By Bhuchung K. Tsering
Ku-ngo Gyatsho Tshering, former director of the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives and a respected scholar, passed away on June 25, 2009 at a hospital in Minneapolis, MN, after a brief illness. He was 73.
Born in 1936 in Sikkim to Lobsang Lama and Nyima Dolma, he finished his college education [...]
Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: June 22, 2009
Yet, another good news on the Tibetan creativity front. Film maker Pema Tseden from Amdo has won the Grand Prize at the Shanghai International Film Festival, which just concluded, for his “The Search.”
This film is said to be based on a Tibetan opera and reportedly portrays the developments in the search of characters to play [...]
Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: June 17, 2009
A Nepal based film maker Tsering Choden’s three minute documentary is one of the winners of the Democracy Video Challenge, a worldwide online competition, organized by the State Department. Young video makers around the world were asked to complete the phrase, “Democracy is…” through three-minute videos to be posted on the competition’s YouTube site.
According to [...]
Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: June 9, 2009
Among many things Tibetan that is on youtube is this song sung by two Tibetan women from Switzerland. They are from Zurich and seem to have won an award for this song. The lyric is touching and introspective while being simple. It dwells into the dilemma of the Tibetans today living in different societies.
I wish [...]
Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: June 4, 2009
This morning I woke up to the radio news report on NPR from China. Of course, it was a report on what was happening there today, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen movement that led to the death of many students and others and the closing of China’s doors, in a way.
From that report and [...]
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