Why I Still Write in Tibetan (Even Though It Is Harder)
On the choice to write in a minority language — the smaller audience, the technical difficulties, and why it matters anyway.
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Tsering Dolma
Writer and blogger based in Dharamsala, India. Writing about Tibetan culture, life in exile, language, and the everyday world of a diaspora community.
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Five Books That Changed How I Understand My Own History
A Tibetan reader on five books — memoir, history, fiction — that reshaped what she thought she knew about her own people's story.
Losar in Dharamsala: How We Celebrate the New Year Far from Home
Tibetan New Year — Losar — looks different in Dharamsala than it does in Lhasa. Here is what we have kept, what has changed, and what I miss.
How I Started Writing: Finding Words for a Life in Between
On growing up between Tibetan and English, and how writing became the way I learned to make sense of both.