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THE CASE FOR A UNITED INDEPENDENT TIBET 7 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
On the surface of it the official Middle Way Approach (MWA) theory that even if Tibet were to become independent most of Kham and all of Amdo would somehow inevitably be excluded from this wonderful d...
THE CATCH-22* OF MIDDLE WAY UNITY- Part 1 22 Jul 2013 | 10:11 pm
Asking a question and answering it yourself is a rhetorical device known to the ancient Greeks as hypophora. To be effective the answer should follow the question smoothly, perhaps with a well-timed p...
Some Updates on Rakra Rimpoche Obituary 18 Jul 2013 | 05:43 pm
A number of readers have posted comments requesting information on Rakra Rimpoche’s writings and poetry. Some of his books are available at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA), but many o...
Poet, Artist, Scholar, Teacher and Reluctant Rimpoche 26 Jun 2013 | 09:27 pm
. Rakra Thubten Choedhar (1925-2012), In Memorium. The First National Conference of Tibetan Writers took place in Dharamshala in 1995 (March 15-17). Hosted by the Amnye Machen Institute (AMI), sixty-t...
MIDDLE WAY ECONOMICS: One-On-One 20 Jun 2013 | 09:09 pm
. One of the more depressing things about being a spokesperson for the Rangzen cause, even in the unofficial “of sorts” way that I am, is being obliged to participate in the occasional Middle Way Appr...
GATEWAY TO LHASA 18 Jun 2013 | 10:28 pm
In my post “Lhasa: Eternal City 2″, I mentioned how the destruction of the Drago Kaling Stupas, the Gateway to Lhasa, had inspired the first “protest” song in the Tibetan freedom movement. I requested...
RANGZEN IN YOUR HEART? 7 Jun 2013 | 04:50 am
During the Dalai Lama’s recent visit to the United States he met a group of Tibetan students in Madison, Wisconsin. One of them asked a question that, to put it mildly, made him very upset. The studen...
LHASA, ETERNAL CITY (2) 2 Jun 2013 | 12:20 am
1980-2000 The next phase of Communist China’s destruction of Lhasa came innocuously enough with Deng Xiaoping’s “Liberalization”, starting from the turn of the eighties. In the groundbreaking cartogra...
LHASA, ETERNAL CITY (1) 24 May 2013 | 10:02 pm
. Tsering Woeser-la’s recent clarion call ““Our Lhasa is on the Verge of Destruction! Please, Save Lhasa!”, stirred me to undertake this modest history project. I thought it would be worthwhile to pr...
READING JN IN A BANAKSHOL TEAHOUSE 10 May 2013 | 08:46 pm
. Its not every day that you can make both your enemies and your friends happy with the same blog post, but I have something special here that I think will do do the job. It was sent to me by a friend...
