Note to Readers Lithang Monastery is formally known as Ganden Thubchen Choekhorling. The original Tibetan is བྱམས་ཆེན་ཆོས་སྐོར་གླིང་།which is “ga' ldan thub chen chos 'khor gling” in Wylie transcription and 长青春科尔寺 (Changqingchun Ke’er Si) in simplified Chinese. It is also sometimes called Lithang … [Read more...] about Lithang Monastery: Cycles of Destruction and Renewal (Part 1)
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How Communism Came to Amdo: Benno Weiner’s new book
Talking to Tibetans in Kham using the Chinese language, one often hears the phrase wenhua dageming. It translates to “Great Cultural Revolution,” which was a violent and extreme political movement in China, engineered by Mao, that started in 1966 and ended with Mao’s death in 1976. I often heard … [Read more...] about How Communism Came to Amdo: Benno Weiner’s new book