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August 19, 2021 By Pamela Logan

Tibetan Nomads and the Permanent Camping Trip

By golly, I have pitched tents in some wild and wooly places.  Once, while sneaking into forbidden Tibet Autonomous Region, I camped in a forest beside the Dri Chu river.  Later that same year (1991), while biking the Karakorum Highway, I camped beside the yurts of Kirgiz herders.  I’ve camped in … [Read more...] about Tibetan Nomads and the Permanent Camping Trip

Filed Under: culture Tagged With: herder, nomad, tibet

May 16, 2021 By Pamela Logan

Survival and Evolution of Sky Burial Practices

The Practice When I first saw a sky burial in 1997, what struck me most was how quickly it was all over: vultures devoured the man’s flesh in just thirteen minutes. The charnel ground (durtro or dursa) was set in a large fenced meadow with a few small temples and outbuildings, and a large circle … [Read more...] about Survival and Evolution of Sky Burial Practices

Filed Under: culture Tagged With: cemetery, death, funeral, Sky burial, tibet

February 12, 2021 By Pamela Logan

Lithang Monastery: Cycles of Destruction and Renewal (Part 2)

(See Part 1 here) The monastery in 1949 Lithang Monastery was preparing to enter the second half of the 20th century with its finances in good order, probably thanks to effective management of assets such as herds, a prosperous local community, and alliances with other Gelug monasteries that … [Read more...] about Lithang Monastery: Cycles of Destruction and Renewal (Part 2)

Filed Under: history Tagged With: history, kham, letang, litang, Lithang, monastery, tibet

January 9, 2021 By Pamela Logan

Lithang Monastery: Cycles of Destruction and Renewal (Part 1)

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)

Filed Under: history Tagged With: history, kham, letang, litang, Lithang, monastery, tibet

November 26, 2020 By Pamela Logan

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

Filed Under: history Tagged With: Amdo, benno weiner, Communism, cultural revolution, tibet

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