An angry Tibetan man asked why the internet company Douyin was blocking and removing Tibetan language posts. When the Chinese constitution guarantees the right to use native languages; #Tibet #China #censorship #Internet

BDRC notes with sadness the passing of Professor Jeffrey Hopkins (1940-2024), a towering scholar, author, and longtime good friend, whose significance in the field of Buddhist Studies-and personal erudition-cannot be overstated. networks.h-net.org/group/announce…

Tibetan social media has recently been flooded with netizens complaining that TikTok in China is removing Tibetan language posts. Here, the woman says, I am a native Tibetan speaker, can't speak perfect Chinese. Why can't I post in my native language? #Tibet #China #TikTok

This Tiktok user says he tested by using a few words in Tibetans in his post, and the post got removed.

Happy #pubday to "Longing to Awaken: Buddhist Devotion in Tibetan Poetry and Song" edited by Holly Gayley and Dr. Dominique Townsend An indispensable collection of Buddhist devotional poems and songs #Tibet #Buddhism #Translations #readUP Michael Sheehy upress.virginia.edu/title/5653/

📚 The High Peaks Pure Earth Summer 2024 #TibetReadingList is out: highpeakspureearth.com/high-peaks-pur…

My ethnography "Queens Without a Kingdom Worth Ruling" on Tibetan Buddhist nuns' communities in exile made the list of lists! #TibetReadingList Read more on it here: vajrabookshop.com/product/queens… #Tibet #nuns #Gender #Buddhism #monasticism

High Peaks Pure Earth Summer Reading List ... including titles from Blackneck Books, an imprint of TibetWrites, an independent exiled Tibetan publisher based in Dharamsala. India. highpeakspureearth.com/high-peaks-pur…

It was fun (and tough) to create this list for Shepherd.com 📚 Some big omissions, but happy that the first three are by Tibetans, all written and (originally) published in Tibet/China. I guess the site wants to keep 2-5 a secret འོད་ཟེར།唯色Woeser😷💙💛🎗️ Robert Barnett tinyurl.com/yv44eh5w

Dawa Lokyitsang, PhD asks "How does settler-colonial imperialism operate in Asia, and what are the ways in which Asian Indigeneities become mobilised?" in this new volume: press.anu.edu.au/publications/j…

Congratulations to PEN Tibetan Writers Abroad for celebrating its 25th anniversary this past weekend! The ceremony, which took place at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies, highlighted the crucial role of the centre in preserving and promoting Tibetan literary traditions over

BDG news: Metropolitan Museum of Art to Exhibit Tibetan Buddhist Art Read here: tinyurl.com/3pzkyzab #buddhism #tibetanbuddhism #vajrayana #themet #nyc #newyork #usa #nyc #buddhistart #bhuddhistculture #tibet #tibetanculture #tibetanart #artexhibition

Tourist boom threatens to swamp Indian mountain town where Dalai Lama took refuge theguardian.com/global-develop…

Excited to share my first article on the history of Sino-Tibetan relations and the ‘princely states’ of Eastern Tibet in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands! #MeuKingdom of #Ngawa #རྔ་བ #阿坝 journals.openedition.org/emscat/6543

“Remembering Exiled Tibetan Activist Chungdak Koren” By འོད་ཟེར།唯色Woeser😷💙💛🎗️ Woeser la. This was written for RFA in 2014 when Chungdak la became ill and later translated by High Peaks Pure Earth 记流亡西藏活动家琼达•科伦 འོད་ཟེར་ལགས་ནས་ཆུང་བདག་ལགས་ཐོག་༢༠༡༤ལོའི་རྩོམ། highpeakspureearth.com/remembering-ex…

Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet Opening Soon at The Met - Asia Week New York - goo.gl/alerts/9MPbxC #GoogleAlerts

Finally, our paper "Exploring the Legacy of Tibetan Mapmaking" has been published OA. It represents a work in progress publication and will hopefully stimulate more research on this interesting material: Völkerkundemuseum ZH Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup4/mc/articl…