“Wontoe Monastery - Survived the Cultural Revolution but Now Faces the Disaster of Hydropower Development” By Woeser highpeakspureearth.com/wontoe-monaste… via High Peaks Pure Earth

This is fantastic; Mickey Mouse must have read Orientalist Pelliot, who argued that the modern name Tibet derived from a mispronunciation of Stod Bod (སྟོད་བོད་) High Tibet.

This is a devasting loss for Tibetan readers. The Great Sheepfold (ལུག་ཚང་དཔལ་ཡོན། was the portal to navigate the Tibetan language cyberspace

Wildfire broke out in ཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་Yajiang County, Garze Prefecture,དཀར་མཛེས་ཁུལ་ Sichuan on March 15་་ #wildfire , #Tibet #Sichuan #China

Come listen to the amazing Dekila Chungyalpa deliver the 3rd Annual Himalaya Program lecture this Wednesday 13 March at 5:30pm 'Earth as Refuge: Embracing Our Ecological Selves in the Anthropocene' at the Liu Institute himalaya.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/e…

ARTIST OPPORTUNITY! We are inviting an artist/artist collective to work with researchers & community members to create an experimental, process-led, online artwork for ‘Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities’

Fee: £10,000
Deadline: March 15th
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Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile Human Rights Watch Maya Wang 王松蓮 The sacred murals of #WontoeMonastery in #Dege , Kham, #Tibet
Are on the verge of being destroyed - Read about the history of the Monastery and the 17th century murals translated in English by High Peaks Pure Earth highpeakspureearth.com/the-sacred-mur…

The 14th-15th century sacred Buddhist murals that could be lost as China carves up Tibetan landscape for mega dam construction

Tibet boarding schools: China accused of trying to silence language bbc.in/3Pb3a3t

Behold the breathtaking beauty and artistic mastery in these murals! A glimpse into the creativity and brilliance of #WontoeMonastery in #Dege . Soon, these pictures will be the sole evidence of its awe-inspiring legacy. #Tibet #Buddhism

We continue our translations about #Wontoe Monastery in #Dege with this article highlighting the stunning murals. The monastery is now facing imminent threat due to nearby dam construction, read about - and see - what could soon be lost.

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The temples that stood for centuries with murals and arts of global significance & #culturalheritage are about to be destroyed and submerged under water, #Buddhism #Tibet #China