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The Last Horse Caravan of the Snowland

In ཡུལ་ཤུལ་ དགའ་མདའ་, the རྫ་ཆུ་ River runs through the grasslands. When the snow begins to fall, a horse caravan still follows the river valley deeper into the mountains. They are nomads, and they...

Where do great rivers begin?

“What truly made me stay was the reverence for nature that still lives within them.” While volunteering for the association, she wrote a line borrowed from Indigenous wisdom: The shimmering water ...

What Does It Mean to Be a Nomad?

No one knows where Yanga will finally go. But when the last nomad leaves, the memories carried across the grasslands — the memories of migration, and those fearless faces shaped by the plateau — w...

What is an Urdo(འུར་རྡོ)?

Whoosh—the sound slicing wind. Thud—the force of stone. A single sling in the nomad’s hand commands: where the stone lands, the herd turns. This is the millennia-old wisdom of Tibetan nomads.

Ama (Mother)

In my memory, she always rose before the rest of us. When the tent leaked, she mended it. When the yaks and sheep wandered away, she went out alone to find them. On nights when wind and snow swept ...

Tsoten(མཚོ་ཁྲི།) - Ten Thousand Lakes

In Tsoten (མཚོ་ཁྲི།), at 4,600 meters in Yulshul, to protect wildlife, nomads gave up their pastures and left their homes. They chose another way to continue the spirit of nomadism.

An Exhibition Dedicated to the Source of Many Rivers

Long ago, the Tibetan Plateau was an ancient sea. Over billions of years it rose toward the sky—an ascent unimaginably slow, yet one that has never ceased. Here, at such heights, one rises above la...

Who Is CHARU(ཆ་རུ)

དཔའ་ཁེར་རྒྱུགས་མིན། རོགས་ཁྲི་འབུམ་ཡོད། - We are not one, but millions. Charu is transliterated from the Tibetan word ཆ་རུ (meaning "link"), a wooden button on the black yak tent. It also can be r...

Where should Yangkar, the nomadic girl, go?

The name Yangkar (ཡང་དཀར) in Tibetan means “auspicious and pure white”. Yangkar was born at the source of the Lancang River, where seventeen years of her life have been deeply rooted in the vast gr...

The Story of A Black Tent

The life of Gase and Lamo Yongzang, nomads from the Batang grassland, began with a ball of yak down.