Our Journal

After She Married into the Snow Mountains

To us, the sacred mountain and lake have never been something distant. We open the door and see the mountain; we walk to the shore and see the water. They are part of our everyday lives—like the el...

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...

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...

Women of the Tibetan Plateau

Women of the Tibetan plateau, they are not part of grand narratives. They live within time. Carrying heavy dung on their backs, they walk into wind, into snow, and through years that keep passing.

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 ...

maaEmoo — Mothers of the Plateau

"maaEmoo" derives from an elegant Tibetan term for women, meaning "Mother of the Earth." Felt, once the warmth that swaddled infants on nomadic journeys, now reawakens this vastness, resilience, an...

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.

Grandmother

In Tibetan culture, the head is regarded as the most honored part of the body, closest to the soul. When two foreheads meet, body, speech, and mind seem to come into alignment, leaving only a quiet...

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.