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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...

Sun & Moon (ཉི་ཟླ) in Harmony

Sun & Moon (ཉི་ཟླ) in Harmony - In Tibetan wisdom, sun and moon embody wisdom and compassion. Solar fire blinds the eye, yet cradles everything - as wisdom penetrates all truth. Lunar light ho...

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.

Ganja Grassland: A Monk and the nomads’ Song of Guardianship

“འབྲོག་པའི་ནོར་བུ།” (meaning “nomads‘ treasure”in Tibetan) members say: “We may be small, but our handmade gifts carry hopes for the future.”

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 ...

YITSO ཡིད་མཚོ།

“Yitso” is an ancient name for the sacred Lake Manasarovar. In Tibetan, ཡིད། — the heart, མཚོ། — the lake. In Sanskrit, “Yitso” suggests a stirring of the heart.

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...

Mountain Is the Homeland of Clay

Long ago, people born on the plateau used pottery for cookware at home, with a set passed down through generations. They coexisted with heaven, earth, and nature with a reverent heart. Everything ...

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.