Our Journal

A Summer with the Women and Artisans of the Sanjiangyuan

Throughout the long winters of the plateau, hands move rhythmically through warp and weft. Wool, fabric, and time are slowly transformed into patterns, carrying within them the memories of snow mo...

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 ...

Sayol | Earth’s Veil

Rooted in the traditions of Tibetan carpet weaving, Sayol carries this heritage forward through sustainable innovation, enabling women in the headwaters of Asia's three great rivers to choose to li...

Dugya( དུད་བརྒྱ། ) Zero Waste Center

In 2017, the Dugya Zero Waste Center was built from houses damaged in the Yulshul earthquake. Old rammed-earth walls were cut apart and built again by hand. Every window came from a different family.

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.”

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.

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...

The Snow Leopard Queen - དཔལ་གཡང་། (Bayang)

In 2023, Bayang, a sustainability advocate from the Tibet Plateau, was honored as one of BBC’s 100 Women, representing Tibetan women. This recognized her dedication to helping her community combat...