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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.

Because a Sacred Mountain Is There

Mount Kailash - whose Tibetan name means Precious Jewel of Snow - rises 6,638 meters above sea level. For thousands of years, several religions have regarded it as the center of the world, a place ...

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...