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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.

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...

My name is ཆོས་སྒྲོན།

I am a nomad, like my parents and grandparents, guarding the most ancient way of life on this land.