Passing on the Mantle: Tibetans of Southern California
Downtown Los Angeles, March 10th, 2009: “What do we want?” asks a rally leader on a megaphone, “Justice!” responds a group of about a hundred marchers. These are the voices of Southern California’s Tibetans in exile. Their chants remain loud and in uniform, their vibrant red, blue, and yellow national flags flutter briskly in the [...]
No First Name: A Tibetan in Exile
When Tsering Dolma first arrived in New York City in 2004, she barely spoke a word of English. She came only with a determination to survive and support her family still living in the Tibetan refugee villages of India. Like many other older, less-educated Tibetan women in exile, she went to work as a nanny [...]
Du Ching
I met Du Ching, a 24-year old Kham Tibetan, during a journey through the Tibet Autonomous Region in 2005. She was the keeper of a small travelers lodge she helped her family maintain in the town of Dandong. Her father worked with steer and I remember distinctly the 10-inch American-made bowie knife he had holstered [...]