My family had a stallion we called Rta mgo ser 'Yellow-Head Horse'. Father and two of his brothers occasionally rode it. Father said that Yellow-Head was very wild when it was taken to join local horseraces. I didn't believe that because Yellow-Head was very gentle when...

The Amdo Qinghai region, at the frontier of Tibet and China, comprises languages belonging to three genetic language families (Sino-Tibetan, Turkic, and Mongolic), three typological orientations (Sinitic, Bodic, and Altaic), and approximately 20 separate languages. Thes...

was born in 1983 in Lo khog (Luoke) Village, Gcan tsha (Jianzha) County, Rma lho (Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Mtsho sngon (Qinghai) Province, China. This story is one of my favorite Uncle Ston pa accounts. I do not recall exactly when I first heard it, but ...

Fiction, as understood in the West, was not a strong part of the Tibetan literary tradition (Stein 1972, 251-2). Although Newman (1996, 411) has argued that certain literary works existed as early as the eighteenth century, most fictional texts in Tibet belonged to folk...

Through the long dreary days of another semester at school, I had become fixated on the idea of going to Lhasa. But how could I tell my parents? I decided to wait for the upcoming holiday, and thought long and hard about what I would say to them. When I got home from th...

The origins of Bon བོན་1 the putative pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet or Zhangzhung ཞང་ཞུང་ remain shrouded in mystery. To Western observers it has become evident that the origins of the present systematic or 'Eternal' Bon can only be sought in the phyidar ཕྱི་དར་ 'the l...

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I was born in 1991 in Lo ba Village, Gcan tsha thang Township, Gcan tsha County, Rma lho (Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Mtsho sngon (Qinghai) Province. My neighbor, Uncle Zon thar, took good care of a lamb, because his mother died. He heated yak milk, poured ...

Amdo Tibetan Tongue Twisters Blo rtan rdo rje, Charles Kevin Stuart, and Gerald Roche……....7 An Amdo Tibetan Village New Year Trance Medium Ritual Dpal ldan bkra shis and Charles Kevin Stuart …..…...........…53 Calling Back the Lost na53 mʑi53 Tibetan Soul Libu Lakhi, C...

Deeply patriotic, dedicated, and self-educated, Zhuang Xueben (1909-1984) typified his generation in many respects. He set out on a self-imposed mission to investigate the underexplored territory between Republican China and Central Tibet in 1934. His writings about his...