ISSN 2768-4261 (Online)

A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts and Humanities

Vol. 2, No. 1 (2022)

Table of Contents

Editorial
Editorial
Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani and Shelly Bhoil
Articles
“The Gemotsang Daughter-in-Law Got Her Hair Dyed Blonde”: Metamorphoses of the Female Hairstyle in Contemporary Tibetan-Language Literature
Françoise Robin
Remediating Uncle Tonpa: The Lives of a Tibetan Trickster in the People’s Republic of China
Timothy Thurston
Calculating the Degree of Communicative Pressure on Tibetan and Its Users: An Examination of the Situation of Lhasa Peoples’ Native Language
Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs (Yeshe Vodsal Atsok)
Hybridity and Pilgrimage in Chögyam Trungpa’s Concrete Poetry
Matilda Perks
Contemporary Tibetan Cinema: Image and Voice
Gokul KS
Art
Weaving the Invisible: Tibetan Imagery, Selfhood, and Surviving
Lekey Leidecker and PC
Curatorial Reflections on ‘Transforming Minds: Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche and Friends, Photographs by Allen Ginsberg 1989-1997’
Ben Paljor Chatag
Reviews
We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies
Kalsang Yangzom
I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism
Priyanka Chakraborty
The Sakya Jetsunmas: The Hidden World of Tibetan Female Lamas
Nicole Willock
Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China
Eveline Washul
These Objects that Transform Us: Into the Material and Immaterial World of Pema Tseden
Clémence Henry
The Dalai Lama and the Nechung Oracle
Brenton Sullivan
Interview
Pema Bhum: Writer, Scholar, Publisher, Historian
Tenzin Dickie
A Conversation with Tenzing Rigdol about Art and Education
Sarah Magnatta
Fiction
One Day in Dharamsala
Dawa Tsering
Backyard Rocker
Losang Gyatso
The Most Ordinary Morning of My Life
Lhashamgyal (Trans. Rongwo Lugyal)
Poetry
The Old Key is My Talisman
Tsering Woeser (Trans. Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani)
At the Ends of the Twisted Black Steel Ennead
Chimay (Trans. Rongwo Lugyal)
Blue Mask
Droklou Dröldo (Trans. Chime Lama)
Six Illusions, Metaphors of Experience
Jetsun Milarepa (Trans. Michele Martin)
Two Poems
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Two Poems
Khando Langri
Three Poems
Nakdo (Trans. Chime Lama)
Death
Chan Bhang (Trans. Lowell Cook)
Prose
My Son and the Sunshine in Shigatse
Lhashamgyal (Trans. Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani)
It Doesn’t Dissipate, It Transforms
Jamyang Tenzin
Three Photographs and the Days of My Youth
Pema Tseden (Trans. Brantley Collins)
Performance
The Opening Arias of The Victorious Horse Race
(Trans. Amalia Rubin)