Festivals are “umbrella genres” that include a variety of other forms within itself: drama, foodways, material traditions, singing, ritual, and more. In Tibetan culture, they...
Note: This post is an abbreviated version of a paper Tim Thurston recently gave at the 2023 meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in...
By Tsering Samdrup Like people all over the world, Tibetans in western China today spend increasing amounts of their lives on their mobile devices, using...
Danma Jamyang Tsultrim, a retired teacher and elderly narrator of the Tibetan Gesar epic, sits adjacent to me in a restaurant in Ziling City, an...