Showing posts with label Geta Rinpoche. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geta Rinpoche. Show all posts

Friday, January 27, 2012

"The Used Geta Rinpoche" By Woeser

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on September 28, 2011 for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and posted on her blog on October 5, 2011.

This series of posts covers Woeser's summer travels to Amdo, Kham and Lhasa and follows on from the last post "The Kardze Pledge"
Woeser goes deep into the modern history of Kham in this post, focusing on the 1930s and the figure of Geta Rinpoche (or Getag Tulku), a reincarnated Lama who was one of the early Tibetan Communists.


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