"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.

"The Kardze Pledge" By Woeser

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on September 21, 2011 for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and posted on her blog on September 12, 2011.

In a series of posts making up Woeser's summer travels to Lhasa, through Amdo and Kham, the post below is the follow up to "Mani Gego’s Yak Meat Processing Plant". This post finds Woeser still in Kardze Prefecture and this time focuses on non-violent resistance which appears to be particularly strong in this region. It was in Tawu, Kardze Prefecture, that Tsewang Norbu's self-immolation on August 15, 2011 took place.


Read a French translation of this post here: http://woeser.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/l%E2%80%99engagement-de-garze/

Photo taken on July 28, 2011