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Horses of Tibet
Horses have always played an important role in Tibetan life. Historically, they’ve been used for travel, transport, status and sport. Spiritually, ...
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FELT BED COVER COLLECTION
May not the edges turn up, May this felt be as strong as the dark-brown spotted forehead of the wild yak. Translation of a traditional Tibetan felt...
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Religion and Culture
MONLAM CHENMO
The Monlam Chenmo, also known as The Great Prayer Festival, is the most important Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the year and begins on the 4th da...
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Animals and Surroundings
T I B E T A N Y A K
The yak is the nomad’s most precious commodity, the source of all his ‘nor’ or wealth and the main bovine on the Tibetan Plateau. A distant cousin ...
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Curated News
CURATED NEWS JANUARY 2023
Curated news is a bi-monthly newsletter showcasing ideas, initiatives and practices from around the world and here in Ritoma. We hope these finding...
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Animals and Surroundings
YEAR OF THE WATER RABBIT
The Lunar New Year is marked by the first day of the lunar year and is the most celebrated festival on the Tibetan Plateau. It is a symbol of new b...
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N E W Y E A R
We enter the 2023 new year filled with hope, and wish all those in the world who have encountered suffering due to conflict, privation and poor hea...
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Religion and Culture
TORKYA CEREMONY
Each year, across the Tibetan Plateau, monks perform the ‘Torkya’ or Ritual Cake Throwing Ceremony, a ritual meant to cleanse the air of any malevo...
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Religion and Culture
GANDEN NAMCHOE
Each year on a winter night, the outlines of a multitude of villages and nomad settlements across the Tibetan Plateau emerge from obscurity, illumi...
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People
NORLHA'S 15TH ANNIVERSARY
November 13th, 2022 marks the completion of Norlha’s 15th year in Ritoma: Fifteen years ago, we pitched our work tents in the valley at the entranc...
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Religion and Culture
WINTER CHAM
Every year around December, when the cold has settled in and the new year is close, the monastery in Garnying, a few kilometers from Ritoma, holds ...
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Clothing
CIRCULAR COLLECTION
Norlha is releasing a limited range of one-off scarves, handwoven from repurposed yak khullu and silk-blend yarns left over from previous collectio...
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Curated News
CURATED NEWS OCTOBER 2022
Curated news is a bi-monthly newsletter showcasing ideas, initiatives and practices from around the world and here in Ritoma. Bringing insight, co...
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