2024
THE TIBETAN YAK
The yak is the nomad’s most precious commodity, the source of all ‘nor’ or wealth on the Tibetan Plateau - the bond between yak and herder sacred. ...
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2024
LAPTSE AND THE SUMMER EQUINOX
Thousands of white papers flutter in the air and land like snowfall on the celebrated hill, one of Ritoma’s four sacred peaks.
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2024
SAGADAWA IN RITOMA ས་ག་ཟླ་བ།
For Mahayana Buddhists around the world, Sagadawa is the holiest month of the year and celebrates Buddha’s birth, Nirvana and Parinirvana (death).
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2024
HOME SERIES x RYAN & JON
Home is a word with many meanings — a place to rest and renew, to gather and grow, connect and commune. It means different things to different peop...
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2024
DUKAR DOLMA PRAYERS
Dukar, also known as Sitatapatra in Sanskrit is a female deity with a white body, a slightly wrathful expression and an eye in the palm of each hand.
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2024
THE SYMBOLISM OF THE NAGA
The Norlha community remains rooted in the land, from the pastoral background they were born into. Most of the community are either former nomads, ...
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2024
SPRING SUMMER 2024
Norlha’s Spring Summer scarves and capsule clothes collection for 2024 borrows inspiration from the prayer flags of laptse as they succumb to the e...
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2024
SPRING EQUINOX
Spring on the Plateau is a slow, evolving process that comes in fits and starts as the temperature gradually rises, bringing the grassland back to ...
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2024
WOMEN AT NORLHA
A gap is forming on the Tibetan Plateau between the old life that is losing its meaning and a new one that is not yet defined.
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2024
MONLAM CHENMO
The Great Prayer Festival, or Monlam Chenmo, was established by Je-Rinpoche, or Tsong Khapa, in Lhasa in 1409. The timing, the first two weeks of t...
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2024
LUNAR NEW YEAR
On the Tibetan Plateau, Losar, or New Year, is the most awaited and celebrated event of the year, a time for family reunions, weddings, and new beg...
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