2025
YEAR OF THE WOOD SNAKE
2025 marks the year of the Wood Snake. The Year of the Wood Snake is considered a good time for growth, creativity and introspection, said to attra...
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2024
THE WIND HORSE
Before Buddhism spread across the plateau, the wind horse was already an ancient bearer of good fortune.
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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
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
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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2024
PROSTRATING
When traveling on the Tibetan Plateau, one will often encounter groups of pilgrims clad in heavy leather aprons making the journey by prostrating, ...
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2023
STONE CAIRNS
The dumbom, or stone cairn, is an endemic feature of the Tibetan Plateau landscape. They appear on common ground, on the banks of lakes, hilltops, ...
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