You can hear them before you can see them: they thunder up the stairs like a stampede of little yaks, only louder—parents trailing close behind, shaking their heads, and smiling. It may be a frigid, rainy February Saturday morning in the West Village, but inside Trace Foundation’s Latse Library, the ten children who have braved the elements for our biweekly Children’s Class are as animated as ever.
Aged three to six—some American, some Tibetan, some boisterous and others shier and more observant—this week they’re wearing chuba, colorful traditional outfits to celebrate...read more
Thursday, December 06, 2012
The low brown hills stretch on for miles under a clear blue sky. In the distance an SUV struggles along a dirt road, snaking through clusters of low mud brick huts, next to a... read more
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Humchen Chenaktsang explains how the ngakpas, lay practitioners of the "fierce mantras," of Repgong, on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau came to be known as the Thousand... read more
Saturday, December 11, 2010
The practice of making offerings to the mountain gods is a critical element of Tibetan historical memory and cultural identity. The focus of my doctoral studies in Ethnology at... read more
Friday, December 10, 2010
As the winter cold started to set in, teachers at Sichuan Province Tibetan School in Dartsemdo town, Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture called a special meeting to speak with... read more
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
It was shocking. The enormous face of a young Tibetan boy stared, confrontational, through an ancient doorway in a white-washed wall in Lhasa’s historic Barkhor district. His skin... read more
Sunday, October 10, 2010
I knew little about Tibetan contemporary art, when my editor at ArtAsiaPacific, Elaine Ng, asked me to join a panel on the subject at Trace Foundation in conjunction with the show... read more
Thursday, July 08, 2010
How lucky I feel to have learned about the musical event given by Phursang Kelak Lama and Michael Monhart at Trace Foundation’s Latse Library, Saturday, June 12. The color, purity... read more
