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Feb 12
Meet our new Managing Editor, Dr Priyanka Chakraborty, Head of Department and Assistant Professor of English Studies at Sister Nivedita University, India. A former Fulbright and Asian Graduate fellow, Dr Priyanka studied contemporary Tibetan narratives for her doctoral thesis.
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Feb 12
Here is the second-place essay, "Raw Remembrances: Memories of My Father on the Banks of My Mind" by Tamdin Tso alongside remarks on the piece by Kati Fitzgerald: yeshe.org/.../regular.../Raw…
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Feb 9
We are thrilled to finally publish the first-place essay of our nonfiction contest alongside the remarks of the judge, Dr Kati Fitzgerald, on Kelsang Lhamo 's "འཚོོ་བའིི་ཉམས་མྱོོང་དུམ་བུ།" ("A Fragment of Life Experience"). Click here to read the essay: yeshe.org/wpcontent/uploads/…
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Feb 6
Tsering Döndrup's story 'Masks' (Trans. Christopher Peacock) is driven by the ambiguity of intuition and guesswork in a world where the obligation to wear 'masks' leaves one longing for authenticity. Click here to read the story: yeshe.org/.../regular_issue_…
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Feb 6
The liminal atmosphere of Losang Gyatso’s story in Vol 5.2 of Yeshe lingers in Kyabchen Dedrol’s elegiac story “Pale Songs” (translated by Gödod Norbu Amchok) peopled by characters who drift like ghosts through a blizzard-striken landscape - yeshe.org/.../regular_issue_…
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Feb 6
In Losang Gyatso 's ghost story “Virginia Is for Lovers" in Vol 5.2, a polaroid camera brings fragmented memories of a forgotten night of a couple’s accidental entry into a long-destroyed dance hall inhabited by spirits. Click here to read the full story: yeshe.org/.../regul.../virgi…
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30 Nov 2025
In the final post from Vol 5.1, we share སྡོམ་པ་ཚེ་རིང་དབང་མོ། Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's poem "Somewhere Else" (ས་ཆ་ག་གེ་མོར།), translated into Tibetan by Dhondup T. Rekjong)
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PC: editors of Vol 5.1
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28 Nov 2025
With a dialogical collaboration with the author and the "feminist approach of surrendering to the linguistic rhetoricity of the text," Nicole Willock translates Mutik’s memoir about how her father’s love and craft as a tailor shaped her life.yeshe.org/wp-content/uploads…
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27 Nov 2025
Dhondup T. Rekjong brings to Tibetan readers Tenzin Dickie's 'The Lottery' (རྒྱན་ཤོོག་དེེ།), a poignant essay on the unpredictability of life in exile at the advent of the 1990 U.S. immigration program for 1,000 Tibetans selected through lottery.
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26 Nov 2025
Translated from Chinese by Jue Liang and Andrew S. Taylor, Baimanazhen's “Love Is a Pair of Unloosed Arrows” tells the story of Yangchen and Dundrup, a pair of former extramarital lovers turned spiritual companions.
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17 Nov 2025
ཚེེ་སྒྲོོན་སྐྱིིད། Tsedrön Kyi’s short story ཁུ་སིིམ་པའིི་ས་སྲོོད། (Silent Dusk), translated by Erin Burke and Eben Yonnetti, deals with a young woman's desires straining against her polyandrous marriage. yeshe.org/wp-content/uploads…
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15 Nov 2025
སྨིིན་སྣང་མཛེེས། Min-Nangzey’s ཨ་མའིི་ལག་རྩམ་དྲན་པ། (Remembering My Mother’s Handmade Tsampa) in Annabella Pitkin’s translation “highlights the value of women’s caregiving work as mothers." Click here for more: yeshe.org/wp-content/uploads…
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13 Nov 2025
Miranda A. smith and Kelsang Lhamo's collaborative translation of Kelsang Lhamo's དྲང་སྲོོང་བསྟིི་གནས་ཀྱིི་རྨིི་ལམ་ཡུན་ཅིིག in Vol 5.1 includes a section of the author’s prose-preface and three letters in verse between the novice nun and Gonpo Tsering yeshe.org/wp-content/uploads…
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11 Nov 2025
Tashi Dekyid Monet and David Germano translate the famed Tibetan contemporary poet Chimé’s poem, “Tales of Myself and Snow,” written in 2012 in twenty stanzas of traditional metric verses- yeshe.org/wp-content/uploads…
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10 Nov 2025
Some noteworthy excerpts from Janet Gyatso's essay in Vol 5.1 yeshe.org/wp-content/uploads…
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9 Nov 2025
The editors of Vol 5.1 consider writing not only "a site of struggle and insight, but also healing and friendship" as they champion the voice and visibility of Tibetan women writers across literary and cultural spaces. For editorial: yeshe.org/wp-content/uploads…
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28 Oct 2025
We are pleased to announce the publication of our Special Issue Vol 5.1
གངས་ཅན་སྐྱེེས་མའིི་རྩོོམ་རིིག་ཆེེད་སྒྲིིག་གྲོོགས་ཀྱིི་དྭངས་མ།
An Anthology by Tibetan Women Writers
Guest Edited by Erin Burke, Jue Liang, Tashi Dekyid Monet, Andrew S. Taylor
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8 Oct 2025
Rainbow
Baima Nazhen (Trans. Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani)
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