Writings from Tibet

This page features six Tibetans whose inspirational writings vividly illustrate the cultural resurgence in Tibet. Their work ranges from wide-ranging critiques of Chinese policy in Tibet, to lyrical expressions of Tibetan identity. Some of the writers on this page are in detention; some are under surveillance. All of them have experienced official censorship of their writings. Click on More Information under each writer for biographical information and examples of their work.

Woeser [Tsering Woeser] Öser
ཚེ་རིང་འོད་ཟེར།

Tsering Woeser
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Tragyal [Shogdung]
བཀྲ་རྒྱལ། ༼ཞོགས་དུང་།༽

Shogdung
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Jamyang Kyi
འཇམ་དབྱངས་སྐྱིད།

Jamyang Kyi
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Gade Tsering
དགའ་བདེ་ཚེ་རིང་།

Gade Tsering
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Tashi Rabten (Pen name: The’u rang)
བཀྲིས་རབ་བརྟན། ༼ཐེའུ་རང་།༽

Tashi Rabten
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Kunga Tseyang
ཀུན་དགའ་ཚངས་དབྱངས ༼གངས་ཉི།༽

Kunga Tseyang
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More and more Tibetan writers and poets can now be found on the Tibetan blogosphere. The internet has created an outlet for Tibetan expression that was previously unimaginable. But, with the harsh internet censorship of the People’s Republic of China, the stakes for  seeking to express oneselves in cyberspace remain high. Dechen Pemba, a UK born Tibetan highlights the intricacies and bravery of Tibetan bloggers in this article ‘The Virtual Sweet Tea House: An overview of Tibetan Cyberspace‘.