Yeshe

A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts and Humanities

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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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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: https://t.co/YO8KJUD0R3

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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: https://t.co/3vHXGLjMkA

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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: https://t.co/LCFAs6FnsV

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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 - https://t.co/bnHb5w5Hie

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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: https://t.co/62S8Gfu3CD

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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)
https://t.co/5JGDLEmDQ6
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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.https://t.co/FqTZPKcdFS

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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.
https://t.co/SfWaAgCdYn

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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.
https://t.co/D87LV7uNdO

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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. https://t.co/s0DWOLN5Zy
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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: https://t.co/oFOVpzdpns

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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 https://t.co/inykRhc9iY

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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- https://t.co/59a9amCNuC

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Some noteworthy excerpts from Janet Gyatso's essay in Vol 5.1 https://t.co/2RMbSnqGjK

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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: https://t.co/fEhrQTx6LW

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རྩོོམ་སྒྲིིག་པའིི་གཏམ། - https://t.co/dDtkwmS8JG

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We are pleased to announce the publication of our Special Issue Vol 5.1
གངས་ཅན་སྐྱེེས་མའིི་རྩོོམ་རིིག་ཆེེད་སྒྲིིག་གྲོོགས་ཀྱིི་དྭ��ས་མ།
An Anthology by Tibetan Women Writers
Guest Edited by Erin Burke, Jue Liang, Tashi Dekyid Monet, Andrew S. Taylor
https://t.co/t3VCB5ZVzD

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Everlasting Lamp
Gar Akyung (Trans. Riga Shakya)
https://t.co/wEMaMDdhT3

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Rainbow
Baima Nazhen (Trans. Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani)
https://t.co/Q0UStMtFSr