The blog translation project High Peaks Pure Earth has recently focused on “music with a message” by translating the lyrics of Tibetan songs from music videos that have been uploaded onto the internet ...

Patriotic Martyrs, by Jampel from HPeaks on Vimeo. Tibetan singer Jampel has released a song and a video in tribute to Tibetan self-immolations, a form of radical political protest against Chinese ...

Documentary. Written and directed by Ngawang Choephel. In Tibetan with English subtitles. (Not rated. 86 minutes. At the Lumiere in San Francisco and Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley.) Tibetan ...

XINING - Soinan Omtse dedicated his first album to his grandmother Tashi. "You are a bright full moon and I'm bathed in your love no matter where I am," the 28-year-old Tibetan sings as he strums his ...

Cairang Ji sits on a bed in the main room of a farmhouse here holding her two grandchildren on her lap as she quietly speaks the verses of an old folk song. Two other grandmothers dutifully repeat the ...

This fascinating feature, recorded in China, tells of a heart-warming recording project to preserve the rare and beautiful traditional songs of Tibet, which are vanishing in the process of ...