Letter from the Editors

Andrew Quintman, Kurtis R. Schaeffer

1-3

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Praise, Shame, Patronage, and Genre-Blurring: Revisiting Two Vajra Songs of Lama Zhang Tsalpa

Carl Yamamoto

5-43

This paper looks at two gur, or “vajra songs,” of the controversial twelfth-century yogin, sorcerer, tantric adept, literary innovator, statesman, and m... More

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Capturing the Quotidian in the Everyday Renunciation of Buddhist Nuns in Tibet

Somtso Bhum, Holly Gayley

45-72

In the novella “Lonely Soul” (ཁེར་རྐྱང་གི་རྣམ་ཤེས།), Tsedrön Kyi (ཚེ་སྒྲོན་སྐྱིད?... More

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Notes on Shelkar Lingpa’s “Song of Lhasa Memories”

Andrew Quintman, Kurtis R. Schaeffer

73-83

Few compositions of the early twentieth century hold a place as dear to the hearts of Tibetan readers as the “Song of Lhasa Memories.” This ornate poem,... More

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"Song of Lhasa Memories" by Shelkar Lingpa (ཤེལ་དཀར་གླིང་པ།) : Translated by Geshe N. L. Nornang and Lawrence Epstein

Geshe N. L. Nornang, Lawrence Epstein

85-100

This ornate poem, composed by Shelkar Lingpa (Shel dkar gling pa, 1876–1913) in the Indian hill station of Darjeeling, evokes everyday life in faraway Lhasa, ... More

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Tsedrön Kyi's "Lonely Soul": Translated by Somtso Bhum

Tsedrön Kyi; Somtso Bhum

101-112

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The Fourth Karmapa, Rölpai Dorjé: A Poet Out of Place

Ruth Gamble

113-124

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The Yellow Book of Dzemé Rinpoché: Translated by Christopher Bell

Dzemé Losang Palden; Christopher Bell

125-179

In 1970 a text infamously known as the Yellow Book was composed by Dzemé Rinpoché. This book discusses several Tibetan Geluk masters that were harmed or... More

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Women and Wit in Tibetan Buddhist Literature

Sarah Jacoby

181-203

This essay explores the vibrancy of Tibetan women’s writing and publishing, centering on the woman who is likely the most prolific female writer in Tibeta... More

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Interview with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

205-216

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa discusses her approaches to writing in different genres, the power of language and poetry, the implications of place and displacement,... More

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Conference Report: The Second Lotsawa Workshop, "Celebrating Buddhist Women’s Voices in the Tibetan Tradition"

Joshua Brallier

217-227

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Artist Statement

Sonam Dolma Brauen

229-231

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023): Journal of Tibetan Literature

Letter from the Editors

Praise, Shame, Patronage, and Genre-Blurring: Revisiting Two Vajra Songs of Lama Zhang Tsalpa

This paper looks at two gur, or “vajra songs,” of the controversial twelfth-century yogin, sorcerer, tantric adept, literary innovator, statesman, and m... More

Capturing the Quotidian in the Everyday Renunciation of Buddhist Nuns in Tibet

In the novella “Lonely Soul” (ཁེར་རྐྱང་གི་རྣམ་ཤེས།), Tsedrön Kyi (ཚེ་སྒྲོན་སྐྱིད?... More

Notes on Shelkar Lingpa’s “Song of Lhasa Memories”

Few compositions of the early twentieth century hold a place as dear to the hearts of Tibetan readers as the “Song of Lhasa Memories.” This ornate poem,... More

"Song of Lhasa Memories" by Shelkar Lingpa (ཤེལ་དཀར་གླིང་པ།) : Translated by Geshe N. L. Nornang and Lawrence Epstein

This ornate poem, composed by Shelkar Lingpa (Shel dkar gling pa, 1876–1913) in the Indian hill station of Darjeeling, evokes everyday life in faraway Lhasa, ... More

Tsedrön Kyi's "Lonely Soul": Translated by Somtso Bhum

The Fourth Karmapa, Rölpai Dorjé: A Poet Out of Place

The Yellow Book of Dzemé Rinpoché: Translated by Christopher Bell

In 1970 a text infamously known as the Yellow Book was composed by Dzemé Rinpoché. This book discusses several Tibetan Geluk masters that were harmed or... More

Women and Wit in Tibetan Buddhist Literature

This essay explores the vibrancy of Tibetan women’s writing and publishing, centering on the woman who is likely the most prolific female writer in Tibeta... More

Interview with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa discusses her approaches to writing in different genres, the power of language and poetry, the implications of place and displacement,... More

Conference Report: The Second Lotsawa Workshop, "Celebrating Buddhist Women’s Voices in the Tibetan Tradition"

Artist Statement

The Journal of Tibetan Literature encourages an exploration of the literary in Tibetan writing from a wide range of methodological and theoretical perspectives.