Letter from the Editors
Andrew Quintman, Kurtis R. Schaeffer
1–5
Table of Contents
“Avadāna of Silver Flowers” : A Discussion on Decolonization and Anti-Colonial Translation Practices for Tibetan Poetry
Gedun Rabsal, Nicole Willock
7–46
Our translation and analysis of sections of the epic poem, “Avadāna of Silver Flowers” showcases Tibetan-language poetics or “nyen-ngak” (snyan ngag). ... More
How to Read Like a Dead Horse Listens: Audience and Affect in "The Tale of the Separation of Horse and Kiang"
Brandon Dotson
47–73
“The Tale of the Separation of Horse and Kiang,” a 9th- or 10th-century Tibetan ritual text recovered from Dunhuang, is a work of both simplicity and of ext... More
Studies in the Life and Thought of Mkhas grub rje II: Notes on Poetry, Poetics and Other Things in Mkhas grub rje’s Oeuvre
Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp
75–109
The poetic oeuvre of many Tibetan writers still remains relatively unexplored. The present essay deals with several pertinent aspects of the poetic oeuvre of Mk... More
Songs That Tell the Thousand-Year Story of the Shangpa Lineage
Sarah Harding
111–137
Songs (mgur) were one of the most iconic and popular forms of literature in Tibet, continuing to the present day. Lying somewhere between simple folk songs (glu... More
Dondrup Gyal's Tsultrim Jyamtso, Translated by Lowell Cook
Dondrup Gyal, Lowell Cook
139–166
Palmo's "I Am Who I Am," Translated by Lama Jabb
Palmo; Lama Jabb
167–170
Lhashamgyal's Sunshine on the Road, Translated by Rongwo Lugyal
Lhashamgyal, Rongwo Lugyal
171–183
Reading the Mila Life Story: Doubles, Double-Takes, and the Literary Affordances of Text
Janet Gyatso
185–209
This essay explores some of the outstanding literary flourishes of Tsangnyon Heruka’s Mila Life Story and attempts to analyse how they work in the narrative... More
Distilling Joys and Woes: An Appreciation of Contemporary Tibetan Women’s Writing སྐྱིད་སྡུག་བསྙལ་པའི་དེང་རབས་བོད་མོའི་བརྩམས་ཆོས་མྱོང་རོལ།
Lama Jabb
211–226
With the exception of a few remarkable female luminaries, traditional Tibetan literature hardly has any room for the public voice of Tibetan women. Women have b... More
Interview with Gedun Rabsal
Gedun Rabsal
227–241
Gedun Rabsal discusses the origin story of his new Tibetan rendition of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, his fascination with Ernest Hemingway, his approach to the... More
Conference Notes on the Tibetan Women Writing Symposium: A Celebration of Tibetan Women’s Literature : གངས་ཅན་སྐྱེས་མས་རྩོམ་རིག་གླེང་བ། བོད་མོའི་རྩོམ་རིག་མཛད་རྗེས་གཟེངས་སུ་བསྟོད་པ།
Tashi Dekyid Monet
243–247
A conference report on the Tibetan Women Writing Symposium held at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, in April 2022. The symposium focused on explorin... More
Artist Statement
Tenzing Rigdol
249–250
