Translations

• The Pond of Blossoming White Lotuses: An Ornamental Ode to the Goddess of Melodies, Sarasvatī by Shuchen Tsultrim Rinchen སྒྲ་དབྱངས་ལྷ་མོ་དབྱངས་ཅན་མ་ལ་བསྔགས་པ་དོན་རྒྱན་པདྨ་དཀར་པོ་བཞད་པའི་རྫིང་བུ། ཞུ་ཆེན་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རིན་ཆེན་གྱིས་མཛད།

  Joie Szu-Chiao Chen

  2026-06-01

  This is a translation of a poem written by Shuchen Tsultrim Rinchen (Zhu chen Tshul khrims rin chen, 1697-1774), best known as the editor of the Dergé edition ... More

• Three Poems By Chimay

  Rongwo Lugyal

  2026-06-01

  Translation of three poems by Pematso (པདྨ་འཚོ།), known by her pen name Chimay (འཆི་མེད།), is one of Tibet’s most prominent co... More

• Toilet by Tsadeu

  Lucia Galli

  2026-06-01

  Translation of the short story by Tsewang Gyel (tshe dbang rgyal), writing under the pen name Tsadeu (tshwa rde’u), a writer and reporter for the legal affair... More

• The Afterlives of Oratory: Entextualizing Gungthang Rinpoche's Speech about the Death of the 10th Panchen Lama

  Donyol Dondrup, Charlene Makley; Paljor Tsering

  2025-07-03

  The article provides a translation and transcription of the sixth Gungtang Rinpoche's pivotal speech to the Labrang monastery monk assembly three days after the... More

• Lhashamgyal's "Drölma’s Dream": Translated by Lucia Galli

  Lucia Galli, Lhashamgyal

  95-110

  2024-12-14

  A translation of the short story “Drölma’s Dream” (sgrol ma’i rmi lam) by the Tibetan writer Lhashamgyal (Lha byams rgyal). བོད་རིགས་... More

• Excerpts from Pema Bhum’s Jalam Tramo: The Rainbow Path of Many Hues

  Pema Bhum; Lauran R. Hartley

  107-116

  2024-05-31

• Khenpo Kalsang Dhondup’s “Incomparable Guide,” Translated by Khenpo Kalsang Dhondup and Patrick Dowd

  Kalsang Dhondup; Patrick Dowd

  189-196

  2023-12-18

  In his poem "Incomparable Guide" (ston pa mtshungs med), Khenpo Kalsang Dhondup brings a modern, almost scientific, perspective to the traditional Indo-Tibetan ... More

• Tsering Woeser’s “Notes from a Plague Year,” Translated by Ian Boyden

  Tsering Woeser; Ian Boyden

  83-188

  2023-12-18

• The Yellow Book of Dzemé Rinpoché: Translated by Christopher Bell

  Dzemé Losang Palden; Christopher Bell

  125-179

  2023-07-26

  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

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

  Ruth Gamble

  113-124

  2023-07-26

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