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Phil Borges - Tibetan Portrait

kundrol rated 28 months ago
Yeshi was practicing her Tibetan script on a painted board in this small village school. I was amazed by the quality of her work. It was like some of the finest caligraphy I had seen. Her teacher was a Tibetan who had been educated in a Chinese run university. My interperter told me that eve...

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Amandagrrl rated 16 months ago
I think I'm going to end up with several pages from this site. The trauma in Tibet is one of the rawest wounds in the body that is humankind, and here are some of the affected limbs. This 13 year old girl is named Yeshi.
spweber rated 22 months ago
Haunting.........
sappling rated 26 months ago
This is a really fabulous website, cataloguing the experience of hundreds of Tibetans who fled, or were otherwise affected, by the Chinese invasion of Tibet.
kundrol rated 28 months ago
Yeshi was practicing her Tibetan script on a painted board in this small village school. I was amazed by the quality of her work. It was like some of the finest caligraphy I had seen. Her teacher was a Tibetan who had been educated in a Chinese run university. My interperter told me that even though the Tibetan language was being taught the content of all their books on history and Tibetan culture were written from a Chinese perspective.