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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།S2 E10 Epic of Gesar གླིང་གེ་སར་རྒྱལ་པོའི་སྒྲུང་།Discussion on the Epic of Gesar with Khenpo Ju Tenkyong. (Image: Himalayan Art Resources Inc.)Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2023-12-261h 19
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།20th Century China Series: 2 Qing-Tibet relation དུས་རབས་ཉི་ཤུའི་རྒྱ་ནག་ལོ་རྒྱུས། ༢ བོད་དང་མན་ཇུ་དབར་གྱི་འབྲེལ་བ།A short series on the history of 20th-century China.Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)Image: Anonymous. The Qianlong Emperor as an Emanation of the Bodhisattva Manjusri. Thangka, ink, and colors on silk. Palace Museum, Beijing. Presented entirely in keeping with Tibetan Buddhist iconography, this religious painting and others like it reinforced Qianlong's claim to rule as a righteous "wheel-turning king," or chakravartin. © Palace Museum, Beijing.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2023-09-281h 01
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།20th Century China Series: 1-Introduction དུས་རབས་ཉི་ཤུའི་རྒྱ་ནག་ལོ་རྒྱུས། ༡- སྔོན་འགྲོ།A short series on the history of 20th-century China.Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)Image: A Propaganda poster for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, with Red Army and Red Guard members charging forward holding Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book. Photograph: GraphicaArtis/Getty ImagesSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2023-08-2752 min
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།S2 E7 Capital (Marx) - Primitive Accumulation མ་རྩ། (མར་ཁེསི) - གདོད་མའི་ཕུང་གསོག།An episode on the final chapter of Marx's Capital Vol. 1 where he delves into the origins of capitalist mode of production, giving an alternate picture of the theory of so-called primitive accumulation. (Image: Cover, Capital - Wordsworth Editions)Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2023-04-2552 min
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།S2 E6: Various topics སྣ་ཚོགས་གཏམ།For this episode we decided to meet and discuss (like Dream and Hob Gadling in The Sandman) at least two new things we had done/learned/found worth thinking about since our last episode. These include questions about language and culture inspired by a trip to Ladakh, digging through the libraries and archives of former imperial powers like England and other European countries for Tibet-related materials (where would Tibet be on the late Queen’s Christmas culture property repatriation gift list?), Iranian filmmaker Kiarostami’s Koker trilogy and the idea of self-reflexivity in cinema and Tibetan politics. Particularly in Tibe...2022-09-111h 02
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།S2 E5: Gendun Chopel དགེ་འདུན་ཆོས་འཕེལ།In this episode of Khyeltam, we discuss the life of Gendun Chopel (1903-1951), perhaps, one of the foremost modern Tibetan thinkers.Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)Image credit: unknownSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2022-02-151h 14
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།S2 E4: On Annapurna Circuit ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡའི་རི་ཀླུང་ཉུལ་བའི་མྱོང་ཚོར།A 'short' episode on the unexpected cultural and historical sights and sounds I encountered on the Annapurna circuit trail in Nepal. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2022-02-021h 01
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།S2 E3: On Democracy དམངས་གཙོ་འམ་མང་གཙོ་གླེང་བ།In this experimental free-style episode of Khyeltam, I sat down with Palden Sonam to discuss our thoughts on democracy. As will be apparent from the discussion, we began our conversation with no clear sense of how this episode will unfold or if we will decide to upload it. However, given our long, silence our last Khyeltam episode, I have decided to upload this here anyway.Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)Image: TendorSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2022-01-141h 05
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།S2 E2: What is History? ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཟེར་ན་ཅི་ཞིག་ཡིན།What is history? How do we know what happened in the past? Can we know the truth of our past? In this episode, Jamyang and I discuss these questions based primarily on E.H Carr's classic work "What is history?" In order to make better sense of Carr's work, we have attempted to use some of the examples from the Tibetan context. The question of what is history is inextricably linked with larger question of can we know the truth? Therefore, perhaps, given you have many hours to waste, one can listen to this...2021-11-111h 01
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།S2 E1: On Conspiracy Theory ཇུས་ངན་གྱི་འདོད་ཚུལ།This episode is on Conspiracy Theory. It may or may not have been sponsored by the CIA. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2021-10-2558 min
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།Khyeltam 2.0 Intro འཁྱལ་གཏམ་དུས་ཚན་གཉིས་པ།ཨ་རོགས་ཚོ་བདེ་མོ། མ་མཇལ་ཡུན་རིང་། ལོ་ཕྱེད་ཙམ་ངེད་གཉིས་སོ་སོའི་ལས་གལ་ཆེ་ཆུང་སྣ་ཚོགས་ལ་བྲེལ་རྐྱེན་ལེ་ཚན་གསར་པ་བཅུག་མ་ཐུབ། ད་ལན་གྱི་བརྙན་ཡོད་ལེ་ཚན་འདི་ནི་འཁྱལ་གཏམ་དུས་ཚན་ནམ season གཉིས་པའི་འགོ་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་དུ་ཁྱེད་རྣམ་པའི་སྤྱན་ལམ་དུ་འབུལ། འདིའི་ནང་ད་བར་གྱི་ལེ་ཚན་དང་དེ་ལ་མཆན་དང་བསམ་ཚུལ་གང་བྱུང་བ་ལ་བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་དང་མ་འོངས་པའི་ལེ་ཚན་གང་བཟོ་འཆར་ཡོད་པ་སོགས་ཀྱི་སྐོར་ལ་གླེང་ཡོད།So, we decided our hiatus has stretched long enough (and just long enough to justify calling this resumption the season two of our podcast 😂). We promise you nothing but more of the same old, same old. In this one, we talk a bit about what we have been up to so far, (besides trying to book a slot on the Cowin app), a bit of an overview of season one, and a look ahead to some future episodes. It is in video primarily for the purposes of what we Tibetans call 'temdrel'.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2021-10-061h 10
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།34. History of Ethnic Classification in Modern China དེང་རབས་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་མི་རིགས་སྡེ་ཚན་འབྱེད་སྟངས་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས།The modern Chinese empire (PRC) hides its colonial set-up by camouflaging itself as a multi-minzu (nationality/ethnic) nation-state. Central to this discourse is the idea of minzu. However, historically, this is a new concept. What is the origin of the term Minzu? How did the contemporary 56 minzu in China come into being? I discuss these questions and more in this khyeltam short episode on Thomas Mullaney’s book “Coming to terms with the Nation.”Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)Imag...2021-02-1539 min
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།33. On Public Sphere སྤྱི་དམངས་ཀྱི་སྡིངས་ཆ།What is public sphere? A dominant liberal answer: a sphere where private individuals, members of a political community, on equal footing engage in reasoned deliberation on matters of public concern to form public opinions on what is public good(s). Such a sphere is fundamental to democracy—a sphere that mediates a relationship between society and state and holds later accountable to the former. What are the problems with this dominant liberal conception of public sphere? Fundamental to democracy is public deliberation but on what and whose terms and conditions are these deliberation taking pla...2020-11-2752 min
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།32. The Blind Warrior of Nyarong ཉག་རོང་བུ་ལོང་མ།In the mid-19th century, Gonpo Namgyel, a relatively unknown chief from Nyarong in Kham, rose to power and went on to conquer most of Kham and cause problems for both the Lhasa government and the Qing court. He has been usually depicted as a villain or a bandit in the Tibetan written and oral sources, sometimes called ten-dra (enemy of the faith) but later inducted into the pantheon of Buddhist protectors, and as 'a leader of serf uprising' by Chinese Marxist historians. Yudru Tsomu's book, the subject of this podcast, tries to resolve these contradictory narratives by locating...2020-09-281h 08
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།30. Hum Dekhenge - Faiz ང་ཚོས་བལྟ་ཆོག།༷ ཕེཛ།30. Hum Dekhenge - Faiz ང་ཚོས་བལྟ་ཆོག།༷ ཕེཛ། by Jamyang and UgyanSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2020-07-2751 min
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།30. On Antifa (Anti-fascist) ཨན་ཊི་ཕ་ (ཕ་ཤི་སི་ལ་འགོག་རྒོལ་)Is it okay to punch fascists? To deny them a platform to speak? Many liberals and free speech absolutist, I think, would categorically say ‘NO.’ Directly or otherwise, I think, our attitude towards ‘freedom of speech’ and more are shaped by a liberal ideology that takes, often by abstracting from the concrete setting of the relations of power, all political opinions as equally valid or at least “right in their own way” (whatever that means). On freedom of speech, our conventional liberal wisdom suggests that no matter how much we may disagree with someone, we must defend their 'right to speak' at al...2020-07-1855 min
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།29. On #BlackLivesMatter མི་རིགས་ནག་པོའི་ཚེ་སྲོག་གཅེས་པར་འཛིན་པའི་ལས་འགུལ་སྐོར།Following up on our recent/ongoing heated community debate on the #BlackLivesMatter protest in the aftermath of police murdering of George Floyd (and more since then), we decided to look briefly into the history of racism in the United States, Civil Rights Movement, the emergence of mass incarceration, and most importantly the changing (not evolving) nature of racism in the post-civil right US.
Ofcourse, we couldn't have ignored some of the questions that emerged from the recent/ongoing discussions such as appropriateness of the modes of protest (looting/ violence), Obama & "post-racist" US society, and the never-ending, possibly dead-end question of...2020-06-221h 27
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།28. History of Hindi Cinema ཧིན་དཱི་གློག་བརྙན་གྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས།Tibet's cultural engagement with India stretches back to the ancient past. If it was not for them, we'd be unlettered, uncouth barbarians terrorizing the plains of Central Asia (though Chogyal Namkha'i Norbu would vehemently dispute this extravagant claim.) This trans-Himalayan tryst lasts to this day but instead of Buddhism, we now have Bollywood without which Tibetan weddings would be even duller affairs. So I sat down with our somewhat regular guest Thinley Wangchuk to talk about the history of Hindi cinema (maybe as a way of overcoming our shared trauma about the death of 90s action-flicks, invariably starring Suniel Shetty...2020-06-101h 24
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།27. On Seventeen Point Agreement གྲོས་མཐུན་དོན་ཚན་བཅུ་བདུན་གླེང་བ།Turning our Instagram live discussion on the infamous and often misunderstood "Seventeen point agreement"* into another khyeltam episode. This history, as Tibet historian Tsering Shakya points out, is often marred in polemics and the reality, needless to say, is in some sense, more complex.
*The Agreement between the Central People’s Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet
Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།26. On Birds and Birding བྱ་བྱིའུ་དང་དེ་དག་ཞིབ་རྟོགས་ཀྱི་སྐོར།A rather whimsical episode in which I begin with the origin of birds, a bit of palaeontology and taxonomy, then birds in the Tibetan oral tradition, and finally end with a pseudo-apologia for birding.
Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2020-05-1050 min
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།25. Hind Swaraj by Gandhi གཱན་དྷི་ རྒྱ་གར་རང་སྲིད་རང་སྐྱོང་། (ཧིནྡ་སྭཱ་རཱཛ་)For this long-planned episode, Ugyan and I finally pick up Gandhi's short but important work Hind Swaraj. Written in 1909, the booklet lays out Gandhi's trenchant critique of Western civilization and a unique blueprint for India's struggle against British rule. Although the white man has (or has been) long relieved off his burden, has India managed to achieve the 'self-rule' that Gandhi envisioned? (If not, is it even achievable?) What about his principles of non-violence and Satyagraha? What relevance do these hold for us in these times?
Since Gandhi himself is a topic worthy of a separate episode (if not several...2020-04-251h 20
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།24. A Tibetan Revolutionary བོད་མི་གསར་བརྗེ་བ་ཞིགBapa Phuntso Wangye, for some, is a great patriot, a revolutionary leader while for others, he is traitor, that also, to paraphrase Jamyang Norbu, a self-delusional and arrogant one. Known popularly for his early conversion to marxism, role in establishing Tibetan Communist Party in 1939, later assisting PLA’s invasion of Tibet, and suffering for 18 years in solitary imprisonment for “local nationalism.”
In this episode, Jamyang and I try to dig into his (kind of) autobiographical book to understand what is more to his story and how does it weave into the broader history of 20th century Tibet. .
Intro/Outro theme: Karach...2020-04-081h 09
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།23. Pedagogy of the Oppressed བཙན་གནོན་མྱོང་མཁན་གྱི་སློབ་གསོ་རིག་པ་འམ་སློབ་ཁྲིད་རིག་པ།Discussion on Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" with Tenzin Pelyoun and Thinley Wangchuk
Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)
Image: Revolution and Ideology
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།22. Brexit བི་རེཁ་ཟིཊ།Discussing the ins and outs of Brexit with our new guest discussant Apa Lhamo (JNU).
Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།21. Liberalism and Empire གུ་ཡངས་རིང་ལུགས་དང་རྒྱལ་ཁམས།What is liberalism? Historically what did the giants of (British) liberal thought has to say on their imperial project? No prize for guessing—most supported the imperial project!
Is this simply the case of liberal hypocrisy, and therefore the problem lies in the selective application of the otherwise perfect and universal ideals? Or is there more to the liberal ideology that requires fundamental rethinking? For more such discussion, tune in to this episode of Khyeltam on “Liberalism and Empire.”
Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།20. CAA and NRC in India རྒྱ་གར་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་མི་སེར་ཐོ་འགོད་དང་མི་སེར་ཐོབ་ཐང་བསྐྱར་བཅོས་ཁྲིམས།Jamyang and I discuss the ongoing issue of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC)
Image: The New Indian Express
Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2020-01-081h 03
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།19. The Mughal Empire མུ་གལ་གྱི་རྒྱལ་ཁམས།With our new guest discussant Thinley Wangchuk.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2019-12-091h 07
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།18. Approach to Justice by Amartya Sen དྲང་བདེན་གྱི་ཐབས་ལམ། ཨ་མར་ཏི་ཡ་སེན།A not-so-short introduction to Amartya Sen's theory of Justice: A Capability Approach
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།17. Susan Sontag - On Photography པར་ལས་ཀྱི་སྐོར། སུ་སན་སོན་ཀྲེག།Ugyan and I discuss Sontag's famous essay 'In Plato's cave' from her book On Photography.
Link to the essay: http://sites.uci.edu/01807w14/files/2014/02/SontagSusan_InPlatosCave.pdf
Link to Teju Cole's essay: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/magazine/a-too-perfect-picture.html
Image: Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnamese chief of the national police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong official Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street early in the Tet Offensive, February 1, 1968. Photographer Eddie Adams
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།16. Quantum physics (Khyeltam Shorts) ཀོན་ཊམ་གྱི་རྣམ་བཞག། (འཁྱལ་གཏམ་བསྡུས་པ།)A short episode on the strange world of quantum physics where light and matter sometimes behave like waves, sometimes like particles and where experimental cats are described as being both dead and alive at the same time!
ལེ་ཚན་འདིའི་ནང་དངོས་ཁམས་ཚན་རིག་གི་ཡ་མཚན་དགོས་པའི་གནད་འགའ་ཞིག་ག྄ླེང་ཡོད། དཔེར་ན། འོད་དེ་སྐབས་རེ་ར྄ླབས་ཀ྄ྱི་རང་བཞིན་དང་སྐབས་རེ་ཟེགས་མའི་རང་བཞིན་ཡིན་པ། ད་དུང་ཡང་ཤི་གསོན་གཉིས་ཀར་ཡིན་པའི་ཞི་མི་སོགས་ཡོད།
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།15. Social Memory སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་དྲན་པ།Another discussion with Gendun Gyatso on "Social Memory"
སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་དྲན་པ་ཐོག་བགྲོ་གླེང་དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་དང་ལྷན་དུ།
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Image: Tsenpo Trisong Deutsen, the 38th King of Tibetan Empire (755-797/804)
བཙན་པོ་ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན། བོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་རབས་༣༨་པ། (༧༥༥-༧༩༧/༨༠༤)Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2019-09-2255 min
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།14. Evaluating Utopias རྫོགས་ལྡན་གླིང་གི་ལྟ་གྲུབ་བ་ལ་དཔྱད་པ། by Ashis NandyA discussion with Gendun Gyatso on Ashis Nandy’s “Evaluating Utopias” Mazingira, 1979.
རྫོགས་ལྡན་གླིང་གི་ལྟ་གྲུབ་ཐོག་བགྲོ་གླེང་དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་དང་ལྷན་དུ།
Link to the article:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pCD1z_8zu3fCkSfxqPWtpawZIwkn0tTg/view?usp=sharing
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།13. On Gender and Intersectionality སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་མཚན་མའི་དབྱེ་བ་དང་སྣོལ་མཚམས་ཀྱི་ལྟ་ཕྱོགས་སྐོར།A discussion with Kaysang and Pelyoun on Gender and Intersectionality
སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་མཚན་མའི་དབྱེ་བ་འམ་རྟགས་ཀྱི་དབྱེ་བ་དང་སྣོལ་མཚམས་ཀྱི་ལྟ་ཕྱོགས་ཐོག་བགྲོ་གླེང་བསྟན་འཛིན་བསྐལ་བཟང་དང་བསྟྟན་འཛིན་དཔལ་ཡོན་ལྷན་དུ།
Reading: Deborah King's "Multiple jeopardy, multiple consciousness: The context of a Black feminist ideology" (1988). Link to the article https://diversedynamics.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/deborah-king.pdf
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།12. Pema Tseden's First Two Films པདྨ་ཚེ་བརྟན་གྱི་ཐོག་མའི་གློག་བརྙན་གཉིས།A discussion with Tenzin Yewong on Pema Tseden's The Silent Holy Stones (2005) and The Search (2009).
པདྨ་ཚེ་བརྟན་གྱི་གློག་བརྙན་༼ལྷིང་འཇགས་ཀྱི་མ་ནི་རྡོ་འབུམ།༽དང་༼འཚོལ།༽ཐོག་བགྲོ་གླེང་བསྟན་འཛིན་ཡིད་འོང་དང་ལྷན་དུ།
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།11. Black Holes (Khyeltam Shorts) བུ་ག་ནག་པོ། (འཁྱལ་གཏམ་བསྡུས་པ།)Image: A supermassive black hole at the core of galaxy Messier 87.
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།10. On Some Recent Trends in Exile ཉེ་ལམ་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཁྲོད་ཀྱི་འགྲོས་ཁག་ཅིག།In this rather free-flowing discussion, we share our views on some trends in and challenges to the public space in the Tibetan exile community.
བཙན་བྱོལ་ནང་དམངས་ཀྱི་སྡིངས་ཆར་ཉེ་ལམ་འགྱུར་ལྡོག་ཅི་འདྲ་ཞིག་འགྲོ་བཞིན་ཡོད་སྐོར།
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།9. Anton Chekhov (Khyeltam Shorts) ཆེ་ཁོབ། (འཁྱལ་གཏམ་བསྡུས་པ།)Short episode on the great Russian short-story writer and playwright Anton Chekhov.
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།8. What is Ideology? (Khyeltam Shorts) ལྟ་གྲུབ་ཟེར་ན་ཅི་ཞིག་ཡིན། (འཁྱལ་གཏམ་བསྡུས་པ།)As an introduction to my Khyeltam short series on western political ideologies, here I briefly discuss what is ideology?
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།7. Madro - Tendor (Khyeltam Shorts) མ་འགྲོ། བསྟན་རྡོར། (འཁྱལ་གཏམ་བསྡུས་པ།)ལེ་ཚན་བསྡུས་པ་འདིའི་ནང་བསྟན་རྡོར་གྱི་འོད་སྡེར་༼མ་འགྲོ་༽བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་བྱས་ཡོད།
In this first Khyeltam short episode, a review of Tendor's album Madro. Album link: https://tendor.bandcamp.com/releases
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།6. Approaches to Tibetan History བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་གི་འཇུག་སྒོ།ལེ་ཚན་འདིར་ནིའུ་ཡོག་ཁོ་ལུམ་བི་ཡའི་སློབ་ཆེན་གྱི་ཞིབ་འཇུག་སློབ་མ་བསྟན་འཛིན་ཡིད་འོང་དང་མཉམ་དུ་བོད་རིག་པ་སྤྱི་དང་བྱེ་བྲག་ཏུ་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་སྐོར་ལ་ཁ་བརྡ་བྱས་ཡོད།
In this episode, we have Tenzin Yewong, Columbia University, to discuss Tibetology in general and history in particular.
Recommended books:
1) Petech's Aristocracy and Government in Tibet 1728-1859 (Publication. 1973)(free download)
https://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1973-aristocracy-and-government-in-tibet-1728-1859-by-petech-s-pdf/
2) Tsomo's The rise of Gönpo Namgyel in Kham: the blind warrior of Nyarong. (Lexington Books, 2014.). Since this book is not available for free, you may read her other works here
https://independent.academia.edu/YudruTsomu
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།5. What is a Nation? Ernest Renan མི་རིགས་ཞེས་པ་དེ་ཅི་ཞིག་ཡིན། རེ་ནན།ལེ་ཚན་འདིའི་ནང་ཕཱ་རཱན་སིའི་ལྟ་གྲུབ་དང་ལོ་རྒྱུས་སྨྲ་བ་རེ་ནན་གྱིས་༡༨༨༢ ལོར་སྤེལ་བའི་གཏམ་བཤད་"མི་རིགས་ཞེས་པ་དེ་ཅི་ཞིག་ཡིན་"ཐོག་བགྲེ་གླེང་དང་། ཞོར་ལ་དེའི་བརྒྱུད་ནས་ང་ཚོའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ནང་ཚང་མའི་ཁ་རྒྱུན་ཐོག་ཡོད་པའི་'བོད་པ་གཙང་མ་'ཞེས་པ་དེ་གང་འདྲ་ཞིག་ལ་གོ་དགོས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པ་སོགས་ཐོག་ལའང་ཁ་བརྡ་བྱས་ཡོད།
བརྙན་པར་ རང་དབང་མའི་མི་མང་འགོ་ཁྲིད་པ། གྲེ་ལ་ཁོ་ར།
We discuss E. Renan's 1882 lecture 'What is a nation?' ("Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?") and use his ideas in turn to see if we can understand better what we mean by when we say 'bhoedpa tsangma' ('pure Tibetan').
Image: Liberty Leading the People - Eugène Delacroix
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།4. Contemporary Tibetan Painting དེེང་རབས་བོད་ཀྱི་རི་མོའི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ།ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་བོད་ཀྱི་གནའ་དེང་གི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་ལ་དོ་སྣང་ཅི་ཙམ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད། རིན་ཐང་ག་ཚོད་སྤྲོད་ཀྱི་ཡོད། སྒྱུ་རྩལ་བ་ག་ཚོད་དང་དེའི་བརྩམ་ཆོས་ག་ཚོད་ཅིག་རྒྱུས་མངའ་ཡོད།
ལེ་ཚན་གསན་མཁན་འགའ་ནས་བསམ་འཆར་བྱུང་བ་ལྟར་བོད་ཀྱི་དེང་རབས་རི་མོའི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་ཐོག་ལ་བགྲོ་གླེང་བྱས་ཡོད། སྐུ་མགྲོན་གླེང་རོགས་ནི་ནེ་རུ་སློབ་ཆེན་གྱི་ཞིབ་འཇུག་སློབ་མ་དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཡིན།
བརྙན་པར་ གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ། ནོོར་ཚེ།
What is your favorite Tibetan painting or work of art? How many Tibetan painters or artists do you know about?
Guest speaker: Gendun Gyatso, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།3. B.R. Ambedkar - Annihilation of Caste ཨམ་བྷེཐ་ཀར་ རིགས་རུས་རྩ་གཏོར།We discuss B.R. Ambedkar's speech (which he actually never delivered)'Annihilation of Caste' as well as Arundhati Roy's introduction to the text.
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Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།2. Rashomon - Kurosawa's masterpiece ཀུ་རོ་ས་བའི་ལྟད་མོ་རྩེ་ཕུད་ ར་ཤོ་མོན།Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations2018-11-1844 min
Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།1. George Orwell - Shooting an elephant ཨོར་བྷེལ་ གླང་ཆེན་ཞིག་གསོད་པ།Link to Orwell's essay: http://orwell.ru/library/articles/elephant/english/e_eleph
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