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A Wild and Beautiful WorldLhadon Tethong & Tendor Dorjee: Connection, Contentment, & Independence“One of the words for which I haven’t been able to find an English equivalent is the word ‘nyingjey’...you'll hear Tibetans say this word very often, if you have a friend who is a little bit down, or there is a suffering animal nearby or a wounded bird or a wounded deer on the road… nyingjey, nyingjey. It's an expression of compassionate empathy, but it's not exactly the same as pity or ‘poor you’, that doesn't capture it, it's much more of an offering of solidarity. You’re trying to almost…becoming one with the other that's suffering, so elim...2023-05-311h 50
Queens Memory: Our Major Minor VoicesEpisode 7: Mother TongueThis episode is also available in Tibetan. You can find it in our podcast feed.
For Tibetans in their native country and around the world, preserving the Tibetan language means preserving their culture. Since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959, these vital parts of Tibetan identity have been under grave threat.
For the past six decades, Tibetan refugees have managed to keep their culture alive in India, where they formed a democratic exile government once headed by the Dalai Lama. Since the US Immigration Act of 1990 provided immigration visas to 1000 of these refugees, ex...2022-05-2324 min