The low brown hills stretch on for miles under a clear blue sky. In the distance an SUV struggles along a dirt road, snaking through clusters of low mud brick huts, next to a winding muddy river. This is the opening of The Search, the second feature length film by Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden, and the first feature film to be shot entirely with a Tibetan cast and crew. Through the next two hours Tseden leads his viewers on a journey through a region of China rarely seen by outsiders.
Born and raised in Trika (Guide) County in Qinghai Province, Tseden reveals his homeland—...read more
Friday, October 12, 2012
For fifteen hundred years the Tibetan plateau has been home to a unique calligraphic culture, due both to a large population of monks who were expected to copy sacred texts and to... read more
Friday, December 10, 2010
As the winter cold started to set in, teachers at Sichuan Province Tibetan School in Dartsemdo town, Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture called a special meeting to speak with... read more
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
It was shocking. The enormous face of a young Tibetan boy stared, confrontational, through an ancient doorway in a white-washed wall in Lhasa’s historic Barkhor district. His skin... read more
Sunday, October 10, 2010
I knew little about Tibetan contemporary art, when my editor at ArtAsiaPacific, Elaine Ng, asked me to join a panel on the subject at Trace Foundation in conjunction with the show... read more
