Druktalk Podcast

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar talks with Professor Carole McGranahan author of Arrested Histories: Tibet, CIA, Memories of a forgotten War at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Carole McGranahan is Professor in and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at University of Colorado, USA, and a scholar of contemporary Tibet and the Himalayas. She is author of Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and the Memories of forgotten War (2010), co-editor of Imperial Formation (2007), and Ethnographies of U.S Empire (2018), and editor of Writing Anthropology: Essays on craft and Commitment (2020). She is currently co-editing a volume on Ethics and Ethnography and finishing book about Theoretical Storytelling. Conversations in details: 1. Can you talk about yourself and how you got interested in Tibet and Tibetan studies? 2. Before going into the details of the argument of your book Arrested Histories, Can you introduce to us a little bit about its historical background, for example the major historical period, agents, and events, especially 4R6R? for the audience who are not familiar with Tibetan history in general? 3. The name 4R6R might sound a bit unusual to some audience, can you elaborate on what it is and why it is named this way? what is the structure and declaration of (ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག) 4. Why do you entitle your book ‘Arrested histories’ – Tibet, CIA, and memories of a forgotten war? (short summary of the book’s main argument) 5. Why American Government, Nepal and Indian Government stop supporting the Chushi Gangdruk in1970s? 6. As you might have heard, recently a commercial film about 4R6R is being produced by a Tibetan crew and is soon to be released. Given these new developments, Do you think the arrested history of the Tibetan resistance is still under arrest or has it come to an official release? 7. Since the publication of your book thirteen years ago, What are your recent observations of the development of democracy, debates on non-violent resistance, and historical justice making in the Tibetan community in Exile? 8. Can you comment on the nowadays US government’s attitude to assisting Tibetan resistance/independence movement, as well as how Tibetan in exile perceive this assistance? 9. Let’s talk a bit about anthropological methods. As a woman and as a Western scholar, what sorts of obstacles and advantage do you find in your interviews and interactions with 4R6R veterans? (Challenges you faced during the field work) 10. Can you talk more about your current projects? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This week on the Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar talks with Geshe Lobsang Monlam, Founder and CEO of Monlam Information Technology. We discussed Geshe's initial interest in information technology, particularly computers. We further discussed his works on Monlam Bodying, the Monlam dictionary, and the recent development of the Monlam AI. Additionally, it talks more about the future outcomes of Monlam Information Technology. Find details on Druktalk Podcast and YouTube. #tibet #tibetan #tibetanvlog --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar talks with Tibetan Film Director and author Tenzing Sonam la, the most famous filmmaker in Exile. Over the thirty years, we have made popular films, including Dreaming Lhasa, Sun Behind the Cloud, The Sweet Requiem, and more. We discussed his life journey into filmmaking, its challenges, and his message to future Tibetan filmmakers. Find more on Druktalk Podcast, podcast, YouTube, and IG: @druktalk_podcast #tibet #tibetan #tibetanmusic #filmfestival #tibetanvlogger #tenzingsonam #tibetan --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drutkhar talks with Ven. Yangten Rinpoche, Secretary of Gaden Prodang, private office of Dalai Lama office in Dharamshala. We discussed his life and journey in Tibetan Buddhism, holding the highest degree, Geshe Lharampa, from Sera University in India. We also discussed his lifelong achievements, challenges, and fifteen years of service at Gaden Phodrag, the office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. We also discussed the life and lifelong commitment of Dalai Lama to Human Beings, Religious harmony, the preservation of Tibetan culture, the promotion of ancient Indian wisdom, and many more. Find more on Druktalk Podcast, IG, and YouT --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This week on the Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar talks with Professor Hon-Shaing Lau, author of The Genuine 'China version' of Tibet's History: Tibet has never been part of China since antiquity. We discuss the significance and complexity of Tibetan and Chinese history in his research findings based on the Chinese classical history texts. Find more on Druktalk Podcast. #tibetan #tibetanvlogger #tibet #tibetanmusic #tibet --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This is a special conversation Drukthar joined by Professor Dibyesh Anand, Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster, London. He is the author of the Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination, Tibet: A Victim of Geopolitics, and Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear; and has published several chapters in edited collections and articles in journals on varied topics including Tibet, China-India border dispute, Hindutva and Islamophobia, identity politics in Tanzania, and nationalism. This episode focuses on the academic journey, and challenges, of Tibet, China, and India in International politics and further discussed the Challenges faced by Tibetans in Exiles. 00:43 – How did you grow interested in Tibetan politics, academia, and activism? 04:55 –Overview of a book the book Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination by Professor Dibyesh Anand. 08:44 – What are the challenges/pressures to face working in Tibet? 14:29 – China’s Influence on Western Universities 16:32 – What is the significance/centrality of Tibet in the India and China border dispute? 22:16 – Future status of Tibetan Government in Exile. 28:05 – Colonization with Chinese Characteristic politics of (in)security of Xinjiang and Tibet 32:03 – Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This week one Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar joined by Nyima Lhamo, a Tibetan activist and niece of Tulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Rinpoche has died in a Chinese prison 13 years into sentence, when he was 65. We discussed, how Rinpoche dies in Chinese prison? What are the legacies on the preservation of Tibetan language, culture and religion? We further discussed about her activism and campaigning around the world. Find more conversations on Druktalk Podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

༧པཎ་ཆེན་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་པའི་མཛད་རྗེས་དང་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ་དགེ་འདུན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མའི་གནས་སྟངས་ཐོག་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོའི་མཁན་པོ་གཟིག་རྒྱབ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ལྷན་དུ་གླེང་མོལ་ཞུ་ཡོད། This week on Druktalk Podcast,(The Intelligence Tibet) Drukthar joined by Zeegyab Rinpoche, abbot of Tashi Lhunpo monastery,(Tashi Lhunpo Monks) we discussed the historical relations of the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama, the life and legacy of 10th Panchen lama and especially the preservation and promotion of Tibetan language, culture and religion after Chinese cultural revolution in Tibet. The second part focused on the 11th Panchen Gedun Choekyi Nyima and his life under the Chinese Communist Party. Today we are remembering his 28 years of imprisonment and disappearance. We further emphases, where is Panchen Lama, his family and current situation. Find more on Druktalk Podcast and Youtube. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar joined by Françoise Robin, professor of Tibetan language and Literature INALCO, Paris and Tenzingh Sonam, Tibetan exile film maker and owner of White Crane Production. We discussed about his life, formal study and early film journey. Detail conversations on some of his award wining films including Old Dog, Ballon, Tharlo and The search. What was the greatest contributions in Tibetan cinema and Tibetan film world? What are the challenges of Tibetan Flim markers and Tibetan cinema? How his contribution on Tibetan cinema will inspire new generation of Tibetan film directors and screen writers? Find more on Druktalk Podcast and Druktalk YouTube. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

ཉེ་ཆར་སྤྱི་ནོར་༧གོང་ས་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་བརྙན་ཆེད་བཟོས་ཐོག་བསྐྱར་ཞིབ། ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༨ འབྲེལ་བའི་བརྙན་ཆེད་བཟོས་བྱས་པའི་དམིགས་ཡུལ་དང་། ཤུགས་རྐྱེན། ཁ་ཕྱོགས་གཙོ་འདོན་གྱི་དཔྱད་གླེང་བྱས་ཡོད། བརྙན་འདི་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་འཇམ་པོའི་སྟོབས་ཤུགས་དང་། དྲ་རྒྱ་དོ་དམ། རྒྱ་ནག་གི་དྲ་དམག་ཚོས་བྱ་སྤྱོད་སོགས་ཐོག་ལ་གླེང་མོལ་ཞིབ་ཁྲ་བྱས་ཡོད། དཔྱད་གླེང་ནང་ལ་བོད་མི་མང་སྤྱི་འཐུས་ཟུར་པ་དང་རང་དབང་མཉམ་ཞིབ་པ་བློ་བཟང་ཡི་ཤེས་ལགས་དང་། ༧རྒྱལ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཧིན་རྡི་གསུང་བསྒྱུར་པ་ཀ་ལ་ཤི སྙན་ངག་པ་དང་ཨ་རིའི་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་གི་གསར་འགོད་པ་ཚེ་རིང་སྐྱིད་གསུམ་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་ཡོད། ཨིན་སྐད་ཐོག་བརྙན་གསུམ་གཤམ་གྱི་ཁ་བྱང་ནས་གཟིག་ཐུབ།    • Special  intervie...      • Tibetans in Brita...      • Going Beyond the ...   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar joined by Tibetan sociologist and scholar Dr Gyal Lo, author of Social Structuration in Tibetan Soceity. We discussed on the essential of Sociology theory and its relevance in Tibetan society, the relationship of sociology theory in Education, Society and spirituality in Tibetan Soceity. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar chats with Darig Thokmay, PhD Candidate at Oxford University, on International Relations and Tibetan independence status. We discussed Tibetan historical independence status and its relations with Manchu and Mongols, the Tibet-Mongol independence treaty, The Great Thirteenth Dalai Lama's declaration of Tibetan independence and the current status of Tibet in a globalised world. རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་འབྲེལ་ལམ་རིག་པ་དང་བོད་རང་བཙན་གྱི་གནས་བབ། སྦྲ་རིགས་ཐོགས་མེད་ལྷན་དུ་བོད་རང་བཙན་གྱི་ཐ་སྙད། རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་འབྲེལ་ལམ་རིག་པའི་ཐོག་ནས་བོད་རང་བཙན་གནས་བབ་ལ་བལྟ་སྟངས། བོད་སོག་རང་བཙན་ཆིངས་ཡིག ཆུ་གླང་རྩ་ཚིག་ཆེན་མོ། ད་ལྟའི་བོད་ཀྱི་གནས་བབ་སོགས་ཐོག་ལ་གླེང་མོལ་ཞུས་ཡོད། ལོ་སྔོན་མོ་རྩམ་པ་པོ་ཆུང་ཚེ་རིང་ལྷན་དུ་༧རྒྱལ་བ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་གསུམ་པའི་མཛད་རྣམ་དང་ཆུ་གླང་རྩ་ཚིག་སོགས་ལ་དཔྱད་གླེང་ཞུ་ཡོད་པས་དེར་ཡང་གསན་གཟིགས་གནང་རོགས། https://youtu.be/rKGaQOKjrNg --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar joined with Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of Tibetan Government in Exile. We discussed on Tibet-China Conflict and prospect, Tibetan advocacy work in the United Kingdom and Europe, Tibetan youth and VTAG and many more.. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drutkhar joined by Geshe Beri Jigmey Wangyal, Senior Lecturer at the Central Institute of Higher Studies (CIHTS). We discussed on the history of Tibetan literature, Tibetan traditional songs and focused on the Songs of the 6th Dalai Lama Tsanyang Gyatso. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This week Drukthar was joined by Shartse Khensur Jangchup Choeden, Deputy General Secretary at International Buddhist Confederation. We discussed how Tibetan Buddhism spread in India and its influence in India and Himalayas Region. We further discussed how the Indian Government use Buddhism as a diplomatic and soft power with neighbouring countries.  Find more on Druktalk Podcast and Youtube.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

In this episode, Drukthar is joined by Professor Francoise Robin, INALCO, France. We discussed Tibetan language and literature study in western Universities. We had more conversations on modern Tibetan literature, the Tibetan language, feminism, colonialism, and more.  Find details on Druktalk Podcast and Youtube. (Note: This episode's video recording and audio are inferior due to technical issues. Will improve in the following episodes ) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This week on 'Druktalk Podcast' Drukthar joined Tibetan activist and community leader Chemi Lhamo. This episode was recorded during the future Tibet conference in Paris, in November 2022.   We discussed the conference in Paris and youth responsibilities towards the future of Tibet. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This episode recorded during the Future Tibet conference, at Paris, France.  This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar joined by Tenzin Namgyal Teething, former Prime Minister of Tibetan Government in exile (now called Central Tibetan Administration). Tenzin la was one of the fact-finding delegations in 1980s and Co-founder of Tibetan Youth Congress. This episode, we discussed his life and services to Tibetan Government, NGOs and delegations to Tibet. We further focused on the current conflict of China and Tibet conflicts and prospects. Find more on Druktalk Podcast and YouTube.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This week on Druktalk Podcast, ‘The intelligence Tibet’, Drukthar welcome Dr. Gyal Lo, a Tibetan educationist and the author of Social Structuration in Tibetan Society: Education, Society, and Spirituality. Now based in Canada, advocating Tibetan education policy in Tibet, particularly focus on the colonial boarding school in Tibet. On this episode, we discussed China’s education policy in Tibet and its impacts on Tibetan language, culture, and identity. China’s education policy in Tibet What is colonial boarding school? What are the challenges of education policy implementation in Tibet. Comparative discussion of education policy in and outside of Tibet Prospects of Tibetan education policy, particularly focus on the Tibetan language and identity. About Dr. Gyal Lo Dr. Gyal Lo was born in Amdo, Tibet, or what China calls Gansu Province, and attended school in his home region and then did a Master’s Degree in Tibetan Language and Culture Department at Northwestern University for Nationalities in Lanzhou, China. In 1995, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the same department, where he taught for the next decade and undertook extensive research into Tibetan education. After leaving to obtain a PhD in Educational Sociology at the University of Toronto, he returned to China but was refused employment at his former department due to political sensitivities over his time studying in the West. He was then appointed a full professor at the Yunnan Normal University Institute for Studies in Education from 2017-2020. Dr. Gyal Lo left China on December 31, 2020 and has decided not to return because it has become too risky to make a meaningful contribution to the field of Tibetan education, and in order to alert the international community to the dire threats posed to the collective well being of the Tibetan people and society and the survival of Tibet’s language, religion, and culture. Dr. Gyal Lo is the author of Social Structuration in Tibetan Society: Education, Society, and Spirituality (Lexington Books, 2016). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support

This week on Druktalk, ‘The intelligence Tibet podcast’, Drukthar chats with Riga, an observer of economic and politcal developments in China, on ‘Xi Jinping and China’s future’. They examine the upcoming 20th Party Congress and discuss if Xi really is different from previous leaders? Finally, they explore the multiple future pathways of China Reading Recommendation -Desmond Shum: "Red Roulette" -David Shambaugh: "China's Leaders: From Moa to Now"  - Victor C. Shih: "Coalition of the Weak" (Cambridge University Press 2022) - Joseph Torigan: "Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao" (Yale University Press 2022) -Joseph Torigian: "The Shadow of Deng Xiaoping on Elite Chinese Politics" (War on the Rocks, 2017) - Cai Xia: "The Weakness of Xi Jinping" (Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 2022) - "China's Grand Strategy: Trends, Trajectories and Long-Term Competition" (RAND 2020) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drukthar-gyal/support