Tashi Namgyal
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Tashi Namgyal
@tnamgyal.bsky.social
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Ph.D. candidate in East Asian History at Penn State University. Interested in Tibet-Qing & Republican China relations; cultural encounters, Buddhist networks and literary traditions in East & Inner Asia. https://history.la.psu.edu/directory/tashi-namgyal/
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The Dalai Lama, who just turned 90, writes in his memoir that he will reincarnate in the “free world.” But will his political, religious and moral power transfer with him?

Read @tshakya.bsky.social review of "Voice for the Voiceless" by the Dalai Lama: chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/24/d...
Who Will Be the Next Dalai Lama? | China Books Review
The Dalai Lama, who just turned 90, writes in his memoir that he will reincarnate in the “free world.” But will his political, religious and moral power transfer with him?
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Now available! This book challenges the idea that American and Chinese interests and values are incompatible. buff.ly/xY9iKEF

#USChinaRelations #GlobalVoices #China #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience #ReadMore #ReadUP
It's interesting that the first travel map of Tibet includes most parts of Kham and Amdo located in Chinese provinces but entirely omits the Ngari region.
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Recent addition: Xu Zhenglin 許正林, Ming-Qing chuanjiaoshi dui Zhongguo wenhua de chuanbo 明清傳教士對中國文化的傳播 [The transmission of Chinese culture by missionaries in the Ming and Qing period] (Beijing: Zhongjiao wenhua chubanshe, 2023).
On this World #Book Day, sharing a picture of one of my Tibetan books in traditional pecha format.

Content: Vol. 5 from the Collected Works of the 13th Dalai Lama (༧རྒྱལ་བ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་གསུང་འབུམ), reprinted by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.
Digital version accessible via #BDRC. #Buddhism
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“His Holiness Pope Francis dedicated himself to the service of others, consistently revealing by his own actions how to live a simple, but meaningful life. The best tribute we can pay to him is to be a warm-hearted person, serving others wherever and in whatever way we can.”

~The Dalai Lama~
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Finally caught up on the season finale of The White Lotus. There's a lot to say about the representation of Buddhism, what it gets right and less right, but ultimately I think it hits as an evocation of samsara.

Reminded me of the frequently told story about the Buddha's disciple Kātyāyana:
Always liked that old story and the verse in Tibetan:
འཕགས་པ་ཀ་ཏྱཱ་ནས།
ཕ་ཤ་ཟ་ཞིང་མ་ལ་རྡེག༎ ལས་ངན་དགྲ་བོ་པང་ན་བཟུང༌༎
ཆུང་མས་ཁྱོ་ཡི་རུས་པ་འཆའ༎ འཁོར་བའི་ཆོས་ལ་གད་མོ་བྲོ༎
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#ManuscriptMonday Melodies for Long Life edition.

A short manuscript combining the text and chant melody for a Tibetan Buddhist ritual of long life.

From the archives of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center purl.bdrc.io/resource/WA8...
Glad to have some moments to finish reading the two great new books whilst working on my dissertation. Both works are highly recommended for their excellent historical value and great storytelling.
Delighted to have organized a wonderful panel and presented a paper at the #AAS2025 last week.
Thank you to my co-panelists for the support, and it's great meeting so many scholars in the field!
Hello, Bluesky!
ཨེ་མ། ཀུན་གསལ་གྱི་མཁའ་སྔོན་མ།
嗨,藍天!