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  • Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (born 1969)

    • Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

    American poet

    Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

    BornTsering Wangmo Dhompa
    1969 (age 55–56)
    Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    GenrePoetry, non-fiction
    Notable worksRules of the House

    Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (born 1969) is the first Tibetan female poet to be published in English. She was raised in India and Nepal. Tsering received her BA from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. She pursued her MA from University of Massachusetts and her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. She has a Ph.D. in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz and is currently an assistant professor in the English Department at Villanova University. Her first book of poems, Rules of the House, published by Apogee Press in 2002, was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Other publications include, most recently a chapbook Revolute (Albion Books, 2021),My Rice Tastes Like the Lake (Apogee Press 2011), In the Absent Everyday (also from Apogee Press), and two chapbooks: In Writing the Names (A.bacus, Poets & Poets Press) and Recurring Gestures (Tangram Press). In Letter For Love she delivered her first short story. In 2013, Penguin India published Tsering's first full-length book, A Home in Tibet, in which she chronicles her successive journeys to Tibet and provides ethnographic details of ordinary Tibetans inside Tibet.

    Bibliography

    Books

    • Revolute, Albion Books, VA 2021
    • Coming Home to Tibet, Shambhala Publications, Boulder 2016
    • A Home in Tibet, Penguin India, Delhi 2013
    • My Rice Tastes Like the Lake, Apogee Press, Berkeley 2011
    • In the Absent Everyday, Apogee Press, Berkeley 2005
    • Rules of the House, Apogee Press, Berkeley 2002
    • Recurring Gestures, Tangram Press,
    • In Writing the Names, Abacus, 20

    The Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet in 1959 after its occupation by China and established a government in exile in India. There, Tibetan leaders aimed to bring together displaced people from varied religious traditions and local loyalties under the banner of unity. To contest Chinese colonization and stand up for self-determination, Tibetan refugees were asked to shed regional allegiances and embrace a vision of a shared national identity.

    The Politics of Sorrow tells the story of the Group of Thirteen, a collective of chieftains and lamas from the regions of Kham and Amdo, who sought to preserve Tibet’s cultural diversity in exile. They established settlements in India in the mid-1960s with the goal of protecting their regional and religious traditions, setting them apart from the majority of Tibetan refugees, who saw a common tradition as the basis for unifying the Tibetan people. Tsering Wangmo Dhompa traces these different visions for Tibetan governance and identity, juxtaposing the Tibetan government in exile’s external struggle for international recognition with its lesser-known internal struggle to command loyalty within the diaspora. She argues that although unity was necessary for democracy and independence, it also drew painful boundaries between those who belonged and those who didn’t. Drawing on insightful interviews with Tibetan elders and an exceptional archive of Tibetan exile texts, The Politics of Sorrow is a compelling narrative of a tumultuous time that reveals the complexities of Tibetan identities then and now.

    Poignant and deeply personal, The Politics of Sorrow delves into the heart of the Tibetan struggle for identity. Grappling with the profound question of what constitutes a national identity amid the challenges of displacement, Dhompa chronicles Tibetans’ arduous pursuit of building a nation in exile and invites readers to witness a community’s journey to discover its voice. Tsering Shakya, author of The Dragon in the Land o

    Martin Kovan

    Buddhist karma as infinite regress: vicious or benign?

    Academia Letters, 2021

    NB. The following short article is a philosophical-conceptual analysis of broadly understood clai... more NB. The following short article is a philosophical-conceptual analysis of broadly understood claims for kamma (P.)/karman (Skt.) (hereafter karma) in Buddhist philosophicalethical traditions. Some condensation of the relevant claims is necessary in order to carry out such an analysis in a short form. The author is aware that there is a much broader preand non-Buddhist (Vedic-Vedantic) context for karma in 'Buddhism' (acknowledging that a singular 'Buddhism' is itself merely a manner of convenient speaking), as well as various accounts between earlier and later Buddhist texts, and so assumes that the present article is neither an effort in Buddhist Religious Studies, nor in textual analysis. Hence, it knowingly dispenses with academic apparatus in order to focus purely on the conceptual structure of certain philosophical-metaphysical Buddhist claims that can be held to be core theses of Buddhist karma. The charge that such conceptual abstraction is not legitimate in the Buddhist context is a philosophical claim that can itself be disputed. The Buddhist traditions are, it can be argued, themselves significantly founded on just such philosophical abstraction from the praxiological, historical-empirical, existential case. 1 Buddhist philosophy, broadly speaking, holds that the moral order of the universe is explained above all in the doctrine of kamma/karma and thence rebirth. The doctrine of karma (essentially meaning 'action') is that each intended action is wholesome (kusala) (MN II.114) or unwholesome (akusala) (MN I.415-416; I.115), or skillful or unskillful, primarily in virtue of the moral valence of the intention (cetanā) it expresses (AN III.415). Sooner or later a wholesome action brings positive effect or consequence (however construed)

    Born Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
    India
    Nationality Tibetan
    Genres Poetry, Non-Fiction
    Notable work(s) Rules of the House

    Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (born 1969) is the 1st Tibetan female poet to be published in English.

    Life[]

    Raised by her mother in Tibetan communities in Dharamsala, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal, where he parents had fled from Tibet in 1959. Dhompa earned a B.A. and an M.A. from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi.

    She earned a 2nd M.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University.

    Her debut book of poems, Rules of the House, published by Apogee Press in 2002 was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Other publications include My Rice Tastes Like the Lake (Apogee Press 2011), In the Absent Everyday (also from Apogee Press), and 2 chapbooks: In Writing the Names (A.bacus, Poets & Poets Press) and Recurring Gestures (Tangram Press). In Letter For Love she delivered her 1st short story.

    Publications[]

    Poetry[]

    • Between Clouds. Brattleboro, VT: Longhouse, 1998.
    • Gathering Names. Richland Center, WI: Hummingbird Press, 1998.
    • In Writing the Names (chapbook). A.bacus, 2000.
    • Recurring Gestures (chapbook) Berkeley, CA: Tangram, 2000.
    • Rules of the House. Berkeley, CA: Apogee Press, 2003.
    • In the Absent Everyday. Berkeley, CA: Apogee Press, 2005.
    • My Rice Tastes Like the Lake. Berkeley, CA: Apogee Press, 2011.

    Non-fiction[]

    • A Home in Tibet. New Delhi: Penguin, 2013.
      • also published as Coming Home to Tibet: A memoir of loss and healing. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2016.


    Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

    Anthologized[]

    • An Other Voice: English literature from Nepal (edited by Deepak Thapa and Kesang Tseten).Nepal: Martin Chautari 2002 Nepal
    • Muses in Exile: An anthology of T