“The young, he says, confuse desire with love, and they end up hurting everyone around them.” — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Desire Copy Share Image
“She believes that having somebody, to be something to somebody, will balance or make the contrarieties of life easier.” — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Life Copy Share Image
“It is not easy to speak of people and land in simple terms beginnings with a beginning and ending with an end.” — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Beginning Copy Share Image
“She disciplined her memory to give up counting her losses. She gave her suffering one name: exile.” — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Exile Copy Share Image
“How is it possible to protect your loved ones from old heartaches?” — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Heartaches Copy Share Image
“I have lived my life defined as a refugee in Nepal and India, a resident alien and immigrant in the United States.… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Immigrant Copy Share Image
“A young Tibetan child touches his head to the floor before the altar and recites a prayer, and I am led to… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Children Copy Share Image
“Home, to me, was any place by my mother’s side. Since my mother’s death, the idea of home has assumed many forms.… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Belonging Copy Share Image
“There is an uncommonly harsh beauty to the Tibetan landscape. Its nakedness makes it seem incapable of deception, but under its calm… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Beauty Copy Share Image
“They carry their past in them as though safekeeping it for someone else. Very often they look at me and say, poor… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Compassion Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if they live in a state of apathy or ignorance, or if they are passive, but when I consider… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Resistance Copy Share Image
“We learn we cannot form deep roots because we do not have the right to place or citizenship, and because we do… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Deep roots Copy Share Image
“In towns, the nomads remain outsiders for a while. They become a class divorced from their occupation as herders. They are called… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Copy Share Image
“This land makes me believe anything is possible. Here lies a gift unraveled as was meant to be: within its many folds… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Beauty Copy Share Image
“His face wears the blows delivered by life. Half his pain lies in what he omits from his story; the other half… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Life Copy Share Image
“I realized early that despite her gregarious and inherently buoyant disposition, a certain sadness resided in my mother. Even I, her only… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Mother Copy Share Image
“As a displaced community, Tibetans often speak of learning to look to the future without forsaking tradition. And as Tibetans continue their… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Buddhist philosophy Copy Share Image
“Freedom, as I have been taught to understand as a political being in exile- to be protected by law, to be able… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Here in Tibet live the people my mother taught me to love before I met them. We are family, and love has… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Heavy heart Copy Share Image
“It is past eight. The hills before me are bathed in a gentle light that falls like sleep on weary eyes. Everything… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Morning Copy Share Image
“My mother showed her gratitude for her life in exile by alluding to India’s modernity: the expansive railway network; the Bollywood movies… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Easily forgotten Copy Share Image
“As a child I experienced loss for what I felt was withheld from me: the delicious milk, the mountains of flowers I… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Children Copy Share Image
“Tashi says nomads keep to the routines and customs they learned from their parents and they know the basic truths: that life… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Habits Copy Share Image
“When I am with my mother’s people, I realize I have a lot to unlearn. I look to them to uncomplicated my… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Parenting Copy Share Image
