A Celebration of Tibetan Women's Literature བོད་མོའི་རྩོམ་རིག་མཛད་རྗེས་གཟེངས་སུ་བསྟོད་པ།


This Symposium focuses on exploring and celebrating the recent emergence of Tibetan female writers in their Himalayan homelands and in the broader global diaspora. Prominent Tibetan authors from across the globe will come to Charlottesville to share their creative essays, short stories, memoirs, and poems in person. The symposium is a public event featuring readings of their original works, including translation, as well as scholarly discussions of their compositions with scholars from across North America and Europe.

A painting of yaks on a field
A painting by Kulhayak, a young Tibetan female artist based in Amdo. ཀུ་ལ་ཡག་གི་རི་མོའི་བརྩམས་ཆོས།
Two women at the edge of a lake facing away from the viewer, towards a mountain, gesturing upward.
A painting by Kulhayak, a young Tibetan female artist based in Amdo. ཀུ་ལ་ཡག་གི་རི་མོའི་བརྩམས་ཆོས།
The first series of books published by Tibetan women writers
The first series of books published by Tibetan women writers བོད་ཀྱི་སྐྱེས་མ་རྩོམ་པ་པོའི་དེབ་ཕྲེང་དང་པོ།
The second series of books published by Tibetan women writers. སྐྱེས་མ་རྩོམ་པ་པོའི་དེབ་ཕྲེང་གཉིས་པ།
The second series of books published by Tibetan women writers. སྐྱེས་མ་རྩོམ་པ་པོའི་དེབ་ཕྲེང་གཉིས་པ།
The poet Palmo speaking at an event celebrating the publication of the third series of books published by Tibetan women writers
The poet Palmo speaking at an event celebrating the publication of the third series of books published by Tibetan women writers.དེབ་ཕྲེང་གསུམ་པའི་མཛད་སྒོ་ལ་སྙན་ངག་པ་དཔལ་མོས་གསུང་བཤད་གནང་བ།
Third series of books published by Tibetan women writers གངས་ཅན་སྐྱེས་མའི་བརྩམས་ཆོས་དེབ་ཕྲེང་གསུམ་པ།
Third series of books published by Tibetan women writers གངས་ཅན་སྐྱེས་མའི་བརྩམས་ཆོས་དེབ་ཕྲེང་གསུམ་པ།

Our Sponsors


This symposium is generously supported by the Page-Barbour funds, the Center for Global Inquiry + Innovation, the Tibet Center, the East Asia Center, Virginia Center for the Study of Religion, the Race, Religion, and Democracy Lab, the Department of Religious Studies at University of Virginia, and local Tibetan families. 
Center for Global Inquiry +Innovation
 
Religion, Race, and Democracy Lab
Department of Religious Studies at UVA

Local Tibetan Families