གལ་སྲིད་ང་རང་གཞན་ཡུལ་དུ་ཤི་ན། - "If I were to die in exile" and སུ་ཡིས? - 'Who would?"

  • Kunchok Rabten
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2023.8825
Keywords: Exile, Homeland, Longing, Death, Seperation

Abstract

The poems offer an intimate meditation on the author`s experience of being seperated from his homeland of Tibet and family members there. Both poems center around the possible scenario of dying in exile and never seeing his beloved homeland and loved ones again. 

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Published
20-Dec-2023
How to Cite
Rabten, K. (2023). གལ་སྲིད་ང་རང་གཞན་ཡུལ་དུ་ཤི་ན། - "If I were to die in exile" and སུ་ཡིས? - ’Who would?". HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 43(1), 89-91. https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2023.8825
Issue
Vol 43 No 1 (2023): Special Issue - Writing with Care: Ethnographies from the Margins of Tibet and the Himalayas
Section
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