Losar Tashi Delek ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།
Beyond Her Kitchen | Tibetan Culture through Food & Stories
by Jolma
1y ago
Losar ལོ་གསར (New Year) is a historical event for Tibetan people. The year of the pig falls on February 5thof the Gregorian calendar this year. Tibetans follow the 12-year cycle zodiac heavily. Most Tibetan mothers even refer to their children’s birth year by the year of the zodiac animal rather than the calendar year.   Tibetan culture is a complex one with ancient Bönmystical beliefs and Buddhist influences intermixed. Elders believe the year that cycles back to one’s own zodiac may bring trials.  My brother was born in a ‘piggy’ year, and this is his year. I k ..read more
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Tibet’s Summer Is Most Striking
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by Jolma
1y ago
The sky is blue, and the clouds are white. Drizzling nights and burning daytime sun, yet leaves you perfectly content. The rainy season cultivates wildflowers, mushrooms, and other vegetation that charm the plateau. The pedicularis (lousewort) flowers in cream and purple color, The meconopsis poppies and gentian in blue and white, And potentillas anserine (silverweeds) in golden-yellow to only compose dramatic depictions of the landscape. While the vast grassland and mountaintops bursting with blooms make it feel even more colorful and expansive, it’s the klu rol or lürol (ཀླུ་རོལ། shaman ..read more
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How Tibetans Celebrate Losar–New Year?
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by Jolma
1y ago
Wishing you all a Happy Losar. Losar is the Tibetan New Year. It’s the year of the dog. The holiday mixes both sacred and secular rituals. From a cultural perspective, Losar is like Christmas for Westerners, except Tibet’s New Year in Reb gong lasts 18 days. Year after year, we relish the rich heritage of Losar. Its preparation is serious business, including a yearly deep cleaning of the house, shopping for gifts, and specialty food items. It’s also the time to make a variety of treats and bake loaves of Rebgong (Reb gong) bread in the number of 50 or more, ten- to twenty-five-inches in diame ..read more
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A Year to Celebrate
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by Jolma
1y ago
2017 was a year of change. My little family relocated from Madison, Wisconsin, to Vancouver, Washington and then finally across the river to Portland, Oregon. I’ve made changes before, moving from country to country, continent to continent, but never twice a year. Each move enabled me to meet new people, gain new perspectives, and experience the rich cultures new communities have to offer. My 2017 was no different. New years always give opportunities for reflecting and celebrating and, for some, undertaking to do things differently in the coming year. And now that we settled in a lovely neigh ..read more
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15 Expressions of Tibet’s Nomadic Life
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by Jolma
1y ago
Tranquil and harmonious are the words to describe this landscape. Yaks grazing in the foreground and nomadic dwells dotted the space, the Tse-chu River zigzagging and mapping its way through the grassy field and into the big sky-like a work of art intended for a museum.   Lhago and her husband Tsehua decided to have a nomadic life experience. This summer was the first time my sister visited our nomad family in Tsekog, Zekog or rtse khog (རྩེ་ཁོག Zeku) with Tsehua. Our maternal grandmother was born in Tsekog County, in a yak-fur tent. It’s where my family still has a village and half of re ..read more
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Test Kitchen–Tibetan Style
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by Jolma
1y ago
Testing takes discipline. Whether you test a new machine’s proper installation, or conduct a design study to see if your end users are satisfied with the Web application that you promised would bring convenience or new experience, it should be usable and useful. Similarly, the principle applies to testing a recipe. It has to work for all levels of cooks: home cooks who have traditional cooking skills, professional chefs and, more importantly, curious people who have little experience in the kitchen. Some thoughtful planning and checking nitty-gritty details are vital. Before the testing even ..read more
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Losar Tashi Delek ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།
Beyond Her Kitchen | Tibetan Culture through Food & Stories
by Jolma
4y ago
Losar ལོ་གསར (New Year) is a historical event for Tibetan people. The year of the pig falls on February 5thof the Gregorian calendar this year. Tibetans follow the 12-year cycle zodiac heavily. Most Tibetan mothers even refer to their children’s birth year by the year of the zodiac animal rather than the calendar year.   Tibetan culture is a complex one with ancient Bönmystical beliefs and Buddhist influences intermixed. Elders believe the year that cycles back to one’s own zodiac may bring trials.  My brother was born in a ‘piggy’ year, and this is his year. I ..read more
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Tibet’s Summer Is Most Striking
Beyond Her Kitchen | Tibetan Culture through Food & Stories
by Jolma
4y ago
The sky is blue, and the clouds are white. Drizzling nights and burning daytime sun, yet leaves you perfectly content. The rainy season cultivates wildflowers, mushrooms, and other vegetation that charm the plateau. The pedicularis (lousewort) flowers in cream and purple color, The meconopsis poppies and gentian in blue and white, And potentillas anserine (silverweeds) in golden-yellow to only compose dramatic depictions of the landscape. While the vast grassland and mountaintops bursting with blooms make it feel even more colorful and expansive, it’s the klu rol or lürol (ཀླུ་རོལ། shaman ..read more
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by Jolma
4y ago
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How Tibetans Celebrate Losar–New Year?
Beyond Her Kitchen | Tibetan Culture through Food & Stories
by Jolma
4y ago
Wishing you all a Happy Losar. Losar is the Tibetan New Year. It’s the year of the dog. The holiday mixes both sacred and secular rituals. From a cultural perspective, Losar is like Christmas for Westerners, except Tibet’s New Year in Reb gong lasts 18 days. Year after year, we relish the rich heritage of Losar. Its preparation is serious business, including a yearly deep cleaning of the house, shopping for gifts, and specialty food items. It’s also the time to make a variety of treats and bake loaves of Rebgong (Reb gong) bread in the number of 50 or more, ten- to twenty-five-inches in diam ..read more
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