LOSAR TASHI DELEK! ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། BOD GYAL-LO! བོད་རྒྱལ་ལོ།
This is a special Happy New Year greeting to my Tibetan friends in the U.S., Europe, India, Nepal, and elsewhere. I’ve been remiss because I feel I’ve lost touch with Tibet and her culture of late. Not that I’m not still translating some dharma texts, not that I’m not aware of the PRC’s continued attempt to crust Tibet and Sinicize her. No, I’ve been focussed on writing about and fighting the encroaching fascism in this country, right down to the state I live in. The U.S. may not have quite as notorious a system as the lao gai in China, but we still incarcerate more people per capita than any country in the world, including China. As more detention centers are built across the country, we can only assume that they will replicate conditions not so different from Drapchi, say. There are extensive reports of abuse ranging from starvation to beatings to sexual assault in many of the ICE concentration camps (let’s call them what they are), but anyone who’s followed the plight of the i...
