Tsering Namgyal Khortsa is a novelist and journalist. He is the author of His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje: A Biography (Hay House 2013). He holds an MA in journalism from the University of Iowa and studied creative and literary non-fiction writing. He is based in Dehradun India.
<p><span style="font-size: 1rem;">After over seventy years of being in exile a whole generation of Tibetans have come of age in a land far from home. With the Dalai Lama and other great masters as their spiritual guides they have grown up cut off from their homeland. Their experiences have been unique as they have despite globalization kept alive their religion and culture. In Little Lhasa Tsering Namgyal Khortsa writes comprehensively about the different aspects of their life today—from organizing protests to incubating a culture of filmmaking to becoming writers who write and publish in the English language and much more.</span></p><p>Diverse voices of the community come alive in these essays and interviews— students organizers practitioners of the faith of Tibetan Buddhism filmmakers journalists writers and even ex-political prisoners as the author brings together different strands of the Tibet-in-exile experience. No less of a character is the town of Dharamsala which is the seat of the Tibetan government in exile and of the Dalai Lama. In Tsering Namgyal’s words this ‘Little Lhasa’ shines through—its melting pot culture made up by so many from around the world.</p><p>Perceptive humorous and erudite Little Lhasa is a valuable record of the life of a people who refuse to bow down or forget and even while adapting to a rapidly changing world continue to nurture their roots.</p>
