Around Tibetan new year (Losar) in this February, a video clip of a Losar celebration from Ngaba, Tibet, came out to the exile side. They put up the portrait of Kundun( H.H. Dalai Lama) adorned with Kathaks( white scarves for blessing and gratitudes) and offerings, people are wearing Tibetan dresses( Chuba), chantings and fire crackers echoing in the blue sky. The most beautiful was a scene of thousands of white Lungta, small pieces of white paper with auspicious images and prayers, flying in the sky. On special occasions, people throw these in the sky for good luck.
In this area of Tibet, there have been lots of resistances and self immolations that are results of one of the most brutal history of destruction and killing by the communist army since 1951. This area is known to have one of the tightest security, unfair arrests, and violences to the local Tibetans.
Yet, when I saw these beautiful pieces of paper floating in the blue sky and heard people screaming to the sky, I felt their unspoken messages. 'We never give up. We keep our dignity". Bodgyalo.
