Dekila Chungyalpa
25+ years in environment & climate work, 15+ years partnering with faith leaders & culture keepers of Indigenous traditions. Bridge builder, writer, systems thinker, convener, speaker, Bhutia, Tibetan Buddhist, ecofeminist, lazy public intellectual.
Happy Losar! ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།
Losar, the Tibetan New Year, feels particularly poignant to me this year, as I celebrate with my family and friends, many of whom came as refugees to this land. They are descendants of (or themselves) Tibetans who followed His Holiness the Dalai Lama into exile in 1959 when China invaded
Tak Mo (སྟག་མོ་) Burning Bright
There are three parts to my identity that have always remained with me no matter the chameleon exterior I select in the moment. The first part is who I belong to; I belong to Sikkim (འབྲས་ལྗོངས) in the eastern part of the Himalayan range, raised under the