Religion and Culture
SAGADAWA IN RITOMA — ས་ག་ཟླ་བ།
For Mahayana Buddhists around the world, Sagadawa is the holiest month of the year and celebrates Buddha’s birth, Nirvana and Parinirvana (death)...
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Home
HOME SERIES x RYAN & JON
The LA home of Ryan James Caruthers and Jon Anthony — Photography by Ryan James Caruthers Home is a word with many meanings — a place to re...
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Religion and Culture
DUKAR DOLMA PRAYERS
Dukar, also known as Sitatapatra in Sanskrit is a female deity with a white body, a slightly wrathful expression and an eye in the palm of each han...
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Religion and Culture
THE SYMBOLISM OF THE NAGA
How the community remains rooted in the land The Norlha community is directly issued from the pastoral background they were born into and are eith...
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Clothing
NEW SPRING SUMMER COLLECTION
Norlha’s Spring Summer scarves and capsule clothes collection for 2024 borrows inspiration from the prayer flags of laptse as they succumb to the ...
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Animals and Surroundings
SPRING EQUINOX
Spring on the Plateau is a slow, evolving process that comes in fits and starts as the temperature gradually rises, bringing the grassland back to ...
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People
WOMEN AT NORLHA
“A gap is forming on the Tibetan Plateau between the old life that is losing its meaning and a new one that is not yet defined... In 2004, Kim Yesh...
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Religion and Culture
MONLAM CHENMO
The Great Prayer Festival, or Monlam Chenmo, was established by Je-Rinpoche, or Tsong Khapa, in Lhasa in 1409. The timing, the first two weeks of ...
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Religion and Culture
LUNAR NEW YEAR
On the Tibetan Plateau, Losar, or New Year, is the most awaited and celebrated event of the year, a time for family reunions, weddings, and new beg...
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Religion and Culture
PROSTRATING
When traveling on the Tibetan Plateau, one will often encounter groups of pilgrims clad in heavy leather aprons making the journey by prostrating, ...
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People
NEW YEAR MESSAGE
2023 has been a year of revival for Norlha. The aftermath of the pandemic left us rebuilding, reinventing and reflecting. Normalcy felt like a lux...
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Curated News
CURATED NEWS DECEMBER 2023
Curated news is a bi-monthly newsletter showcasing ideas, initiatives and practices from around the world and here in Ritoma. Bringing insight, co...
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Animals and Surroundings
STONE CAIRNS
The dumbom, or stone cairn, is an endemic feature of the Tibetan Plateau landscape. They appear on common ground, on the banks of lakes, hilltops, ...
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