When Tibet Loved China

Rare photos of the Cultural Revolution in the Land of Snows.

JANUARY 22, 2013

"Struggle sessions" featured a crowd criticizing an individual for behavior that was seen as going against Mao or his teachings. In this photo, Tibetans denounce 26-year-old Samding Dorje Pakmo, at that time Tibet's most famous female living Buddha, in her courtyard.

 

Tsering Woeser is a Tibetan poet, writer, and blogger living in Beijing. The photographs were taken by her father, Tsering Dorjee, and published in Woeser's 2006 book, Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution. Text by associate editor Isaac Stone Fish.