Tibet Historica

History as Waterfall, Youth as Current: An Interpretation of Dhondup Gyal’s Waterfall of Youth In his celebrated poem Waterfall of Youth (ལང་ཚོའི་རྦབ་ཆུ།), the Tibetan poet Dhondup Gyal deploys a deceptively simple image — a waterfall, crashing and indifferent to the rocks that stand against it — to ask what it means for a people to…