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TIBET AT A TURNING POINT: THE SPRING UPRISING AND CHINA’S NEW CRACKDOWN This preceding poem, like the one below, ‘Witness to a Turn of Fate,’ referencing the March 1959 Uprising, is reproduced with the kind permission of A.E. Clark, translator of the first collection of Woeser’s poems to be published in English, Tibet’s True Heart. The collection of poetry is published by Ragged Banner Press and available now online at www.RaggedBanner.com. In his notes to ‘December’, A.E. Clark writes that the political sensitivity of the topic of this poem, the controversy over the imposition of a Chinese Panchen Lama by the government and the abduction of the boy recognized by the Dalai Lama as the true Panchen, compelled the poet to use veiled language. The translator suggests that “the two sparrows” who fall from their branches in the woods represent the two boys whose lives have been ruined in different ways; the ‘he’ of the third line is the Chinese government; the ‘furious girl” is Woeser herself. “That one” whose blood pours out is “the man of deep red hue”, Chadrel Rinpoche, leader of the search party to find the Panchen Lama, Gendun Choekyi Nyima. Chadrel Rinpoche is still under virtual house arrest in Tibet. A.E. Clark also writes: “The pair of praying hands chopped off, which apparently dropped an intangible rosary, may also refer to the sufferings of Chadrel Rinpoche. Or it could refer to the interrupted lineage of the Panchen Lama and the challenge of maintaining the living traditions of Tibetan Buddhism when the leaders and institutions that sustain them are destroyed.” WITNESS TO A TURN OF FATE A poem by Woeser Days and years, long time passing. We seem to have reached the void. It is empty, hollow. A turn of fate rolls on, it seems, But there is fear and sorrow Like a bird startled, or a rat retreating. Black clouds swirl. Much happened that year. It’s faded from memory, Gone with the wind, gone with the wind. Life must go on. How can your land of snow Survive a frigid winter? 146
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET In his notes on ‘Witness to a Turn of Fate,’ Clark writes “The word ‘lunhui,’ literally ‘wheel-turn,’ can refer to reincarnation as the order of the universe […] or to one lifetime, or even a single moment if it is sufficiently significant. It is possible to interpret this poem as a reflection on the destiny of Tibet.” The line “Much happened that year” is possibly a reference to 1959, the year the Lhasa Uprising was crushed ad the Dalai Lama fled to India. In the line, ‘How can your land of snow/Survive a frigid winter?’, the ‘you’ may be the Dalai Lama. The collection of poetry is published by Ragged Banner Press and available now online at www.RaggedBanner.com. The following song by the exiled singer Pubu Langjie was popular in Lhasa last year, and has suddenly become very popular again. A video of the song, featuring prominent imagery of the Dalai Lama and the 17th Karmapa can be seen on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzbiKzTnPLg. TIBET, MY HOME Originally entitled ‘Kowtow Thrice’ Tibet, my home; Tibetans, my people. Even though I’ve acquired a degree of merit, it seems my fate is never to return. Even though my body is elsewhere, my heart still reaches for you. Oh, I take off my fur hat and prostrate thrice to you! Tibet, my home; Tibetans, my people. Just before my life completes, I will thrice pray before I leave: If I return to this world, I hope to be born in my home, Tibet. Oh, I take off my fur hat and prostrate thrice to you! 147
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