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Pema Tsewang Shastri

Contributor

Pema Tsewang Shastri

Pema Tsewang Shastri is the author of three novels—including Cold West, Warm East (Tibet Times, 2000)—a work of historical fiction, a collection of short stories, and a collection of Tibetan sayings, Like a Yeti Catching Marmots, published by Wisdom Publications. A former Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University, he has translated works by Dr. Gene Sharp and Charles Dickens. He is a foreign rights manager at Wisdom Publications.

Articles by Pema Tsewang Shastri

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The Man Who Can Never Go Home

By Lhashamgyal

There’s a Tibetan saying that an old man’s country is like an old bird’s nest.

Translated from Tibetan by Tenzin Dickie & Pema Tsewang Shastri

First Read—From “Old Demons, New Deities”

By Pema Tsewang Shastri

The following story appears in Old Demons, New Deities, a collection of twenty-one short stories from Tibet, edited by Tenzin Dickie and forthcoming from OR Books.The Flight of the Wind…

Translated by Tenzin Dickie & Pema Tsewang Shastri

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Pema Tsewang Shastri

Pema Tsewang Shastri

Articles by Pema Tsewang Shastri

The Man Who Can Never Go Home

First Read—From “Old Demons, New Deities”