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Tibet Oral History Project · 2007-06-28

Pasang Dolkar

Knitting and trading in Phari

An introduction to the interview

Pasang Dolkar remembers knitting sweaters, socks and caps to sell in Phari. She describes visitors arriving from Lhasa, Shigatse, Gyantse and farther away. Her story connects household work to a trading town and the people who moved through it.

Editorial introduction based on the English transcript. It is not a quotation or a reviewed Tibetan translation.

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Connected through place

Another life, another perspective.