Tibet Oral History Project · 2010-04-06
Penpa
A first pilgrimage to Lhasa
An introduction to the interview
Penpa recalls travelling on foot from Kongpo through pilgrimage sites to Lhasa. At the Great Prayer Festival, he remembers crowds around the Jokhang and the difficulty of moving through them. The story follows a first visit, connecting a personal journey with the city’s gathering places.
Editorial introduction based on the English transcript. It is not a quotation or a reviewed Tibetan translation.
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A market in Lhasa, 1938. A separate historical source, not an image of this interview or the specific event remembered.
In the storyteller’s words
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Source PDF · English transcript ↗Connected through place