Hortsang Jigme

[1][2] From 1992 to 2004, he lived in Dharamshala, India where he was a lecturer at the Tibetan Medical College (Men-Tse-Khang) and then the Director of Literary Research at Norbulingka Institute.

[3] Hortsang Jigme was President of the Dhomey [Amdo] Central Executive Committee, and served as editor-in-chief of Nor’de, a monthly Tibetan cultural newspaper, Nor-Oe, a quarterly magazine, and Norzod, a bi-annual journal.

[4] Hortsang Jigme's non-fiction works include Mdo smad lo rgyus chen mo (The Greater History of Amdo), Bod kyi rol mo’I lo rgyus la thog mar dpyad pa (A History of Tibetan Music), and Drang-bden-gyi-slu-pa’i-slong- mo- ba (A Commentary on the Life and Works of Gendun Choephel).

[7][8][9] Translations of Hortsang Jigme's writings into English are limited, however he contributed an essay, Tibetan Literature in the Diaspora (translated by Lauren Hartley), to Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change published by Duke University Press.

[10] Under a Blue Sky, a collection of essays on his childhood and youth in Tibet, was translated by Guusje de Schot and Elia Sinaiko and published in 1998.