This month’s Flight of the Khyung takes in a wonderful range of antiquities documented in 2000 and also in 2011. It relays the challenges of being on expedition at the turn of the millennium, a journey that helped recast the …
Welcome on another Flight of the Khyung! This month and in the months to follow this newsletter shall highlight discoveries made on the Upper Tibet Rock Art Expedition II (UTRAE II). I am pleased to report that this recent mission …
Flight of the Khyung sets off through the 13 layers of the heavens to uppermost Tibet once again, bringing you more of its ancient signposts. This month’s issue looks at seven mountaintop strongholds documented on the Changthang Circuit Expedition (1999) …
After four issues in the ethereal realm of the spirit-mediums, this month’s Flight of the Khyung combs the ground for insight into the ordinary lives of drokpas (Tibetan herders). We examine the cultural ecology of a pastoral encampment in Upper …
From Menyak and Trehor on the eastern fringes of the Tibetan Plateau to its very heart at Lhasa, this month’s Flight of the Khyung arcs across the roof of the world. There is always more to see and more to …
More adventures unfold in Tibet as the Flight of the Khyung returns you to Asia’s holiest peak, Mount Kailas. This month’s newsletter looks at vital issues affecting the sacred mountain and their implications for a sound, sustainable future. Climb aboard …
This Flight of the Khyung comes on the heels of last month’s issue. In November, I described highlights of a recent trip to Tibet. Lasting four weeks, this was an eventful journey, which culminated in reaching the ruins of an …
This issue of Flight of the Khyung comes to you from Kathmandu, the Nepal Mandal. Recently, I was in Tibet for 29 days, explaining why the khyung bird has landed late this month. The month of Mangsir brings cold nights …
Fly High
Yes, the Flight of the Khyung is poised to take us across another tract of shifting time and space, over the vast expanse of human experience that only the horned eagle of Tibet can traverse! Like the heroine Tsenggi …
Wild Yaks and Other Things on the Horizon
On the fifth of this month I returned to Lhasa, having completed 50 days in the field on the Wild Yak Lands Expedition (WYLE). As those who read the May issue of Flight …
Primal Callings
Those regular readers of my newsletter will know that this issue is one month late. I have a fairly good excuse in that I was away in the wilds of Upper Tibet with little or no internet connectivity. Now …
Inaugurating my newsletter
Welcome to my website (Tibetarchaeology.com) and newsletter, Flight of the Khyung! Friends and colleagues have been encouraging me for years to put a website together but there was always something else to do. Finally by old friend Pawan …