{"id":159885,"date":"2013-07-18T17:51:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T00:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=159885"},"modified":"2013-07-18T17:51:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T00:51:56","slug":"music-video-honors-tibetan-self-immolators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/music-video-honors-tibetan-self-immolators\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Video Honors Tibetan Self-Immolators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High Peaks Pure Earth has translated the <a href=\"http:\/\/highpeakspureearth.com\/2013\/music-video-patriotic-martyrs-by-jampel\/\"><strong>music video for &#8220;Patriotic Martyrs,&#8221; by Tibetan musician Jampel<\/strong><\/a>:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/70482191\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/70482191\">&#8220;Patriotic Martyrs&#8221; By Jampel<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/hpeaks\">HPeaks<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>High Peaks Pure Earth&#8217;s accompanying blog post offers <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/highpeakspureearth.com\/2013\/music-video-patriotic-martyrs-by-jampel\/\">further explanation of Jampel&#8217;s song<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The song \u201cPatriotic Martyrs\u201d is clearly about the self-immolations in Tibet with many references to fire and flames in the lyrics. The line \u201cThe courage of Thupten Ngodup\u201d refers to the first Tibetan self-immolator. Thupten Ngodup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamyangnorbu.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/12\/remembering-thupten-ngodup\/\">self-immolated on April 27, 1998 in New Delhi, India<\/a>, and died two days later. Interestingly, Thupten Ngodup was the only self-immolator to be mentioned by name in the <a href=\"http:\/\/burningtibet.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/05\/their-last-words.html\">last message of Lama Soepa<\/a> who self-immolated on January 8, 2012: \u201cTo all the six million Tibetans \u2013 including those living in exile \u2013 I am grateful to Pawo Thupten Ngodup and all other Tibetan heroes who have sacrificed their lives for Tibet and for the reunification of the Tibetan people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The word \u201cPawo\u201d means hero and is a title given to honour Tibetans who have sacrificed their lives. In this context, the title also connotes a martyr. In the song, Jampel specifically mentions both pawo (the male form) and pamo (the female form) but, for the sake of brevity, in our translation we have only used one English word \u201cmartyr\u201d to include both the men and the women. [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/highpeakspureearth.com\/2013\/music-video-patriotic-martyrs-by-jampel\/\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a Washington Post blog post on &#8220;Patriotic Martyrs,&#8221; Max Fisher provides <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2013\/07\/18\/tibetan-musician-releases-music-video-honoring-self-immolations\/\">context on the ongoing wave of Tibetan protest by<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2013\/07\/18\/tibetan-musician-releases-music-video-honoring-self-immolations\/\"> self-immolation<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Tibetan singer from the Chinese province of Sichuan has released a song and musical video titled \u201cPatriotic Martyrs\u201d in tribute to Tibetan self-immolations, of which there have been 119 since 2009. The immolations, an increasingly severe problem for Beijing, are a form of political protest against China\u2019s rule over Tibet and its restrictions on political and religious freedoms there.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]The self-immolations have been controversial within the Tibetan community itself, which extends well beyond the Tibet Autonomous Region into other Chinese provinces and parts of India, where the Tibetan government-in-exile is based. The Dalai Lama, who has struggled for years to negotiate Tibet\u2019s fate directly with Beijing, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/06\/13\/us-china-tibet-dalai-idUSBRE95C05S20130613\">called<\/a> the acts of protest \u201cunderstandable\u201d and encourages China to investigate what\u2019s causing them but makes a point of not encouraging self-immolations. [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2013\/07\/18\/tibetan-musician-releases-music-video-honoring-self-immolations\/\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last month, Radio Free Asia reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/tibet\/praised-06132013144450.html\">two Tibetan folk singers who, after being detained for six months, were sentenced to two years in prison for releasing a DVD with songs praising self-immolation<\/a>. High Peaks Pure Earth has also <a href=\"http:\/\/highpeakspureearth.com\/2013\/music-videos-by-imprisoned-singers-chakdor-and-pema-trinley\/\">translated videos by the two imprisoned artists<\/a>. For more on <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/tibet-protests\/\">Tibetan protest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/self-immolations\/\">self-immolation<\/a>, see prior CDT coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Peaks Pure Earth has translated the music video for &#8220;Patriotic Martyrs,&#8221; by Tibetan musician Jampel: &#8220;Patriotic Martyrs&#8221; By Jampel from HPeaks on Vimeo. High Peaks Pure Earth&#8217;s accompanying blog post offers further explanation of Jampel&#8217;s song: The song \u201cPatriotic Martyrs\u201d is clearly about the self-immolations in Tibet with many references to fire and flames [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":985,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,34,14744,14745,14746,5],"tags":[21,1078,15009,69,6582],"class_list":["post-159885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-human-rights","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-society","tag-music","tag-musicians","tag-self-immolations","tag-tibet","tag-tibet-protests","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Music Video Honors Tibetan Self-Immolators<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/music-video-honors-tibetan-self-immolators\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Music Video Honors Tibetan Self-Immolators\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"High Peaks Pure Earth has translated the music video for &#8220;Patriotic Martyrs,&#8221; by Tibetan musician Jampel: &#8220;Patriotic Martyrs&#8221; By Jampel from HPeaks on Vimeo. 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