February 1959 (age 65) Batang County, Sichuan, China
Occupation
Novelist
Language
Chinese, Tibetan
Alma mater
Lhasa Middle School
Period
1979–present
Genre
Novel, short story
Literary movement
Avant-garde[1]
Notable works
"Souls Tied to the Knots on a Leather Cord" "On the Road to Lhasa" The Fury Shambhala
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
扎西達娃
Simplified Chinese
扎西达娃
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Zhāxī Dáwá
Tibetan name
Tibetan
བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཟླ་བ་
Transcriptions
Wylie
bkra-shis zla-ba
Tashi Dawa (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཟླ་བ་; Chinese: 扎西达娃; born February 1959) or Zhaxi Dawa, is a Chinese novelist of half-Tibetan half-Han ethnic background. He is a distinguished Tibetan writer in China, and one of the most controversial figures associated with modern Tibet.[2][3] He is best known for his novel The Fury Shambhala and short stories "Souls Tied to the Knots on a Leather Cord" and "On the Road to Lhasa", which were adapted into a film Soul on a String in 2017. He is a member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC). He is a guest professor at Tibet Minzu University and Tibet University. His works have been translated into English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Czech, Russian, and Swedish.[4][5]
^西藏作协主席扎西达娃：不事张扬的先锋作家. Huaxia (in Chinese). 2009-07-01.
^Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani, University of Pennsylvania (2002). "Tashi Dawa: Magical realism and contested identity in modern Tibet". upenn.edu.
TashiDawa (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཟླ་བ་; Chinese: 扎西达娃; born February 1959) or Zhaxi Dawa, is a Chinese novelist of half-Tibetan half-Han ethnic background...
Knotted on a Leather Thong", is a 1985 Chinese avant-garde short story by TashiDawa, set in Tibet. The story contains elements of metafiction and magical...
film directed by Zhang Yang and co-written by Zhang Yang and TashiDawa, based on TashiDawa's short stories "Souls Tied to the Knots on a Leather Cord"...
activities along with his two brothers Chhang Dawa and Mingma Sherpa. "Seven Summit Treks PVT. LTD". "Tashi Lakpa Sherpa". "Nepal's Sherpa climbers to make...
2006 musical film from Tibet. It is directed by Dai Wei and written by TashiDawa. Ganglamedo is about one of the most popular Tibetan folk songs, "Ganglamedo"...
brothers,Mingma Sherpa, Chhang Dawa Sherpa, Tashi Lakpa Sherpa and Pasang Phurba Sherpa. Mingma and his brother Chhang Dawa are the first siblings to have...
Song Jia, Zhu Ziyan, Tino Bao, and Sam-Co. The film is an adaptation of TashiDawa's novel Cats of Shambala. The film tells the story of Robert and Yong Cuo's...
British India and Tibet. Kazi Dawa Samdup was born in Sikkim on 17 June 1868. His father was Shalngo Nyima Paljor of the Guru Tashi clan. On the death of his...
China the most promoted author is Alai (1959-), who writes in Chinese. TashiDawa, the vice-chairman of the TARWA, is another prominent Sinophone Tibetan...
the Lahaul and Spiti district. Over 1999-2000, alongside fellow Lahauli TashiDawa (aka 'Gopal Arjun'), Tshering Dorje played a key role in floating the...
Tibetan literature Tashi Tsering (London) born 1958 bkra shis tshe ring Geshe - Alai (author) born 1959 - - Chinese writer TashiDawa born 1959 bkra shis...
Sleeping Dogs [de] Andreas Gruber 2017 Kharms Ivan Bolotnikov 2018 Ala Changso TashiDawa, Sonthar Gyal 2019 Brotherhood Aleksander Lungin, Pavel Lungin...
Sherpas, Sonam Tshering Sherpa, Lhakpa Norbu Sherpa, Pemba Dorje Sherpa and DawaTashi Sherpa. Meanwhile, a member of the team and five-time Everest summitter...
Mount Everest 21 times, sharing this record with Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi Sherpa. The latter two subsequently retired. On 16 May 2018, at age 48,...
first wife, Dawa Phuti, died young in 1944. They had a son, Nima Dorje, who died at the age of four, and two daughters: Pem Pem, whose son, Tashi Tenzing...
locate missing citizens". The Guardian. "The Sherpas of Everest Series: DawaTashi Sherpa". everesthistory.com. Retrieved 9 January 2017. FirstAscent; Ed...
is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer who, until 2017, jointly with Phurba Tashi held the record for reaching the summit of Mount Everest more times than...
would be selected based on the feedback gathered from the committee of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery and monks on 30 January 1989. Many Tibetans would not consider...
Soul on a String (《西藏，系在皮绳结上的魂》) and On the Road to Lhasa (《去拉萨的路上》) by TashiDawa. The film premiered at the 19th Shanghai International Film Festival on...
all 14 peaks on the first attempt. Mingma Sherpa and his brother, Chhang Dawa Sherpa, hold the Guinness World Records of the world's first two brothers...
Madame Bovary Lam Wing-sum, Li Yuan, Xu Yi-meng and Wu Nan — Soul Mate TashiDawa and Zhang Yang — Soul on a String Best Cinematography Mark Lee Ping Bin...
it became known as "Rinpung Dzong". During the reign of the 23rd Penlop Dawa Penjor the Fortress caught fire (before the first king Gongsa Ugyen Wangchuck...
mentioned as Vajara's contemporaries include the Tibetan poets Alai, TashiDawa, and Yindaicai. "Vajara" seems to be the English name that the band itself...
twenty-two-year-old Dawa Dema, a management student was the Second Runner-up. Jyoti won one lakh (100,000) rupees with the title, while Shikha and Dawa won rupees...
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