volume 2, no. 5

The Tibet Mirror (Yul phyogs so so’i gsar ‘gyur me long), Tibet’s first native language newspaper, began in October 1925 in Kalimpong, India. It chronicled dramatic social and political transformations in Tibet, India, and in the broader region.

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, in collaboration with Yale University Library’s East Asia Library and Columbia University’s C.V. Starr East Asian Library digitized Yale’s complete holdings of the Tibet Mirror comprised of 71 issues and over 1,200 pages, ranging between the years 1927-1963.

To learn more, and to search the newspaper archive, visit the Tibetan Mirror at the Beinecke Library.