An American photographer's journey among ethnic Tibetans during the coronavirus outbreak
My friend Jacob, a Tibetan who teaches English, brought me to his village for Losar, the Tibetan New Year. They chopped up a yak’s head that we boiled and ate, wrapped in buns calledAt this point, news about the virus was beginning to spread on foreign media. I started getting calls from friends and family, but people in the Garze district didn’t seem concerned./My Tibetan friend’s uncle, a yak herder, holding his niece.
No one in the household was worried. But on Jan. 26 two coronavirus cases were confirmed in the Kham region. No one was panicking, but there was concern. As news of the virus spread, Jacob’s family discussed its source, which led to a larger talk on Tibetan beliefs on mortality. Jacob’s father linked the virus to a concept of “degeneration,” the shortening of Tibetan lives as predicted in Buddhist scriptures because of immoral and impure practices brought by the Chinese.Jacob disagreed. He thought the the concept was unscientific.My Tibetan friend’s family at home on Jan. 27, 2020, watching the Chinese version of TikTok videos on their phones.
They were looking at maps on WeChat of reported virus cases, and pointing to the Tibet Autonomous Region.
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