First, I will start with what seems to be an imperative today when talking about Tibet: talk about Tibet must be outside the English language.

We always approach the subject of Tibet always through the prism of the English language and the Anglo-American culture.

But this narrow prism. It forced our reasoning and understanding. Thus we miss all the magic of Tibet.

It helped, for example, to designate the highest peak of the world under the name of Mount Everest. But there was already a name: Qomolangma. So ask the Western Qomolangma. Nothing, it never mentioned anything to them. How meaning "mother goddess of the universe" can it be reduced to this point in the name of a man?

Draw attention to the cultural prism, opens the door to a better understanding of Tibet. Tibet is a crossroads. A crossroads of languages, technologies, traditions, cultures and therefore knowledge.

So I apologize in advance for the lack of progress I made in Chinese and Tibetan since my last visit.

But it is this crucial crossroads position that Tibet must regain.

a- Tibet a crossroads and an observatory of knowledge

Find the oldest traces of the Silk Road is a priceless treasure, it shows how Tibet should find this essential role in the rise of China. A crossroads is the promise of a meeting, an improvement of living conditions and openness to the world.

Lhasa is all this at once. A place of myths, a place of history, a place of interwoven utopias. But above all, a city nestled in the heart of the highest mountains in the world.

Here time is measured differently. It couples differently in space.

It is all that this region of China: overtaking, a suspension, a place of myths, crossroads of knowledge..

b- Tibet crossroads of cultural diversity

For me, Tibet has the face of all those men and women who live, who work there and I had the opportunity to meet during my travels.

All have different stories to which we must pay tribute. They are the foundation and strength of China of tomorrow.

I am thinking in particular about Dawa Dondrup. He is the director of the company Tibetan Indigenous Industry Co. Ltd. who has built his business by working first on construction sites. I also think of A Nu, he was chief of his village, and he carried the Olympic flame.

Also I am thinking about Lup Sang Doj Jee who created the institute of Tibetan medicine for Tibetans, so they can still have a place of well-being, and listening.

We must pay tribute to those men and women. They make the Tibet. It is also through their success that we have to understand that Tibet is a place of diversity. This diversity is the living force in this region. And it is in this sense that we must work together.

We must defend diversity, harmony & collaboration to allow all Tibetans to express their potential and spread it throughout China and the world.

(Sonia Bressler, writer)