Nyangchak

Bio

Nyangchak is the founder of Ganglha, a hybrid organization with social enterprise and non-profit programs in the Tibetan areas of Qinghai Province, China. He also founded Friendship Charity Association (FCA), a grassroots NGO in Qinghai, where he has implemented over a hundred projects supporting education, water and sanitation, and cultural preservation for marginalized communities. Nyangchak has a great deal of managerial experience with development organizations. He earned a MBA degree at Ifugao State University and a MA in Sustainable International Development at Brandeis University, USA. He is also the author of A Mang rdzong Tibetan Life and The Last Dragon Banquet? published by Asian Highlands Perspectives. Nyangchak leads a small team to produce documentary films, preserving and disseminating Tibetan culture through audio-visual techniques.

Reflection

We are thrilled to be able to contribute a small scene of Tibetan culture to Sacred. We strive to sustain, innovate and disseminate cultures from the Tibetan Plateau. This mission is carried out in the hope of benefitting the local communities as well as those beyond the border by sharing and building a cultural understanding. Sacred has given us the opportunity to disseminate an aspect of centuries-old Tibetan prostration. A prostration is believed to be a spiritual activity showing reverence to the Three Jewels in Buddhism that in return benefit the practitioners, who accumulate merit, prepare their minds for meditation, purification, and so on. Our experiences in filming prostrations teach us that this activity also represents compassion, strength, faith, endurance, courage, and spirituality of the practitioners in the hope of others’ wellbeing beyond their present life.