Golog: Tibetan Girls’ School Shut Down by Authorities

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Daughters of Amdo nomads learned their language, Buddhism, and modern subjects there for twenty-one years. Today the institution bears a different name and is under government control.

by Lopsang Gurung

For twenty-one years, girls from herding families in Golog, in the traditional Tibetan region of Amdo, had a place where they could learn to read and write in their own language, study Buddhist philosophy and Tibetan medicine, paint thangkas, and sit in front of computers. That place no longer exists in the form its founder imagined. The Prairie Talent Girls’ School, also known as the Grassland Girls’ School or the Snowland Grassland Girls’ School, closed its doors for good on August 27, 2026. The news was spread through a post on X by Lhasa Spring, a platform promoting dialogue between Chinese and Tibetans, and was reported by Tibetan exile media in Dharamsala on October 17.

The school stood near Ragya Mountain, a sacred peak i...

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