The Golok or Ngolok peoples are groups from Amdo in eastern Tibet, where their territory is referred in Tibetan as Wylie: smar kog. They are located around the upper reaches of the Yellow River (Wylie: dmar chu) and the sacred mountain Amne Machin (Wylie: rma rgyal spom ra). They are not an homogeneous group but are composed of peoples of very different ethnic backgrounds. The Golok was a haven for malcontents, refugees and miscreants from all over the Amdo and Kham and they are an amalgamation of peoples of diverse origin.
The Golok were renowned in both Tibet and China as ferocious bandits. The name Golok (Wylie: mgo log, ’go log) means "rebellious". Neither Tibet or China was able to subdue them for long. Legends say they were ruled by a queen, a reincarnated goddess whose power was handed down from mother to daughter.
In 1828 when the great mystic and poet of early 19th century Amdo, Shabkar Tsodruk Rangdröl, was returning to Amdo from Central Tibet, his caravan, carrying letters of passage from both the Dalai and Panchen Lamas, was brutally attacked and pillaged by Golok tribesmen.
Accessing THAILAND via LAND! (SUNGAI GOLOK BORDERTOWN)
In another episode of our "political border" series, in this video I got the chance to visit and explore a couple of unique bordertowns in the northern edge of Semenanjung Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia) that straddle Sungai Golok (Golok River), the natural political border between Malaysia and Thailand.
I started my journey in Kota Bharu, the capital of Kelantan state of Malaysia, then made my way northwest to Rantau Panjang, the bordertown on the Malaysian side of the river, then finally I crossed into Thailand to Sungai Kolok, the bordertown on the Thai side, which is also one of the southernmost towns in Thailand's deep south provinces. Come and join me as I discover further what the condition, the language and the people there are like!
published: 29 Mar 2023
Offering for Ling Gesar’s birthday by Durwud epic village in Golok Gabde in Tibet
Ling King Gesar’s birthday is celebrated on the full moon of the 12th lunar month of Tibetan year. This is a living tradition of oral epic, sacred dances, religious ritual and historical researches of Tibet, recognized by UNESCO as an immaterial heritage of humanity.
published: 17 Feb 2022
A village far away -- Jonang Monastery at Golok, Qinghai
A documentary of activities of student monks at Jonang Monastery Golok Qinghai, China (July, 2004)
published: 19 Mar 2019
Golok Jigme Phuntsok, great dzogchen master of Golok Serta Larung
བླ་མ་གཅིག་འདི་ཡང་དག་པ་རེད།
« Only this lama is perfect.
བླ་མ་ཕལ་ཆེ་བ་བདུད་རེད་ཟེར་བ་དེ་འདྲ་དུས་ཚོད་འདིར་ཡོང་གི་རེད།
Any other is not good. », nowadays people are saying so.
སྔར་བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཐོག་ལ་ཡང་བྱུང་མྱོང་བ་རེད།
Before, in Tibetan history, there were same situations.
དཔེར་ན།
For example :
རྒྱལ་བོ་གླང་དར་མ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་སྤྲུལ་བ་རེད།
“The emperor Langdarma is the reincarnation of Avalokiteshvara,
ཨུ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་བདུད་ཀྱི་སྤྲུལ་བ་རེད་ཟེར་བ་འདྲ་བོ།
and Pema Jungne is a demon. »
གཞན་ཡང་།
Also, some people say :
རྗེ་བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ་སོགས་བླ་མ་མང་ཆེ་བ་བདུད་རེད།
« Lama Tsongkhapa and many other lamas are demons.
ཁོང་ཚོ་བདུད་ཀྱི་ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་རེད་ཟེར་བ་འདྲ་བོ་ཡོད་པ་རེད།
They are just magical apparition of demons.”
དེ་འདྲའི་སྐད་ཆར་ཉན་མི་རུང་།
Never listen to people who talk like thi...
published: 28 Sep 2014
sungai golok style remix 🎧🎵🎶🇹🇭🇹🇭
published: 19 Apr 2021
Tongkyab monastery in Golok Gabde, Eastern Tibet
Praise to Tongkyab Monastery in Golok Gabde, great rime school of sutras and tantras, where Ling Gesar's cham is accomplished with glory, where patriotic monks practice the devotion to Tibetan culture and tradition.
In another episode of our "political border" series, in this video I got the chance to visit and explore a couple of unique bordertowns in the northern edge of ...
In another episode of our "political border" series, in this video I got the chance to visit and explore a couple of unique bordertowns in the northern edge of Semenanjung Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia) that straddle Sungai Golok (Golok River), the natural political border between Malaysia and Thailand.
I started my journey in Kota Bharu, the capital of Kelantan state of Malaysia, then made my way northwest to Rantau Panjang, the bordertown on the Malaysian side of the river, then finally I crossed into Thailand to Sungai Kolok, the bordertown on the Thai side, which is also one of the southernmost towns in Thailand's deep south provinces. Come and join me as I discover further what the condition, the language and the people there are like!
In another episode of our "political border" series, in this video I got the chance to visit and explore a couple of unique bordertowns in the northern edge of Semenanjung Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia) that straddle Sungai Golok (Golok River), the natural political border between Malaysia and Thailand.
I started my journey in Kota Bharu, the capital of Kelantan state of Malaysia, then made my way northwest to Rantau Panjang, the bordertown on the Malaysian side of the river, then finally I crossed into Thailand to Sungai Kolok, the bordertown on the Thai side, which is also one of the southernmost towns in Thailand's deep south provinces. Come and join me as I discover further what the condition, the language and the people there are like!
Ling King Gesar’s birthday is celebrated on the full moon of the 12th lunar month of Tibetan year. This is a living tradition of oral epic, sacred dances, relig...
Ling King Gesar’s birthday is celebrated on the full moon of the 12th lunar month of Tibetan year. This is a living tradition of oral epic, sacred dances, religious ritual and historical researches of Tibet, recognized by UNESCO as an immaterial heritage of humanity.
Ling King Gesar’s birthday is celebrated on the full moon of the 12th lunar month of Tibetan year. This is a living tradition of oral epic, sacred dances, religious ritual and historical researches of Tibet, recognized by UNESCO as an immaterial heritage of humanity.
བླ་མ་གཅིག་འདི་ཡང་དག་པ་རེད།
« Only this lama is perfect.
བླ་མ་ཕལ་ཆེ་བ་བདུད་རེད་ཟེར་བ་དེ་འདྲ་དུས་ཚོད་འདིར་ཡོང་གི་རེད།
Any other is not good. », nowadays people a...
བླ་མ་གཅིག་འདི་ཡང་དག་པ་རེད།
« Only this lama is perfect.
བླ་མ་ཕལ་ཆེ་བ་བདུད་རེད་ཟེར་བ་དེ་འདྲ་དུས་ཚོད་འདིར་ཡོང་གི་རེད།
Any other is not good. », nowadays people are saying so.
སྔར་བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཐོག་ལ་ཡང་བྱུང་མྱོང་བ་རེད།
Before, in Tibetan history, there were same situations.
དཔེར་ན།
For example :
རྒྱལ་བོ་གླང་དར་མ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་སྤྲུལ་བ་རེད།
“The emperor Langdarma is the reincarnation of Avalokiteshvara,
ཨུ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་བདུད་ཀྱི་སྤྲུལ་བ་རེད་ཟེར་བ་འདྲ་བོ།
and Pema Jungne is a demon. »
གཞན་ཡང་།
Also, some people say :
རྗེ་བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ་སོགས་བླ་མ་མང་ཆེ་བ་བདུད་རེད།
« Lama Tsongkhapa and many other lamas are demons.
ཁོང་ཚོ་བདུད་ཀྱི་ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་རེད་ཟེར་བ་འདྲ་བོ་ཡོད་པ་རེད།
They are just magical apparition of demons.”
དེ་འདྲའི་སྐད་ཆར་ཉན་མི་རུང་།
Never listen to people who talk like this.
ཡང་ཆོས་འགའ་ཞིག་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་རེད།
Also, some people say some religions are perfect,
འགའ་ཞིག་ནི་ཕྱིན་ཅི་ལོག་པ་རེད།
and some are wrong.
དཔེར་ན་རྙིང་མའི་ཆོས་ནི་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་རེད།
For example: “Nyingma lineage is perfect and
གཞན་གསར་མ་དང་། བཀའ་བརྒྱུད།
others geluk, kagyu and
ས་སྐྱ་སོགས་ནི་ཆོས་ལོག་རེད་ཅེས་བཤད་བསྡད་ཡོད།
sakya and so on are wrong.”
དེ་ནི་བདུད་ཀྱི་ལམ་བསྟན་པ་རེད།
This conducts to the path of demons.
ཡང་འགའ་ཞིག་གིས་གསར་མ་པའི་ལམ་འདི་ནི་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་རེད།
Some others say: “Only gelukpas are perfect.
དེ་ཁོ་ན་མ་གཏོགས།
Only them!
རྙིང་མ་དང་བཀའ་རྒྱུད་སོགས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་ནི་ལོག་པ་རེད་ཟེར་ན།
If they say: “Nyingma, kagyu and such are wrong;”
དེ་ནི་བདུད་རེད།
This is demoniac.
དེ་ནི་བདུད་ངེས་ཅན་ཡིན་པས་ལོག་ལམ་དུ་ཁྲིད་པ་རེད།
This is really demoniac and therefore is guiding wrong way.
ཚེ་རབས་གཏན་གྱི་འདི་ཕྱི་བརླགས་ནས།
You will lose all your lives and
ངན་འགྲོར་མུ་མཐའ་མེད་པར་འཁྲིད་པས།
you will continuously take rebirth in three lower realms.
དེ་ནི་བདུད་བཅས་ཀྱི་ལས་ཟེར་བ་དེ་རེད།
Therefore, this is what we call the demoniac activity. Never listen to it!
བླ་མ་གཅིག་འདི་ཡང་དག་པ་རེད།
« Only this lama is perfect.
བླ་མ་ཕལ་ཆེ་བ་བདུད་རེད་ཟེར་བ་དེ་འདྲ་དུས་ཚོད་འདིར་ཡོང་གི་རེད།
Any other is not good. », nowadays people are saying so.
སྔར་བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཐོག་ལ་ཡང་བྱུང་མྱོང་བ་རེད།
Before, in Tibetan history, there were same situations.
དཔེར་ན།
For example :
རྒྱལ་བོ་གླང་དར་མ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་སྤྲུལ་བ་རེད།
“The emperor Langdarma is the reincarnation of Avalokiteshvara,
ཨུ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་བདུད་ཀྱི་སྤྲུལ་བ་རེད་ཟེར་བ་འདྲ་བོ།
and Pema Jungne is a demon. »
གཞན་ཡང་།
Also, some people say :
རྗེ་བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ་སོགས་བླ་མ་མང་ཆེ་བ་བདུད་རེད།
« Lama Tsongkhapa and many other lamas are demons.
ཁོང་ཚོ་བདུད་ཀྱི་ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་རེད་ཟེར་བ་འདྲ་བོ་ཡོད་པ་རེད།
They are just magical apparition of demons.”
དེ་འདྲའི་སྐད་ཆར་ཉན་མི་རུང་།
Never listen to people who talk like this.
ཡང་ཆོས་འགའ་ཞིག་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་རེད།
Also, some people say some religions are perfect,
འགའ་ཞིག་ནི་ཕྱིན་ཅི་ལོག་པ་རེད།
and some are wrong.
དཔེར་ན་རྙིང་མའི་ཆོས་ནི་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་རེད།
For example: “Nyingma lineage is perfect and
གཞན་གསར་མ་དང་། བཀའ་བརྒྱུད།
others geluk, kagyu and
ས་སྐྱ་སོགས་ནི་ཆོས་ལོག་རེད་ཅེས་བཤད་བསྡད་ཡོད།
sakya and so on are wrong.”
དེ་ནི་བདུད་ཀྱི་ལམ་བསྟན་པ་རེད།
This conducts to the path of demons.
ཡང་འགའ་ཞིག་གིས་གསར་མ་པའི་ལམ་འདི་ནི་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་རེད།
Some others say: “Only gelukpas are perfect.
དེ་ཁོ་ན་མ་གཏོགས།
Only them!
རྙིང་མ་དང་བཀའ་རྒྱུད་སོགས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་ནི་ལོག་པ་རེད་ཟེར་ན།
If they say: “Nyingma, kagyu and such are wrong;”
དེ་ནི་བདུད་རེད།
This is demoniac.
དེ་ནི་བདུད་ངེས་ཅན་ཡིན་པས་ལོག་ལམ་དུ་ཁྲིད་པ་རེད།
This is really demoniac and therefore is guiding wrong way.
ཚེ་རབས་གཏན་གྱི་འདི་ཕྱི་བརླགས་ནས།
You will lose all your lives and
ངན་འགྲོར་མུ་མཐའ་མེད་པར་འཁྲིད་པས།
you will continuously take rebirth in three lower realms.
དེ་ནི་བདུད་བཅས་ཀྱི་ལས་ཟེར་བ་དེ་རེད།
Therefore, this is what we call the demoniac activity. Never listen to it!
Praise to Tongkyab Monastery in Golok Gabde, great rime school of sutras and tantras, where Ling Gesar's cham is accomplished with glory, where patriotic monks ...
Praise to Tongkyab Monastery in Golok Gabde, great rime school of sutras and tantras, where Ling Gesar's cham is accomplished with glory, where patriotic monks practice the devotion to Tibetan culture and tradition.
Praise to Tongkyab Monastery in Golok Gabde, great rime school of sutras and tantras, where Ling Gesar's cham is accomplished with glory, where patriotic monks practice the devotion to Tibetan culture and tradition.
In another episode of our "political border" series, in this video I got the chance to visit and explore a couple of unique bordertowns in the northern edge of Semenanjung Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia) that straddle Sungai Golok (Golok River), the natural political border between Malaysia and Thailand.
I started my journey in Kota Bharu, the capital of Kelantan state of Malaysia, then made my way northwest to Rantau Panjang, the bordertown on the Malaysian side of the river, then finally I crossed into Thailand to Sungai Kolok, the bordertown on the Thai side, which is also one of the southernmost towns in Thailand's deep south provinces. Come and join me as I discover further what the condition, the language and the people there are like!
Ling King Gesar’s birthday is celebrated on the full moon of the 12th lunar month of Tibetan year. This is a living tradition of oral epic, sacred dances, religious ritual and historical researches of Tibet, recognized by UNESCO as an immaterial heritage of humanity.
བླ་མ་གཅིག་འདི་ཡང་དག་པ་རེད།
« Only this lama is perfect.
བླ་མ་ཕལ་ཆེ་བ་བདུད་རེད་ཟེར་བ་དེ་འདྲ་དུས་ཚོད་འདིར་ཡོང་གི་རེད།
Any other is not good. », nowadays people are saying so.
སྔར་བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཐོག་ལ་ཡང་བྱུང་མྱོང་བ་རེད།
Before, in Tibetan history, there were same situations.
དཔེར་ན།
For example :
རྒྱལ་བོ་གླང་དར་མ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་སྤྲུལ་བ་རེད།
“The emperor Langdarma is the reincarnation of Avalokiteshvara,
ཨུ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་བདུད་ཀྱི་སྤྲུལ་བ་རེད་ཟེར་བ་འདྲ་བོ།
and Pema Jungne is a demon. »
གཞན་ཡང་།
Also, some people say :
རྗེ་བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ་སོགས་བླ་མ་མང་ཆེ་བ་བདུད་རེད།
« Lama Tsongkhapa and many other lamas are demons.
ཁོང་ཚོ་བདུད་ཀྱི་ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་རེད་ཟེར་བ་འདྲ་བོ་ཡོད་པ་རེད།
They are just magical apparition of demons.”
དེ་འདྲའི་སྐད་ཆར་ཉན་མི་རུང་།
Never listen to people who talk like this.
ཡང་ཆོས་འགའ་ཞིག་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་རེད།
Also, some people say some religions are perfect,
འགའ་ཞིག་ནི་ཕྱིན་ཅི་ལོག་པ་རེད།
and some are wrong.
དཔེར་ན་རྙིང་མའི་ཆོས་ནི་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་རེད།
For example: “Nyingma lineage is perfect and
གཞན་གསར་མ་དང་། བཀའ་བརྒྱུད།
others geluk, kagyu and
ས་སྐྱ་སོགས་ནི་ཆོས་ལོག་རེད་ཅེས་བཤད་བསྡད་ཡོད།
sakya and so on are wrong.”
དེ་ནི་བདུད་ཀྱི་ལམ་བསྟན་པ་རེད།
This conducts to the path of demons.
ཡང་འགའ་ཞིག་གིས་གསར་མ་པའི་ལམ་འདི་ནི་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་རེད།
Some others say: “Only gelukpas are perfect.
དེ་ཁོ་ན་མ་གཏོགས།
Only them!
རྙིང་མ་དང་བཀའ་རྒྱུད་སོགས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་ནི་ལོག་པ་རེད་ཟེར་ན།
If they say: “Nyingma, kagyu and such are wrong;”
དེ་ནི་བདུད་རེད།
This is demoniac.
དེ་ནི་བདུད་ངེས་ཅན་ཡིན་པས་ལོག་ལམ་དུ་ཁྲིད་པ་རེད།
This is really demoniac and therefore is guiding wrong way.
ཚེ་རབས་གཏན་གྱི་འདི་ཕྱི་བརླགས་ནས།
You will lose all your lives and
ངན་འགྲོར་མུ་མཐའ་མེད་པར་འཁྲིད་པས།
you will continuously take rebirth in three lower realms.
དེ་ནི་བདུད་བཅས་ཀྱི་ལས་ཟེར་བ་དེ་རེད།
Therefore, this is what we call the demoniac activity. Never listen to it!
Praise to Tongkyab Monastery in Golok Gabde, great rime school of sutras and tantras, where Ling Gesar's cham is accomplished with glory, where patriotic monks practice the devotion to Tibetan culture and tradition.
The Golok or Ngolok peoples are groups from Amdo in eastern Tibet, where their territory is referred in Tibetan as Wylie: smar kog. They are located around the upper reaches of the Yellow River (Wylie: dmar chu) and the sacred mountain Amne Machin (Wylie: rma rgyal spom ra). They are not an homogeneous group but are composed of peoples of very different ethnic backgrounds. The Golok was a haven for malcontents, refugees and miscreants from all over the Amdo and Kham and they are an amalgamation of peoples of diverse origin.
The Golok were renowned in both Tibet and China as ferocious bandits. The name Golok (Wylie: mgo log, ’go log) means "rebellious". Neither Tibet or China was able to subdue them for long. Legends say they were ruled by a queen, a reincarnated goddess whose power was handed down from mother to daughter.
In 1828 when the great mystic and poet of early 19th century Amdo, Shabkar Tsodruk Rangdröl, was returning to Amdo from Central Tibet, his caravan, carrying letters of passage from both the Dalai and Panchen Lamas, was brutally attacked and pillaged by Golok tribesmen.