ཤར་ཕྱོགས་དམར། - The East Is Red (Tibetan Version)

The East Is Red - one of China’s most well-known revolutionary songs - in the Tibetan language. This completes the set of the song in various Chinese minority languages that I have uncovered, the others being in Mongolian, Korean, and Uyghur. Digitised by me from a small red flexi-disc containing The Internationale on one side and The East Is Red on the other, both in Tibetan. Performer: Tibet Opera House (བོད་ལྗོངས་གླུ་གར་ཚོགས་པས་གཞས་དང་རོལ་ཆ་གཏོང་བ།) Year recorded: 1969 Composer: Traditional Year Composed: Early 1930s Lyricist: Based on Chinese lyrics by Li Youyuan (李有源) Year Written: 1942 (Chinese version) Source: Flexi-disc “རྒྱལ་སྤྱི