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CU Boulder was fortunate to host Tsering Yangzom Lama for events in March 2023. On March 2, Tsering engaged a large audience of undergraduates and the general public for a Book Reading and Dialogue in the sizeable Chancellor’s Hall on campus. The evening entailed an alternation of readings from her debut novel, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, and dialogue with Holly Gayley, professor of Buddhist studies. This was followed by a Q&A with the audience and a book giveaway based on Tibet trivia questions to undergraduates in courses on Tibet and Himalaya literature and culture taught in Anthropology, Asian Studies, Religious Studies during the spring semester. On March 3, Tsering Yangzom Lama also spent time with Tibet Himalaya Initiative graduate students for a lunch symposium at the Koenig Alumni Center. This was structured as a conversation between Tsering Yangzom Lama, Dawa Lokyitsang (Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology), and Holly Gayley with graduate students, faculty, and translators. It was a lively discussion about several themes in the novel: female oracles and leaders, the lives of ordinary Tibetans in exile, intergenerational trauma, and decolonizing Tibetan studies. The symposium transcript and article about the book will be published in the next issue of Yeshe: A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts and the Humanities.