With increasing access to cell phones, the internet, and television in the 2000s, the Tibetan-language media landscape diversified, and with it, so did the contexts in which individuals produced and consumed media and cultural products. A much-lauded development during this time was the establishment and growth of Tibetan-language literature websites such as Chodme, which are often assumed to have democratized writing and publishing by Tibetan writers, as well as opened up Tibetan literature to a wider audience. However, Chodme’s relationship to the greater media landscape and to Tibetan audiences in general is more complex. This paper focuses on Chodme as a literary archive which enables a specific vision of contemporary Tibetan literature – one which draws heavily from particular sectors of print literature – and which is read by a limited audience.
