Karjam Saeji

Karsangjamtso (Karjam for short) Saeji was born in Gannan, China. The third son and sixth child in a nomadic Tibetan family. His entire family still lives on the high grassland plateau where he was born, raising yak and sheep and visiting the local Buddhist monasteries. Fate, a good elementary school teacher and falling in with a certain group of cousins and friends led Karjam to stay in school, unlike his siblings. For middle school he had to leave his home and relocate to the county seat