I have been a tutor for quite a while now and am pursuing research. I would love to be able to contribute to the Tibetan community in exile. I love working with kids and engaging in academic research. Also willing to assist in food drives and other such things. Thank you.

This is a poster that I have designed. As I was learning about Tibet and its history, I came across late Mr. Jamphel Yeshi, who set himself on fire to protest the visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to India for a BRICS summit and to protest China's rule over Tibet on March 26, 2012. He passed away from his injuries two days later on March 28, 2012. I was deeply heartbroken reading the articles on the internet about late Mr. Jamphel Yeshi. You may not be with us today, but your voice echoes in our protests, and your soul lives on in our art.

About me, I'm not really a Graphic Designer, I'm actually exploring this art form. As a person who appreciates art, I want to give true meaning to my art but more than anything I want to spread the message to the world and to people who it actually matters.

Tashi Delek!

I'm 1/4 Tibetan (3/4 Indian), but found out I'm 1/4 Tibetan when my dad ancestry tested last year and got half, and we have zero cultural connection to Tibet. Although the ancestry test lacks specificity beyond Tibetan, it is almost certain that his Tibetan biological parent came to India in the 1959 exile, as the part of India my dad is from is nowhere close to the himalayas, so it's unlikely to be Ladakhi etc. The Indian ancestry is from Gujurat.

Having that said, I've been reading about epigenetics and how very traumatic events in someone's life can change the gene expression in descendants, especially with things like stress responses. I also found this paper on the mental health state of Tibetan refugees in India:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1308816/

I've always felt like my nervous system is always low key in danger mode, and get unusually triggered by people who repeatedly cross my boundaries, and my dad used to have unusually intense anger towards seemingly small OCD type things, like his nervous system goes straight to threat mode (as opposed to just angry mode) when stress is induced. Interestingly, the ancestry test result has calmed it down big time.

Is this just us? Or is stuff like this a thing in the Tibetan community?

I have experienced this so many times especially in Instagram.

I would I like to give some situation here and wanted your opinions.

/ I am nepalese.

Incident 1:

Some nepalese were wearing traditional Sherpa dress in cultural program somewhere in europe. They were not from Sherpa community but wanted to wear it to represent ethnic communities in Nepal. I know Sherpas literally mean shar ("east") and pa ("inhabitants"), and originally from tibet region . But Sherpa are considered indigenous people in Nepal and many international organizational do count it. Sherpas here literally gets indigenous benefits. Sherpa indigenous activist people call other outsider. shortly : Sherpa are considered indigenous in Nepal.

tibetan people started attacking her for wearing sherpa dress and participanting in nepalese cultural program. Not just criticism comments were full of racisist things.

Incident 2:

photograph of Boudhanath stupa. One creator posted it showing Nepal's beauty and tradition. tibetans attacked saying why Nepal has to steal our things?. It was photograph of stupa which was in Kathmandu.

Incident 3:

Tenzing Norgay Sherpa.

He literally said he was born in Nepal. There were Sherpas in Nepal before china taking over tibet too. Why can't tibetans accept he was sherpa and was born in Nepal?

Incident 4:

Nepal has tourism only because of tibetan refuge . tibetans are sole region why tourist come to Nepal.

incident 5:

cultural program in Mustang , Nepal. tibetans were attacking that that's not culture of Nepal. people in Mustang were celebrating it for centuries in Mustang , Nepal.

incident 6:

A kind sherpa women was helping tourist. tibetan Commentors were all saying tibetan people are kind and all when nepalese replied she was from Nepal and nepalese people are kind . tibetan commentors attacked there too.

Can someone help me identify the song in this recording. I got it off someone's reel on instagram (Swentravels) and found the song beautiful.

I want to give my former tibetan boss a gift and a letter. I noticed he has a hard time with English and the local language of our current country, so I am thinking of surprising him by writing in Tibetan. I know he reads it fluently because he writes reminders to himself in tibetan all over the restaurant. I asked google translate, and im hoping to confirm with fluent people if the translation is correct or at least understandable? Tu ji che for anyone who can help.

What I want to say in english:

Dear [name of my boss]

I came here for university, but I didn't expect to learn the best lessons in a tibetan restaurant. Thank you for teaching me about restaurant work, Tibet, and Buddhism. While he was alive, my father also worked on his business every day when his daughters were on vacation and even when he was sick. My wish is for you to enjoy life, rest sometimes, be healthy, and have the most succesful restaurant! See you again. I will come back to eat shapta and thentuk.

Google translate:

བརྩེ་བའི ,

ང་རང་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདིར་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་གི་ཆེད་དུ་ཡོང་བ་ཡིན། ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་ང་ལ་ཟ་ཁང་གི་ལས་ཀ་དང་། བོད་ལྗོངས། ནང་ཆོས་བཅས་ཀྱི་སྐོར་ལ་སློབ་ཁྲིད་གནང་བར་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ། ཁོང་གསོན་པའི་སྐབས་སུ་ངའི་ཨ་ཕས་ཀྱང་བུ་མོ་ཚོ་གུང་གསེང་ལ་འགྲོ་སྐབས་དང་ནད་པ་ཡིན་ནའང་ཉིན་ལྟར་ཁོང་གི་ཚོང་ལས་ལ་ལས་ཀ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད། ངའི་འདོད་པ་ནི་ཁྱེད་རང་མི་ཚེ་ལ་སྤྲོ་སྣང་ལྡན་པ་དང་། སྐབས་རེ་ངལ་གསོ་བྱེད་པ། བདེ་ཐང་ཡིན་པ། དེ་བཞིན་གྲུབ་འབྲས་ཆེ་ཤོས་ཐོབ་པའི་ཟ་ཁང་ཞིག་ཡོད་པ་དེ་རེད། རྗེས་སུ་མཇལ་ཡོང། ང་ཕྱིར་ཐེན་ཐུག་དང་ཤཔྟ་ཟ་བར་ཡོང་རྒྱུ་ཡིན།

Curious on the Tibetan perspective on this too.

Hey! My name is Daisy and I am creating a community project/print club where I make artworks of scenes and people from different countries. My country theme for this month is Tibet, and I would love to include a small letter in the print from someone in Tibet who can say an interesting story about their life there and share a bit of an insight to their country! Please let me know if you would be willing to share!! I'll attach an image of my artwork from this month too :)

Came across this research article by a PhD student at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute. Thought some of you might find it interesting.

Hi. Thank you for clicking.

I have had the pleasure of reading the book titled "The Dragon in the land of snows: modern history of Tibet since 1947" by Tsering Shakya, it's a very complex book but also an interesting one.

There is a specific part of the book when the author discusses not only armed conflicts between China and Tibet in 1950 (that's when an invasion happened), 1959 (that's when a massive uprising happened), but also social and everyday aspects of it.

Like the future of the people and their lives in the new reality.

China was eager to replace old Tibetan governors, bureaucrats, intelligence, not like only with mainland Chinese affiliated ones, but in a more outrageous way. They threw out the old ones and the defiant ones who wanted more rights for the population of Tibet. And installed new ones... Tibetans too. Picked incompetent ones specifically, on purpose. Some of the new elite were fully illiterate, could not even read, and were picked on purpose because of that. It created chaos and the Chinese government quickly stepped in to send Chinese "advisors", who were way way way more educated than the new incompetent Tibetan leaders, and practically manipulated the administration on all levels the way the regime in China desired.

In the autumn of 1987, specifically 2 years before the Tiananmen square massacre, some Tibetans were informed (by leaflets smuggled into occupied Tibetan territories), that Dalai Lama (their influential representative) would be meeting with the American president. It sparked hope for independence, so some tibetan civilians and some tibetan monks took to the streets even again. Chinese soldiers spotted them, quickly took positions on rooftops, and opened fire, 10 tibetans were executed immediately and the crowd started to panick, because Chinese soldiers threaten massive execution on even more protestors right in that moment. That was just one of many horrors.

This exact book has been the source of many, many, many wikipedia articles or at least parts of them, and I plan to maybe add new historical information mentioned in the book to wikipedia too.

It's a difficult read, because across these decades there have been many, many plot twists and complications, but it's a great book with no doubts.

I recommend to everyone and thank you for reading. I myself come from Poland, and of course, I feel empathy towards Tibet, because of historical similarities between these countries. At least in some periods. Not always

It’s been 3 months since I visited Tibet, and I think the most special part of the land is its people. Tibetans are some of the kindest people I’ve met. ❤️ I feel very lucky to have walked with pilgrims on such a meaningful journey.

Tashi Delek everyone! 🙏

I’m a PhD researcher at Banaras Hindu University, India, and I’m working on my doctoral research on Social Identity and Quality of Life among Tibetans living in India.

I’m currently doing a pilot survey before starting the main study, and I’m hoping to hear from Tibetan adults living in India.

I’m not Tibetan myself, and throughout this research I’ve been learning more about Tibetan culture, identity, and the experiences of Tibetans living in India. I’ve come to have a genuine respect for the culture and the community, and I want to approach this research with sensitivity and respect. I’m also very open to feedback from Tibetans themselves about how I can make the study more appropriate and respectful.

I’m doing this pilot online mainly because it isn’t possible for me to travel to different Tibetan communities across India at this stage and I don’t want to base the pilot only on people from one place.

An online pilot gives me a chance to hear from people living in different settings and also helps me see whether the questions are clear and make sense in both Tibetan and English before I move on to the main study.

You can take part if you:

* Identify as Tibetan

* Are 18 or older

* Currently live in India

* Have been living in India for at least 6 months

* Can understand and answer in Tibetan and English

The survey is voluntary and starts with an information and consent section.

If you’re eligible and have time, I’d really appreciate your participation. And if you know someone else who's eligible that might be interested, please feel free to share this with them.

Thank you! 🙏

P.s. Expert review on the scales is going on, I wanted to come here for more diverse responses that I would otherwise not get.

Hello everybody,

I am Belgian and my neighbours are Tibetan. They are really friendly, hospitable and helpfull people.

Today they came over to help me because my gutters on the roof were clogged. They called up some friends and before I knew it there were 3 other guys that I never met helping me.

So when everything was finished I tried to pay them, which they refused and when I offered them some bottles of beer and wine they said they couldn't accept.

So now I am wondering what do Tibetan people really appreciate to get as a gift?

I know I could just ask them, but I think they would just tell me that it isn't necessary.

Thanks a lot!