During a visit to the Kham Kathok Tibetan Settlement in Sataun, Sikyong Penpa Tsering warned of China's continued efforts to erase Tibetan identity and urged stronger Tibetan language education ...

“Before 2008, the Tibetan Children’s Villages (TCV)—the schooling system set up by the community in exile—had roughly 17,000 students. Now there are only 5,000 students across all the ...

Across China’s west, the party is placing children in boarding ... that forced the Dalai Lama into exile. The party accuses the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, of having ruled over ...

The children had “forgotten the Tibetan they knew and could no longer speak it properly,” says Gyal Lo, who lived in a Chinese province at the time, and now lives in exile in Canada.

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Since education is compulsory, parents cannot really object to their children leaving ... chairman of the Tibetan government-in-exile: 'The West fed the Chinese dragon' Given Dolma's young ...

Tibetans in exile form a large refugee community ... US has also threatened sanctions against China for its attempts to forcibly assimilate Tibetan children through state-operated boarding schools, ...

This is the situation of many Tibetan children, born in exile, who have never been able to visit their own country. The Tibetan snow lion. The book celebrates the resilience of the Changpa people.

The Tibetan government-in-exile in India dismissed the stance on ... About a million Tibetan children from rural areas have been reportedly sent to these government-run schools, where the language ...

Think of Pashmina and the first thing that comes to mind is Kashmiri shawls. Yet, there's a crucial link in the supply chain that comes even before the shawls can be woven in the Valley: The hair ...

he said it is necessary to "step up efforts to teach Tibetan language to Tibetan children living in exile." Additionally, Sikyong provided updates on a major initiative from the Department of ...