Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Tibetan diaspora is the relocation of Tibetan people from Tibet, their country of origin, to other nation states to live as exiles and refugees in communities. The diaspora of Tibetan people began in the early 1950s, peaked after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, and continues. Tibetan emigration has four separate stages.
More than a hundred Tibetan refugees staged a protest in New Delhi on Friday, demanding that the "occupation" of their country by China be discussed during the two-day G20 summit in the city this ...
Tibetan refugee self-help center in Darjeeling, West Bengal. Since its independence in 1947, India has accepted various groups of refugees from neighbouring countries, including partition refugees from former British Indian territories that now constitute Pakistan and Bangladesh, Tibetan refugees that arrived in 1959, Chakma refugees from present day Bangladesh in early 1960s, other ...
Monks in Bir Tibetan Colony, 2008. Bir Tibetan Colony is a Tibetan refugee settlement in the Himalayan village of Chowgan adjacent to the town of Bir, in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. [1] It was established in the early 1960s by Chokling Rinpoche following the exile of the Dalai Lama and other refugees from Tibet. [1]
Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre. Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre in Darjeeling, India, is a rehabilitation centre for the Tibetan refugees in the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region. It was established on 2 October 1959, after they followed Dalai Lama and escaped from Tibet. [1] The production of Tibetan handicraft is the centre's main activity. [2]
On the grounds of Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, Indiana. Communities of Tibetan Americans in the Great Lakes region exist in Chicago and in the states of Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan. There is a Tibetan Mongol Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, Indiana near the campus of Indiana University. [10]
Today, it is home to second generation of Tibet refugees and is also known as Samyeling, through colloquially as "Little-Tibet" or "Mini-Tibet". [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Tempa Tsering , Representative of 14th Dalai Lama to New Delhi and member Tibetan Government in Exile , speaking at a gathering, Majnu Ka Tilla, 2013
In the 1960s, the Canadian government accepts Tibetan refugees under a few conditions. These conditions were set under the Tibetan Refugee program. This was an experimental program that would let 228 Tibetans enter Canada quickly and at a lower cost. [6] It took a decade for the first Tibetan migrants to set foot in Canada.