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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.
Tibetan Children's Villages' 50th anniversary in Dharamsala, 2010. Tibetan Children's Villages or TCV is an integrated community in exile for the care and education of orphans, destitutes and refugee children from Tibet. It is a registered, nonprofit charitable organization with its main facility based at Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, North ...
Lha organizes month-long homestay programs with participation from Tibetan refugee families. The program provides unique insight into the rituals, traditions, and general family life of Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala and McLeod Ganj. The profits from the homestay program are received by the host families and help support their lives in exile.
This page is a list of organisations of Tibetans in exile.Most of the organisations listed are groups of ethnic Tibetans outside of Tibet and based in Dharamsala. [1] The Dharamshala Indian community materialised around the Dalai Lama, who moved there from Tibet after the 1959 unrest in Tibet. [2]
The Tibet Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in New York City, New York, United States.It was founded in 1981 under the auspices of the Dalai Lama.The Tibet Fund is the primary funding organization for health, education, refugee rehabilitation, cultural preservation and economic development programs that enable Tibetans in exile and their homeland to sustain their language ...
The foundation offers for Tibetan refugees opportunities for a professional education by earning the 8th or 10th grade school qualification in India. The foundation is based in Zürich, and since 2006 the Kunpan Cultural School for 24 [ 1 ] students is in Dharamshala in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh .
The Tibetan diaspora and refugees support the Central Tibetan Administration by voting for members of its parliament, the Sikyong, and by making annual financial contributions through the use of the Green Book. The Central Tibetan Administration also receives international support from other organizations and individuals.
Supported by Jigme Lhundup Rinpoche, in June 2010 the board members of Kunpan Cultural School had the privilege of privately meeting the 14th Dalai Lama at his residence in Dharamsala. He acknowledged and appreciated the successful work that Kunpan have been doing for the previous ten years in terms of educating Tibetan refugees in India.