Insights From The Roof Of The World: Conversations on Tibet

FNVA Talks is a series by the Foundation for Non-violent Alternatives (FNVA) that brings public engagements with key experts, leaders and stakeholders in the Himalayan region.

This FNVA Talks with His Excellency Sikyong (President) Penpa Tsering la titled 'Charting Tibet's Future: The Resolve Tibet Act, Strategies in Exile, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Legacy and India's Role' was a public event at the India International Centre on 21st October, 2024.

It was Chaired by Major General Ashok K. Mehta and had the former convenor of the All Party Indian Parliamentary Forum for Tibet, Dr. Sujeet Kumar...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile and their future aspiration for Tibet and provide them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this episode, we engage with Lobsang Soepa la, he is currently studying Tibetan at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies (Sarah) at Dharamshala. Born and brought up in Tawang, Arunachal...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile and their future aspiration for Tibet and provide them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this episode, we engage with Lodoe Gyatso, he is currently with the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) in New York. Prior to this, he served as a Youth Representative at...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile and their future aspiration for Tibet and provide them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this episode, we engage with Tenzin Yangzom, she is the Campaigns Coordinator at the International Tibet Network (ITN) and previously she was also the Grassroots Director at Students for a...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile and their future aspiration for Tibet and provide them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this episode, we engage with Tashi Nyima, who is a co-founder of Khadhok Arts alongside his colleagues, Tenzin Melak and Lea Taake. This Tibetan arts collective was established in 2023 with...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile and their future aspiration for Tibet and provide them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this episode, we engage with Dr. Tara Lhamo la who recently took part in the 2nd International Tibet Youth Forum (ITYF) held in Dharamshala, India. She has been a youth...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, and their future aspiration for Tibet providing them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this Episode we engage with Nangsel Sherpa la who shares insight from her research theme of "Migration, Gender, Religion, and Tibetan Identity," which expounds on the complexities and intersectionality of the...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, and their future aspiration for Tibet providing them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this Episode we engage with Tenzin Tsedub Lodoe la who is the national coordinator of V-TAG USA and co-founder of Bodja Podcast, he shares insights from the International Tibet Youth Forum 2024...

Charting the Course: India's Strategic Role in Tibet's Future is a collaborated event between The Foundation for Non-Violent Alternatives (FNVA) and the Future of Tibet, which is supported by Giuseppe Kaiser Stiftung. The Event was held at the India International Centre, New Delhi on 3rd November, 2023.

Panel Discussion on "Tibet in Geopolitical Vision: The Centrality of Tibet on Indo-China Relations" moderated by Tenzin Younten la (Associate Fellow at CCSST, Pinaca Technologies) with panellist Rebon Banerjee Dhar (founding trustee of FNVA) and Lobsang Gyatso Sither la (Member of the 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile).

The discussion...

Charting the Course: India's Strategic Role in Tibet's Future is a collaborated event between The Foundation for Non-Violent Alternatives and the Future of Tibet, which is supported by Giuseppe Kaiser Stiftung. The Event was held at the India International Centre, New Delhi on 3rd November, 2023.

His Eminence the Kundeling Tatsak Rinpoche in his speech stressed the pivotal role that India has played in preserving Tibet’s rich culture and identity since occupation. Rinpoche also shared his experience while travelling to the USA and Canada recently. Stating that the Tibetan community there remains vibrant and firm to its Ti...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, and their future aspiration for Tibet providing them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this Episode we engage with Tsering Kyizom la who shares with us, her inspiring journey and what led her in pursing teaching. She is a Tibetan Women based in India and...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, and their future aspiration for Tibet providing them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this Episode ,we engage with Tenzin Pema la who fought and raised the Tibetan national flag, drew thousands of Tibetans at the Matrix Fight Night (MFN)14 in Noida, India.

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Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this Episode we engage with Tenzin Pema la who recently raised the Tibetan national flag and drew thousands of Tibetans...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, and their future aspiration for Tibet providing them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this Episode we engage with Dr. Dickey Choedon la who shares insights from her research paper "Changing Legal Identity: Tibetans’ View on Indian Citizenship" which expounds and explores on the recent su...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, and their future aspiration for Tibet providing them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this Episode we engage with Thupten Rinzin la who recounts his journey since joining the Central Tibetan Administration in 2014, shedding light on pathways to civil service within the Tibetan Government-in-Exile. As...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, and their future aspiration for Tibet providing them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this Episode we engage with Tenzin Passang la, the current India National Director of Students for a Free Tibet - India. Tenzin Passang la unfolds the origins of Students for a...

The Fault Lines is a series by FNVA that discuss developments occurring on our Indian frontiers. Engaging extensively with the Universities on these regions and bringing them to the fore.

The Second Episode of The Fault Lines sees Claude Arpi, Author, Tibet Expert, Advisor at FNVA and Director of the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture at Auroville addressing on the topic "The Sino-Indian Boundary - A Historical Background with emphasis on the Ladakh sector".

Claude Arpi here with us the historical background and significance of Ladakh when it comes the current India - China Boundary which...

The Fault Lines is a series by FNVA that discuss developments occurring on our Indian frontiers. Engaging extensively with the Universities on these regions and bringing them to the fore.

The First Episode of The Fault Lines sees Professor Srikanth Kondapalli, the Dean of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and FNVA Trustee addressing on the topic "Western Sector of the Border in India-China Relations".

This Episode is moderated by Professor Sonam Joldan from the University of Ladakh and was addressed to the University of Ladakh on 16th May, 2023. Professor Srikanth...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, and their future aspiration for Tibet providing them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this Episode we engage with Tenzin Shinyi, a Tibetan who was born in India, studied in Tibet/China and is currently in doing her further studies in India. She shares personal...

Tibet in Context is a podcast series that gears in gaining a deeper understanding of Tibet through conversations with Tibetans, China Watchers, Tibetologists, Environmentalist and Security Experts.Our guest today, Ethan Gutmann, makes a chilling hypothesis to our host Kate Saunders. What if Thermo Fisher has been involved in a process to discover if one person’s vital organs could fit into another person’s body? Our podcast brings together horrifying research on the killing of Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs for their organs in China. The China Tribunal in London in 2019 concluded that for decades, prisoners have been kill...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, and their future aspiration for Tibet providing them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

The conversation with H.E. the 9th Kunsang Dorjie Rinpoche La sees him engaging on the themes of Buddhism, how it came to Tibet, what is it's status under the illegal Chinese...

Tibet in Context is a podcast series that gears in gaining a deeper understanding of Tibet through conversations with Tibetans, China Watchers, Tibetologists, Environmentalist and Security Experts.

In this episode, our host Kate Saunders engages with Dr. Gyal Lo la on the life of the 10th Panchen Rinpoche in Tibet, who worked to protect the Tibetan language, culture and religion with the 6th Gungthang Rinpoche, whom many consider to be the right hand of the 10th Panchen Rinpoche - from the perspective of a Tibetan educationalist with personal experience of this very period and interaction with both...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, and their future aspiration for Tibet providing them with a platform to express themselves. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this Episode we engage with Tenzin Tsangpa, a Tibetan student in France - dwells on how he was confronted, harassed and assaulted by a group of misinformed Chinese mainlanders during the...

Tibet in Context is a podcast series that gears in gaining a deeper understanding of Tibet through conversations with Tibetans, China Watchers, Tibetologists, Environmentalist and Security Experts.

A conversation with Professor Gyal Lo la.

Tibetan scholar Professor Gyal Lo is a remarkable witness to China's accelerated assimilationist policies, aimed at the extinction of a separate Tibetan identity and sense of history.

In this podcast, he reflects on why he had to defect from the PRC in 2020, his fears for the future and the immense emotional impact of his meeting with the Dalai Lama...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this Episode we engage with New Delhi Executive of the Global Tibetan People's Movement for Middle Way Approach (GTPMMWA) and...

This talk is part of the FNVA’s Round Table titled as “Next Decade of India-China Relations: Scope for Policy Alternatives?”, held at the India International Centre, New Delhi – 2013.Jayadev Ranade, president of Centre for China Analysis Strategy and author Xi Jinping China's Third New Era elaborately explains how China had successfully handed over its leadership to a new corp of Chinese communist leaders. He further highlights the 18th Party Congress and the composition of the party's top leader. On India, he asserted Beijing's continual inroads in border encroachment which has increased drastically, destabilising India's neighbour (Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka an...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this episode we engage with Tibetan Researcher and Rangtsen Advocate Tenzin Nyinjey on Tibet, The Tibetan Freedom Movement, The Tibetan...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this episode, we engage with Tibetan activist and Tibetan Youth Congress General Secretary Sonam Tsering sees him share to us...

The policy document was launched on 27th January, 2023 at the India International Centre, Annexe, New Delhi.

This report is meant for the long-term projection of issues between INDIA, TIBET and CHINA and for their possible resolution in a peaceful manner.

Tibet in Context is a podcast series that gears in gaining a deeper understanding of Tibet through conversations with Tibetans, China Watchers, Tibetologists, Environmentalist and Security Experts.

In this episode, Kate Saunders from FNVA engages with Martin Bursík, Shao Jiang and Anders Højmark Andersen. Discussing on how Europe Kowtows to China and Beijing and also how they along with other leaders have fought back on this front.

This podcast takes the temperature of China’s influence on European democracies after a series of shocking incidents in capitals including London, Prague and Copenhagen when poli...

This talk is part of the FNVA’s Round Table titled as “Next Decade of India-China Relations: Scope for Policy Alternatives?”, held at the India International Centre, New Delhi – 2013.

Gordon Chang, the author of ‘The Coming Collapse of China’ and ‘The Great US-China Tech War’ calls out the rouse of the Chinese economy. He further asserts how the Chinese economy which needs reform to continue its growth requires necessary political if they were to fulfil its ambitions. He explains the key points that led to the unprecedented rise of the Chinese economy and argues that the current polices like the...

This talk is part of the FNVA’s Round Table titled as “Next Decade of India-China Relations: Scope for Policy Alternatives?”, held at the India International Centre, New Delhi – 2013.

The late Lodi Gyari Rinpoche was the key Tibetan statesmen when the Sino-Tibetan Dialogue initiated and took place. He explains to us in his presentation what this dialogue is and how it is pivotal in resolving the Tibet-China conflict. Furthermore, he gives insights on the Chinese leadership including the diplomatic tactics employed by the former presidents of the PRC, late Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. He also asserts the impo...

Tibet in Context is a podcast series that gears in gaining a deeper understanding of Tibet through conversations with Tibetans, China Watchers, Tibetologists, Environmentalist and Security Experts.

In this episode, we engage with Simon Cheng, Rahima Mahmut and Tenzin Kunga on how their respective communities and councillors came together to prevent the establishment of a Super Chinese Embassy at Tower Hamlets, London.

This podcast brings together three campaigners who worked with local residents and councilors to achieve this major victory. We discuss the significance of this development in the context of reconfigured UK-China relations and...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this episode we engage with Tibetan activist and community organiser Chemi Lhamo sees here engage upon several topics ranging from...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this episode we engage with Tenzyn Zöchbauer who shares with us the functions and activities by the Tibet Initiative...

Tibet in Context is a podcast series that gears in gaining a deeper understanding of Tibet through conversations with Tibetans, China Watchers, Tibetologists, Environmentalist and Security Experts.

In this episode, we engage with Gabriel Lafitte, Lobsang Yangtso and Tenzin Choekyi on Climate Change in Tibet and how it impacts the world.

Tibet is a biodiversity hotspot that governs the flow of the monsoon rains and creates the rivers that are sourced from Tibet – it matters to the rest of the world. Known as the Earth’s Third Pole, Tibet holds the largest store of fresh wate...

This session sees various experts and scholars tackle and try to gauge the path that the current Chinese government under President Xi Jinping is heading towards. It also provides a deep analysis on the recently concluded National Party Congress which saw a major shift in Chinese leadership.

The speakers include Amb. Kanwal Sibal, the former foreign secretary of India and Padma Shree recipient as the chair and moderator. Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli, the Dean of School of International Studies - JNU. Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, the Diplomatic Affairs editor of the Economic Times. Tenzin Lekshey, The official Spokesperson of...

Tibet in Context is a podcast series that gears in gaining a deeper understanding of Tibet through conversations with Tibetans, China Watchers, Tibetologists, Environmentalist and Security Experts.

In this episode, we engage with Laura Harth who is the Campaign Director of Safeguard Defenders in understanding the truth of China's Transnational Policing.

Their report "110 Overseas: China's Policing gone wild" documents that Chinese police forces have been running “overseas police service stations” in “dozens of countries” across five continents since 2018, constituting illegal policing operations on foreign soil.

Since the report was released on 12 September, 14 governments have sta...

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.

In this episode we engage with Tenzin Zompa. She is a journalist and worked at ThePrint and Phayul media. We deliberate...

Tibet in Context is a podcast series that gears in gaining a deeper understanding of Tibet through conversations with Tibetans, China Watchers, Tibetologists, Environmentalist and Security Experts.

In this episode we engage with two Tibetan scholars in understanding the situation in Tibet especially those who disappear including Go Sherab Gyatso and many others.