Podcasts about tibetan refugees

"Somehow, miraculously, Tibetans have managed to preserve their identity. They have actually transplanted the Tibet they left behind and have created a whole new little Tibet in India. This is a huge success story, which should be celebrated. Now we are in the third generation and Tibetan culture is very much alive" - Tsering Namgyal Khortsa, author, 'Little Lhasa; Reflections in Exiled Tibet' talks to Manjula Narayan about the vibrant arts and cultural scene of Dharamsala, which is the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, the pull of Tibetan Buddhism and the Dalai Lama to a range of seekers from across the world, and the exiled people's shift to becoming a diasporic community.

When India-based reporter Amy Yee got a call from her editor to cover a press conference with the Dalai Lama, she stopped what she was doing and booked the next flight. She was headed for Dharamsala, where the Buddhist leader and thousands of Tibetan refugees make their home. It was March 2008, and the Dalai Lama was responding to violence in Tibet, where demonstrations against Chinese rule led to a government crackdown. At least 120 people had died, mostly ethnic Tibetans.  On that first visit to Dharamsala, Yee was struck by the throngs of Tibetans protesting peacefully in the streets. She was also surprised when the Dalai Lama approached her after the press conference, asked if she was Chinese, and embraced her in a warm hug.  A few months later, Yee quit her job at the Financial Times and moved to this small city in the foothills of the Himalayas as a freelance reporter. She writes that “Dharamsala is more than an ethnic enclave; it's a unique microcosm of a culture fighting for survival.” Her new book, Far from the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents follows the stories of ordinary Tibetans who have lived extraordinary lives. It also documents this community in exile: its education system, self-expression, and non-violent resistance.  In this second episode in our series on refugees and immigration, we take a look at what it means to build a new life, when you may never be able to go home; and how Tibetans have forged their own path in India and elsewhere.  Music in this episode by Joel Cummins, One Man Book, and Podington Bear ABOUT THE SHOW Making Peace Visible is hosted by Jamil Simon and produced by Andrea Muraskin, with help from Faith McClure. Learn more at makingpeacevisible.orgWe want to learn more about our listeners. Take this 3-minute survey to help us improve the show! Support this podcast

Since China's annexation of Tibet in the 1950s, more than 100,000 Tibetans have fled the mountainous region, known as the rooftop of the world. Most of those refugees live with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, citizens of what's considered the Tibetan government in exile. Journalist Amy Yee has been documenting the stories of Tibetans outside Tibet — in Dharamsala, as well as in Australia, Belgium and New York — and their efforts to preserve their culture abroad. We talk to her about the people, places and rituals she chronicles in her new book, “Far From the Rooftop of the World: Travels Among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents.” Guests: Amy Yee, Bloomberg journalist and author of the new book, “Far from the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents”

In this Tibet Talk, we speak to Amy Yee, author of the new book, "Far from the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents." We discuss the 15-year journey—and the life-changing interaction with the Dalai Lama—that led her to write the book. We also go over the lives of the Tibetan exiles she got to know and the warmth they showed her as a Chinese American. Plus, we speak to ICT President Tencho Gyatso about the visit of the Tibetan Sikyong (President) to Washington, DC.

On 27th May 2021 His Excellency, Penpa Tsering became the democratically elected President/Sikyong of the Central Tibetan Administration. After the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959, the Tibetan government in exile was established in Dharamshala, India. A Sikyong plays a pivotal role as the political and administrative head of the Tibetan administration in exile. In this episode, Tenzin speaks with His Excellency, Penpa Tsering about the Central Tibetan Administration and his vision for the Tibetan refugees in India and around the world.

In October 1950, China occupied Tibet. Since then, the mountain state's culture and religion have been brutally suppressed. To this day, Tibetans still flee their country. DW met one family in Switzerland.

ཨོ་སི་ཊོ་ལི་ཡའི་གྲོས་ཚོགས་འཐུས་མིའི་བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚོགས་པས་གོ་སྒྲིག་འོག ཉེ་ཆར་ཨོ་གླིང་གྲོས་ཚོགས་ཚོགས་ཁང་དུ་ཚོགས་འདུ་ཞིག་གོ་སྒྲིག་གནང་ཡོད་པ་དང་། སྐབས་དེར་ཨོ་གླིང་སྐུ་ཚབ་དོན་གཅོད་ཀརྨ་སེང་གེ་མཆོག་དང་། འདེམས་ཐོན་བོད་མི་མང་སྤྱི་འཐུས་རྡོ་རིང་བསྟན་འཛིན་ཕུན་ཚོགས། ཨོ་སི་ཊོ་ལི་ཡ་བོད་དོན་ལྷན་ཁང་གི་ཚོགས་མི་བཅས་མཉམ་ཞུགས་དང་། ཨོ་སི་ཊོ་ལི་ཡའི་ཆབ་སྲིད་ཚོགས་པ་ཁག་གསུམ་ནས་ཁྱོན་གྲོས་ཚོགས་འཐུས་མི་ ༡༡ མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་ཡོད་འདུག

When Tibet was invaded by China in the 1950s the Dalai Lama and many Tibetans left, finding a new home in India. Over the years this population has grown, now overseen by a Central Tibetan authority which has never been formally integrated into India. While this has allowed Tibetans to retain their culture and religion, it’s added challenges when it comes to citizenship. Guest: Associate Professor Sonika Gupta (China Studies Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Madras) Recorded 26 June, 2019.

Two young, Tibetan university students share their experiences of interning at major Australian companies through the support of Career Seekers's internship program for students from refugee background. - ཨོ་སི་ཏྲེ་ལི་ཡའི་ནང་རང་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ཆེད་ལས་དང་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་ལས་ཀ་རག་པར་ངེས་པར་དུ་ལས་ཀའི་ཉམས་མྱོང་དགོས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པས་ཁེ་མེད་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་པ་ Career Seeker ཞེས་པའི་ཆེད་མངགས་ཨོ་སི་ཏྲེ་ལི་ཡར་སྐྱབས་བཅོལ་དུ་ཕེབས་པའི་ཆེད་ལས་པ་རྒན་གཞོན་ཡོངས་ལ་ལས་སྦྱོང་གི་གོ་སྐབས་བསྐྲུན་གནང་གི་ཡོད་འདུག

The President of Central Tibetan Administration, Sikyong Lobsang Sangay discusses the success of "Thank you Australia event" held at Canberra and urges the Australian Tibetans to stay united. - ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༨ ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༢ ཚེས་ ༥ ཉིན་དབུས་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་བློ་བཟང་སེངྒེ་མཆོག་ལ། ཨོ་སི་ཊོ་ལི་ཡ་གཞུང་དམངས་གཉིས་ལ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་ཞུ་བའི་ལས་རིམ་སོགས་ཀྱི་སྐོར་བཅར་འདྲི་དང་། སྐབས་དེར་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་གིས་བོད་མི་ནང་ཁུལ་རྡོག་རྩ་གཅིག་སྒྲིལ་དགོས་པ་དེ་གལ་ཆེན་པོ་ཆགས་ཡོད་སྐོར་དང་། ཡང་ཉེ་ཆར་རྩོམ་ཡིག་ཅིག་གི་ནང་༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་དང་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་དབར་འགལ་ཟླ་ཡོད་སྐོར་བྲིས་པ་ནི་རྫུན་དང་ཧམ་བཤད་ལས་བདེན་པ་རྩ་བ་ནས་མིན་སྐོར་སོགས་ལན་འདེབས་འགྲེལ་བརྗོད་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད།

President of Victorian Tibetan community and social worker, Tenzin Lobsang Khangsar won the 2018 Frank Fisher Award for his outstanding contribution in improving health care access to Tibetan community. - སྦིག་ཊོ་རི་ཡ་མངའ་སྡེའི་བོད་རིགས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་ཚོགས་པའི་ཚོགས་གཙོ་དང་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཞབས་ཞུ་བ་བསྟན་འཛིན་བློ་བཟང་ཁང་གསར་ལགས་སུ་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་ལྟ་སྐྱོང་དང་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཞབས་ཞུ་བསྒྲུབས་པར་རྗེས་སུ་ཡི་རང་ཞུ་ཆེད་་སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༨ ལོའི་ Frank Fisher Award ཞེས་པའི་བྱ་དགའ་འདི་ཕུལ་གནང་འདུག

Settling in a new country comes with many challenges. Finding housing, education, employment is stressful and can have an impact on mental health. For people in need, there are ways to get free mental health support in Australia. Sonam Rapgha says that the unconditional support from the Tibetan community plays a crucial role in preventing mental health issues for Tibetans in Australia. - རྒྱལ་ཁབ་གསར་པ་ཞིག་ནང་གཞིས་ཆགས་པར་དཀའ་ངལ་ཆེ་ཆུང་མི་འདྲ་བ་མང་པོ་ཡོད། ཁང་པ་འཚོལ་རྒྱུ་དང་།ཤེས་ཡོན་མཁོ་བསྒྲུབ། ལས་ཀ་འཚོལ་རྒྱུ་སོགས་ཀྱི་སེམས་ངལ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་སེམས་ཁམས་ལ་ཕོག་ཐུག་ཡོང་བའི་ཉེན་ཁ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡོད། དེར་བརྟེན་ཨི་སོ་ཏྲེ་ལི་ཡའི་ནང་རིན་མེད་ཐོག་ཁྱེད་རང་གིས་སེམས་ཁམས་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་གྱི་ཆེད་དུ་རོགས་སྐྱོར་ལེན་ཆོག

At the last census, there were more than 116 00 people with no permanent home in the country. Since 2011, the number of homeless people has grown by 14 percent. And with no clear national plan to fight homelessness and a lack of affordable housing, there's no sign of things getting better. Listen to what some young Tibetan refugees have to say about homelessness and its direct link to housing affordability. - ཨོ་སི་ཏྲེ་ལི་ཡའི་ནང་ཁྱིམ་མེད་པར་འགྱུར་བའི་དཀའ་ངལ་ཛ་དྲག་ཏུ་འགྲོ་ཡོད། ཉེ་དུས་ཀྱི་མི་འབོར་ཞིབ་བཤེར་སྐབས་ཨོ་སི་ཏྲེ་ལི་ཡའི་ནང་མི་གྲངས་ཁྲི་གཅིག་ལྷག་ལ་སྡོད་ཁང་བརྟེན་པོ་ཞིག་མེད་པ་ཐོན་ཡོད། རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་སུ་ཁྱིམ་མེད་པའི་དཀའ་ངལ་ལས་གྲོལ་ཐབས་འཆར་གཞི་ཡང་དག་པ་གང་ཡང་མེད་པ་དང་། ཁང་པའི་རིན་གོང་མུ་མཐུད་འཕར་བཞིན་ཡོད་པས་ཡར་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པ་ཞིག་མཐོང་དཀའ་མོ་ཆགས་ཡོད།

Finding a job is a priority for Tibetan refugees and migrants moving to Australia. But most workers need to be able to speak and write English well. A Tibetan refugee, Jamphel Wangchuk says that Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) has helped him gain confidence in speaking English in his daily life. He believes that it will eventually help him get a job. - ཕྱིའི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནས་ཨོ་སི་ཏྲེ་ལི་ཡར་གནས་སྤོ་བ་རྣམས་ལ་དགོས་གལ་ཆེ་ཤོས་ནི་ལས་ཀ་རག་རྒྱུ་དེ་ཡིན། འོན་ཀྱང་ལས་ཀ་འཚོལ་བར་དབྱིན་སྐད་རྒྱག་ཐུབ་པ་དང་། དབྱིན་ཡིག་འབྲི་ཀློག་ཤེས་དགོས་པ་ནི་ཐོག་མའི་ཆ་རྐྱེན་ཡིན། དེར་བརྟེན་གནས་སྤོ་བ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་རིན་མེད་ཐོག་དབྱིན་ཡིག་སློབ་འཁྲིད་ཀྱི་ལས་གཞིའི་འོག་དབྱིན་ཡིག་རྨང་གཞི་སྦྱོང་ཆོག་པ་མ་ཟད། ལས་ཀ་རག་ཐབས་སུ་དབྱིན་སྐད་ཡར་རྒྱས་གཏོང་བར་འབད་བརྩོན་བྱེད་ཆོག

What is mental health? How do get to be mentally healthy and how do we maintain it? In this podcast I will share with you: 4 Things Mentally Healthy People Do 10 areas that contribute to mental health 7 Ways to Maintain your Mental Health You don’t want to miss this one!    Show Notes:   Girl Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis of The Chic Site 3 in 30 Podcast Dr. Leah Weiss   This post contains affiliate links.   Show Summary   Today I want to talk to you about mental health.  I think it is something we are really lacking in today’s world and something that is so important.  Most people think that mental health is just a lack of mental illness.  A lack of depression or anxiety.  I also think some people think they are mentally healthy because they don’t have a diagnosed mental illness like bipolar or schizophrenia.  But what I want to offer you today is that mental health is not just a lack of mental illness, but it is a state of awareness and well-being.  It determines how we handle stress, how we relate to others, and make choices.  Mental health is about mindfulness and where your thoughts and intentions are at all times.   Now that being said, if you suffer from mental illness from a chemical imbalance,  I think you can still achieve mental health with the help of medication.  I think medication is also helpful to get someone to the point where they can be more mindful and shift their thinking so that they can get mentally healthy and don’t have to be on medication anymore if they don’t have a chemical imbalance.   There is so much to mental health that I want to talk about today.  What does it mean to be mentally healthy and how to get there. But first WHY?  Why do we want to be mentally healthy?   I was to a podcast and the host was interviewing Rachel Hollis.  If you don’t know who she is, she is a female entrepreneur and runs a lifestyle website.  She recently came out with a book called “Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop believing the lies about who you think you are so you can become who you were meant to be”  I’ve heard great things about this book and I think it encompasses a lot of things we talk about here on the podcast and in my coaching program.  But on this particular podcast I was listening to, she said as she was writing this book she was looking back over the hardest things in her life and the whole time she was trying to figure out how to SUFFER less.  And I was thinking about that and isn’t that what we all want? We want to suffer less?  And whether the situations truly hard, or we just find it hard because of where we are in our life, it is still suffering.  And that is what Life Coaching does for people.  We teach you what you can do to suffer less.  We think that our circumstances are causing our suffering, but really they aren’t.  It’s our thoughts and how we are dealing with our circumstances that cause our suffering.   But someone who is mentally healthy is able to deal with those circumstances a lot better.  I see these posts on facebook of women who are constantly struggling with anxiety about driving places, and going to their kids soccer game, and making a phone call to make a doctor appointment.  And all of that is suffering!  And that is not healthy!  And that is no way to live!  That is not what Heavenly Father wants for us!  He wants us to be brave and courageous and confident in our abilities to deal with anything that comes.  I want that for you!  For you to feel confident and empowered, and that you can deal with whatever.   For example - I was talking to a friend of mine this morning.  She is the one who originally introduced me to Life Coaching and has been getting coached herself.  May is always a crazy month for everyone - I call it May Madness!  Along with all the end of the year school stuff, sports, she also has her birthday, her husbands birthday, and 3 of her kids birthdays.  And May is usually just so insane.  But this year, even though she just had just as much stuff as she always does, she suffered less!  Because of what she has learned about thought work and life coaching, she was able to more easily deal with the stress and challenges that came up. And looking back, it was the same thing for me!  I always feel so stressed in the Spring with sports and all of the kids stuff and I just haven’t this year.  I was able to handle things so much better and SUFFER less!   So mentally healthy people know how to SUFFER less.  They also….   Positive mental health allows people to   Cope with the stresses of life Reach their full potential Work productively Make meaningful contributions to their communities   How do we become mentally healthy?   The first thing is self-care.  Self-care, especially as women, gets put on the back burner.  We take care of everyone else before we take care of our own needs.  We take whatever time is left over for ourself instead of prioritizing it and making it one of the first things.  So in order to have good mental health I first want you to put your own Self-Care at the the top of the list.  I want you to schedule it in your calendar every single day.  Now what does self care mean?  It is different for everyone.  For some it is eating healthy, exercising, meditation, prayer, scripture study.  For some it might be taking some time to read a book or take a hot bath.  Maybe go get your nails done or get a massage.  Getting yourself in a place where your thoughts and intentions are on the right track and you can focus on what you want for yourself and for those around you that day.   I was recently listening to the 3 in 30 podcast and Rachel Nielsen had on Dr. Leah Weiss, who is a professor in the Stanford School of Business and she’s written a book called “How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim your sanity, and embrace the daily grind.”  In it she talks about when she was in college she went and studied in Northern Indian with Tibetan Refugees.  She says that the word “meditation” is a translation from the Tibetan word “gom” (gome) which means something more like “familiarization” or “getting to know your mind and heart.”  And really it’s not something you do on a meditation pillow for 5 minutes in the morning, and 5 minutes in the evening, but its really something you can do all the time.  Getting to know yourself and where you intentions lie.   She also talks about mindfulness.  And mindfulness is the Intentional use of attention.  Now the Tibetans have been using this for thousands of years, but modern research backs it up that Mindfulness is how we make meaningful progress in our life.     Our minds wander 49% of the time. That’s normal. But paying attention to that wandering and pulling things back gives us progress.   The Tibetans have a 3-part mindfulness process called Dampa Sume - which means 3 good principles, or 3 good things.  And what it entails is that when you are going to do something, you need to first think about it and what your intentions are with it.  What do you want it to be.  Then when you are doing it, remember those intentions.  If you get distracted, try to get back to those intentions as soon as you can.  And then when you are done, reflect on what happened.  Then start again.   I like to do this as part of my self-care at the beginning of each day.  With my scripture study, ensign reading, and prayer.  And I include Heavenly Father in setting my intentions for the day.  I specifically ask what I can do to serve Him and serve others.  I really feel that setting your intentions is the key to personal revelation.  And I am so delighted when I am inspired for certain service opportunities that come up throughout the day and I am able to follow through with my intentions.  And then at the end of the day I reflect on those things and write about them in a gratitude journal.   I also set my intentions during the day with my eating habits, how I spend my time for work and with my children.  How I want to show up in my marriage and with my husband.  Sometimes its an all day practice, and sometimes its a little event or task.  But there is intention and thoughtfulness behind it.  And once you begin to focus on those things as you go about your day you will find you are looking outside of yourself and you are so much happier.  You will also find you are so much more productive as you set your intentions for each task.  Your mental health is so much better when you are constantly setting those intentions and living up to them, not with perfection, but with progress and compassion.   You also have to value your self-care above anything anyone else says about you.  You know what is true and you need to be confident in that.   Checklist of mental health   1. Future plans - Believe in your capacity and your abilities. Have big goals that stretch yourself. Five years down the road 10 years down the road. 2. Emotional balanced - Having both positive and negative emotions. Be willing to experience and process negative emotions.  3. Little or no buffering - Seeking falls pleasure as an escape to negative emotion. Escaping your relationship with yourself and negative emotions  4. Take action - set your intentions and follow through 5. Internal control. Control yourself and not try to control others or your environment 6. Self-coach yourself (use model) everyday  7. Contribution  - create value in your life or on the world  8. Unconditional self love - Grace for your mistakes and failures 9. Time management- keep a time journal.  See where you are really spending your time each day.  Is it matching up to your intentions and your priorities? 10. Money management  - It doesn’t matter how much money you have, only how you manage it.     Ways to maintain positive mental health include:   Getting professional help if you need it Connecting with others Staying positive (change your thoughts) Getting physically active (change your state) Helping others Getting enough sleep Developing coping skills   On next week’s podcast I am going to share with you my own personal journey to mental health.  It did start with mental illness and has been a long process.  And it’s kind of hard to share and very vulnerable, but as Brene Brown (one of my favorite mentors) says “Vulnerability is where connection is created” and I want to connect with you as my audience and I want you to connect with me.  I think so many times you listen to people on podcasts or in books and you think..”oh they are just so perfect and I can’t be like that.”  But I want you to understand that I am so far from that.  And while things are going really good for me right now, I am mentally healthy now, I have no always been this way.  It has been a lot of really hard work to get where I am now.  But it is possible!  It is possible to go from mental illness or just being mentally unhealthy to being mentally healthy.  I want that for you and that is what I am trying to communicate to you about in this podcast and what I teach my clients in my coaching program.  I want you to see how amazing you already are and what the possibilities are for YOU, because if I can do it, so can you!

In 1998 Duncan Trussell (comedian), David MacLean (writer) and Emil (musician) went to India and Sri Lanka together for 3 months.  They lived in Dharamshala for a month with Tibetan Refugees and Buddhist monks and then traveled to Agra, New Delhi and Varanasi together. In Varanasi they took a semi-disastrous trip down the Ganges where Emil ingested too many religious drugs and his body evaporated after being locked inside a very small, hot room after the power had gone out across the city. This OD came on the heels of having experienced an entire year of constant & supreme happiness... an unexpected explosion of serotonin that occurred after a dream where God had come to him and said "Are you ready?". After the overdose shattered that state, Duncan and Emil came back to the US in various states of distress and David decided to go on to Southern India.  Four years later, David returned to India as a Fulbright scholar and ended up having a catastrophic reaction to Larium (an anti-Malarial drug), consequently losing the entire memory of his identity. This cast is an explanation of both of these unfortunate events, a conversation between David and Emil about how they met at Warren Wilson College and more.  Check out David's book "The Answer to the Riddle is Me" or read more about it in the NY Times here. :: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/18/health/the-answer-to-the-riddle-is-me-a-debut-takes-on-memory-loss.html

In today's Episode we wander throught the Streets of Boudhanath in eastern Kathmandu, Nepal. Lots of Buddhists and Tibetan Refugees live here, so it kinda became a pilgrimage place. So in this Episode we will listen to a couple of old men playing music in a garage (02:15), a streetmusician with a makeshift violin (08:38), and a group of blind men and women doing karaoke on a little sidestreet (14:10).

Join me as I interview Joanne Macko, a world-renown painter of angels and visionary art Joanne will discuss how moms can learn how to handle stress and focus on the gifts of your children so everyone is stress free.  We will also discuss how to use your time wisely instead of burning yourself out, focus on your children's gifts so that life flows easily, and take time for YOU.   She will also share what are the 7 Archetypes of children's personalities. Joanne Macko is a Visionary Artist, Life Coach, Energy Facilitator and Conference Producer and “Mom” has been involved with world peace organizations and runs her own motivational conference: Lightworkers Midwest Conference every Fall in the Chicago area. Her perceptions of life changed drastically when she was almost killed by a drunk driver just days after her honeymoon 32 years ago. She soon realized that every horrific thing that happens is for a reason and there is a blessing in it. She raised 2 amazing sons who are working in their giftedness and is now working with Tibetan Refugees as well. She is mother to all :) and just celebrated her 32nd wedding anniversary Aug. 29th! Joanne leads a very busy life Directing and producing Spiritually based Conferences to move people's lives forward by bringing dynamic speakers together to motivate others and move humanity forward. Special Offers:  Order any 16x20 Angel Litho of your choice for only $20 plus $8 ship. http://www.angelic-art.com/ Receive a discounted admission to the LIGHTWORKERS Conference in Lisle, Illinois SEPT. 21-23, 2012. Contact Joanne at 630-579-8184 and mention “Zen Mommies”