Preservation of Tibetan Culture and Environment

His Holiness the Dalai Lama giving evidence before the Legal Inquiry Committee on Tibet, chaired by Supreme Court lawyer Purushottam Trikamdas (seated to his right). The committee was constituted by the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, November 14, 1959. Photo courtesy: Tibet Documentation
His Holiness the Dalai Lama with delegates of the first religious conference at Swarg Ashram, Dharamshala held from November 9 - 12, 1963. Seated (L-R): Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche, 16th Gyalwang Karmapa, Kyabje Sakya Trizin, Yongzin Ling Rinpoche, Yongzin Trijang Rinpoche and Bakula Rinpoche. Photo courtesy: Tibet Documentation
The first group of 50 children receiving an audience of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Swarg Ashram before leaving for Mussoorie to join the Tibetan Refugee Educational Institute, June, 1960. Photo courtesy: Tibet Documentation
His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking at a road camp for Tibetan refugees in exile. Photo courtesy: Tibet Documentation
His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking at Hradcanske Square, Prague, Czech Republic, October 17, 2016. Photo by Nadia Rovderova, Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Children lining up to show their writing skills to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala in June 1960. Only the first three in line had prior learning of Tibetan in Tibet. (First in line: Kunphel Sharling, second: Phunnor, third: Tempa Tsering). They were later sent to the Tibetan Refugee Educational Institute, Mussoorie. Photo courtesy: Tibet Documentation
His Holiness the Dalai Lama delivering the inaugural address at the first Tibetan Youth Conference in Dharamsala, October 7, 1970 Photo courtesy: Tibet Documentation
His Holiness the Dalai Lama delivering the March 10 statement at Gangchen Kyishong, Dharamshala, March 10, 1971. Photo courtesy: Tibet Documentation
His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressing the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus and announcing the Five-Point Peace Plan for Tibet, Washington, D.C., September 21, 1987. (L-R: Congressman Charlie Rose, Tenzin Gyeche Tethong, Lodi Gyari, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Congressman and Caucus Chair Tom Lantos). Photo courtesy: Tibet Documentation
His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressing the members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on the Five-Point Peace Plan, June 15, 1988. Photo courtesy: Tibet Documentation
His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the solidarity rally “Switzerland for Tibet – Tibet for the World,” organized by the Swiss Tibetan Friendship Society (GSTF) at the Münsterhof, Zurich, April 10, 2010. Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons
His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressing the European Parliament in Strasborug, France, October 24, 2001. Photo by Manuel Bauer
Greenpeace China activist Zhong Yu holding a 1968 photo of the Middle Rongbuk Glacier to show its 2km retreat and deterioration in just under 40 years. Photo by David Breashears
His Holiness the Dalai Lama reading the Animal Encyclopedia with Tibetan children during the inauguration of the Shiwatso Library in Mundgod Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, December 22, 2016. Photo by Tenzin Choejor, OHHDL
His Holiness the Dalai Lama with newly elected Kalon Tripa, Dr. Lobsang Sangay, and outgoing Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, at the oath-taking ceremony, Main Temple, Dharamshala, August 8, 2011. Photo by Tenzin Choejor, OHHDL
His Holiness the Dalai Lama holding a copy of The Resolve Tibet Act, a bipartisan bill to enhance U.S. support for Tibet, presented to him at his residence, Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala, June 19, 2024. Photo by Tenzin Choejor, OHHDL
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Tsering Youdon

Program Manager

Tsering Youdon is the Program Manager at 108 Peace Institute. She has 6 years of experience as a project officer and program coordinator in the Central Tibetan Administration’s Nepal branch. Her expertise includes planning, designing, and monitoring projects and supporting the capacity building of local organizations and individuals. Tsering is an MBA graduate from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York.

Tenzin Donzey

Program Manager

Tenzin Donzey is a Program Manager at the 108 Peace Institute. She has served in the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) as a Project Officer and Tibet Support Groups’ Liaison Officer. Tenzin has extensive experience in planning, designing, and managing programs. She is a recipient of the Tibetan Scholarship Program under which she obtained an MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), New York.

Dr Lobsang Sangay

Founder and President

Lobsang Sangay is a Senior Visiting Fellow at East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School. He was a democratically elected Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration and served two terms (2011-21). Lobsang completed his BA and LLB from Delhi University. He did his LLM ’95 and SJD ‘04 from Harvard Law School and received the Yong K. Kim’ 95 Memorial Prize for excellence in dissertation and contributions to the understanding of East Asia at the Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, akin to track III, he organized seven rounds of meetings/conferences between Tibetan, Western, and Chinese scholars, most notably, the first-ever meeting between HH the Dalai Lama and Chinese scholars and students.

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Lobsang Dakpa

Operations Director

Lobsang Dakpa currently serves as the Operations Director of the 108 Peace Institute. He was a democratically elected Member of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile from 2016 to 2021. Lobsang holds a BA and LLB, having studied at the National Law School of India University in Bengaluru and JSS Law College in Mysuru. He also earned his LLM from Christ University, Bengaluru. From 2015 to 2016, he worked as a senior Chinese-language reporter for Voice of Tibet. He is a founding member of the Tibetan Legal Association (TLA), where he served as General Secretary from 2013 to 2016 and was later elected as President, serving from 2016 to 2022. Throughout his career, Lobsang has provided legal awareness and education to thousands of Tibetans and non-Tibetans across settlements, monasteries, and schools. He has also offered free legal assistance to many individuals in need. During his term in Parliament, he was invited to participate in numerous national and international conferences, representing the Tibetan community and advocating for justice and human rights.

洛桑扎巴

运营总管

洛桑扎巴目前担任108和平研究院的运营总监。他曾于2016年至2021年间，作为民选代表在西藏人民议会任职。 洛桑拥有文学学士（BA）和法学学士（LLB）学位，曾就读于印度班加罗尔国家法学院（National Law School of India University）和迈索尔JSS法学院（JSS Law College）。他还在班加罗尔基督大学（Christ University）获得了法学硕士（LLM）学位。 2015年至2016年期间，他曾担任“西藏之声”电台的资深中文记者。他是西藏法律协会（Tibetan Legal Association, TLA）的创始成员之一，并于2013年至2016年担任该协会的秘书长，随后于2016年至2022年担任会长。 在其职业生涯中，洛桑致力于为西藏定居点、寺院和学校的成千上万名藏人及非藏人提供法律知识普及和教育。他还为许多有需要的人士免费提供法律援助。 在其议员任期内，他受邀参加了众多国内外会议，代表藏人社区发声，积极倡导正义与人权。

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བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ་ནི་༡༠༨ཞི་བདེ་ལྟེ་གནས་ཀྱི་ལག་བསྟར་འགན་འཛིན་ཡིན།ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༦ནས་༢༠༢༡དབར་ཁོང་གིས་བོད་མི་མང་སྤྱི་འཐུས་ཀྱི་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་།ཁྲིམས་ལུགས་མཐོ་སློབ་ National Law school of India University, Bangalore དང་Mysore JSS Law School བརྒྱུདཁོང་ཉིད་་ཁྲིམས་ལུགས་རབ་འབྱམས་པ་ (LL.B) སློབ་མཐར་སོན། ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༤ ལོར་རྒྱ་གར་ཁྲིམས་ལུགས་མཐོ་སློབ་Christ Law School, Bangalore ནས་ཁྲིམས་ལུགས་གཙུག་ལག་རབ་འབྱམས་པ (LL.M) མཐར་ཕྱིན་པ་གནང་པ་མ་ཟད།ཁོང་ནི་བོད་མིའི་ཁྲིམས་ལུགས་རིག་པ་བའི་ཚོགས་པ་གསར་འཛུགས་གནང་མཁན་ཁོངས་ཀྱི་མི་སྣ་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ་དང་།ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༣ནས་༢༠༡༦བར་ཚོགས་པ་དེའི་སྤྱི་ཁྱབ་དྲུང་ཆེའི་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་པ་དང་།ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༥ནས་༢༠༡༦དབར་ལོ་གཅིག་རིང་ནོར་ཝེ་བོད་ཀྱི་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་གི་རྒྱ་སྐད་གསར་འགོད་པ་རྒན་པའི་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་ཡོད།ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༦ནས་༢༠༢༢དབར་བོད་མིའི་ཁྲིམས་ལུགས་རིག་པ་བའི་ཚོགས་པའི་ཚོགས་གཙོའི་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་པ་རེད།དུས་ཡུན་དེ་དག་གི་རིང་།ཁོང་གིས་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་དགོན་སྡེ་ཁག་དང་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཁག།གཞིས་ཆགས་ཁག་ཏུ་བསྐྱོད་ནས་བོད་མི་ཁྲི་སྟོང་མང་པོ་ལ་ཁྲིམས་ལུགས་ཀྱི་གོ་རྟོགས་སྤེལ་པ་མ་ཚད།ཁྲིམས་དོན་གྱི་དཀའ་ངལ་འཕྲད་པའི་བོད་མི་རྒྱ་ཕྲག་མང་པོ་ལ་ཕྱག་རོགས་གནང་ཡོད།ཁོང་གིས་བོད་མི་མང་སྤྱི་འཐུས་ཀྱི་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་ཡུན་རིང་།རྒྱལ་ནང་དང་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་ཚོགས་སྡེ་འདྲ་མིན་ཀྱིས་གདན་ཞུས་གནང་ཏེ་བརྗོད་གཞི་འདྲ་མིན་ཐོག་ཚོགས་འདུ་ཆེ་ཆུང་མང་པོ་ལ་ཆ་ཤས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད།