Tibetan

Tibetans celebrate Dalai Lama's Birthday in Tawu, Tibet. The Tibetan people are an ethnic group that is native to Tibet, which is now occupied by the People’s Republic of China. They number 5.4 million. Significant Tibetan minorities also live in India, Nepal, and Bhutan. The Khampas of Tibet are originally from Mongolia.

Tibetans speak the Tibetan language, which belongs to the Sino-Tibetan languages and has many mutually unintelligible dialects. The traditional, or mythological, explanation of the Tibetan people’s origin is that they are the descendants of the monkey Pha Trelgen Changchup Sempa and rock ogress Ma Drag Sinmo. Most Tibetans practice Tibetan Buddhism, though some observe the indigenous Bön and others are Muslims.

Text adapted from Wikipedia’s article on the Tibetan Peoples

Indigenous Peoples in Tibet

Tibetan Nomads’ Rights

Nov 3, 2012 • For millennia, Tibetan nomads have lived sustainably on the land and are the guardians of Tibet’s fragile environment. At... Read More

China Plans to End Nomadic Life in Tibet, Uyghur and Inner Mongolia

Jun 26, 2012 • Earlier this month, a US-based human rights group condemned the Chinese government’s recently-adopted plan to extinguish what remains of... Read More

Self-immolations continue in occupied Tibet

Feb 18, 2012 • Tenzin Choedron, an 18-year-old Tibetan nun, is the latest Tibetan to die in protest against the Chinese government. On... Read More

Tibetan Villagers Halt Mining Project on Sacred Mountain

Jan 28, 2012 • Tibetan Villagers have successfully halted a controversial mining operation that threatened Kawagebo, one of the most sacred peaks in... Read More

Mapping China’s Exploitation of Occupied Tibet

Jul 14, 2011 • While the mainstream media says almost nothing about the struggles and hardships of the Tibetan people, they say even... Read More

Stop The Crackdown In Ngaba! Support the People of Tibet!

Jun 8, 2011 • For the past 12 weeks, a Tibetan Monastery in the Ngaba area of eastern Tibet has been under siege... Read More

3rd Annual International Indigenous Leadership Gathering

May 24, 2011 • The 3rd Annual International Indigenous Leadership Gathering will take place in Xaxl’ip, St’át’imc Territory from May 30th to June... Read More

Underreported Struggles #49, April 2011

May 1, 2011 • In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Chinese forces arrest 300 Tibetan monks in an ongoing military siege against a monastery;... Read More

Underreported Struggles #45, December 2010

Jan 3, 2011 • In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Ecuadorian soldiers evict Kichwa community; UN approves two Resolutions from Bolivia; South Dakota OK’s... Read More

Gunshot Wounds and Evictions: Taking advantage of the Wikileaks Whiteout

Dec 15, 2010 • With the world’s media focused on Wikileaks–and activists still working though the COP16 Summit in Cancun–governments have been seizing... Read More

China is Manipulating Canada’s First Nations

Sep 3, 2010 • There is some concern among Tibetan solidarity activists that First Nations in Canada are being used to help China... Read More

Schooling the World

Aug 14, 2010 • Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden takes a vital look at the often-harmful effects of Western education... Read More

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