Insights From The Roof Of The World: Conversations on Tibet

<p>གཏམ་གླེང་གི་ལེ་ཚན་འདི་ནི། སྨོན་ལམ་བརྡ་འཕྲིན་ཞིབ་འཇུག་ཁང་གི་འགན་འཛིན་འབུམ་རམས་པ་དགེ་བཤེས་བློ་བཟང་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་ལྷན་དུ་མིས་བཟོས་རིག་ནུས་དང་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཡིག། སྒོས་སུ། སྨོན་ལམ་རིག་ནུས་ཀྱི་སྔ་ཕྱི་བར་གྱི་བརྒྱུད་རིམ་སོགས་ཀྱིས་སྙིང་དོན་བྱས་པའི་གླེང་མོལ་ཞིག་ཡིན། ། </p><p>Featured Conversations Episode 1 with Geshe Lobsang Monlam. </p><p>In this episode, we engage with Geshe Lobsang Monlam la. He is the founder and CEO of Monlam AI and a recipient of the 2025 Snow Lion Human Rights Award. The conversations focus on artificial intelligence and the Tibetan language, specifically the history and development of Monlam AI. Furthermore, Beijing's reaction to it, including the recent announcement of DeepZang, is also discussed. </p><p>Featured Conversations is an audio and video podcast presented by the Foundation for Non-Violent Alternatives (FNVA) and hosted by our Research Associate Sonam Topgyal. Our conversations bring notable individuals who share their perspectives and expert analysis.</p>

<p>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 as exiled Tibetans and their future aspiration. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.</p><p>In this episode, we engage with Tenzin Chungdak la. Tenzin Chungdak la is a content creator who shares various content on the digital space.</p><p>In this podcast, Tenzin Chungdak la shares what inspired her to create content and the different facets involved in it. Furthermore, as a Tibetan woman in the digital space, she shared her experiences with opportunities, challenges, and prospects in content creation.</p>

<p>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 as exiled Tibetans and their future aspiration. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.</p><p>In this episode, we engage with Geshe Lharampa Thabkhe Lodroe la. Geshe Thabkhe la is a Tibetan monk at the Sera Jey Monastery. He is a Tenzin Gyatso Science Scholar. Geshe Thabkhe shares with us the life as a monk and how it is very academic and vigorous with each day ending in an evening debate.</p><p>In this podcast, Geshe Thabkhe la further shares his journey in learning science which began in 2004 through the initiative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He also emphasises how through such engages and developments in the monastic setup, there are various opportunities now. Similarly asserting that the key tenets of studying Buddhist Philosophy and preserving Tibetan language remains central.</p>

<p>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 as exiled Tibetans and their future aspiration. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.</p><p>In this episode, we engage with Yeshi Jinsel la, who is a Tibetan Content Creator and founder of Khoe - a Tibetan fashion label. He has created a plethora of contents on social media highlighting Tibet, its unique culture and its current plight. All of which showcases Tibet in the virtual space, which a the hub of exchange in the digital age we live in.</p><p>In this podcast, Yeshi Jinsel shares with us why he left his 9-5 corporate work and what drew him towards content creation and establishing Khoe. He emphasises how he gets inspiration and motivation from contents created from inside Tibet especially those calling for the preservation of Tibetan language and culture.</p>

<p>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 as exiled Tibetans and their future aspiration. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.</p><p>In this episode, we engage with Choekyi Lhamo la, who currently is a Tibetan exile journalist and was a recipient of the prestigious Tibetan Scholarship Program (TSP) in 2023, studying journalism at UC Berkeley. She has written, interviewed and reported extensively on the exile Tibetan community particularly during her time as a reporter at Phayul Media.</p><p>In this podcast, Choekyi Lhamo shares her experience of what drew her into journalism and her experience growing up in the Tibetan Settlement of Dhondupling commonly known as Clement Town among Tibetans. She further shed lights on her experience in studying at UC Berkeley and the plethora of things she learnt from American community there. She shares with us what her aspirations are moving forward and the Tibetan Sweater selling community, where she will be heading to support her family.</p>