A city in northern india thats home to the Tibetan Exile Community and met with some of his followers. Im sure youve heard them had some our problems are not good always will you please excuse us for not being able to give this lecture in there is wed planned. But the dont just strongly advised me to stay here in toronto. To. Journalist tensing lives in dharamsala its 6 30 in the morning and shes making her daily visit to the dalai lamas temple complex. On the way people spin these prayer wheels they believe that this ritual will bring good luck tensing is praying for the dalai lama right now. Past the hour to the tibetan civil war its a very Small Community here we have to plan is to create our own mini exhibit here into the most residents and the temple is just up there so we take one down at the Tibetan Center good morning and also if evening that this is a we important part of this activity. Tensing works hard to preserve tibets cultural heritage. And. Later that morning she arrives in the newsroom of the voice of tibet Radio Station where shes the editor in chief the station provides its listeners with content on life in tibet and in the Exile Community to band has been part of the peoples republic of china since 1951 so the region covers about 12 percent of chinas total area tensing was born in india and has never been to the bat. Chinese censorship makes it hard for her and her staff to find out whats really going on there. Our target audience is that that is inserted that its like live fire only and that no one in there so theyre going to make anything any story from inside to that of course its its a challenge because you dont know the place but with the advent of technology that the dead fend off you know the different different channels like social media and apps. We do find you know a lot of options to try to get inside tibet but at the same time china is spending huge from the entry sources to stop all this flow of information an estimated 6000000 tibetans live in china in recent years only a few of them have managed to leave the country because the government is making emigration more difficult. This editor was smuggled out of china as a child were not going to identify him because hes afraid that the chinese authorities will punish his parents who still live there. And there was all the other my mother and i stay in touch with each other but we only use we chatter chinese and my mother is still in tibet and after we finish she doesnt contact me again for at least a week and we keep opening new we chat accounts. So we try to get around the surveillance. About 10000 tibetan exiles live in datum sala which is located about 200 kilometers west of the chinese border the city has sometimes called little lost or a reference to the capital of tibet. Tashi tearing helped the dalai lama escape to india in 1959 after chinas army moved into parts of tibet to put down a Popular Uprising tashi was a tibetan soldier at the time. Right now hes visiting a small museum thats devoted to the conflict between tibet and china. Until 950 tibet enjoyed a good deal of autonomy then the new communist Chinese Government sent troops to occupy the region tibetans put up stiff resistance for the next several years but their forces were outnumbered the dalai lama fled to india in 1959. It was a difficult journey through the himalayas and china now ruled all of tibet. Good here that. I accept the fact that ill never see tibet again. Broken off contact with my relatives there. To grow up under chinese rule. Ive dedicated my life to the dalai lama. My relatives and i simply view things differently. The minute. Youre. Tearing soon followed his spiritual leader into indian exile in return for his Loyal Service he was allowed to stay at the dalai lamas residence for the rest of his life he even kept cattle in the stable than today tash hes 82 years old the memories of tibets Armed Conflict with china in the 1950 s. Are still vivid. You think. Both of the bring your gourd those were very difficult times you know we had to finish off some comrades whod been wounded and. We told them to close their eyes and think about his holiness the dalai lama we said goodbye to him at the Indian Border it was like our father leaving us. And then we went back to fight among the. Dead are. A large crowd has gathered at the temple complex for the dalai lamas 1st public appearance since he left the hospital many here are concerned about his health hes 84 years old now and chest infections can be dangerous for elderly people. The dalai lama is an enormously popular figure around the world jew in large part to his charismatic personality. And he now seems on the road to recovery. Tensing pelton will broadcast a report about this event on her Radio Station its the only way that tibetans in china will hear about it. Actually lead. To that is in the form the somebody happy to see that he has resumed his activities. But at the same time im very worried that you know he says interest. It is this right now is the least of the laws the that it has to be. Take more this. The dalai lama describes himself as a simple Buddhist Monk but to do better hes a symbol of peaceful protest and the struggle for control independence in 2011 he announced that he would step down as the official leader of the Tibetan Community outside china but he continues to speak out on political issues. 70 years the severity isnt that Good Daughter brainwash but really more of this. So now. Are some very nice more into 3 or more or so the. Open minded chinese who said. The last. 70 years their policy is. Not effective. The dalai lama knows that china will never allow an independent event but he continues to demand that the all foreign keys in beijing guarantee freedom of opinion and freedom of religion for the people of his homeland. The hope this will. By all is 0. The chinese sort of. His weapon. Of strength. Is that. There is more decisive role ron paul is much more stronger than the ball. I think the dalai lama is concerned about who will succeed him as the tibetan spiritual leader and that china may try to influence the process but just because he is opposed to beijings policies in tibet he does not reject marxist philosophy out of hand. Good waltz from germany. Over in europe in the us to those it. Was a war good for true order. Exploitation so he stared for dare right. And then. His Economy Today is equal distribution. I fully sort of but why or it be so into the. Described by surface it sort of a source. To the skull sub. Marxist. Back at the Radio Station tensing belden and her colleagues are preparing reports about the dalai lamas latest public appearance. As a respected International Figure and Nobel Peace Prize laureate he also plays a key role in brazing farms for the Tibetan Exile Community. Not just so most of tibet i think many of the media not just news media all. Walkings in if theyre. Dependent on. If it comes to getting its foreign aid from. Our latest. Nonprofit organization we saw that dependent on foreign funds so i think all of that when you think about that system in this passes the way its going to challenge for us. Around lunchtime 10 sings friend 10 since when do you stops by the Radio Station for a visit hes a writer and independence activist he and tenzing often debate the Current Situation in tibet. Tensing will be satisfied with nothing less than full independence for tibetan on and admits that this could cause some problems for Ethnic Chinese who now live there and. You know what i want to hear and that new debates of course would have the chinese also you know of course which. Uneasier been living in tibet almost double the population of tibet and theyve been there for a long time. So we have to find a reasonable time period to see once tibet is free an independent. Who are the ones who have to walk back to their own country and who may continue to stay and we have to offer a new tibet was tensing believes that this position goes too far this issue and many others divines the Exile Community tensing offers polite criticism of tens in and other radical activists. There are some into the jails who when they talk about it curtains. Without looking at their intention in a way when they make some remarks against against it and that is something that is not really taken there by. A lot so thats how the trip tension comes about. But tensing doesnt let political differences affect her personal relations she knows a lot of people in her neighborhood her to battens in dharamsala dont mix very much with the citys indian residents. 10 sings extended family lives in houses that are next door to each other the family has been in india for 2 generations. They marry only other tibetans is tensing son is now away at boarding school she hopes to pass along to him the traditions of her contre and religion. The tibetans are we are for their sins for lent here and we have to protect our culture we have to protect our you know tradition and so in order to protect and sustain our culture family life is very important and lets make sure that gets to know how it brought up. Along with keeping the tradition alive. Tensing lives with her mother who 76 years old she belongs to the 1st generation of tibetan exiles shes pleased that her daughter has made a better life for herself in india. Pirlo did it i never learned to read all right i was my parents only child and i cant even write my own name but here in india my daughter was able to get an education and im proud of that. But there were no opportunities like that in tibet when i was growing up. Maybe its different today but thats what it was like back then. The. Dharamsala has become a Tourist Destination over the last few decades jew and parts to it seem a cloak asian climate and thriving buddhist culture many of the tibetan residents work in the tourism industry. Tensing grow up on the citys main street there are lots of souvenir shops here parents used to own this one. Today her sister in law works here the family used to make a good living with the shop but not anymore. This city has changed a lot these days business at the shops is down because too many of them sell the same goods and the restaurants have fewer customers. Because of all the fast food shops. This is dont. You know why didnt the situation of the x. Ounces complicated by the fact that the Indian Government hasnt made much of an effort to integrate them into society. Especially with the legal documents that they have in india you know its very hard to get a job in. The city better the instruction there its hard to get a job that they want. So most of most of the time they end up either immigrating to the vest or doing some put it is this year. 10 seems nice 10 soon runs are Startup Company that sounds clothing and cosmetics. She has University Degrees in both Business Administration and fashion marketing. She attended college in delhi but preferred to return to dharamsala after she completed her studies. In my class we have like 5 today. Its always easier to state we dont need people we know so we have to talk to indians not that we dont want to tell to but then we have a Little French wedding we find it more. Tedious to be it in the us and then we also hate taiwan and english are in so. Because of that maybe a lot of people only just stay with our own Community People know. Tensing already has 30000 followers on instagram like to move to the u. S. One day and set up a business there. Actually the thing is i think there is a lot more opportunity when it comes to the rest is letting us if you stay in year you have a normal life and. But then he wanted to make a future plan was something i would spend any. Money consuming thing on the List Committee i think its all because of the way she stayed out there and. Own the many kids. To him he owns. More than 90000 tibetan exiles live in india many of them are affiliated with the Tibetan Youth Congress an International Nongovernmental organization that promotes tibet and independence. Its members also take part in social welfare activities that benefit the Exile Community. Who. Confirmed that most of the tibetans who go to the west who go to. Go america or europe or australia where they are going there just so that they could provide you know for their families but also their children and their children to have a good education so thats why theyre there and theyre the ones there are subtle and. Theyre making enough money that it will deploy and we see a lot of tibet is contributing to this society can contribute to the movement which is a Positive Side i kept. The organization can still call out several 1000 people for a Tibetan Independence rally in delhi but the crowds are getting smaller in the 1990 s. Such demonstrations were big media events that often drew hollywood celebrities but today this movement is attracting less attention than it used to. I am. A reporter for radio free tibet is here to cover the demonstration but thats about the extent of the media presence. Tensing pelton visits the stations office in delhi she and a reporter take a look at photographs from the rally. There were some clashes with police but otherwise they say that the event was a success. The 2 journalists walked through delhis government district the Exile Community is grateful that theyve been able to find refuge in India Economic ties between india and china are gradually improving but political tensions remain and the presence of the tibetan exiles here is a sensitive topic for both countries. So for the time being it appears that india will take no further steps to integrate its tibet and population. How can i say the Indian Government as i go meant when the tibetans dont really have the right to citizenship of course their citizenship act of india has made some provisions it allows some tibetans from israeli citizenship but that also comes with a lot of conditions so these conditions make it very difficult for the tibetans to get this right. This evening a group of intellectuals and activists are meeting at the house of tens in due in dharamsala. Most of these people have started to brought their pleas that the administration of us President Donald Trump is taking a tough stand on trade with china. But many fear that beijing will continue to spread its economic influence around the while not. And that will be bad news for Tibetan Independence. Day almost 150. 00 countries are trading with china and theyre benefiting from chinas occupation of tibet and chinas. Violation of human rights and tibet which has resulted to more than 155. 00 tibetans killing themselves selfimmolation burning themselves. So these are governed results of global trade everybody is involved in it everybody is benefiting from this. The Tibetan Exile Community is divided about how best to achieve their goal of cultural and political independence. And while i think the struggle has come to a level that theres a lot of stagnancy and nobody wants to listen to the other one and i feel that we have come to a stage where you know maybe we could have afforded the kind of. In the kind of personal attachment that you could have with your ideology. But now is the stage where if we have to find that Common Ground and find that unifying factor. But all tibetan exiles agree that education is the key to preserving their traditions they have set up schools wherever theyve settled like this one interim salah. The classes are taught by Buddhist Monks into baton and in english its essential for the children to learn to read and write. In china 40 percent of all tibetans are still illiterate and the number of those who speak to better is falling. Here is even Young Children learn buddhist meditation techniques. The school is hosting a special event today tensing belden is running a bit late shes here to attend the annual. Sidle sponsored by the Tibetan Institute of performing arts. 1000 people have crowded into the School Auditorium to enjoy traditional music and dancing. Many are overcome with emotion as the tibetan flag is carried on to the stage the flag was banned by the Chinese Government in 1959. That the performance filled the audience with National Pride and served as a reminder that the exiles main goal is independence for their homeland. A number of people here say that they still dream of returning to tibet. On her way home Tenzing Poundland once again visits the temple complex. She prays that the dalai lama will have a long life so that he can continue to lead his people. Any successor to the dalai lama will be chosen according to the buddhist principle of reincarnation china says it has the right to choose that successor since it controls tibet but the current and i lama rejects that notion. These novice monks are practicing martial arts techniques they too hope that one day theyll be able to return to tibet. But china refuses to hold talks with the exiles and this policy will not likely change any. Time sooner. Than i care to know my parents ive been saying that you ought to. Know its your responsibility to look back all country. Today hey its my turn and i tell my son. Was the speech of his life perhaps his best. His most difficult chancellor helmut kohl addresses the people of east germany shortly after the fall of the way. The clamors for. 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