Druktalk Podcast

This week on Druktalk 'The Intelligence Tibet', Drukthar chats with Darig Thokmay, writer and PHD scholar at University of Oxford. We discussed on his book Basic Guide line of research paper writing published by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamshala.  We discussed on How to do Research; Asking questions, finding answers: theories and how to apply them, and research design. We foc...

This week on Druktalk 'The intelligence Tibet', Drukthar chats with Tencho Gyatso, Interim Vice President of International Campaign for Tibet. Tenchoe worked specialist Tibetan advocacy at US Government and US senate for nearly fourteen years. We discussed on the President Biden Administration policy on Tibet, in the era of US-China rivalry, competition and one of the worst relationship since 1970...

This week on Druktalk, The Intelligence Tibet Podcast, Drukthar chats with Tibetan scholar Kyisar Ludup based in Paris, France. We discussed about the Tibetan scholar Go Sherab Gyatso and his academic writings, books and public lectures. Why Chinese government sentenced to 10 years in prison? For details please find out on Druktlak TIT podcast and YouTube. 

This week on Druktalk ‘The Intelligence Tibet’, Drukthar chats with Chemi Lhamo, Tibetan youth leader and activist. We discussed significance of activism, Tibetan freedom movement, and experience at University of Toronto. We present a deep-drive into the worldview of upcoming 2022 Beijing winter Olympic.  Why must world Boycott 2022 Beijing Olympic? How and why International Olympic Committee...

This week on Druktalk The intelligence Tibet, Drukthar chats with former political prisoner Golok Jigmey la on Tibetan nomadic life and resettlement in cities. We discussed about the intersection of colonialism and nomadic resettlement under the Chinese government repressive policy.  Furthermore, we discussed, consequences of Chinese policy implementation on Tibetan nomadic in all over Tibet...

This week on Druktalk TIT Podcast, Drukthar chats with Dr. Lobsang Yangtso, a leading scholar on Tibetan Environment, who joined delegations of COP26 Glasgow, UK. We discussed China’s development policies in Tibet and consequences on Tibetan Environmental crises. Tibet is known as a Third Pole and water tower of Asia, Tibet climate crises effects downstream nations and two million people depend on...

This week on Druktalks TIT, Drukthar chats with Geshe Lobsang Nyendak, a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, writer and researcher. We discussed about the legacies of The 10th Panchen Rinpoche in reviving of Tibetan culture post Culture Revolution era. 

This week on Druktalks TIT, Drukthar chats with Tendor, senior researcher at Tibet Action Institute and PHD candidate at Columbia University, who recently published research article called Divide, Depoliticise, demobilise: China's strategies for controlling Tibetan diaspora on The Jamestown Foundation. He explains about the China’s strategies for controlling Tibetan diaspora communities through di...

Colonialism: The politics of Tibetan language and Identity མི་སེར་སྤེལ་བའི་རིང་ལུགས་ཀྱི་ཤུགས་རྐྱེན་འོག་བོད་མིའི་ངོ་བོ་དང་སྐད་ཡིག་གི་གནས་སྟངས།   This week on Druktalks (The Intelligence Tibet) Drukthar chats with Dhondup Tashi Rekjong, doctoral student, Northwestern University. We discussed methodologies of colonialism, post-colonialism, Neo-colonialism, and decolonisation. The consequences on...

This week on The Intelligence Tibet, Drukthar talks with Mr. Lobsang Nyandak, former Representative of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Washington DC  and current Executive President of Tibet Fund, United States. We discussed about the Democracy in Exile: the vision of His Holiness The Dalai Lama on future of Tibetan democracy of Tibet, democracy development and progress in last six decades. Fina...

This week on The Intelligence Tibet, Drukthar joined by Mr. Keslang Gyaltsen, former Envoy of His Holiness The Dalai Lama. We discussed various issue on Tibet and China, History of Sino-Tibetan Dialogue, lessons and future prospects etc. Mr. Kelsang Gyaltsen was born in Kham, Tibet  in 1951.  In 1985 he was appointed as the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Office of T...

This week on The Intelligence Tibet, Drukthar joined by Sangjey Kep, a scholar and translator on China. We discussed on the latest China's White Paper on Tibet, Tibet since 1951: Liberation, Development and prosperity.  Details:  I. Tibet Before the Peaceful Liberation (བོད་བཅིངས་གྲོལ་མི་བཏང་སྔོན།) II. Peaceful Liberation (བོད་བཅིངས་གྲོལ་བཏང་། III. Historic Changes in Society (རྒྱ་ནག་དང་...

This week on The Intelligence Tibet, Drukthar joined by Co-founder of Kunga Tashi Tam (KTT), Kunga Tashi.  Kunga Tashi is a researcher and scholar of modern China and Tibet politics. We discussed on China's two sessions 2021: GDP Target, Tax Incentives, and 14th Five Year Plan, Chinese foreign policy and external relations, Election reform of Hong Kong, and future of Tibet and China etc.&nbsp...

This week on The Intelligence Tibet, chat with Tenzin Choephel, Co-Founder of Easy Tibetan, discussed on 'An Introduction to the Tibetan Language and Its historical development'. We discussed various topic regarding language and development, details below.  - What is language? - The Origin of Language, Religious Perspectives and Scientific Perspectives - The Origin of Writing  - Language...

This week on The Intelligence Tibet, Drukthar joined by Ngawang Tsetan, who founded 'Readers of Dalai Lama'. Ngawang Tsetan is a long serving teacher, TCV Suja, India. Who offers his perspective on the significance of reading books by Dalai Lama. We discussed various issues regarding the reading, learning, discussion, and practice in daily life. In this episode, we focused on his first book My Lan...

This week on 'The Intelligence Tibet', Drukthar chats with Tenzin Dorji (Tendor), Dechen Pemba, and Lharong on the Democracy in Exile: Opportunities and Challenges. We discussed various issues on the Democracy in Exile, Election of Sikyong (President of Central Tibetan Administration) and 17th Parliamentarian of CTA (Chitus) and future opportunities and challenges of Democracy in Exile etc. 

This week on The Intelligence Tibet, Drukthar chats with the author of a 'The Underlying Politics of Poverty Alleviation in Tibet', Palden Sonam. We discussed various issues incluing Chinese policies of the 2019 - 2020 Militarised Vocation Training and Labor Transfer Action Plan in Tibet.  How it effect long term Tibetan language, tradition and way of life?  Recommendations:  https:...

This week on ‘The Intelligence Tibet Podcast’ Drukthar chat with researcher Sagjey Kep, on Forbidden Memory (གསར་བརྗེ།) Tibet during the Culture Revolution written by Tsering Woesar and photographs by Tsering Dorji. We discussed details of book and analysis different issues regarding that era, 1960s - 1970s.  ‘In the mid-1960s, a decade-long wave of political violence swept across Tibet. Red...

EU, Brexit, China and Tibet Question ཡུ་རོབ་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་མཐུན་ཚོགས། ཨིན་ཡུལ་ཕྱིར་ཐོན། རྒྱ་དང་བོད་ཀྱི་གནད་དོན། 

We discussed importance of Tibetan language and Identity. བོད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཡིག་དང་མི་རིགས་ཀྱི་ངོ་བོ། མི་རིགས་ཀྱི་འདུ་ཤེས། དུས་རབས་དང་མཐུན་པའི་སྐད་ཡིག་སྦྱོང་ཐབས་སོགས་ཐོག་བགྲོ་གླེང་བྱས་ཡིན།

This week on 'The Intelligence Tibet', Drukthar chat with Tsewang Rigzen, Columbia University, and Darig Thokmey, Oxford University, about the 'Tibetan Policy and Support Act, 2020. Which focuses on the statement of policy regarding Reincarnation of Dalai Lama, diplomatic representation Relation to Tibet (US Consulate in Lhasa), Policy regarding the Tibet environment and water resource, and Democr...