Druktalk Podcast

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar talks with Professor Carole McGranahan author of Arrested Histories: Tibet, CIA, Memories of a forgotten War at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Carole McGranahan is Professor in and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at University of Colorado, USA, and a scholar of contemporary Tibet and the Himalayas. She is author of Arrested H...

This week on the Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar talks with Geshe Lobsang Monlam, Founder and CEO of Monlam Information Technology. We discussed Geshe's initial interest in information technology, particularly computers. We further discussed his works on Monlam Bodying, the Monlam dictionary, and the recent development of the Monlam AI. Additionally, it talks more about the future outcomes of Monla...

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar talks with Tibetan Film Director and author Tenzing Sonam la, the most famous filmmaker in Exile. Over the thirty years, we have made popular films, including Dreaming Lhasa, Sun Behind the Cloud, The Sweet Requiem, and more. We discussed his life journey into filmmaking, its challenges, and his message to future Tibetan filmmakers. Find more on Druktalk Pod...

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drutkhar talks with Ven. Yangten Rinpoche, Secretary of Gaden Prodang, private office of Dalai Lama office in Dharamshala. We discussed his life and journey in Tibetan Buddhism, holding the highest degree, Geshe Lharampa, from Sera University in India. We also discussed his lifelong achievements, challenges, and fifteen years of service at Gaden Phodrag, the office o...

This week on the Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar talks with Professor Hon-Shaing Lau, author of The Genuine 'China version' of Tibet's History: Tibet has never been part of China since antiquity. We discuss the significance and complexity of Tibetan and Chinese history in his research findings based on the Chinese classical history texts. Find more on Druktalk Podcast. #tibetan #tibetanvlog...

This is a special conversation Drukthar joined by Professor Dibyesh Anand, Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster, London. He is the author of the Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination, Tibet: A Victim of Geopolitics, and Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear; and has published several chapters in edited collections and articles in journal...

This week one Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar joined by Nyima Lhamo, a Tibetan activist and niece of Tulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Rinpoche has died in a Chinese prison 13 years into sentence, when he was 65. We discussed, how Rinpoche dies in Chinese prison? What are the legacies on the preservation of Tibetan language, culture and religion? We further discussed about her activism and campaigning aroun...

༧པཎ་ཆེན་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་པའི་མཛད་རྗེས་དང་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ་དགེ་འདུན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མའི་གནས་སྟངས་ཐོག་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོའི་མཁན་པོ་གཟིག་རྒྱབ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ལྷན་དུ་གླེང་མོལ་ཞུ་ཡོད། This week on Druktalk Podcast,( The Intelligence Tibet ) Drukthar joined by Zeegyab Rinpoche, abbot of Tashi Lhunpo monastery,( Tashi Lhunpo Monks ) we discussed the historical relations of the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama, the life and legacy o...

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar joined by Françoise Robin, professor of Tibetan language and Literature INALCO, Paris and Tenzingh Sonam, Tibetan exile film maker and owner of White Crane Production. We discussed about his life, formal study and early film journey. Detail conversations on some of his award wining films including Old Dog, Ballon, Tharlo and The search. What was the greatest...

ཉེ་ཆར་སྤྱི་ནོར་༧གོང་ས་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་བརྙན་ཆེད་བཟོས་ཐོག་བསྐྱར་ཞིབ། ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༨ འབྲེལ་བའི་བརྙན་ཆེད་བཟོས་བྱས་པའི་དམིགས་ཡུལ་དང་། ཤུགས་རྐྱེན། ཁ་ཕྱོགས་གཙོ་འདོན་གྱི་དཔྱད་གླེང་བྱས་ཡོད། བརྙན་འདི་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་འཇམ་པོའི་སྟོབས་ཤུགས་དང་། དྲ་རྒྱ་དོ་དམ། རྒྱ་ནག་གི་དྲ་དམག་ཚོས་བྱ་སྤྱོད་སོགས་ཐོག་ལ་གླེང་མོལ་ཞིབ་ཁྲ་བྱས་ཡོད། དཔྱད་གླེང་ནང་ལ་བོད་མི་མང་སྤྱི་འཐུས་ཟུར་པ་དང་རང་དབང་མཉམ་...

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar joined by Tibetan sociologist and scholar Dr Gyal Lo, author of Social Structuration in Tibetan Soceity. We discussed on the essential of Sociology theory and its relevance in Tibetan society, the relationship of sociology theory in Education, Society and spirituality in Tibetan Soceity.

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar chats with Darig Thokmay, PhD Candidate at Oxford University, on International Relations and Tibetan independence status. We discussed Tibetan historical independence status and its relations with Manchu and Mongols, the Tibet-Mongol independence treaty, The Great Thirteenth Dalai Lama's declaration of Tibetan independence and the current status of Tibet in...

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar joined with Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of Tibetan Government in Exile. We discussed on Tibet-China Conflict and prospect, Tibetan advocacy work in the United Kingdom and Europe, Tibetan youth and VTAG and many more..

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drutkhar joined by Geshe Beri Jigmey Wangyal, Senior Lecturer at the Central Institute of Higher Studies (CIHTS). We discussed on the history of Tibetan literature, Tibetan traditional songs and focused on the Songs of the 6th Dalai Lama Tsanyang Gyatso.

This week Drukthar was joined by Shartse Khensur Jangchup Choeden, Deputy General Secretary at International Buddhist Confederation. We discussed how Tibetan Buddhism spread in India and its influence in India and Himalayas Region. We further discussed how the Indian Government use Buddhism as a diplomatic and soft power with neighbouring countries.  Find more on Druktalk Podcast and Youtube....

In this episode, Drukthar is joined by Professor Francoise Robin, INALCO, France. We discussed Tibetan language and literature study in western Universities. We had more conversations on modern Tibetan literature, the Tibetan language, feminism, colonialism, and more.  Find details on Druktalk Podcast and Youtube. (Note: This episode's video recording and audio are inferior due to technical i...

This week on 'Druktalk Podcast' Drukthar joined Tibetan activist and community leader Chemi Lhamo. This episode was recorded during the future Tibet conference in Paris, in November 2022.   We discussed the conference in Paris and youth responsibilities towards the future of Tibet.

This episode recorded during the Future Tibet conference, at Paris, France.  This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar joined by Tenzin Namgyal Teething, former Prime Minister of Tibetan Government in exile (now called Central Tibetan Administration). Tenzin la was one of the fact-finding delegations in 1980s and Co-founder of Tibetan Youth Congress. This episode, we discussed his life and serv...

This week on Druktalk Podcast, ‘The intelligence Tibet’, Drukthar welcome Dr. Gyal Lo, a Tibetan educationist and the author of Social Structuration in Tibetan Society: Education, Society, and Spirituality. Now based in Canada, advocating Tibetan education policy in Tibet, particularly focus on the colonial boarding school in Tibet. On this episode, we discussed China’s education policy in Tibet a...

This week on Druktalk, ‘The intelligence Tibet podcast’, Drukthar chats with Riga, an observer of economic and politcal developments in China, on ‘Xi Jinping and China’s future’. They examine the upcoming 20th Party Congress and discuss if Xi really is different from previous leaders? Finally, they explore the multiple future pathways of China Reading Recommendation -Desmond Shum: "Red Roulette" -...

This week on Druktalk ‘The intelligence Tibet’ podcast, Drukthar joined by Tsewang Rigzin, PHD candidate at Columbia University, US. We discussed on the ‘Future of Tibet and responsibility of New Generation’, the changing global political order and future of Tibet and China. The future of Tibet and role of Tibetan youths in Tibetan movement, preservation of Tibetan language and culture.

This week on Druktalk ‘The Intelligence Tibet’ Drukthar joined with Dechen Pemba, Founder and Director of High Peaks Pure Earth. We discussed on life and music of Tsewang Norbu, Tibetan pop star self-immolation on 27th Feb 2022, Lhasa, capital city of Tibet.  Dechen published article “My beautiful Homeland Tibet” – The life and music of Tsewang Norbu ( https://highpeakspureearth.com/my-beauti...

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar chats with Venerable Minyak Rinpoche on the significance of Tibetan Culture, Language and identity. Venerable Minyak Rinpoche is currently visiting scholar at University of Oxford, England 

The life and times of The Great Thirteenth Dalai Lama Thupten Gyatso, in conversation with Tibetan scholar Chung Tsering   Part 2:   1. Reform and Innovations  2. The Dalai Lama come back to Tibet  3. Mongol and Tibet treaty   4. Declaration of Tibetan Independence  4. Political Testament

The life and times of The Great Thirteenth Dalai Lama Thupten Gyatso, in conversation with Tibetan scholar Chung Tsering   Details:  1. Who is the Thirteenth Dalai Lama; discovering  and training, Reincarnation and enthronement  2. Assumption power in the difficult time (Dark Years)  3. The first exile: The British invasion and the flight to Mongolia, diplomacy and wa...