Druktalk Podcast

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 a globalised world.

རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་འབྲེལ་ལམ་རིག་པ་དང་བོད་རང་བཙན་གྱི་གནས་བབ།

སྦྲ་རིགས་ཐོགས་མེད་ལྷན་དུ་བོད་རང་བཙན་གྱི་ཐ་སྙད། རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་འབྲེལ་ལམ་རིག་པའི་ཐོག་ནས་བོད་རང་བཙན་གནས་བབ་ལ་བལྟ་སྟངས། བོད་སོག་རང་བཙན་ཆིངས་ཡིག ཆུ་གླང་རྩ་ཚིག་ཆེན་མོ། ད་ལྟའི་བོད་ཀྱི་གནས་བབ་སོགས་ཐོག་ལ་གླེང་མོལ་ཞུས་ཡོད།

ལོ་སྔོན་མོ་རྩམ་པ་པོ་ཆུང་ཚེ་རིང་ལྷན་དུ་༧རྒྱལ་བ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་གསུམ་པའི་མཛད་རྣམ་དང་ཆུ་གླང་རྩ་ཚིག་སོགས་ལ་དཔྱད་གླེང་ཞུ་ཡོད་པས་དེར་ཡང་གསན་གཟིགས་གནང་རོགས།

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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. 

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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.

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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 services to Tibetan Government, NGOs and delegations to Tibet. We further focused on the current conflict of China and Tibet conflicts and prospects.

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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 and its impacts on Tibetan language, culture, and identity.

China’s education policy in Tibet

What is colonial boarding school?

What are the challenges of education policy implementation in Tibet.

Comparative discussion of education policy in and outside of Tibet

Prospects of Tibetan education policy, particularly focus on the Tibetan language and identity.

About Dr. Gyal Lo

Dr. Gyal Lo was born in Amdo, Tibet, or what China calls Gansu Province, and attended school in his home region and then did a Master’s Degree in Tibetan Language and Culture Department at Northwestern University for Nationalities in Lanzhou, China. In 1995, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the same department, where he taught for the next decade and undertook extensive research into Tibetan education. After leaving to obtain a PhD in Educational Sociology at the University of Toronto, he returned to China but was refused employment at his former department due to political sensitivities over his time studying in the West. He was then appointed a full professor at the Yunnan Normal University Institute for Studies in Education from 2017-2020.

Dr. Gyal Lo left China on December 31, 2020 and has decided not to return because it has become too risky to make a meaningful contribution to the field of Tibetan education, and in order to alert the international community to the dire threats posed to the collective well being of the Tibetan people and society and the survival of Tibet’s language, religion, and culture. Dr. Gyal Lo is the author of Social Structuration in Tibetan Society: Education, Society, and Spirituality (Lexington Books, 2016).

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"

-David Shambaugh: "China's Leaders: From Moa to Now" 

- Victor C. Shih: "Coalition of the Weak" (Cambridge University Press 2022)

- Joseph Torigan: "Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao" (Yale University Press 2022)

-Joseph Torigian: "The Shadow of Deng Xiaoping on Elite Chinese Politics" (War on the Rocks, 2017)

- Cai Xia: "The Weakness of Xi Jinping" (Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 2022)

- "China's Grand Strategy: Trends, Trajectories and Long-Term Competition" (RAND 2020)