Insights From The Roof Of The World: Conversations on Tibet

FNVA Talks is a series by the Foundation for Non-violent Alternatives (FNVA) that brings public engagements with key experts, leaders and stakeholders in the Himalayan region.

This FNVA Talks with Dr. Gerald Roche was held virtually on 20th August, 2026 on "Intensifying Language Oppression in Tibet: From Invasion to Ethnic Unity". It was held when Tibetans worldwide held prayers and protest as it marked the 49 day since Tibetan Martyr Lobga Rangzen sacrificed his life for Tibet by committing self-immolating outside the United Nations in New York.

The talk was moderated by FNVA Research Associate Rinzin Namgyal.

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.

In this episode, we engage with Tenzin Woesel Takrang la. He is the India national coordinator of the Voluntary Tibet Advocacy Group (V-TAG).

In this podcast, Tenzin Woesel la reveals what inspired him to be actively involved in the Tibetan Movement. He shares us his experience as a Tibetan youth advocating for Tibet. Furthermore, with China's growing oppression of Tibet, including the implementation of the 'Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress,' he highlights the opportunities, challenges, and prospects for the Tibetan movement, particularly the youth's involvement.

༄༅། །གཏམ་གླེང་གི་ལེ་ཚན་འདི་ནི། ཨོ་རི་ས་ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གཞིས་ཆགས་སུ་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་པའི་སྔ་འགྱུར་བདུད་འདུལ་རབ་བརྟན་གླིང་དགོན་གྱི་དབུ་འཛིན་བླ་མ་བསོད་ནམས་བཀྲ་ཤིས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ལྷན་དུ་ཡིན་ཞིང་། ནང་དོན་གྱི་གཙོ་གྲས་སུ། ཟངས་མདོག་དཔལ་རི་གསར་བཞེངས་སྐོར་གྱི་རྒྱབ་ལྗོངས་དགོས་དམིགས་ཀྱི་མཚོན་པའི་བྱུང་རིམ་ཧྲག་བསྡུས་དང་། ཁྲོས་མའི་ཉམས་བཞེས། དེ་མིན་གནད་དོན་གཞན་ཁག་ཅིག་བཅས་ཀྱི་སྙིང་དོན་དུ། །

Featured Conversations Episode 2 with Lama Sonam Tashi la.

In this episode, we engaged with Lama Sonam Tashi la, the esteemed abbot of Dundul Raptenling Monastery, who also oversees the principal efforts behind the construction of the Zangdok Palri. The discussion centres upon the historical and spiritual foundations of the Zangdok Palri project, delves into the intricacies of Troma practices, and reflects upon Lama Sonam’s own dedicated contributions to the preservation and propagation of the Buddha Dharma particularly within the Dudjom Tersar lineage.

One can access the following link to know more about the Zangdok Pari at Odisha:

https://zangdokpalriodisha.com/

Featured Conversations is an audio and video podcast presented by the Foundation for Non-Violent Alternatives (FNVA) and hosted by our Research Associate Rinzin Namgyal. Our conversations bring notable individuals who share their perspectives and expert analysis.

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། །

Featured Conversations Episode 1 with Geshe Lobsang Monlam.

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.

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.

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.

In this episode, we engage with Tenzin Chungdak la. Tenzin Chungdak la is a content creator who shares various content on the digital space.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this episode, we engage with Tenzin Norzin la, who is currently the National V-TAG Coordinator of Australia. She is a Tibetan youth leader in Australia, and besides promoting Tibetan Advocacy, she also teaches Tibetan and Drayen to Tibetans in Australia.

In this podcast, Tenzin Norzin shares her experience of how she got involved in Tibetan advocacy. Highlighting the critical role that meetings like the International Tibet Youth Forum and Voluntary Tibet Advocacy Group (V-TAG), organised by the Central Tibetan Administration, play in the lives of many young Tibetans. She further emphasised her recent trip to India, where she took part in the Ghoton (90th Birthday celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) and other engagements. All of which made her extra motivated to continue her advocacy on Tibet in Australia, especially with the policy makers, while continuing the grassroots engagements.

Tibet in Context is a podcast series that gears in gaining a deeper understanding of Tibet through conversations with Tibetans, China Watchers, Tibetologists, Environmentalist and Security Experts.

In this conversation Gabriel Lafitte and Tenzing Dhamdul engage on Tibet's future with a particular focus on Gabriel Lafitte's analysis on the Future of Tibet's report titled "Tibet 2040: 4 Scenarios on the Future of Tibet".