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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Dr. Tsering Wangmo speaks about Tibetan exilic life at Temple University

Dr. Tsering Wangmo gave a talk at Temple University, at an event organized by the Department of Religion, Women's Studies, and the Global Studies Program. Her talk, "Tibet: Unity in Exile and the 'Right" Vision," was about two political manifestoes produced by Tibetan refugees in India in the mid-1960s that shaped the discourse on unity and democracy within Tibetan exilic life. In her talk she outlined how unity was an exclusionary discourse that became the dominant framework for thinking about the boundaries of belonging, refugee-citizenship in exile, and the values of the Tibetan people.