The KTC Team

The members of KTC belong to a younger generation brought up under the leadership of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama. They are fully prepared to shoulder the responsibilities of carrying on the struggle and to inform others about the situation in Tibet. Tibetans within Tibet have great hope that Tibetans in exile will continue to uphold Tibetan cultural traditions, which those within Tibet cannot practice freely under China's governance. Through the activities of KTC, its members want to build a strong Tibetan society and gain both internal (from within Tibet) and international support for its cause.

Our Advisors

Kasur Pema Chhinjor

Kasur Pema Chhinjor is the former Minister of Security for the Tibetan Government in Exile in Dharamsala. From 1974-1987, he taught Tibetan language and history at Punjab University in India.

Mr. Chinnjor wrote and published “New Plan Tibetan Grammar & Translation”.

Mr. Chhinjor currently lives in the United States and is a Steering Committee member of Alliance for Reform and Democracy in Asia (ARDA). He was previously a member of the Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies (ATPD).

Dr. Lobsang Sangay is presently a Senior Fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School. After graduating from Tibetan Refugee school in Darjeeling, he did BA (Hons), and LLB from Delhi University, India. In 1995, he won Fulbright scholarship to do Master Degree at Harvard Law School. In 2004, he became the first Tibetan (among six million) to earn Doctorate degree from Harvard Law School and was a recipient of 2004 Yong K. Kim' 95 Prize of excellence for his dissertation “Democracy in Distress: Is Exile Polity a Remedy? A Case Study of Tibet's Government-in-exile>” In 2006, he was selected as one of the twenty-four Young Leaders of Asia 21 by the Asia Society, a global organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States.
In India, he was a student leader and was served as the Vice-President, General Secretary, and President of Regional Tibetan Youth Congress in Delhi. He was later elected as one of the youngest national executive members of the Tibetan Youth Congress (CENTREX), the largest NGO among Tibetans in exile. For the last eleven years, in his Track II Initiative, Dr. Sangay has organized five unprecedented conferences between Chinese and Tibetan scholars at Harvard University, including a rare meeting between HH the Dalai Lama and thirty-five Mainland Chinese scholars in 2003.

He has given numerous talks on Sino-Tibet conflict and exile Tibetan issues in various institutes and venues around the world. He is an editorial consultant for Radio Free Asia and has a weekly radio program. He has been consulted by the news media, including the BBC, Washington Post, Far Eastern Economic Review, Boston Globe, Oregonian, etc., and has published articles about the Tibetan issue in the Harvard Asia Quarterly and Journal of Democracy, to name a few.

Brief Biography of KTC Staff

Mr. Serta Tsultrim, Editor

Finished high-level education at Serta Buddhist Institution in Kham region of Tibet in 1996. Worked between 1999 and 2003 at the Religious Department of the Tibetan Government in Exile as the editor of a comprehensive history book on Buddhist monasteries in Tibet, India, Nepal and Bhutan, and as the editor of the Nor-Wod magazine. During this time, Mr. Serta Tsultrim was part of the Cultural and Research Centre of Norbulingka Institute, working as a researcher for Tibetan culture and education.

As Director and one of the main founders of Khawa Karpo Tibet Culture Centre, Mr. Serta Tsultrim is known as an experienced and skilled young Tibetan writer.

He was elected to the fifth local Tibetan Assembly of Dharamsala (LTA) in 2004. Mr. Tsultrim has been elected to the 14th Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies (ATPD). He is also a coordinator of the Tibetan Journalist Association.

Completed his education in Tibetan culture and religion (The Rigne Rabjam) in 1993 and finished a teacher training course in 1995 financed by the Tibetan Education Department. Mr. Yeshe Choesang holds a B.A. in Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy from the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD).

In 2000, Mr. Yeshe Choesang was the Assistant Editor of “How To Teach,” a bilingual teacher training book series in Tibetan and English for Tibetan teachers. For 4 years, he worked as a Researcher in World History at the Research & Translation Centre (Lhaksam Tsekpa) of IBD. Between 2000 and 2003, Mr. Yeshe Choesang taught Tibetan language at Srongtsen Bhrikuti High School, Kathmandu, Nepal. In 2002, he completed a special teacher training course at Sarah College organised by the Department of Education of the Central Tibetan Administration.

Mr. Yeshe Choesang is also the General Secretary of the Tibet Journalist Association, Dharamsala.

Graduated from the Tibetan Children Village (TCV) School in Bir in 1997 and joined the Central School for Tibetans (CST) at Mundgod for her senior secondary level education. Mrs. Yeshi Tsomo completed a B.A. in Office Management at the Delhi College of Arts and Commerce in Delhi University in 2002.

After his primary education in Tibet, Mr. Ngawang Rabgyal joined a renowned monastery in Tibet and studied Buddhist philosophy for some years. He also studied Tibetan and English languages in Tibet, Tibetan Transit School Dharamsala in India and also took special computer and English language courses during his five-years stay in Delhi, India.  Since the inception of KTC in the year 2003, he had been working for KTC as a volunteer reporter and distributor of the Tibet Express in Delhi. In February 2006, he joined KTC head office based in Dharamsala and since then, he has been working as an administration manager cum reporter. He has pretty good experience of all kinds of work. He is also an active activist for wildlife conservation campaign and also works with some environment NGOs like Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI), Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Fund for Tiger. He successfully organized a mega photo exhibition for Wildlife Conservation Campaign during 2006 Amravati kalachakara teaching of H.H.The Dalai Lama in India. Currently, he is a project officer of WPSI and has possessed one year project for Tibetan wildlife awareness campaign in all the Tibetan settlements and schools based in India and Nepal.  He is also a member of LHA Community, Social Work Charitable Trust since 2003.  

Born to a nomadic family in Serta County in eastern Tibet, Mr. Choeney Woser started his primary school education in 1989. In 1992, he joined the Tibetan middle school and graduated in 1998. After escaping from Tibet in 1999, he attended the Tibet Transit School in India where he improved his knowledge of the Tibetan language and learned English and computer skills. In 2000, he was the assistant editor of the school’s Tibetan literature textbook for students. During his final year at the Tibetan Transit School, he completed special computer courses at the Apar India Institute of Management & Technology in New Delhi, where he graduated in 2004.

Finished ninth grade at Lithang, in Kham region of Tibet in 1991 and completed high-level education in Buddhist philosophy at Othok Buddhist Institute in Ngakchu District in 1995. In exile, he joined Tibetan Transits School (TTS) for three years to study English and Tibetan. Between 1999 and 2003, Mr. Tsultrim Dawa worked at the Cultural and Research Centre of Norbulingka Institute. Mr. Dawa also worked as a designer for Nor-De and Nor-Wod newspapers, and Nor-Zod and Nor-Gyun magazines at Norbulingka at this time.

Mr. Tsultrim Dawa is a co-founder of Khawa Karpo Tibet Culture Centre and worked as Assistant Editor and designer of Bod-Kyi-Bang-Chen (The Tibet Express).

Karma Dakpa was born in the Bed-khyil Valley in the small town of Tsawa Pomda, Eastern Tibet . He was mostly a nomad and a farmer. He had no opportunity to attend school, but he learnt some Tibetan reading and writing from his father and his nomad coworker, Pema Choedak. Karma was very interested in reading King Gesar's story-the world's longest epic story ever written in Tibetan. This helped him improve his reading and language skills greatly.   After he fled Tibet , he entered Gyudmed Tantric University in South India in 1985 and studied Buddhism there for about five years, including Buddhist Philosophy and Tantric rituals which are traditionally memorized and recited. Karma was happy and grateful to be able to improve his Tibetan grammar and writing skills at the monastery.   Later on, he worked for about five years as a masseur as well as taught individual and group massage courses. Moreover, Karma Dakpa co-founded the Bod-Bang Chen (The Tibet Express) Tibetan newspaper and the Khawa Karpo Tibet culture Centre. He worked with us for about a year. He is currently living in the US and is a continuing member of khawa karpo Tibetan Culture Centre.

Born in 1980, at Singmodzong, Sogdzong district in Kham. He learnt Tibetan language by himself at home. At the age of twelve, he became monk in Sog Tsenden Monastery, where he studied major part of the Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy and literature. In 1996, he escaped to India and got admitted in Tibetan Transit School, Dharamsala where he studied English language for three years and enriched his Tibetan language too. He graduated that school in the year 1999. In 2000, he joined Norbulingka Institute as a web-designer and served the Institute accordingly till 2006. His main job in the Institute was to create new website.  During his stay in Norbulingka, he took the responsibility of the Norbulingka Website designing and Archive and also created its website. www.norbulingka.org  Due to his great effort and hard work, at present, he can work independently on installing different software, edit movies and design website, uploading and book designs. So far, he has designed several number of books. He has successfully created the website of Kalachakra-2006. www.kalachakra2006.com Currently, he is a web-designer of Khawa Karpo Tibet Culture Centre as well as the reporter of bod-kyi-bang-chen. He is also one of the active members of Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI). He is also a member of DITG (Dharamsala Information Technology Group). Additionally, he is the main in-charge, editor and designer of the website: www.unitingtibetans.org

Mrs. Tenzin Pema, Project Planning cum Corresponding Incharge

Born on 5th October, 1980 in Mainpat. She studied till class VIII in C.S.T.Mainpat & then transferred to C.S.T.Dalhousie where she studied till class XII (July, 1994–May, 1998). She has received ‘Best Girl Award’ (DOE) twice from both the schools in 1994 & 1997 respectively. She graduated B.A. from St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling (Aug1998–May2001) & B.Ed. from Loyola College of Education, Sikkim (July2002–June2003). She did one year diploma in type-writing from Polden Commercial Institute, Darjeeling (June1998–29thMay, 1999) & also learnt basic computer application at NIIT, Darjeeling (16thOct, 2000-3rdMarch, 2001). She has been class monitor for several times & also has been house captain in both the schools. She was elected as the General Secretary of RTYC, Darjeeling (1stSept, 1999-31stAug, 2001). After that, she served for around one year at Nyingmapa Monastery, Mundgod as an English teacher till June 2002. Soon after completing her B.Ed. course, she joined T.C.V. School Suja as a Social & Englishteacher on 22ndAug, 2003 and served there till 24thFeb, 2007. In that school, she also served as a teacher-incharge of both the Vegetarian Club (3yrs) & its magazine ‘Nyingje’ (2yrs). Since 5thMarch, 2007, she has been working at Khawa Karpo Tibet Culture Centre as an incharge for project planning cum corresponding.