twitter at v.w. news our web site you know the top. in april 2019 the dalai lama tibet's spiritual leader was released from hospital where he'd undergone treatment for a chest infection he returned to a city in northern india that's home to the tibetan exile community and met with some of his followers. i'm sure you've heard them had some mouth problems and not the good old little. please excuse us for not being able to give this lecture and there is we'd planned. but the don't just strongly advised me to stay here in toronto. to.

journalist tensing lives in that i'm sorry. it's 6 30 in the morning and she's making her daily visit to the dalai lama's temple complex. on the way people spin these prayer wheels they believe that this ritual will bring good luck tensing is praying for the dalai lama right now. that's the attitude the tibetan so even though it's a very small community here we have to land this to create our own good to meet here in terms of good life the most residents and the temple is just up there so we took what poll down at the tibetan certainty that morning and also if the evening that this is really important part of the year this is activity. tensing works

hard to preserve tibet's cultural heritage. and. later that morning she arrives in the newsroom of the voice of tibet radio station where she's the editor in chief the station provides its listeners with content on life in tibet and in the exile community the band has been part of the people's republic of china since 1951. the region covers about 12 percent of china's total area tensing was born in india and has never been to bant chinese censorship makes it hard for her and her staff to find out what's really going on there. our target audience is the tibetans inside tibet it's like live fire only and nobody in there so they're going to make anything any story from inside tibet of course it's it's had this because you don't know the place but with the advent of technology that the death band off in

a different different channels like social media. we do find you know a lot of options to try to get inside tibet but at the same time china is spending huge by the entry sources to stop all this flow of information an estimated 6000000 tibetans live in china in recent years only a few of them have managed to leave the country because the government is making emigration more difficult. this editor was smuggled out of china as a child we're not going to identify him because he's afraid that the chinese authorities will punish his parents who still live there. my mother and i stay in touch with each other but we only use when chatter chinese that my mother is still in tibet and after we finish she doesn't contact me again for at least a week and we keep opening new we chat accounts. so we try to get around the

surveillance. about 10000 tibetan exiles live in dharam sala which is located about 200 kilometers west of the chinese border the city has sometimes called little lost or a reference to the capital of tibet. tashi tearing helped the dalai lama escape to india in 1959 after china's army moved into parts of tibet to put down a popular uprising tashi was a tibetan soldier at the time. right now he's visiting a small museum that's devoted to the conflict between to bat and china. until 950 tibet enjoyed a good deal of autonomy then the new communist chinese government sent troops to occupy the region battens put up stiff resistance for the next several years but

their forces were outnumbered the dalai lama fled to india in 1959. it was a difficult journey through the himalayas and china now ruled all of tibet. good here that. i accept the fact that i'll never see to bed again. broken off contact with my relatives there. big grew up under chinese rule. i've dedicated my life to the dalai lama. my relatives and i simply view things differently to the minute. tashi tearing soon followed his spiritual leader into indian exile in return for his loyal service he was allowed to stay at the dalai lama's residence for the rest of his life even kept cattle in

the stable than today tash he's 82 years out the memories of tibet's armed conflict with china in the 1950 s. are still vivid. you think. both of the bigger the but the more your go those were very difficult times you know we had to finish off some comrades who'd been wounded and. we told them to close their eyes and think about his holiness the dalai lama. reaser goodbye to him at the indian border he was like our father leaving us. and then we went back to fight the walk over there both. a large crowd has gathered at the temple complex for the dalai lama's 1st public appearance since he left the hospital many here are concerned about his health he's 84 years old now and chest infections can be dangerous for elderly people.

the dalai lama is an enormously popular figure around the world jew in large part to his charismatic personality. and he now seems on the road to recovery. tensing pelton will broadcast a report about this event on her radio station it's the only way that tibetans in china will hear about it. actually lead. to that is in the form of somebody that you just see that he has resumed his activities. but at the same time and then he wore it. you know he says interest did it is this right now this is does the law here the that is that he has to be there to more this. the dalai lama describes himself as a simple buddhist monk but to do better he's a symbol of peaceful protest and the struggle for control independence in 2011 he

announced that he would step down as the official leader of the tibetan community outside china but he continues to speak out on political issues. said india's the severity isn't that good torture brainwash but mainly moral this free. so now. some journeys more interludes through or more of city. open minded chinese you see daisy replace the last. 70 years to see is. not effective. the dalai lama knows that china will never are now an independent event but he continues to demand that the all foreigners in beijing guarantee freedom of opinion and freedom of religion for the

people of his homeland. by all is. the chinese sort of power or is that that. of strength or is it saw. that there is more decisive. role ron paul is a much more stronger than a ball but. the dalai lama is concerned about who will succeed him as the tibetan spiritual leader and that china may try to influence the process but just because he is opposed to beijing's policies intervent he does not reject marxist philosophy out of hand. from germany.

over in europe interest to those asian. is a war good for true. to most exploitation so he stepped forward there right. and then. his economy is equal distribution. that bought i fully sort of admire or it be so even today i describe myself as a city sort of a social economy to the scots and. back at the radio station tensing belden and her colleagues are preparing reports about the dalai lama's latest public appearance. as a respected international figure and nobel peace prize laureate he also plays

a key role in raising funds for the tibetan exile community. not just source of tibet i think many of the media not just news media. walking's in if there are a hugely dependent on. if it comes to getting its foreign aid from. non-profit organization we saw it dependent on foreign funds so i think all of. that had to go once his soul and this passes away it's going to be his challenge for us. around lunchtime 10 sings friend 10 since when do stops by the radio station for a visit he's a writer and independence activist he and tensing often debate the current situation in tibet. tense and will be satisfied with nothing

less than full independence for to betting on and admits that this could cause some problems for ethnic chinese who now live there and. other one and that new tibet of course would have the chinese also you know of course the chinese have been living in tibet almost double the population of tibet and they've been there for a long time. so we have to find a reasonable time period to see once tibet is free an independent. who are the ones who have to walk back to their own country and who may continue. to stay we have to kick off a new tibet years tensing believes that this position goes too far this issue and many others devising exile community tensing offers polite criticism of tenzin and

other radical activists. there are some into the asians who when they talk about it. without looking at their intention in a way when they make some remarks against against a dilemma that is something that is not really taken there by. a lot so that's how the trip tension comes about. but tensing doesn't let political differences affect her personal relations she knows a lot of people in her neighborhood the tibetans in dharamsala don't mix very much with the city's indian residents. 10 sings extended family lives in houses that are next door to each other the family has been in india for 2 generations. they marry only other tibetans is tensing son is now away at boarding school she hopes to pass along to him the traditions of her contre and religion. to. the tibetans

we are for the sea for the land here and we have to protect our culture we have to predict in our tradition and all that so in order to protect and sustain our culture i think family life is very important and let's make sure that gets to know how it brought up by mad patterns. along with keeping the tradition alive or tensing lives with her mother who 76 years old she belongs to the 1st generation of tibetan exiles she's pleased that her daughter has made a better life for herself in india. pirlo did it i never learned to read all right i was my parents' only child and i can't even write my own name. but here in india my daughter was able to get an education and i'm proud of that. but there

were no opportunities like that in tibet when i was growing up. maybe it's different today but that's what it was like back then. the. dharamsala has become a tourist destination over the last few decades due in part to it simi plantation climate and thriving buddhist culture many of the tibetan residents work in the tourism industry. 10 soon grow up on the city's main street there are lots of souvenir shops here her parents used to own this one. today her sister in law works here the family used to make a good living with the shop but not anymore. the city has changed a lot these days business at the shops is down because too many of them sell the

same goods and the restaurants have fewer customers. because of all the fast food shops. this is. the situation of the exiles is complicated by the fact that the indian government hasn't made much of an effort to integrate them into society. especially with the legal documents that they have in india you know it's very hard to get a job in other than listen to that administration you know it's hard to get a job that they want. so most of the most of the time the end of immigrating to the vest or put it is this here. tensing is nice tents in runs or start up company that sounds clothing and cosmetics. she has university degrees in both business administration and fashion marketing. she attended college

in delhi prefer to return to dharamsala after she completed her studies. in my class we have a 5 to going global so. it's always easier to stay we don't need people we know so we hardly talk to indians not that we don't want to tell to but then they have a little friend's wedding we find it more. tedious to be the good news and then we also hate to tell one in english in so. because of that maybe on a lot of people only to stay with our own community. tensing already has 30000 followers on instagram she'd like to move to the u.s. one day and set up a business there. actually the thing is i think there's a lot more opportunity when it comes to the west it is the thing is if you stay in

year you have a normal life and then. but in that he wanted to make a future plan was something i didn't spend any. money considering all the asking me i think it's all because of the regime's stay there yet in their own the money gets . to him he owns. more than 90000 tibetan exiles live in india many of them are affiliated with the tibetan youth congress an international non-governmental organization that promotes tibet and independence. its members also take part in social welfare activities that benefit the exile community. who. complained that most of the tibetans who go to the west who go to. go america or europe or australia where they are going there just so that they could provide you know for their families but also their children and

their children to have a good education so that's what they're there and then once they're certain. they're making enough money to be able to receive a lot of debate is contributing to the society career contributed to the movement which is a positive side i passed by. the organization can still call out several 1000 people for a tibetan independence rally in delhi but the crowds are getting smaller in the 1990 s. such demonstrations were big media events that often drew hollywood celebrities but today this movement is attracting less attention than it used to. i a reporter for radio free tibet is here to cover the demonstration but that's about the extent of the media presence. tensing pelton visits

the station's office in delhi she and a reporter take a look at photographs from the rally. there were some clashes with police but otherwise they say that the event was a success. to journalists walk through delhi's government district the exile community is grateful that they've been able to find refuge in india economic ties between india and china are gradually improving but political tensions remain and the presence of the tibetan exiles here is a sensitive topic for both countries. so for the time being it appears that india will take no further steps to integrate it tibet and population . how can i see the indian government dissing my government when the tibetans don't really have the right to citizenship of course the citizenship act of india has made some provisions it allows some tibetans from israeli citizenship but that also

comes a lot of conditions so these conditions make it very difficult for the tibetans to get this right. this evening a group of intellectuals and activists are meeting at the house of ten's in do in dharamsala. most of these people have started abroad they're pleased that the administration of u.s. president donald trump is taking a tough stand on trade with china. but many fear that beijing will continue to spread its economic influence around the while not just as you and that will be bad news for tibetan independence. day almost $150.00 countries are trading with china and they're benefiting from china's occupation of tibet and china's. violation of human rights and tibet which has resulted in more than $155.00 tibetans killing themselves self-immolation burning themselves

so these are direct results of global trade everybody is involved in it everybody is benefiting from this. the tibetan exile community is divided about how best to achieve their goal of cultural and political independence. there's it while i think the struggle has come to a level where there's a lot of stagnancy and nobody wants to listen to the other one and i feel that we have come to a stage where you know maybe if you could have afforded the kind of. in the kind of personal attachment that you could have with your ideology earlier but now is the stage where if we have to find that common ground and find that unifying factor. but all tibetan exiles agree that education is the key to preserving their traditions they have set up schools wherever they have settled like this one interim selar. the classes are taught by buddhist monks into

baton and in english it is essential for the children to learn to read and write. in china 40 percent of all tibetans are still illiterate and the number of those who speak to batten is falling. here is even young children learn buddhist meditation techniques. the school is hosting a special event today tensing belden is running a bit late she is here to attend the annual recital sponsored by the tibetan institute of performing arts.

1000 people have crowded into the school auditorium to enjoy traditional music and dancing. many are overcome with emotion as the tibetan flag is carried on to the stage the fact was banned by the chinese government in 1959. say that the performance filled the audience with national pride and served as a reminder that the exiles main goal is independence for their homeland. a number of people here say that they still dream of returning to tibet. on her way home tenzing poundland once again visits the temple complex. she prays that the dalai lama will have a long life so that he can continue to lead his people. yes.

yes i. didn't know that. any successor to the dalai lama will be chosen according to the buddhist principle of reincarnation. china says it has the right to choose that successor since it controls tibet but the current and i nominate jack that notion. is not his monks are practicing martial arts techniques they too hope that one day they'll be able to return to bat . but china refuses to hold talks with the exiles and this policy will not likely change anytime soon. oh my heavens i've been saying that you are supposed to see it off to responsibly to get back. to it's my turn and i tell my son.

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