Central Tibetan Administration

Central Tibetan Administration
བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་
Motto: བོད་གཞུང་དགའ་ལྡན་ཕོ་བྲང་ཕྱོགས་ལས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ
"Tibetan Government, Ganden Palace, Victorious in all Directions"
Anthem: བོད་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱལ་གླུ
"Tibetan National Anthem"
StatusGovernment-in-exile
Capital-in-exileMcLeod Ganj
HeadquartersDharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India, 176215
Official languagesTibetan
Religion
Tibetan Buddhism
GovernmentPresidential republic
• Sikyong
Penpa Tsering
• Speaker
Pema Jungney
LegislatureParliament of the Central Tibetan Administration
Establishment29 May 2011
• 17 Point Agreement Rescinded by Tibet
March 1959
• Tibet Re-establishes the Kashag
29 April 1959
14 June 1991
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
Website
tibet.net

The Central Tibetan Administration (Tibetan: བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་, Wylie: Bod mi'i sgrig 'dzugs, THL: Bömi Drikdzuk, Tibetan pronunciation: [ˈpʰỳmìː ˈʈìʔt͡sùʔ], lit.'Tibetan People's Exile Organization')[1] is the Tibetan government in exile, based in Dharamshala, India.[2] It is composed of a judiciary branch, a legislative branch, and an executive branch, and offers support and services to the Tibetan exile community.

The 14th Dalai Lama formally rescinded the 1951 17 Point Agreement with China in early March 1959, as he was escaping Tibet for India. On 29 April 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama in exile re-established the Kashag, which was abolished a month earlier by the Government of the People's Republic of China on 28 March 1959.[3][4][5] He later became permanent head of the Tibetan Administration and the executive functions for Tibetans-in-exile. On 11 February 1991, Tibet became a founding member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) at a ceremony held at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands.[6] After the 14th Dalai Lama decided no longer to assume administrative authority, the Charter of Tibetans in Exile was updated in May 2011 to repeal all articles relating to his political duties.

The Tibetan diaspora and refugees support the Central Tibetan Administration by voting for members of its parliament, the Sikyong, and by making annual financial contributions through the use of the Green Book. The Central Tibetan Administration also receives international support from other organizations and individuals. The Central Tibetan Administration authors reports, press releases, and administers a network of schools and other cultural activities for Tibetans in India.

  1. ^ "Central Tibetan Administration". [Central Tibetan Administration. Archived from the original on 3 August 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
  2. ^ "Tibet dying a 'slow death' under Chinese rule, says exiled leader". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  3. ^ https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/jcws.2006.8.3.pdf Archived 29 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ 外交部:中方从来不承认所谓的西藏"流亡政府" [Ministry of Foreign Affairs: China has never recognized the so-called "government in exile" in Tibet]. 中国西藏网 (in Chinese). 18 March 2016. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Members". UNPO. Retrieved 27 November 2011.