Ottawa Tibetan Community Association

06/06/2026

Tibetan language and cultural class end of year session. Thank you to the Ghelas (teachers) Dawa la, Damdu la, and Choney la for your dedication, parents for encouraging your child, and yes to our kids (even though you don't want to wake up from your bed on the weekend). This is our small collective efforts to keep our culture, roots, and identity strong into the next generation and making Canada a place where cultures meet and where we build stronger understandings among people.

OTCA appreciates the support of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) International and Indigenous Language Program for this opportunity that community benefits from.

06/03/2026

Tibet Day at the Parliament, organized by the Parliamentary Friends of Tibet interns, brought Tibet issue to the forefront and reminding everyone that we all should fight for our collective values of Freedom, Democracy and Justice - here at home and globally. Thank you to the MPs and Friends of Tibet for your constant support for Tibet and for truth "བདེན་པ (denpa), as H.H. the Dalai Lama reminds us often.

OTCA welcomed Dr. Namgyal Choedup la, Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama in North America. He shared the work of CTA and what more needs to be done going forward to strengthen our work. Thank you for meeting with us!

The Ottawa Tibetan Association members are happy to support the success of Tibet Day, through the leadership of the dynamic PFT intern who gain valuable insights and experience on working toward a better world. Congratulations to the interns on a well organized event.

05/28/2026

Penpa Tsering, the Sikyong of the 16th Kashag (Cabinet) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), was sworn in as the Sikyong of the 17th Kashag earlier this morning at the Tsuglagkhang courtyard in the presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama following his reelection.

OTCA and Tibetans across wishes success to Sikyong and all the newly elected members to the Tibetan Parliament in Exile.

See speech of Sikyong: https://tibet.net/inaugural-address-at-the-swearing-in-ceremony-of-the-sikyong-of-the-17th-kashag-central-tibetan-administration/

Dharamshala: Penpa Tsering, the Sikyong of the 16th Kashag (Cabinet) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), was sworn in as the Sikyong of the 17th Kashag earlier this morning at the Tsuglagkhang courtyard in the presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama following his reelection. After securing

05/24/2026

A busy and joyful day - starting with Tibetan cultural class with our dear children. Tenzin Kunsang, one of the Parliamentary Friends of Tibet intern volunteered in the class. We thank the interns for the work on Tibet and wish you all a great experience.

OTCA collected Tibetan Green Book (Chartel contribution to the Tibetan Government in Exile) at the school and park later in the day. Thank you to OTCA members for your constant support and participation. Some members were at Massey Park to join a celebration of Life for our late. Dean Ward, who will always be in our heart with your love and fight for Tibet and the Tibetan people. Thank you to family and friends of Dean to inviting us. There were lungtha (prayer flag) flying in the air, taking well wishes to people all around.

05/21/2026

If you are in Toronto come celebrate the life and legacy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༥ ཚེས་ ༢༤ ཉིན་སན་ཀོ་ཧྥ་གླིང་ཁ་ (Sankofa Square) རུ་ཚོགས་རྒྱུའི་ང་ཚོའི་གུ་སྟོན་ (Gutoen) དུས་སྟོན་ཐོག།

✅ ༸གོང་ས་མཆོག་གི་སྐུ་ཚེ་གང་གི་མཛད་རྣམ་ཁག་འགྲེམས་སྟོན།
✅ ༸གོང་ས་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་བསྐྱེད་དམ་བཅའ་བཞིའི་འགྲེམས་སྟོན།
✅ བོད་ཀྱི་ཐུན་མོང་མ་ཡིན་པའི་རིག་གཞུང་དང་རིག་གནས་ཁག་འགྲེམས་སྟོན།
✅བོད་ཀྱི་རོལ་དབྱངས་དང་རིག་གཞུང་གི་འཁྲབ་སྟོན།
✅ བོད་ཀྱི་གཟབ་མཆོར་གྱོན་ཆས་འགྲེམས་སྟོན།
✅ ཀུན་གྱིས་རེ་སྒུག་བྱེད་བཞིན་པའི་བོད་ཀྱི་སྒོར་གཞས།
✅ བྱིས་པ་ཚོ་དོན་སྙིང་ལྡན་པའི་ངང་མཉམ་ཞུགས་ཐུབ་པའི་བྱིས་པའི་རྩེད་རྭ།

འདི་ཙམ་གྱིས་མ་ཚད་… མི་རེ་ངོ་རེའི་འདོད་མོས་དང་མཐུན་པའི་ལས་རིམ་མང་པོ་ཡོད།

ང་ཚོ་མཉམ་དུ་འཛོམས་ནས་སྤྱི་ནོར་༸གོང་ས་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་སྐུ་ཚེ་གང་གི་མཛད་རྗེས་ལ་རྗེས་དྲན་ཞུ་བའི་ཆེད་དུ། རིག་གཞུང་དང་། སྤྱི་ཚོགས། སློབ་སྦྱོང་། དགའ་སྟོན་བཅས་ཀྱིས་ཕྱུག་པའི་བརྗེད་པར་དཀའ་བའི་ཉིན་མོ་འདིར་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་རོགས། གནས་ཚུལ་འདི་ཁྱབ་བསྒྲགས་བྱེད་རོགས།

📍 ས་གནས། སན་ཀོ་ཧྥ་གླིང་ཁ། (Sankofa Square)
📅 དུས་ཚོད། ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༥ ཚེས་ ༢༤ ཉིན། ཞོགས་པའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༡༠ པ་ནས་དགོང་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༦ པ་བར།

ང་ཚོས་ཁྱེད་རང་དང་མཉམ་དུ་དགའ་སྟོན་བྱེད་རྒྱུར་རེ་སྒུག་ཆེན་པོ་བྱེད་བཞིན་ཡོད། ✨

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Curious about what’s in store for our upcoming "Celebrating Year of Compassion" Ghoton event at Sankofa Square on May 24th, 2026?

You name it, We’ve got it!

✅ His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama's Life and Legacy Exhibition
✅ Highlights of His Holiness's Four Principal Commitments
✅ A vibrant celebration of Tibetan culture and traditions
✅ Tibetan music and cultural་performances
✅ Traditional Tibetan Dress Ramp Walk / Fashion Show
✅ By popular demand, our much-loved Tibetan Gorshey
✅ An exciting Kids’ Corner to keep children meaningfully engaged

And that’s not all… there’s something for everyone!

Join us for an unforgettable day as we celebrate the Year of Compassion through Tibetan culture, community, learning, and identity, while honoring the life and legacy of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

📍 Sankofa Square, 1 Dundas St E, Toronto
📅 May 24th, 2026
🕙 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

We can’t wait to celebrate with you!

05/04/2026

Don't forget to come see a great film by Tibetan-Canadian filmmaker, Kunsang Kyirong at Bytowne this Wed, at 6:45 pm.
Please share widely in your network!

“100 Sunset” follows two young Tibetan women navigating friendship, disappearance, and a quiet economy of survival in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood. Shot with non-professional actors and embedded in real community locations, the film offers a rare and intimate portrait of diasporic life. Ku...

05/02/2026

04/30/2026

Requesting support for Tibetan Youths who coming to Ottawa for the 2026 Parliamentary Friends of Tibet Internship, May - June.

The individuals are looking for shared rooms to rent and/or families who can host youths for a month. The group also appreciated any support to help with expenses. Donations /etransfer can be sent to OTCA : [email protected]
If you have any questions please emial OTCA.

Also check out the screening of 100 Sunset by Tibetan-Canadian filmaker, Kunsang Kyirong at Bytowne Cinema, Wed May 6 @6:45 PM.

Victoria Day Community Picnic - Check details in your mailbox. Pls confirm attendance/preference by emial or message any board members. 🙏

The Parliamentary Friends of Tibet Internship Program 2026 is now accepting applications!

This seven-week, paid program offers students and recent graduates of Tibetan origin the opportunity to work directly with Members of Parliament (MPs) on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, gaining hands-on experience in federal politics and Tibet advocacy.

Scan the QR code or the google drive link to access the application package! Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nQSDHkj2ONNvRo9m3yf5UI9bN51sBJYq/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107064659153413512631&rtpof=true&sd=true

Application Deadline: March 13th, 2026

For any questions, email [email protected]

04/27/2026

Dr. Namgyal Choedup, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and The Office of Tibet, Washington DC (Central Tibetan Administration), concludes Ottawa visits with a message of hope and solidarity against Transnational Repression.
https://canadatibet.com/representative-dr-namgyal-choedup-concludes-ottawa-visits-with-message-of-hope-and-solidarity-against-transnational-repression/

01/28/2026

Notice : Preliminary Voting for Sikyong and Chitue candidates.

Location: Pineview Community Association (Centre), 1700 Blair Rd., Gloucester Room
Date/ Time: Sun, Feb 1st from 11:00 am to 5:00pm

Reminders:
1. Research well on your candidates choice - no sharing notes and posters of candidates at location
3. You cannot take your cell phone inside when you cast your ballot ( we will look after them at the reception)
4. One family member can assist individuals who are illiterate or have disabilities, upon permission.
5. Details to fill on the 2 ballot paper (in English or Tibetan):
a) Name of Candidate/s (1 Sikyong and 2 North/South American Representatives)
b) Native Origin
c) Residence, and
d) Present/former occupation
6. If you did not register your name to vote in 2025 , you can still vote on Feb 1st, but you must update your Green Book payment till 2025. Please email OTCA asap for questions and payment arrangements)

Be part/proud of our democracy in exile by coming to vote on Feb 1st. Thank you!