Foundation for Nonviolent Alternatives - FNVA

20/05/2026

On the occasion of Lhakar, the FNVA team, including its Trustees and researchers, extends heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Tenzin Taklha (Secretary of HHDL office) and member of Gaden Phodrang Trust on being honoured with the Thiksey Medal in recognition of his decades of dedicated service to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and the wider Tibetan community.

📷 Thiksey Monastery Official Handle.

14/05/2026

The Himalaya Pariwar formally invites you to the film screening of '4 Rivers and 6 Ranges' directed by Shenphenn Khymser

This is the 1st official public screening in New Delhi🇮🇳 and is organised by Himalaya Pariwar's General Secretary Shri Bhupendra Kansil.

Do not miss the opportunity and join us on:

📅 25th May, 2026
⏳ 3:00 PM
📍 Film Division Auditorium, Mahadev Road, New Delhi

11/05/2026

April Monthly Tibet Digest is now out on our website!

Stay abreast of all the latest updates and developments.

Prepared by: Team FNVA

Click on the link below to access the complete digest.

https://fnvaworld.org/tibet-digest-april-2026/

27/04/2026

༄༅། །གཏམ་གླེང་གི་ལེ་ཚན་འདི་ནི། ཨོ་རི་ས་ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གཞིས་ཆགས་སུ་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་པའི་སྔ་འགྱུར་བདུད་འདུལ་རབ་བརྟན་གླིང་དགོན་གྱི་དབུ་འཛིན་བླ་མ་བསོད་ནམས་བཀྲ་ཤིས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ལྷན་དུ་ཡིན་ཞིང་། ནང་དོན་གྱི་གཙོ་གྲས་སུ། ཟངས་མདོག་དཔལ་རི་གསར་བཞེངས་སྐོར་གྱི་རྒྱབ་ལྗོངས་དགོས་དམིགས་ཀྱི་མཚོན་པའི་བྱུང་རིམ་ཧྲག་བསྡུས་དང་། ཁྲོས་མའི་ཉམས་བཞེས། དེ་མིན་གནད་དོན་གཞན་ཁག་ཅིག་བཅས་ཀྱི་སྙིང་དོན་དུ། །

Featured Conversations Episode 2 with Lama Sonam Tashi la is out.

In this episode, we engaged with Lama Sonam Tashi la, the esteemed abbot of Dundul Raptenling Monastery, who also oversees the principal efforts behind the construction of the Zangdok Palri. The discussion centres upon the historical and spiritual foundations of the Zangdok Palri project, delves into the intricacies of Troma practices, and reflects upon Lama Sonam’s own dedicated contributions to the preservation and propagation of the Buddha Dharma particularly within the Dudjom Tersar lineage.

The Episode is hosted by Rinzin Namgyal la.

This is a teaser from the episode, the entire conversation can be viewed from the following link:

https://youtu.be/PyKOmRkXWsg?si=erOBFhE9rkNLJV6p

The conversation can also be tuned in from our FNVA YouTube channel - FNVA and podcast channel - Insights from the Roof of the World: Conversations on Tibet.

One can access the following link to know more about the Zangdok Pari at Odisha:

https://zangdokpalriodisha.com/

FNVA sincerely thank Lopon Tenpa Dhakpo as videographer, Yeshi Jinsel as editor and the entire Dundul Rabptenling Monastery team for supporting this interview.

13/04/2026

March Monthly Tibet Digest is now out on our website!

Stay abreast of all the latest updates and developments.

Prepared by: Team FNVA

Click on the link below to access the complete digest.

https://fnvaworld.org/tibet-digest-march-2026/

Do not forget to check out the 2026, January and February Tibet Digest as well.

13/04/2026

Our senior researcher writes on “More Than a Ceremony: Why India’s Historic Tenshug is a Geopolitical Signal.”

This op-ed highlights the recent Tenshug offered by India to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, expounding upon how it was more than a ceremony. It further engages on the Indian Tibet Support Groups and the 8th All India Tibet Support Groups Conference which took place after the Tenshug.

You can read and download this writing from our website using the following link:

https://fnvaworld.org/more-than-a-ceremony-why-indias-historic-tenshung-is-a-geopolitical-signal/

09/04/2026

གཏམ་གླེང་གི་ལེ་ཚན་འདི་ནི། སྨོན་ལམ་བརྡ་འཕྲིན་ཞིབ་འཇུག་ཁང་གི་འགན་འཛིན་འབུམ་རམས་པ་དགེ་བཤེས་བློ་བཟང་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་ལྷན་དུ་མིས་བཟོས་རིག་ནུས་དང་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཡིག། སྒོས་སུ། སྨོན་ལམ་རིག་ནུས་ཀྱི་སྔ་ཕྱི་བར་གྱི་བརྒྱུད་རིམ་སོགས་ཀྱིས་སྙིང་དོན་བྱས་པའི་གླེང་མོལ་ཞིག་ཡིན། །

Featured Conversations Episode 1 with Geshe Lobsang Monlam is out.

In this episode, we engage with Geshe Lobsang Monlam. He is the founder and CEO of Monlam AI and a recipient of the 2025 Snow Lion Human Rights Award. The conversations focus on artificial intelligence and the Tibetan language, specifically the history and development of Monlam AI. Furthermore, Beijing's reaction to it, including the recent announcement of DeepZang, is also discussed.

This episode is hosted by Sonam Topgyal la.

This is a teaser from the episode, the entire conversation can be viewed from the following link:

https://youtu.be/8aChA8uVT2g

The conversation can also be tuned in from our FNVA YouTube channel - FNVA and podcast channel - Insights from the Roof of the World: Conversations on Tibet.

30/03/2026

The 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile concluded with its 11th session taking place today.

FNVA conveys our warmest wishes to all 45 members of the 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile and the 16th Kashag (cabinet).

The members of the 18th Tibetan Parliament in Exile shall be voted on 26th April by Tibetans worldwide, showcasing the democratic practices embraced by Tibetans in exile and the diaspora.

🎥courtesy Tibet.Net

27/03/2026

Our senior researcher writes on “Global Solidarity for Tibet in a Changing World: The Tibet Support Groups (TSG).”

This op-ed deliberates on the Tibet Support Groups, which number more than 250 worldwide. It further highlights the recently held 3rd Special International Tibet Support Groups Meeting and explores the initiatives of Tibet Support Groups on the Tibet movement, especially in the context of our changing world.

You can read and download this writing from our website using the following link:

https://fnvaworld.org/global-solidarity-for-tibet-in-a-changing-world-the-tibet-support-groups-tsg/

09/03/2026

17/02/2026

༄༅། །མི་ལ་ཚེ་ཡི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག །ཕྱུགས་ལ་གཡང་གི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག ། ཟས་ལ་བཅུད་ཀྱི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག །ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོཌ་པའི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག །
ལྷན་རྒྱས་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་དུ་བཞད་པའི་དགའ་སྟོན་ལ་བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེཌ་ཞུ། །

WISHING EVERYONE CELEBRATING LOSAR A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!