"Tibetan Government, Ganden Palace, Victorious in all Directions"
Anthem: བོད་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱལ་གླུ "National Anthem of Tibet"
Boundaries of independent Tibet during World War II, prior to its annexation by China in 1951 and the subsequent creation of the Tibet Autonomous Region
Status
Government-in-exile
Capital-in-exile
McLeod Ganj
Headquarters
176215, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India
Official languages
Tibetan
Religion
Tibetan Buddhism
Government
Presidential republic
• Sikyong
Penpa Tsering
• Speaker
Pema Jungney
Legislature
Parliament-in-exile
Establishment
29 May 2011
• Re-establishment of the Kashag
29 April 1959
• Charter of the Tibetans In-Exile
14 June 1991
Time zone
UTC+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:[ˈpʰỳmìːˈʈìʔt͡sùʔ], lit.'Tibetan People's Exile Organization')[1] is a non-profit political organization based in Dharamshala, India. Its organization is modeled after an elective government, composed of a judiciary branch, a legislative branch, and an executive branch, and is sometimes labelled as a government in exile for Tibet.[2]
The organization was established on 29 May 2011, after the 14th Dalai Lama rejected calls for Tibetan independence;[3] following his decision to not assume any political and administrative authority, the Charter of Tibetans in Exile was updated immediately in May 2011, and all articles related to political duties of the 14th Dalai Lama and regents were repealed. On 29 April 1959, the then-Dalai Lama re-established the Kashag, which was abolished by the Government of the People's Republic of China on 28 March 1959.[4][5] 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 and press releases, and administers a network of schools and other cultural activities for Tibetans in India. 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] The 14th Dalai Lama was the head of state of Tibet before he became the permanent head of the Tibetan Administration and assumed executive functions for Tibetans in exile on 14 June 1991.
^"Central Tibetan Administration". [Central Tibetan Administration. Archived from the original on 3 August 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
^"Tibet dying a 'slow death' under Chinese rule, says exiled leader". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
^Campbell, Charlie (7 March 2019). "The Dalai Lama Has Been the Face of Buddhism for 60 Years. China Wants to Change That". Time. Photographs by Ruven Afanador. Retrieved 1 October 2023. He has rejected calls for Tibetan independence since 1974 — acknowledging the geopolitical reality that any settlement must keep Tibet within the People's Republic of China.
^https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/jcws.2006.8.3.pdf Archived 29 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
^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.
^"Members". UNPO. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
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