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Bylakuppe is an area in Karnataka which is home to the Indian town Bylakuppe and several Tibetan settlements, established by Lugsum Samdupling (in 1961) and Dickyi Larsoe (in 1969). Bylakuppe is the largest Tibetan settlement in the world outside Tibet.
The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) provides a Green Book - a kind of Tibetan identity certificate - to Tibetan refugees. Based on a CTA survey from 2009, 127,935 Tibetans were registered in the diaspora: in India 94,203; in Nepal 13,514; in Bhutan 1,298; and in rest of the world 18,920. [2]
Since then, Tibetans-in-exile have been given asylum in India, with the Indian government accommodating them into 45 residential settlements across 10 states in the country, creating the Tibetan diaspora. From around 150,000 Tibetan refugees in 2011, the number fell to 85,000 in 2018, according to government data.
There are also nearly 100,000 Tibetans living in exile in India since 1959, [23] the majority of them living in Tibetan enclaves such as Dharamshala and Bylakuppe. In 2011, the Indian government reported 150,000 Tibetan diaspora residing in India. In 2019, the number of Tibetan diaspora in India declined to 85,000. [24]
> There is a mini Tibet, hosting the world’s second-largest Tibetan settlement (Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh has the largest Tibetian settlement) Bylakuppe Town Periyapatna Taluk Karnataka. > In the 1960s, when China invaded Tibet, nearly 1 lakh Tibetans were tragically killed within two and a half years.
More than a hundred Tibetan refugees staged a protest in New Delhi on Friday, demanding that the "occupation" of their country by China be discussed during the two-day G20 summit in the city this ...
It belongs to the Gelugpa sect and is the largest Buddhist monastery in India. The name Tawang (Tibetan: རྟ་དབང་, Wylie: Rta-dbang) means "horse chosen". [17] It is said to be the biggest Buddhist monastery in the world outside of Lhasa, Tibet. [18] It is a major holy site for Tibetan Buddhists as it was the birthplace of the ...
Bir Tibetan Colony is a settlement in Bir, Himachal Pradesh. Jeerango in Gajapati district, Odisha, has a large Tibetan community and South Asia's largest Buddhist monastery. The government of India has built special schools for Tibetans, providing free education, healthcare, and scholarships for students who excel in school.