Yeshe Choesang is an India-based Tibetan journalist, photographer and author who focuses on politics, freedom of press, business, human rights and environmental issues in Tibet and China.

Biography

Yeshe Choesang (Tibetan: ཡེ་ཤེས་ཆོས་བཟང་། Chinese: 益西曲桑 Hindi: यीशि छोसं), pronounced �yeːshey ˈchoe: Zang, born in 1974 in Lithang Region in eastern

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, is a Tibetan journalist, founder and editor in chief of The Tibet Post, an exiled Tibetan news Agency based in Dharamsala,

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

. Mr Choesang was born on 18 August 1974 in the Lithang Region in eastern

, (Currently administratively part of

Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

province, China). He escaped to

in 1985.

Education

He completed his education in

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and

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(The ''Rigne Rabjam'') in 1993 and a teacher training course of the Tibetan Education Department in 1995. He completed his

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in Tibetan

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from the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD). In 2000, he was a member of the editorial board of ''How To Teach'', a bilingual teacher training book series in Tibetan and English for Tibetan teachers. For 4 years, he worked as a researcher in

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at the Research & Translation Centre (Lhaksam Tsekpa) of IBD.

Media career

Choesang wrote several articles in the past 10 years that were published by Tibet Post,

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, and

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. Choesang has written a book titled "Voice of An Exiled Tibetan: Hopes of freedom and struggle" was published in 2014. He is writing a second book, but title yet to be named. He was elected thrice as the General Secretary of the Association of Tibetan Journalists based in Dharamsala. He is the Tibet Correspondent for

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since 2005.Plus de dix mille signatures en faveur du réalisateur Dhondup Wangchen
/ref> In 2007 Choesang founded The Tibet Post International (TPI), a daily Tibetan news agency based in McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala. Other than this, he has also founded several other websites, like outlooktibet.com, shambalapost.com and lhasapost.com. The office of TPI was inaugurated on 11 May 2008 by Franz Pahl, a member of

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and President of the regional parliament of

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. In 2010, he also founded Himalayan Literacy Trust (HLT) in India.

Community development

With HLT and TPI Choesang aims to develop Tibetan media and education in a peaceful and non-violent manner. His organisations also function as a platform to enable future development of Tibetan journalism, doing so by coordinating a group of young Tibetan journalists with the primary goal of promoting

democracy Democracy (from , ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which political power is vested in the people or the population of a state. Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitiv ...

through

freedom of expression Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The rights, right to freedom of expression has been r ...

within Tibetan communities, both in exile and under occupation in Tibet. With TPI Choesang works in cooperation with

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s and individuals around the world as well as with the various departments of the

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while dealing at the same time with individuals and societies in various Tibetan settlements and schools.

References

External links

Tibet Post InternationalHimalayan Literacy TrustOutlook TibetReporters Without BordersShambala PostLhasa PostTibet Digital Times
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