University of Virginia Tibet Center

🇮🇳 UVA NC Fellows Outbound Program in India! Visit to TCV to learn about its educational model and meet with teachers and staff. The day concluded with tea and coffee with Chura, a UVA NC Fellows alumnus, for conversation and reflection.

🇺🇸 UVA NC Fellows Program – The FY23 U.S. Based In-Person Program. Tibetan Entrepreneurs & Soap Making Workshop - བོད་ཀྱི་ལས་གཏོད་པ་དང་འདག་རྫས་བཟོ་སྟངས་སྐོར་གྱི་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་།

🇮🇳 UVA NC Fellow Program's Outbound Program in INDIA! Gaining meaningful exposure to culture, learning, and heritage.
Key visits included the Norbulingka Institute, Karchong Library, and the Himalayan Library, spaces that highlighted culture, knowledge preservation, and community learning.

🇺🇸 UVA NC Fellows Program – The FY23 U.S. Based In-Person Program - roundtable discussion with Mudhouse Coffee Roasters owner John and Lynelle on entrepreneurship and how to grow small business. འཚིགས་ཇ་ཁང་གི་སྦྱིན་བདག་འཇང་དང་ལི་ནའེ་ལི་ལྷན་དུ་ལས་གཏོད་དང་ཚོང་ལས་ཡར་རྒྱས་གཏོང་སྟངས་སྐོར་གྱི་བསམ་ཚུལ་བརྗེ་རེས་སམ་གྲོས་གོར།

🇺🇸 UVA NC Fellows Program – The FY23 U.S. Based In-Person Program. ཝིར་ཇི་ནིས་ཡ་སློབ་ཆེན་བོད་མི་ལས་གཏོད་པའི་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་སྟེ་ལས་རྟགས་དང་ཚོང་རྟགས་བཟོ་སྟངས་དང་དེའི་གལ་ཆེའི་རང་བཞིན་སྐོར་གྱི་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་། Tibetan Entrepreneural Program - Logo and branding Workshop

🇺🇸 UVA NC Fellows Program – The FY23 U.S. Based In-Person Program. ཝིར་ཇི་ནིས་ཡ་སློབ་ཆེན་གྱི་ལས་གཏོད་པའི་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་དང་ཝིར་ཇི་ནིས་ཡ་སློབ་ཆེན་བོད་ཀྱི་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་། Our Tibetan Fellows visited the University of Virginia and explored the Shanon Library - Tibetan Collection Library.

🇮🇳 UVA NC Fellow Program's Outbound Program in Dharamshala, INDIA! our fellows visited the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives with Geshe Lhakdor, gaining a deeper appreciation for the efforts to preserve Tibetan knowledge, culture, and ancient texts. In the afternoon, our fellow visited the Tibet Museum, followed by another engaging entrepreneurship workshop at Barako. A day of learning, reflection, and inspiration

🇺🇸 UVA NC Fellows Program 's U.S.based in-person portion of our program is officially underway! ཐེངས་འདིར་ཨ་རིར་འཚོགས་བཞིན་པའི་ཚོང་ལས་དངོས་ཞུགས་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་གི་ཚོགས་མི་རྣམས། ཝིར་ཇི་ནི་ཡ་སློབ་ཆེན་གྱི་ཉེ་འཁོར་ལ་གཟིགས་སྐོར་དུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་ཟུར་ཞིག

Our fellows participated in orientation and visited the University of Virginia grounds. It was a great opportunity to get to know one another, learn about the program, and begin building a strong community for the weeks ahead.

We look forward to an exciting summer of learning, leadership development, and cultural exchange.

🇮🇳 UVA NC Fellow Program's Outbound Program in Dharamshala, INDIA! Our fellows explored the Tibetan community in McLeod Ganj and met artisans and entrepreneurs who are working hard to preserve Tibetan culture and traditional craftsmanship.

They visited Nyamlae, where traditional Tibetan rugs, clothing, and prayer flags are still made entirely by hand, and learned about both the beauty of these crafts and the challenges of keeping them alive for future generations. We also met local entrepreneurs and the inspiring founder of Pema Bakery.

In the evening, they launched one of six our Entrepreneurship Workshop with many Tibetan entrepreneurs. Through activities centered on the Business Model Canvas, participants connected, exchanged ideas, and began building a supportive learning community.

A wonderful start to a week of cultural exchange, leadership development, and entrepreneurship.

🌏✈️ UVA Tibet Center – NC Fellows Program's Outbound Fellows Have Arrived in Delhi, INDIA! 🇮🇳 Our outbound fellows (Professors from ODU) will engage with local communities, participate in cultural activities, and build meaningful connections that foster mutual understanding and global citizenship. As part of their program, they will also lead entrepreneurship workshops, sharing knowledge and skills while learning from local entrepreneurs and community members.

This journey represents an incredible opportunity for learning, leadership development, and cross-cultural exchange. We wish our fellows a rewarding and inspiring experience as they explore the rich history, culture, and diversity of Tibet and India.