Varieties of Secularism is an ethnographically rich, theoretically well-informed, and
intellectually coherent volume which builds off the work of Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, and …

How do you govern 130,000 people from exile? Tibet-and the struggles of diaspora Tibetans-
are elements of an ongoing and highly debated issue. The Dalai Lama's democratisation …

This article explores how displaced Tibetans demarcate and characterize the Tibetan demos
in the process of building a democratic community and a government-in-exile. In this …

This article introduces a representative claims approach as a novel analytical framework to
the field of diaspora politics. Supplemented with a network perspective, this approach offers …

In 2011, the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso announced his intention to complete a major
legal transformation that would redefine the government of the Tibetan community-in-exile …

In the difficult circumstances of institutional discrimination and political pressure, the Tibetan
minority in Nepal negotiate their identity with utmost communicative resourcefulness, tying …

The singular role of Shabkar in the development of the idea of Tibet Shabkar (1781–1851),
the “Singer of the Land of Snows,” was a renowned yogi and poet who, through his …

Tibetans largely identify Buddhism and the historical state ideology, which fuses religion and
politics ('merged spiritual law and politics', Tib. chösi zungdre1), as that which traditionally …

Tibetans largely identify Buddhism and the historical state ideology, which fuses religion and
politics ('merged spiritual law and politics', Tib. chosi zungdre1), as that which traditionally …