{"id":682,"date":"2025-09-11T02:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dorje-shugden.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2025-09-11T02:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:09:14","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-live-in-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorje-shugden.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/what-does-it-mean-to-live-in-exile\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to live in exile?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Central Tibetan Administration, as the leadership of the Tibetans in exile, has long enjoyed taxes and benefits provided by the Tibetans. Every leadership has claimed to be working for the welfare of Tibetans, but the reality is that Tibetans have yet to receive the rights they deserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When we were in school, our teachers used to say that there is an &#8216;R&#8217; on our forehead &#8211; meaning refugees,&#8221; says Tibetan writer-activist Tenzin Tsundue.Mr Tsundue is one of around 70,000 Tibetans living in India, spread across 35 designated settlements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In 1959, thousands of Tibetans fled after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.Following their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, they crossed treacherous Himalayan passes and reached India, where they were accepted as refugees on humanitarian grounds and because of shared religious and cultural ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">But living, or even being born, in India doesn&#8217;t make them Indians, says Mr Tsundue.Tibetans in India live on renewable registration certificates issued every five years. Those born here can apply for passports if a parent was born in India between 1950 and 1987 &#8211; but must surrender the certificate to do so. Many hesitate, as it&#8217;s closely tied to their Tibetan identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Tibetan Administration, as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ctas-conspiracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorje-shugden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorje-shugden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorje-shugden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorje-shugden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorje-shugden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorje-shugden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorje-shugden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorje-shugden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorje-shugden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorje-shugden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorje-shugden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}