Workbook
For Tibetan Families in Exile
Identity Without a Country and the Culture That Refuses to Die
Tibet exists wherever Tibetan families document who they are. Start here.
Adults from Tibetan families living in exile — in India, Nepal, Europe, North America, or elsewhere — including those born in exile who have never seen Tibet, who want to understand and document what Tibetan identity means for their family across generations of displacement.
The Name It First Experience
Tibetan families in exile carry one of the world's most deliberate identity projects: a culture preserved in diaspora because the homeland is under occupation. This workbook examines what Tibetan families live with in exile — the weight of the return narrative, the role of Buddhist practice in sustaining identity, the experience of being Tibetan-born vs. exile-born, and what it means to raise children who identify as Tibetan when Tibet as they know it exists only in memory and story. Document what your family carries.
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Sample questions
- What does it mean to be Tibetan when your country is occupied and your family has been in exile for generations?
- What from Tibetan culture and practice does your family most want to preserve and pass down?
- What would it mean for children born in exile to know who they are — Tibetan, and what that means?
Research basis
Grounded in Brah (1996) diaspora theory, Malkki (1995) purity and exile frameworks, Dreyfus (2002) scholarship on Tibetan identity and nationalism in diaspora, and Buddhist psychology of self and impermanence.
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