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SOAS, University of London.
Background
Shakya was born in Lhasa, Tibet in 1959, the youngest child in his family. In April 1990, Tsering was the Convenor of the first International Conference on Modern Tibet Studies, held at the University of London and attended by scholars from China, India, Europe and the U.S.
He went on to teach at the Centre of Refugee Studies at Oxford University, England, and was later to become a research fellow in Tibetan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University (1999-2002).
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In April 1990, Tsering was the Convenor of the First International Conference on Modern Tibet Studies, held at the University of London and attended by scholars from China, India, Europe, and the U.S. He went on to teach at the Centre of Refugee Studies at Oxford University, England and was later to become a research fellow in Tibetan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University (1999-2002).
As an independent consultant and widely respected analyst, Tsering has addressed the European parliament and is regularly invited to advise Western governments on Tibet/China policy.
Works
book
- The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 (Compass)
(Based entirely on unpublished primary sources, Tsering Sh...)
1999 - Song of the Snow Lion: New Writing from Tibet (Manoa 12:2)
(Since China's invasion of their country in 1950 and the s...)
2000 - Tales of Tibet: Sky Burials, Prayer Wheels, and Wind Horses
(Vivid images of Tibet spring to life in this landmark boo...)
2001 - The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk
("My story is not a glamorous one of high lamas and exotic...)
1997 - The Struggle for Tibet
(China’s decades-long repression of Tibetan independence c...)
2009 - Fire Under the Snow True Story of a Tibetan Monk 1997
- The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 (Compass)
Politics
Tsering's research explores the confluence of politics, ethno-national identity and religious practice in cultural production and social transformation across both historical and contemporary Tibet and the Himalayas.
The book is the first comprehensive account of Tibet's recent history. He then won a scholarship to study in Britain, and was later to graduate from London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) with a B.A. Honours in Social Anthropology and South Asian History. Thesis: Dondrup Gyal and the Search for Tibetan Modernism: A Study of Dondrup Gyal’s Literary Works
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Today, Tsering is a world renowned and widely published scholar, on both historic and contemporary Tibet. June 2004. Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital 1936-1947, edited by Clare Harris and Tsering Shakya, (Serindia Publications, London, 2003) is a study of the relationship between senior British colonial officers and Tibetan elite as depicted in rare, previously unpublished photographs taken by members of the British Mission in Lhasa.
School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London, **Thesis: The Emergence of Modern Tibetan Literature Since 1950
If the page does not yet exist on the remote wiki, you can paste the tag inside the destination page. in Tibetan Studies in 2000 and Ph.D. His most expansive work to date The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 (Pimlico, London 1999) was acclaimed as “the definitive history of modern Tibet” by The New York Times, and "a prodigious work of scholarship” by the UK’s Sunday Telegraph.
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He received his M.Phil. The book is the first comprehensive account of Tibet’s recent history.