Tibet Justice Center (TJC) is an independent volunteer committee of lawyers and other experts with a dedicated mission to advocate human rights and self-determination for the Tibetan people. We support Tibetan refugee protection through various activities, including conducting field research and producing reports on Tibetans’ legal status in India and Nepal. Access the reports here…
Sienna Craig is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. At Dartmouth, Sienna teaches courses on Health and Illness, Global Health, Asian Medical Systems, Tibet and the Himalaya, and other segments of the department’s cultural anthropology curriculum. She has also conducted research on women’s and children’s health, migration and social change, and the impacts and…
Dr Pagel’s areas of expertise are Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Buddhist Monasticism. He has published and edited several books, including Buddhist Monks in Tax Disputes: Monastic Attitudes towards Revenue Collection in Ancient India (2014), Dhondup, Yangdon and Pagel, Ulrich and Samuel, Geoffrey, eds. (2013) Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet. and Pagel, Ulrich and Skorupski, Tadeusz, eds. (1994) The Buddhist Forum III: Papers in honour and appreciation of…
Dr. Shakya is the Research Chair in Religion and Contemporary Society in Asia Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Colombia. He is a widely published scholar, on both historic and contemporary Tibet. He has acted as an expert for Tibetan asylum cases in UK, EU, and US Department of Homeland Security for many years. Among his many…
Rebecca Novick is a writer for the Huffington Post on issues in Tibet and China. Over the years, she has conducted hundreds of interviews with exiled Tibetans. She has written and edited six books on Tibetan Buddhism and culture, and has produced and edited numerous radio documentaries. She founded The Tibet Connection, the first radio program about Tibet. She…
Dr. McGranahan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado (USA). She holds a PhD in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan (2001). She conducts research and teaches courses on Tibet and the Himalayas, political anthropology, and refugees and immigration among other topics. She has six years experience providing expert witness…
Dr. Barstow is Assistant Professor of Religion at Otterbein University, where he teaches courses on Tibetan and Chinese religion, Tibetan history and Buddhist ethics. He has publications and translations covering both contemporary and historical Tibet. He lived for four years among Tibetans in Nepal, and has conducted several periods of field research inside Tibet itself,…
Richard Whitecross is a Lecturer in Law at Edinburgh Napier University. He has conducted research on law, human rights and political change in Nepal and Bhutan. A former practising lawyer, Richard has experience of providing Expert reports and is a member of the Law Society of Scotland Immigration and Asylum Committee. He has written and…
Dr Gil Daryn is a social anthropologist (Ph.D. Cambridge 2002) and published scholar with expertise on the culture, society, history and politics of South Asia in general, and particular knowledge about Nepal and Bhutan. Since 1989, and until he left in June 2011, he has visited, conducted research, worked and lived in the region for…