A live online broadcast with Shenpenn Khymsar, Jangbu (Dorje Tsering Chenaktsang), special guest Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and host Jhama Lhamo. This dialogue will be conducted in Tibetan.
Join us for this special Tibetan-language broadcast. Explore the evolving role of Tibetan youth in literature, film, and the arts in a conversation between an award-winning Tibetan filmmaker, an acclaimed poet and filmmaker, and a renowned Tibetan meditation teacher and author. Hosted by Jhama Lhamo, this event brings together leading voices to inspire new generations to engage creatively with Tibetan identity, culture, and global issues.
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About the Presenters
Dorje Tsering Chenaktsang, widely known by his pen name Jangbu, was born in a nomadic community in northeastern Tibet and graduated from Northwest University for Nationalities in Lanzhou before teaching at a Tibetan middle school and editing the Tibetan Art and Literature journal in Lhasa. From 2002 to 2008, he taught at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris, dividing his life between France and Tibet while raising two children. Renowned as a pioneer of modern Tibetan poetry, Jangbu’s works — including The Nine-Eyed Agate (also known as The Nine-Eyed Zi) and The Invisible Cleaver — have been featured in Tibetan language textbooks, translated into multiple languages, and honored with approximately 20 literary and film awards at regional and national levels. He has organized the Waterfall of Youth, Tibet’s first independent poetry festival, since 2003, and published more than 10 books while also directing acclaimed documentaries such as Tantric Yogi, Kokonor, Ani Lachem, Yartsa Rinpoche, and the ongoing Voices of the Stone.
Shenpenn Khymsar, born in Darjeeling, India, as a refugee, grew up deeply influenced by rock music and cinema, nurturing a dream of attending film school despite lacking support and resources. A committed human rights activist for more than 28 years and a global advocate for Tibet, Khymsar is recognized as a trailblazer within Tibetan and Himalayan communities. He worked various jobs, including banking, before fully dedicating himself to filmmaking in 2008. Largely self-taught, Khymsar has since built an impressive filmography that includes the feature documentary “Journey of a Dream” (2011), the short “Jigden the Beginning of the End” (2017), “Khorwa the Cycle” (2018), “Broken Wings” (2022), and “Four Rivers Six Ranges” (2025).
Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche was born in India in 1961, following his parents’ journey from Tibet to India in 1959. At age 11 he began formal studies as a monk at Menri Monastery near Dolanji, India, where he completed an 11-year course of traditional studies at the Bön Dialectic School. He was awarded his geshe degree in 1986. He now lives as a householder, and has been living and teaching in the West for more than 30 years. An accomplished scholar in all aspects of sutra, tantra and dzogchen, Rinpoche is an acclaimed author and a respected teacher of students worldwide. As the founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha International, he has established numerous centers and institutes of learning in the United States, Mexico, South America, Europe and India. Fluent in English, Rinpoche regularly offers online teachings in the form of live webcasts, online workshops and YouTube videos. He is renowned for his depth of wisdom; his clear, engaging teaching style; and his dedication to making the ancient Tibetan teachings highly accessible and relevant to the lives of Westerners.
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Jhama Lhamo (host), currently a resident student at Long Island University, Brooklyn, is pursuing a master’s degree in public health and biomedical sciences in New York. She completed her high school education at the Tibetan Children’s Village School in Bangalore, South India, and earned her bachelor’s degree from Shoolini University in Himachal Pradesh, India. Additionally, in 2023 she produced a short documentary film spotlighting the Bodhisattvas in Action (BIA) Institute, a non-governmental organization situated in Gokarneshwar, Nepal.