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Sikyong Penpa Tsering addressing the Belleville-Trenton Tibetan Community members.
Dharamshala: Sikyong Penpa Tsering made his maiden official visit to the Bay of Quinte region on 17 May 2025 to meet with the Belleville-Trenton Tibetan Community, as the democratically elected political leader of the Tibetan community in exile.
This visit marked his first official engagement both as Sikyong and, previously, as the Representative of the Office of Tibet in Washington. During the visit, Sikyong extended his warm greetings to the community members and provided an update on the rapidly changing demographics of the Tibetan exile community, as well as the diverse geographical distribution of Tibetans in the diaspora. “Our community has flourished and spread across the farthest corners of the globe, thanks to the astute leadership of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the unwavering contributions of our elders,” said Sikyong. He then offered a brief overview of the community’s establishment in the 1970s, i...
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