Tibetan Children's Villages or TCV is an integrated community in exile for the care and education of orphans, destitutes and refugee children from Tibet. It is a registered, nonprofit charitable organ
Dalai Lama at Tibetan Children's Village, Dharamsala, 1993.
View of Tibetan Children's Villages, at McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala.
Tibetan Children's Villages' 50th anniversary in Dharamsala, 2010.
The 14th Dalai Lama is the current Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. He served as the resident spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet before 1959, and subsequently
Tibetan Children's Villages
…spread across India with over 12,000 children under its care. From 1964 until 2006 the TCV has been presided by Jetsun Pema, sister of 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso. In 2009, The TCV established the first Tibetan college in exile in Bangalore (India) which was named "The Dalai Lama Institute for Higher Education…
The Dalai Lama as a child
House where the 14th Dalai Lama was born in Taktser, Amdo
Lhasa's Potala Palace, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site, 2019