TOHP Founder, Marcella Adamski, presents interviews to Dalai Lama 
50 New Interviews in Dharamsala, India this May
Your Help is Needed More than Ever
There is an urgent need to record as many eyewitness accounts as possible of 70, 80 and 90 year-old Tibetans in exile. Very few refugees of this age remain and several whom TOHP previously interviewed have already passed away.
These elders are the last generation able to provide first-hand accounts of what it was like to grow up in a free Tibet. They are also the witnesses of what happened to their country during the Chinese invasion and early occupation. Most importantly, they carry the wisdom, traditions and treasured Buddhist beliefs of the Tibetan people in their hearts.
The Tibet Oral History Project plans to videotape the oral histories of 50 Tibetan elders living in Dharamsala, India in May 2012. We already received a grant from the International Campaign for Tibet's Rowell Fund, which will sponsor one interview team to videotape 25 oral histories. Additional funds are needed for a second team to record 25 more oral histories and to translate into English, transcribe and publish the interviews.
With your tax-deductible donation we can preserve the oral histories of 50 more Tibetan elders. Our goal is to raise $42,000 for this vital effort.
The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote:
"We would like to congratulate the Tibet Oral History Project for its beneficial initiative and urge our friends and well-wishers to support this commendable project in whatever way possible."
Please send your donation today to ensure the voices of the last generation to live in a free Tibet are heard around the world.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS REQUESTS TOHP's INTERVIEWS
The United States Library of Congress has requested the Tibet Oral History Project's entire current and future oral history collection. We are honored to have the largest library in the world include our interviews in their prestigious collection. The Library has also offered to serve as the permanent archive for TOHP's materials, ensuring that these precious oral histories will be available worldwide for generations to come.TOHP's oral history collection will be provided in video, print and digital formats. Submission of our first 67 interviews to the Library of Congress has been kindly sponsored by The 100 Friends Project.
Please contact us if you would like to recommend other libraries to receive our interview collection or if you can help with the cost of printing and distributing to libraries and Tibetan communities.
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA AND TIBETAN OFFICIALS URGE SUPPORT FOR TOHP
The Tibet Oral History Project (TOHP) is honored to have received letters of endorsement from the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Speaker of Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, and the Kashag (Cabinet).The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote:
His Holiness is pleased that the Tibet Oral History Project is making good progress. Your recording the life stories of elder Tibetans has much importance in preserving the reality of the situation in Tibet as experienced by these Tibetans.
Penpa Tsering, Speaker, Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, said:
The Tibet Oral History Project is a very significant undertaking to record actual historical events of Tibet from an individual's perspective at the worst period of Tibetan history. The project needs to be intensified as the older generations are fast disappearing....
Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, Kalon Tripa (Prime Minister), expressed:
I am particularly impressed with [TOHP's] efforts of translating these interviews in Chinese language so that Chinese citizens who are deprived of correct information can understand the true stories of Tibetan people and appreciate their culture and the cause the Tibetan people are fighting for. Similarly it will also bring benefits to the younger generation of Tibetans, primarily who are born and brought up in exile. Therefore, I welcome and support this project.
120 INTERVIEWS NOW IN OUR COLLECTION
The oral histories of 67 Tibetan elders are posted on the Interviews pages and 22 short videos with interview excerpts are available on the Videos page.
The elders provide eyewitness accounts of early life in Tibet, and of the devastation that followed the Chinese invasion and occupation. They also recount memories of their flight from Tibet to escape oppression and to follow their spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, into exile.
"Tibet Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts
of Tibet's Elders" [Length: 6min 50sec]
"Tibet Remembered: Interviews
with 3 Elders" [Length: 5min 16sec]
INTERVIEWS FEATURED ON RADIO FREE ASIA
INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR OUR WORK
Library of Tibetan Works and Archives * Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama * International Campaign for Tibet * International Tibet Support Network * Tibet Justice Center * Committee of 100 for Tibet * Canada Tibet Committee Ottawa * Tibetan Nuns Project * Tibetan Dickey Larsoe Settlement * Tibetan Youth Congress Bylakuppe * The Tibetan Co-operative Society Ltd., Bylakuppe * Lugsam Samdupling Tibetan Settlement * Doeguling Tibetan Settlement * Regional Tibetan Women's Association Bylakuppe * The Tibetan Service Co-Op Bank, Ltd., Mundgod