Young Minds: In conversation with TPiE Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel

བློ་གསར་གཞོན་ནུ། ཚོགས་གཙོ་མཆོག་དང་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་དབར་གླེང་མོལ།
ནོར་ཝེ་བོད་ཀྱི་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་གིས་བློ་གསར་གཞོན་ནུའི་ལས་རིམ་དང་འབྲེལ་ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༢ ནང་ལ་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ས་གནས་དགུ་ཙམ་གྱི་ནང་ལ་སློབ་གཉེར་དང་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་བཞིན་པའི་བོད་པའི་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་ཁག་གཅིག་བཞུགས་སྒར་དུ་ཆེད་འབོད་ཀྱིས་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་མཛད་གཙོ་རྣམ་པ་དང་། གཞུང་འབྲེལ་མ་ཡིན་པའི་ཚོགས་པ་ཁག་ཅིག་གི་འགོ་ཁྲིད་སོགས་དང་ལྷན་དུ་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་དང་ཚོགས་པ་སོ་སོའི་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་ཕྱོགས་དང་སེམས་ཁམས་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་སོགས་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ལ་བཀའ་བསྡུར་གནང་བའི་ལས་རིམ་རྣམས་འདས་པའི་གཟའ་མཇུག་ཁག་ཏུ་རིམ་བཞིན་རྒྱང་སྲིང་ཞུས་ཡོད།
དེ་རིང་ང་ཚོའི་ལས་རིམ་ནང་། བོད་མི་མང་སྤྱི་འཐུས་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་གྲོས་ཚོགས་འཚོགས་ཉེ་དང་བསྟུན་སྐབས་དེའི་ལས་རིམ་གྱི་ཚན་པ་མཐའ་མ་སྟེ་བོད་པའི་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་ཁག་ཅིག་དང་བོད་མི་མང་སྤྱི་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་གཙོ་མཁན་པོ་བསོད་ནམས་བསྟན་འཕེལ་མཆོག་གི་དབར་ལ་གྲོས་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་ཕྱོགས་སོགས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་བཀའ་བསྡུར་གནང་བ་ཞིག་རྒྱང་སྲིང་ཞུས་ཡོད་པས་དེ་དོན་གསན་གཟིགས་ཡོང་བ་ཞུ།།
In our last episode of ‘Young Minds’ townhall meet held in Dharamshala on December 2022, Tibetan college students from nine different locations in India sat down with
Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel to talk about the workings of the Tibetan parliament and the need for reforms in the legislative body.
Disclaimer: Young Minds townhall meets with Sikyong, Speaker, Sherig Kalon, Election commissioner, MPs and members of civil societies appeared in regular instalments on our social media page for the last few weeks were held from Dec 12-14, 2022. Members of the audience at the townhall meets were students from 16 different locations in India.
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[@dewangtsering3175]

Wow . Good job youngsters generations. Keep it up. Taking responsibility of ourselves and our administration. Tsogtso is just caring for his kupkya .

[@tashi5812]

Yes, this dialogue was great because our younger generation were able to raise many questions which our exile masses had in their mind for years and our tsoktso la explained or gave informed basic knowledge to all of us. Thank you everyone, we still have long way to go an many more to learn

[@karmadolma7094]

Hats of to all the participants. All the questions from the youngsters are very important and specific but answers from Tsoktso la is not satisfied.

[@jampatseten9056]

I felt that too, So sad .

[@Donkusky18619]

101% true he can’t give an exact answer!!

[@tenzinydonchen429]

Thanks to the younger generation participation 🙏👍

[@DolmaSindou]

Our deepest gratitude and respect to the Speaker of Tibetan Parliament for your excellent explanations 🙏👏🍀

[@tenyang88]

Thank you for all the participants and voice of Tibet 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 All the questions are very important and raised to the very speaker but it is very disheartening and sad to see that speaker has no precise answers. He is just playing safe role just to sustain his seat and for future. He proved himself here infront of these very responsible youngsters that he has no intention and wish and sincerity to take the responsibility properly and rightfully. Our Chithues really do need to either carry their responsibilities or else leave the seat. Hats off to all the participants 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you all once again and please keep continuing being the responsible younger generation🙏🏻

[@Donkusky18619]

101% true!!

[@penpadolma8656]

Great questions from young minds 👏🏼🙏🏻

[@rabytarang6810]

Youth asked him great questions but answer wasn’t so direct! Anyway it was great to see that youth take responsible for consequences of future ! leadership.

[@Donkusky18619]

Thank you very much to all our future generation, keep it up!! Please always try to remember His Holiness ‚s struggles and protect our exile Democracy. You all are very knowledgeable and talented n still getting education these are mainly because His holiness’s,nobody can defy it!! For example if somebody says it’s not ,that person is 101% Chinese dog or rubbish, it’s better to live under CCP then u can enjoy their freedom!

[@Karuna196]

Absolutely true youngster

[@jampatseten9056]

Out of 10 questions, Tsokso didn’t even give one decent answer . How poor his mentality is?

[@yeshikyschong5740]

ཞོན་སྐྱེས་རྣམ་ལ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ

[@ngacho3984]

In this upcoming parliamentary session; parliamentarians must execute their power to move forward . You as chairperson has the right to execute your power. Don’t warm up the seat and waste money on every session. Or you should resign let other person lead.

[@tenzindorjee2408]

Good job by young stars.

[@jampelthargyal9266]

We don’t need religion MPs plzzzzz

[@nyimatsering9491]

Appreciate to all young star to participate this debate.. Wel questioning..n special thanks anchor ten dorjee la. I reqst to the tendorjee la. V need this type of question n answer debate. Call one by one evryweek to chithue. Thn public will knw the gud n bad chithue.

[@sonamtopdenpekhang5133]

Thank so much to you all 👍👍👍

[@tenzinthaye1332]

Our speaker is not answering to the point to those question .. so sad

[@ngacho3984]

Youngsters you have the right to ask any questions.

[@Metapeace-q7l]

Just a waste of money for having this poor Tsoktso

[@tseringlhundup8759]

Isn’t parliamentarians suppose to show ethical and moral responsibility rather than expecting that from the people. Tribal herd mentality of half of the parliament.

[@Karuna196]

Great question

[@MrRabgyal]

Questions were all very relevant today.

[@beingtibetan]

The questions are very effective, but the answers from the speaker are not satisfied.

[@Donkusky18619]

Ya 101% true the speaker can’t give a correct or to the point answer, he goes in every zigzag direction. Very disheartening and sad !!😢😢😢😢

[@tenzinggurung6918]

ཁམས་ལོང་དམ་ཉམས་པས་ཡིད་ཆེས་མེད་པ་གླང་སྐོག་ཁྲམས་པ་

[@Jhutok_tsum]

Tsoktso is as unable to give precise answer to the participants shows how he is controlling the doetsok. Control ur own party first. 😡😡😡😡

[@nimadorjee5921]

The first important point to be mentioned here is that if we presently do not have a TPiE speaker like Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, the very existence of the chaotic TPiE is a big question. Secondly, I appreciate the young participants for their inputs but important to mention here that most of them are still very raw, even the mentor of VOT, and I doubt if any of them even once gone through our exile Charter when looking into the contents of their questions and opinions. Many of them talks in a way that the speaker can do whatever he want to run the TPiE session and to amend the Charter whenever, whatever and wherever he want and deem necessary. I am sad here to mention that our younger generations still have very limited knowledge and understanding about what is democracy. Democracy doest not mean lawlessness. Moreover, some of them have different idea about the CHOLUK Chitues. They should remember that once the CHOLUK Chitues are elected as the members of the TPiE (Tibetan Parliament in Exile), they have sworn to serve their Nation POLITICALLY by keeping in mind the rights and duties bestowed on them in the precious Charter. I regard them so far the most learned and knowledgeable Chitues of our Parliament. They are the roots to keep our culture, based on the Nalanda Wisdom, alive and if we don’t want their representatives in our Parliament, we are cutting our own legs to fall down in a deep ditch…. We still need to walk thousands of miles before we sleep…. I feel sorry to our Society.

[@user-jd2xe4ue3u]

བཟང་དཔྱོད་ཞེས་པའི་གླེང་མོལ་མ་བཤད་རོགས་

[@ngawangdakpa5001]

Good job students

[@dawatsering3139]

we have to change the tsoktso, becoz he can't do anything.

[@Delek2000]

TSOKSO👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿

[@tenzinyangzom5831]

Nice conversation

[@jigmethok2388]

མ་འོངས་བོད་ཀྱི་གསོན་རྩ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་དྲི་བ་ཧ་ཅང་ཡག་པོ་བཏང་འདུག

[@tendellsangmo2187]

གཞོན་སྐྱེས་ཚོས་དགོངས་ཚུལ་ཧ་ཅང་ཡག་པོ་འདུག སྙིང་ཐག་པ་ནས་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ།

[@ngacho3984]

The speaker didn’t answer all the questions appropriately.

[@taidelek9994]

Hope the house speaker becomes more tough, out spoken and smart to control Parliamentarians.

[@monlamjampa7990]

དར་ནག་ཚོགས་པའི་གཞོན་སྐྱེས།

[@lobsangchonjor4644]

Tsoktso No namchoe

[@nextdestination8481]

Younger generation must learn and enhance our political knowledge and know more comprehensive understanding all others parliamentarians activity..

[@tenrin6957]

Chithue gyunley structure has to change for honest decision. And that for me seems impossible. Unless referendum is given.

[@tenzindorjee2408]

Next drolan on chithue one by one ❤

[@yeshi7538]

Thank you Khenpo Sonam Tenphel la for the beautiful answers ! We are so lucky to have you as our Tibetan parliamentary speaker 🙏💐

[@ngacho3984]

You as chair person has partially in running the session.

[@Metapeace-q7l]

This monk doesn’t even want to share his single thoughts. Instead he just divert the topic by explaining the importance of law and just strict towards composition of our chitue made in 1960.. seems like it shouldn’t be changed. If that the case, how come we have more chitues from North America and Australia. Was it there in 1960s . poor Liar

[@ngawangsamten5303]

ད་ཚར་བྱ་བྱོན་ཅེ་སེམས་པ་ཚང་མ་འཁྲོག་ལག་ཏང་བྱ་

[@user-vo5eb1dn7f]

གཙོ་སྐྱོང་བ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ།🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@user-bj1rr2ko3b]

Khenpo zuema thampa ugan top gyal guk Kyi yo ma shah memang kukpa reh yon ten me duk gong pa shu na yak.

[@pemaaani2760]

གཞོན་སྐྱེ་ལས་སློབ་སྤྱོང་ཡོད་པ་ལས་མེད་པ་ཡག་གི་

[@kalsangg6541]

I feel in Tibetan society there confident level are very poor please should race questions

[@sonamyeshi1723]

གསར་ཁང་འདི་ལ་ངས་ལན་མེད་།

[@lobsangchonjor4644]

Tsoktso’s answer is not satisfied by general public.

[@djRangzen]

Thanks to Young Mind so very much. But, by this it's clear that this Red Bull is useless .... he is just a Torma.

[@sonamdolkar5066]

In USA we don’t elect region wise like you do in India. So population wise North America has MORE TIBETANS- Bhoepa!

[@tenzingchoedon1609]

ང་མཚོ་གོས་ཚོགས་འཕར་མ་གང་བྱས་ནས་བཀག་རེད་དམ་འདྲི་བ་ཡིན

[@lobsanglisten6198]

Thank u Tsoktso la Tibetan parliamentary speaker

[@lobsangchonjor4644]

Tsoktso is not answering to the point, he is not a honest person.

[@lobsangshigatse4364]

ཚོགས་ཚོས་སྐད་ཆ་བཤད་དུས་ཁྲིམས་དང་སྒྲིག་ཞི་ལབ་ཀྱི་འདུག་རྟག་འཛིན་བྱེད་དུས་ཁྲིམས་དང་སྒྲིག་ཞི་ལྟར་འགྲོ་གི་མེད་པ་གསལ་པོ་རེད།😎

[@khalsangphuntsok4704]

ཚོགས་གཙོ་སྐྱག་བཟའ།

[@tenzin5071]

སྙིང་རྗེ།

[@thutopyuthok9170]

བཟང་སྤྱོད་དང་འགལ་འདུག་སྙིང་རྗེ་རང་རེད།

[@pemadechen5967]

We don’t trust you Chitue Tsoktso la. You should step down.

[@yeshikyschong5740]

སྐྱག་པས་མཁན་པོ་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཚོགས་གཙོ་བྱེད་པའུ་འོས་བབ་མིན་འདུག་

[@pemaaani2760]

སྐྱག་ཟ་ནོ་ལྦེན་རླུག་འཕྲིས་ཁང་རེས་ཁྱེད་ཚང་འགོ་ཚོས་གི་ཡོད་པ་སྡུག་ཁ་ཙུམ་

[@tenzingchoedon1609]

འོ་ཚོགས་གཙོ་རྐང་པ་བསྡམས་ཚར་འདུག་

[@tashitashidhondup5708]

Very important question frm youth but answer like snake hahahahaha

[@tsetoptraveldiary]

Voice of Tibet གི་གཞོན་ནུའི་སྐུ་ཚབ་མ་ཡིན་པར་རང་རང་སོ་སོའི་ལང་ཕྱོགས་དང་མཐུན་པ་ ཟབ་སྦྱོངས་སྤྲེད་ནས་དཔུངས་སྦ྄ོགས་གི་དམགས་མི་མང་བཞི་དང་གཟིགས་མོ་བ་མང་ཙམ་མ་གོ་སྐབས་སྤེད་འདུག་འདུག་་་

[@kungyen6688]

དར་ནག་གི་ཕྲུ་གུ་ཚང་མ་རུབ་འདུག

[@user-bj1rr2ko3b]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@marpongtsering-br9md]

Tsoktsola 👍👍👍

[@Delek2000]

Tsokso Bala Bala 👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿🐕🐕🐕🐕👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿

[@user-bj1rr2ko3b]

Tsoktso sonam tenphel cahra Shang tsoma nang shen yoh mo thampa Zuma gokor kor tong can shek reh shak go men duk gong pa shu yak shoh reh duk coreh cho men duk shon keh la gokor ma tang rok cahra lah cahpa mangpo yoreh coreh

[@lobsangchonjor4644]

Tsoktso very poor knowledge.

[@user-bj1rr2ko3b]

Gokor mego go men duk coreh mar donna yaksa reh shon keh go kor mego

[@jamyang2493]

དགྲ་དགའ་གཉེར་སྡུག་གསར་འགྱུར་་་་་ལྟས་ངན་་་

[@thuptenrinchen843]

དམ་ཉམས་་་་་དཀོར་གཟན་ནག་རིལ་་་་་་གོས་དམར་གྱོན་པའི་གླང་ཁོག་འདི་ཚོའི་གྲས་སངས་རྒྱས་བསྟན་པའི་དགྲ་བོ་དེ་ཚེ་ཐུང་བ་ཤོག

[@lobsangtsering3250]

ཚོགས་གཙོ་དཔེ་ཡག་པོ་གསུང་སོང་།

[@gyaloten1270]

འགལ་བ་དེ་ཚོ་ཟོ་མཁན་ཁྱོད་ཚོ་་རེད་

[@user-bj1rr2ko3b]

Thakcho che me thubpa de cah rang la rak lah duk cah ra dangpo tsawa nah nang ki meduk chakpai kyar cho Zuma gokor kacha shah ma Yong gyawa renpo che bah cho tang ge duk coh ki lama urgen topgyal reh kha cha shah ma shah meduk shakna yaksa reh

[@johnchen6041]

གཞོན་སྐྱེས་རྫུན་མ་རེད་ཞགས།

[@yubook3338]

ཆེས་མཐོའི་ཁྲིམས་ཁང་གི་ཁྲིམས་དཔོན་གསུམ་ལ་ཁྲིམས་ལུགས་རིག་པའི་འབུམ་རམས་པའི་ལག་ཁྱེར་དང་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་ལས་གཉེར་ལག་ཁྱེར་ཡོད་དགོས། (JSD and JD) ལག་ཁྱེར་འདི་གཉིས་མེད་ན།ཁྲིམས་དཔོན་ཆེན་མོ་ལས་གནས་འཛིན་པའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་མེད།

[@kunphengelek3184]

མང་གཙོ་གཏོར་གཏང་ངས་དྲོས་ཚོགས་ནང་ལ་ཡོད་དོ

[@user-oz2in8pf5k]

Saying and doing are not relevant

[@johnchen6041]

གཞོན་སྐྱེས་རྫུན་མ་ 🤣🤣