Richard Gere In Conversation: Tibet and the Heart of Compassion
Hosted by longtime Tibet advocate and ICT Chairman Richard Gere, Richard Gere In Conversation: Tibet and the Heart of Compassion is specially timed to commemorate the 19th anniversary of His Holiness receiving the Congressional Gold Medal, and is part of ICT’s ongoing commitment to honor his extraordinary life and legacy and a natural extension of ICT’s Compassion Rising initiative launched on his 90th birthday.
Episode 1: Dr. Gyal Lo
We start our series with Tibetan education sociologist Dr. Gyal Lo as he shares his personal journey from a village boy to an educational researcher exposing the systemic psychological genocide in Tibet resulting from Chinese government’s mandatory boarding school system. Now living in exile, because returning would mean certain death, Dr. Gyal Lo remains a tireless advocate, challenging Chinese narratives with academic rigor and the powerful memory of his mother’s oral history.
Dr. Gyal Lo concludes with a somber warning: if this system of forced assimilation continues, 4,700 years of Tibetan civilization may soon reach its end.