Dawa Lokyitsang, PhD candidate at the University of Boulder, Colorado, spoke about the Tibetan exile education system. Lokyitsang argued that exile schools were modelled in the image of family, (re)producing new networks of kinship and engendering affective/familial forms of care. Lokyitsang noted that exile education was driven by and sought to deliver the Dalai Lama’s vision of children as central to the future of the Tibetan struggle. She argued, “In India, Tibetans needed to identify as Tibetans. History becomes a way to inform children’s ideas of who they are, where they come from and what history created their national heritage. Tibetan Buddhist ethics is a central framework to teach children how to relate to the world around them…In producing this curriculum to share a narrative of a collective past, the education institutions deliver a history of being and becoming”.

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