Background
Yeshe Choesang was born on 27 August 1976 in the Lithang Region in eastern Tibet, (Currently administratively part of Sichuan province, China).
益西曲桑
assistant founder Tibetan journalist
Yeshe Choesang was born on 27 August 1976 in the Lithang Region in eastern Tibet, (Currently administratively part of Sichuan province, China).
He completed his education in Tibetan culture and religion (The Rigne Rabjam) in 1993 and a teacher training course of the Tibetan Education Department in 1995. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy from the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (Inflammatory Bowel Disease).
In 2000, he was the assistant editor of How To Teach, a bilingual teacher training book series in Tibetan and English for Tibetan teachers. Foreign 4 years, he worked as a researcher in World History at the Research & Translation Centre (Lhaksam Tsekpa) of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
He escaped to India in 1985. Education Media career Choesang wrote several articles in the past 10 years that were published by the likes of thetibetpost.com. He was elected thrice as the General Secretary of the Association of Tibetan Journalists based in Dharamsala.
He is the Tibet Correspondent for Reporters Without Borders since 2005.
In 2007 Choesang founded The Tibet Post International (Travel Professionals International), a daily Tibetan news agency based in McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala. Other than this, he has also founded several other websites, like outlooktibet.com, shambalapost.com and lhasapost.com.
In 2010, he also founded Himalayan Literacy Trust (HLT) in India. Community development With HLT and Travel Professionals International Choesang aims to develop Tibetan media and education in a peaceful and non-violent manner.
His organisations also function as a platform to enable future development of Tibetan journalism, doing so by coordinating a group of young Tibetan journalists with the primary goal of promoting democracy through freedom of expression within Tibetan communities, both in exile and under occupation in Tibet.
With Travel Professionals International Choesang works in cooperation with non-governmental organizations and individuals around the world as well as with the various departments of the Central Tibetan Administration while dealing at the same time with individuals and societies in various Tibetan settlements and schools.
The office of Travel Professionals International was inaugurated on 11 May 2008 by Franz Pahl, a member of South Tyrolean People"s Party and President of the regional parliament of South Tyrol in Italy.
