About us

The Program

Our half-​​hour radio pro­gram and pod­cast is online every month and airs on up to 100 sta­tions in the Pacifica network.

The Tibet Connection is a pro­duc­tion of the Los Angeles Friends of Tibet.

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Such a program is very, very useful... I very much appreciate all the people who organize and carry out this work.

—His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Each month, we fea­ture engag­ing inter­views, news sto­ries, pro­files, doc­u­men­taries and help­ful insights. We seek out notable and intrigu­ing guests, includ­ing film­mak­ers, authors, thinkers, artists, musi­cians, and com­men­ta­tors, who con­nect the issues fac­ing today’s world with the Tibetan expe­ri­ence and pro­vide an infor­ma­tive and engag­ing forum for dis­cus­sion. We hope that our pro­gram helps lis­ten­ers to under­stand the unique expe­ri­ence and legacy of Tibet and to pro­vide a con­duit between Tibet and the rest of the world.

A grow­ing inter­est in the pol­i­tics, phi­los­o­phy and cul­ture of Tibet plus a lack of Tibet-​​related pro­gram­ming led a group of peo­ple, in May 2006, to launch a monthly one-​​hour radio pro­gram devoted to things Tibetan.

Advisory board:

Robert Thurman PhD, pro­fes­sor of Indo-​​Tibetan Studies at Columbia University and pres­i­dent of Tibet House

John Ackerly, for­mer Director of International Campaign For Tibet and present head of the Alliance for Green Heat

Tenzin N. Tethong, Director of the Dalai Lama Foundation and a vis­it­ing scholar at Stanford University

Lhadon Tethong, for­mer direc­tor of Students for a Free Tibet and cur­rent direc­tor of the Tibet Action Institute

Mikel Dunham, author, researcher and artist