Tibetans in Switzerland
Switzerland for Tibet - Tibet for the world - Solidarity rally with the Dalai Lama in 2010 at the Münsterhof in Zurich
Large groups of Tibetans have existed in Switzerland since the 1960s, when the Swiss Red Cross helped to resettle around 300 Tibetans in Switzerland . Due to a strong flow of refugees from Tibet , the number rose to several thousand.
With over 4,000 people in the country, the Tibetans make up the second largest East Asian immigrant group in Switzerland after the Filipinos . They live mainly in Zurich and Geneva , are mostly Buddhists and sometimes still speak Tibetan as their mother tongue , and mostly German , French and Italian as a foreign language .
In addition, around 150 Tibetan orphans were adopted by Swiss families. A number of Tibetans settled in the mountains of the Swiss Alps .
literature
- Jens Schlieter, Marietta Kind, Tina Lauer (eds.): The second generation of Tibetans in Switzerland: Identity negotiations and forms of Buddhist religiosity. Seismo, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03777-134-1 .
- Christian Schmidt, Manuel Bauer (photos): Exile Switzerland. Tibetans on the run, 12 life stories , Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-85791-574-1 .
Web links
Commons : Tibetans in Switzerland - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Marc Perrenoud: Tibet. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Thematic directory on Tibetan refugees in the Dodis databaseof diplomatic documents of Switzerland
- Swiss Film Weekly: Tibet in Appenzellerland, February 8, 1963 (1 min 39)