Tibet House



Tibet Houses are an international, loosely affiliated group of nonprofit, cultural preservation organizations founded at the request of the Dalai Lama. They aim to preserve, present, and protect Tibet's ancient traditions of philosophy, mind science, art, and culture following the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950 and subsequent Tibetan diaspora. The first Tibet House was founded in New Delhi, India in 1965.

Tibet Houses include:


 * Tibet House, in New Delhi, India founded in 1965. Tulkus Gelek Rimpoche and Dagyab Kyabgoen Rinpoche were early directors.   Geshe Lhakdor was a translator and research assistant from 1986 to 1989. The house was designed by Shiv Nath Prasad in 1970 in the Brutalist architecture style.  The current director is Geshe Dorjee Damdul.
 * Tibet House Japan, founded in 1975 in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
 * Tibet House US was founded in 1987 by scholar Robert Thurman, actor Richard Gere and composer Philip Glass in downtown Manhattan, New York City.  Menla, a retreat space located in the Catskills near Phoenicia, New York, is an offshoot of Tibet House US. The project was spearheaded by Robert Thurman and Nena Thurman.
 * Casa Tibet México, founded in 1989 in Mexico City.
 * Casa del Tibet Barcelona, founded in 1994 in Spain.
 * Tibet House Trust, founded in 1994 in London, England.
 * Tibet Haus Germany, founded by Spiritual Director Dagyab Kyabgoen Rinpoche in 2005, in Frankfurt. and
 * Tibet House Moscow, founded in 2004 in Russia.
 * Tibet House Brasil, in São Paulo, Brazil.