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00:28A Buddhist temple, a six-day festival of a community of refugees that are settled here
00:41in Paris, and a chance for this community to come together and remember their roots.
00:47This beautiful park in Paris hides a little secret.
00:50Twice every year, Juan de Monsen comes to life with refugees seeking shelter in Paris.
00:57More than 7,000 kilometers away from their homeland in Tibet.
01:00Our country is like this, so we can't go there, so we can't go there.
01:05This is a place where we can live in India, and this is a place where we can live as a
01:11country.
01:12We can do everything wherever we are, so we can do everything in China, so we can't do everything
01:20in China.
01:21We can do everything in China, so we can't do everything in China, so we can't do everything
01:27in China.
01:28That's why we can live here.
01:30Today's prayer is going on the sixth day, six days.
01:34This prayer is for two or three days.
01:38The prayer is going on the third day on the third day, and the prayer is going on the public.
01:46That prayer is ==
01:52The prayer death?
01:55The prayer death?
01:57Is it either on the island or bad or injuries or sometimes im errors in ourines?
02:03In Canada, there is a deep feeling feeling like that.
02:06What about it?
02:07We can say بالفicture about it.
02:08We have to trust the relationship.
02:10Theiracey if they want to live in your family, then the prayer doesn't一起.
02:11As if they need to trust their pride in China, the prayer includes such a home that nothing
02:13does it, it does it.
02:13This puja is being held in the temple.
02:16Sereng is volunteering here at the Pagora in Vansen,
02:19where the Sakya Monlam prayer is being held.
02:23Tenzing is visiting the temple with his wife and kids.
02:27They both explain that their fight is not with the Chinese people,
02:32but the Chinese government.
02:35People are not bad in China.
02:37The politics of politics is that.
02:41China is being held here in France.
02:45They are very sad that they are here.
02:47They are here as much as we live here.
02:51What do they say?
02:54The protest.
02:56Sorry, I'm wrong.
02:58When we come to the protest,
03:00many Chinese people come here to help us,
03:03because they are also very sad that they are here.
03:06The politics of politics, they are not leaving us.
03:08We will leave them.
03:10We are very sad that they have no freedom.
03:16Wherever we are going to protest,
03:18or we will do something, we will make videos,
03:20they are all banned.
03:22There is no freedom.
03:24They are not for themselves.
03:26What do you think about China?
03:28We are not against the Chinese people,
03:32we are against the Chinese government.
03:34So that's why, you know, but one day we will go back, you know.
03:38Driven out of their homeland by China in 1959,
03:42many Tibetans took refuge in India and neighbouring countries
03:46such as Nepal and Bhutan over the years.
03:49The rest moved westward, such as here, to France.
03:53Lobsang, who came to Paris as a cook,
03:57runs a small food stall outside the temple during the event.
04:01But Tenzing, Lobsang, and many others like them
04:04are afraid for their family back home in Tibet.
04:09Our family is in Tibet.
04:11They are banned from their parents.
04:13My mother has passed away.
04:15But our parents are banned from their parents.
04:16Do you know about their life?
04:18Do you know about their stories?
04:19Their stories were not done before.
04:22But now it was very little.
04:23They were stricken.
04:25Our parents were doing a lot of work with us.
04:29Who did they use WhatsApp?
04:30They have also been banned from them.
04:33And now they have also banned from the phone.
04:34They are also working here.
04:36They are working.
04:37And they are working with us.
04:39It is a problem with this.
04:40I have to talk a few times.
04:42Here I have seen a lot of people
04:45trying to talk a little bit.
04:47Yes, we are repudy.
04:49We don't have to say much about it.
04:53We don't have to do it from Tibet.
04:58We don't have to say anything about it.
05:02We don't have to say anything about it.
05:06But we will torture it from Tibet.
05:10China?
05:11Yes, China.
05:13China is torture?
05:15Yes.
05:16They will know that people will be aware of it.
05:19If there is our photo,
05:21or if you have got any photo,
05:23you know they will be aware of it.
05:25You see the news,
05:26then they will be aware of it.
05:28The system looks like it's what it is,
05:30which one is what it is,
05:32and what it is,
05:33and that it is difficult for them.
05:35For Tibet, the people of Tibet do not want to talk about it.
05:39If they want to talk about it,
05:41we will be able to go to the street.
05:43In June of this year, China mounted opposition to the Dalai Lama choosing his successor.
06:00His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a spiritual and political leader of the Tibetans and lives
06:06in exile in India.
06:08Who will succeed him has been a matter of intense political battle.
06:13Between the Tibetan government in exile and the Chinese Communist Party, with allegations
06:18emerging on the CCP of abducting a six-year-old successor named by the Dalai Lama.
06:24For Tibetans here, it is a matter of preserving their identity.
06:29If you have a question, I will answer your question.
06:33Our Holiness is not alone.
06:36It's been a long time now.
06:38If something happens, they will leave their own signs.
06:43So, what China does, it will never be true.
06:46Because, as we have been killed for six years,
06:50when it was six years old, they were kidnapped.
06:54Today, they don't know their identity.
06:56Now, think about that.
06:57If they have made the Dalai Lama, then they are under,
07:01If they were under, they could never be our own.
07:06That's why India should support them for them.
07:11The country is mostly supporting them, but they will leave China.
07:17According to figures from 2022 and 2020,
07:21of the 7 million immigrants in France,
07:23only about 8,000 to 10,000 are Tibetan refugees.
07:27This is a small number compared to the Tibetan immigrant population in India.
07:34With family back in Dharamshala, Dehradun or Delhi,
07:38the Tibetans here have a special connection with India,
07:41which they often describe as their second homeland.
07:44India is very fond of it.
07:46Now India is saying that it's the wrong place.
07:52India is our second motherland.
07:58So our second homeland is that.
08:00So we miss India only more than the Tibetans.
08:05We are living here, so we are adjusting here.
08:10For one India, Paradi Bhannot from Paris.
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