Lobsang Wangyal is a freelance photojournalist based in Mcleod Ganj, India. He has been in this field for the last 12 years. He is available for reportage and photography assignments.

He is also a producer of art and other events. The chief productions are listed in the Productions page. These are mostly funded by himself through his photojournalism. He reached a high point in his career as a showman when he produced a show for Prince Charles in October 2003.

In addition he is a passionate dancer and graphics designer.

Lobsang Wangyal was born in 1970 in a small Tibetan refugee village in Orissa, East India. His father, Tsering Tendhar (late), was from Kham (Tehor), in eastern Tibet and his mother, Tsering Dolkar, from southern Tibet. They were in their teens when they escaped the Chinese occupation of their country in 1959.

He was graduated from Central School for Tibetans, Mussoorie, administered by the government of India. After schooling he attended a college in Simla, Himachal Pradesh, for his B.A. degree.

Except for a crash course in journalism, he is self-taught in both this field and photography. He has been working as a photojournalist since 1994.

Lobsang believes that photojournalism is the right weapon for him to fight non-violently for his country to free it from the yoke of communist China. He respects the Middle Way Approach of his leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, to resolve the Tibetan issue with China.

He is indebted to a number of people for his success in his career as a photojournalist and a producer. He specifically would like to mention both his parents, N.C. Tripathi (Mussoorie), Jim Witherell (Santa Barbara), and Ruthie (Seattle).

This website will carry all his latest stories and photos as they happen.

(Note: The stories on His Holiness the Dalai Lama should read as such even if in the stories His Holiness may be mentioned as just "the Dalai Lama".)

All stories and photos on this website are copyright © Lobsang Wangyal. They may be reproduced with proper notification, credit, and compensation, or else it will be a case of infringing applicable laws.

What Lobsang needs now — an office for producing his events and websites.