Yeshe Choesang (Tibetan: ཡེ་ཤེས་ཆོས་བཟང་།; Chinese: 益西曲桑; born 18 August 1974 or 27 August 1976, depending on source) is an India-based Tibetan journalist, photographer, author, and the founder and editor-in-chief of The Tibet Post International (TPI), an exiled Tibetan news agency based in Dharamsala, India. His work focuses on politics, press freedom, human rights, and environmental issues concerning Tibet and China.
Biography
Yeshe Choesang was born in the Lithang (Litang) Region in eastern Tibet, which is currently administratively part of Sichuan Province, China. He escaped to India in 1985.
Education
Choesang completed his education in Tibetan culture and religion (the Rigne Rabjam) in 1993 and a teacher training course from the Tibetan Education Department in 1995. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy from the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD). In 2000, he served on the editorial board of How To Teach, a bilingual teacher training book series in Tibetan and English. He also worked for four years as a researcher in World History at the Research & Translation Centre (Lhaksam Tsekpa) of IBD.
Media career
Choesang has written articles published by Tibet Post, CNN iReport, Deliberation, and World News Network. He was elected three times as General Secretary of the Association of Tibetan Journalists in Dharamsala. He has served as the Tibet Correspondent for Reporters Without Borders (RSF) since 2005.
In 2007, he founded The Tibet Post International (TPI), a daily Tibetan news agency based in McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala. He also founded the websites outlooktibet.com, shambalapost.com, and lhasapost.com. The TPI office was inaugurated on 11 May 2008 by Franz Pahl, a member of the South Tyrolean People's Party and President of the regional parliament of South Tyrol, Italy.
In 2010, he founded the Himalayan Literacy Trust (HLT) in India, which aims to develop Tibetan media and education through non-violent means.
Books
- Voice of an Exiled Tibetan: Hopes of Freedom and Struggle (2014)
- The Monster Purges of the 20th Century: Chinese Characteristics of Socialism: A Deceptive Framework Built on Stalinism – A Critical Reappraisal (2025)
- Light of Compassion, Courage, and Wisdom — A Beacon of Peace and Harmony —: A 90th Birthday Tribute to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet (2025)
- Tibet on Blaze: Self-Immolation Protests: The Unyielding Flame of Tibetan Freedom and Resistance (2025)
- Monster Evil: China or Coronavirus?: Coronavirus, Authoritarianism, and Global Betrayal: How the CCP's Enablers Fueled a Worldwide Catastrophe (2025)
- A Stable, Calm Mind: Evolving from Inner Wisdom to Mental Clarity in Modern Science (2025)
- The Awakening of Utruwn: Survival or Extinction? The Reckoning of Two Worlds (2025)
External identifiers
- VIAF ID: 28146825409307631784
- GND ID: 1105589013
- ISNI: 0000000485999342
