Miss Tibet
Miss Tibet is an annual beauty pageant held in McLeod Ganj, India.
In 2017 director Lobsang Wangyal announced that he would not continue organising the Pageant, and it could be sold to someone who would carry on its ideals.
[3][4] The Dalai Lama considers the pageant unimportant, but it is still held due to popular demand.
The winner and the First Runner-up also won a two-week trip to Vietnam, sponsored by Claire Huynh Hong Hai.
Chemi Kyizom also participated in Miss Tibet 2017 [10] At the finale of the event, director Lobsang Wangyal announced his intention to withdraw from organising the pageant, and sell it to someone who would carry it on with the same objectives.
She received a cash prize of Rs one lakh (100,000), donated by sponsor Jangchup Nyendak.
– Full 2016 contestant information Pema Choedon from Dehra Dun was crowned Miss Tibet 2015 at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts in McLeod Ganj, India, on 7 June 2015.
The Pageant was kept low-key and held only one day to express solidarity with victims of the earthquake in Nepal.
– Full contestant information Tenzin Yangzom from Sikkim was selected unopposed as the titleholder of Miss Tibet 2014.
[11] A coronation ceremony of the Miss Tibet 2013 was held in Bangalore as Tenzing Lhamo from Madison, US, was the only one to come to participate in the pageant.
The pageant was originally planned to be held in Bylakuppe, Karnataka, the largest Tibetan settlement in India.
She represented Tibet in the Miss Asia Pacific World 2011 beauty pageant.
The pageant organiser, Lobsang Wangyal, was confronted by the contestants who wanted to know how the judging had been processed.
In his statement Lobsang accepted that the folder containing the mark sheets of the finale night had been stolen after the coronation, and suggested that Mr Gould or an accomplice was involved.
– Full contestant information Tenzin Norzom from Varanasi, holder of a Shastri degree (equivalent to Bachelor of Arts in Buddhist Philosophy), was crowned Miss Tibet 2010 at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts in McLeod Ganj, India, on 6 June 2010.
The fourth place Tenzin Namchoe from Golok, Tibet, was given a token prize of Rs 10,000.
Considering the Kyigudo earthquake in eastern Tibet in April, the pageant was kept low-profile.
Lobsang Wangyal, the director and the producer of the event, gave Rs.10,000 in donation to the victims of the earthquake.
Thousands in the audience witnessed the crowning of Tenzin Choezom as the new Miss Tibet.
Miss Tibet Pageant 2008 was held on Sunday 12 October 2008 at The Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA), Dharamshala, India.
Miss Tibet Pageant 2007 was held from 12 to 14 October 2007 in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala, India.
Two Miss Tibets had to withdraw from international pageants — Zimbabwe[27] and Malaysia[28] — after they were asked to wear sashes with this title, and refused.
Miss Tibet 2004 Tashi Yangchen had to withdraw from a pageant in Zimbabwe after the Chinese embassy in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, in a similar case of Chinese interference, asked her to wear a "Miss Tibet-China" sash in February 2005.
[29] During the pageant, Yangkyi received pressure from the Chinese government to wear a sash saying "Tibet-China", but she refused.
