In addition, approximately 150 Tibetan orphans were adopted by Swiss families.

A number of Tibetans settled in the mountains of the Swiss Alps, due to the terrain there being similar to the terrain of their homeland on the Tibetan Plateau.

[2] Initially, Tibetan children had some difficulty in school, due to the massive language barrier between German and Tibetan, but the Tibetans were soon able to gain enough fluency in German to join the same classes as regular Swiss children.

[3] Some Swiss people even learned to speak some Tibetan.

With over 4,000 residing in the country in 2011, Tibetans made up the second largest Asian immigrant group in Switzerland, right behind Filipinos.