Tibetan Swiss

Tibetans in Switzerland there are in larger groups since the 1960s, when the Swiss Red Cross helped to resettle about 300 Tibetans in Switzerland. Through a strong refugee and asylum seekers electricity from Tibet, the number grew to several thousand.

With over 4000 people in the country make the Tibetans behind the Filipinos from the second largest Asian immigrant group in Switzerland. They live mainly in Zurich and Geneva, are mostly Buddhists and native speakers sometimes even Tibetan, as a foreign language mostly German, French and Italian.

In addition, about 150 Tibetan orphans were adopted by Swiss families. A number of Tibetans settled in the mountains of the Swiss Alps, specifically because of their home -like, reminiscent of the Himalayan environment.