Tibetan Youth Festival
The Tibetan Youth Tenshug was organized in September, 2025 in Dharamsala, India by a collaboration between local Tibetan community organizations. Tenshug in Tibetan refers to the long-life prayer offered to His Holiness the 14th Dalia Lama. This festival united youth across the Tibetan diaspora in this long-standing tradition and hosted collaborative programming to help facilitate community networks.
Studio Nyandak is proud to have spearheaded the design and construction management for the festival’s infrastructure in close collaboration with its organizers. The design centered around the festival’s themes of damtshik (devotion), drelam (connection), and ghazom (celebrative gathering). Some of Studio Nyandak’s festival constructions included a courtyard inspired by the Potala Palace’s, an origami representation of three major rivers that begin in Tibet (Machu, Drichu, and Dzachu), and a tensegrity art installation.
As part of the festival, Studio Nyandak also hosted a workshop and a screening of the new documentary, “Living Sanctuaries: Buddhist Monasteries of Zanskar,” about their architectural documentation fieldwork in Zanskar, Ladakh.
Studio Nyandak engineer Dechen Tsogyal and Founding Principal Tenzin Nyandak construct a bamboo tensegrity structure in front of Studio Nyandak’s courtyard design.
Studio Nyandak’s origami river flows above a monk presenting on Tibetan Buddhist philosophy to festival youth.
Performers in front of Studio Nyandak-crafted stage facade.
Tenzin Nyandak speaks on Youth Tenshug panel.
