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Tibetan Americans are Americans of Tibetan ancestry. The history of Tibetan-Americans in the United States is relatively short, as the United States had limited contact or involvement with Tibet before World War II expanded to the Pacific. Ethnic Tibetans began to immigrate to the United States in the late 1950s.〔Bhuchung K. Tsering, (Enter the Tibetan Americans: Tibetan Americans establish a presence in the United States ). Tibet Foundation Newsletter, February 2001.〕 Section 134 of the Immigration Act of 1990 gave a boost to the Tibetan immigration to the USA, by providing 1000 immigrant visas to Tibetans living in India and Nepal.〔〔 Chain migration followed, and by 1998 the Tibetan-American population had grown to around 5,500, according to a census conducted by Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). The 2000 United States Census counted 5,147 US residents who reported Tibetan ancestry.〔(Global Nomads: The Emergence of the Tibetan Diaspora (Part I) ), by Seonaigh MacPherson (University of British Columbia), Anne-Sophie Bentz (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), Dawa Bhuti Ghoso〕 An estimate of ca. 7,000 was made in 2001,〔 and in 2008 the CTA's Office of Tibet in New York informally estimated the Tibetan population in the USA at around 9,000.〔 The migration of the Tibetans to the United States took on the pattern of 22 "cluster groups", located primarily in the Northeast, the Great Lakes region, and the Intermountain West. Other communities include Austin, Texas and Charlottesville, Virginia. Tibetan Americans who are born in Tibet or elsewhere in China are officially recognized as Chinese nationals. ==Northeast== Communities of Tibetan Americans in the Northeast exist in Boston and Amherst, Massachusetts, Ithaca, New York, New York City, and Washington, D.C., and in the states of Connecticut, Vermont and New Jersey. In New York and New Jersey, they live primarily in Queens and New Brunswick. Around Washington, the largest communities are in Fairfax County, Virginia and Montgomery County, Maryland. The town of Northfield, Vermont has been home for many years to the seat of the current Trijang Rinpoche, who has been estranged from the Dalai Lama due to the Dorje Shugden controversy, and has very few followers among Tibetan Americans outside Vermont. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tibetan Americans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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