Tibetan American - Northeast

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 among the large Indian American communities, particularly in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens and New Brunswick, New Jersey. Around Washington, the largest communities are in McLean, Virginia and Rockville, 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.