This page is a list of organizations of Tibetans in exile. Most of the organizations listed are groups of ethnic Tibetans outside of Tibet and based in Dharamsala. The Dharamsalan Indian community materialized around the Dalai Lama, who moved there from Tibet after the 1959 unrest in Tibet. There are cultural groups, religious groups, and political groups, some of which promote the goals of the Tibetan independence movement.