Chungtak competed as one of the 90 contestants in the environmentally-oriented Miss Earth 2006 beauty pageant . Aside from her environmental advocacy , she used her platform to say that " Tibet is not a part of China " and " there is no freedom in Tibet " . She also advocated for the boundaries of acceptable social etiquette towards modernity , in a traditionally conservative Tibetan culture , where most grown women wear ankle-length dresses . Nonetheless , her participation in the pageant received an approval from the Dalai Lama . She made more headlines in December 2007 when she withdrew her participation in the Miss Tourism contest , a minor international beauty pageant held in Malaysia , after organizers reacted to pressure from Beijing and asked her to add " China " to her " Miss Tibet " title by wearing a sash labeled " Miss Tibet-China "
Miss Earth 2006
Miss Earth 2006
Tsering Chungtak