Bhuchung K. Tsering was born in Phari in Tibet. His family fled to India in 1960 in the wake of Chinese Communist invasion. He studied in India and received his B.A. in English literature from the University of Delhi in 1982. Thereafter, he worked as a reporter for the Indian daily, Indian Express, in New Delhi, before joining the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India, in January 1984. He has worked as the editor of Tibetan Bulletin, the official journal of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile and served in the Office of H.H. the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala as well as at the Office of Tibet in Switzerland.

He joined the International Campaign for Tibet in Washington, D.C. in 1995 and is currently the Vice President for Special Program, overseeing Chinese Outreach and Tibetan empowerment programs.

He is a member of the Task Force set up by the Central Tibetan Administration to work on issues relating to the dialogue process with the Chinese leadership. He has also been a member of the team led by the envoys of H.H. the Dalai Lama in the discussions that they had with the Chinese leadership since 2002.