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Tibet Cultural Identity Is Being Erased Through Education and the World Must Respond
A new generation of Tibetan children is being raised in schools that teach them who they are not. This is what systematic cultural erasure looks like in the modern era. The struggl…
Read more →Remembering the Tibetan National Uprising and the Unbroken Spirit of a Nation
Every year on March 10 , Tibetans across the world commemorate one of the most defining moments in their modern history the 1959 Tibetan Uprising . This day marks the courage of th…
Read more →China Switches On Eiffel Tower–Tall Mega Dam in Eastern Tibet, Tightening Grip on Tibet’s Rivers
China has begun operating one of its most massive hydroelectric power stations in eastern Tibet, further accelerating its large-scale exploitation of Tibetan rivers under the banne…
Read more →Destroying Heaven: The Tragedy of Larung Gar
High in the rolling hills of Serta County in eastern Tibet once thrived a sea of crimson, tens of thousands of red-robed monks and nuns devoted to study, meditation, and the pursui…
Read more →A Day of Betrayal - How the Seventeen Point Agreement Betrayed Tibet
On 23rd May 1951, a document was signed under duress in Beijing — the infamous Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet. The Chinese government has sinc…
Read more →Chinese Authorities Ban New Monks from Tibetan Buddhist Monastery Amid Tightened Religious Controls
Source: Radio Free Asia Chinese authorities have recently implemented a ban on the enrollment of new monks at the Khyungbum Lura Monastery located in Chamdo prefecture, eastern Tib…
Read more →China’s lust for lithium from Tibet: Ten Things you should Know
Here are 10 things you need to know about lithium mining in Tibet. The following points have been taken from this key article written by Gabriel Lafitte, one of the foremost enviro…
Read more →Chinese authorities cancel Major Buddhist Ceremony in Eastern Tibet, raising concerns over religious freedom
In the village of Samey-shi, located in Gumong Township, in the so-called Qinghai Province in Eastern Tibet, Chinese authorities took a oppressive decision to cancel a significant …
Read more →Free Tibet: New report highlights human rights abuses in Tibet
Source: Free Tibet A new report, which was released on January 23, 2023 by the London-based NGO Free Tibet and its charitable research arm, Tibet Watch, details previously unreport…
Read more →Avalanche kills at least eight people on Tibet highway
Source: BBC On Tuesday night, January 17, an avalanche struck a tunnel exit near the south-eastern Tibetan city of Nyingchi, killing at least eight people. Nyingchi is a popular to…
Read more →Tibetan arrested for social media post about Lhasa Lockdown, his whereabouts unknown over a month
Source: Tibet Watch A Tibetan teacher named Gontse was arrested in Chongchi County by the police authorities on 14 August 2022 following his social media posts about the Covid-19 l…
Read more →Five Tibetans arrested in Serthar County for organising religious activities, one killed in detention: Tibet Watch
Source: Tibet Watch News has emerged from Tibet about the arrest of five Tibetans in eastern Tibet this summer in connection with religious activities. One of the detainees has sin…
Read more →China preparing to build another highway in Aksai Chin, will be ready by 2035: Reports
Beijing: According to a report by The Hindu, China is preparing to build another highway through Aksai Chin, running along the India border and connecting Xinjiang with Tibet. Acco…
Read more →Meet the First Tibetan UFC athlete Sonam Dhargye aka The Tibetan Eagle
New Delhi: Tibetan mixed martial artist and Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Sonam Dhargye (Ch. Su Madaerji)’s aka The Tibetan Eagle is the first Tibetan UFC fighter wh…
Read more →The 7th Annual Tenzin Delek Rinpoche Medal of Courage awarded to A-Nya Sengdra
San Francisco: The 7th Annual Tenzin Delek Rinpoche Medal of Courage was awarded to A-Nya Sengdra, a Tibetan nomad and climate crisis activist from eastern Tibet. The award was rec…
Read more →Authorities refuse help to rebuild Tibetan monastery destroyed in an earthquake
Lhasa: Monks from the Gyalrong Tsodun Kriti Monastery in northeastern Tibet do not know if they will receive help from local Chinese officials to rebuild after the structure was de…
Read more →China begins building world’s largest hydro-solar power station in eastern Tibet
Lhasa: China said on July 8 that it will be beginning to build dam in the eastern Tibetan prefecture of Garze (or Ganzi, Tibetan: Kardze), now part of China’s Sichuan Provinc…
Read more →Monastery forced to relocate to make way for hydropower station: Report
Lhasa: Chinese authorities in Amdo, eastern Tibet are planning to relocate a 19th century Tibetan monastery against the wishes of its resident monks and local Tibetans. The monaste…
Read more →Chinese authorities arresting Tibetan thinkers for upholding their culture and rights: Report
Lhasa: According to reports, the Chinese authorities are arresting Tibetan thinkers, who have been speaking out in favour of their culture and rights which Beijing sees as an act o…
Read more →Tibetan man arrested in November 2021 in connection with posts made on WeChat: Tibet Watch
Tibet Watch has reported an arrest of a Tibetan man in eastern Tibet in November 2021 in connection with posts he made on the messaging app WeChat. Palsang, a 24-year-old man from …
Read more →A Tibetan man was arrested in Golog for posting 'sensitive' remarks on WeChat.
Dharamshala : According to the London-based human rights organisation Free Tibet, Chinese officials arrested a Tibetan man named Palsang from Eastern Tibet in November last year in…
Read more →China arrests Tibetan couple for contacting overseas relatives, 2 others for language rights posts on WeChat
New Delhi: Tibet monitoring group Tibet Watch said May 4 that it had just learnt that a couple had been arrested last month in eastern Tibet for maintaining such contacts and two o…
Read more →TCHRD releases 2021 Annual Report on Human Rights situation in Tibet
Dharamsala: The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) released the 2021 Annual Report on the human rights situation in Tibet at a press conference in Dharamshala a …
Read more →Chinese officials in rural areas of Tibet are forcing village leaders to speak in Chinese: Report
Lhasa : Radio Free Asia has reported that the Chinese authorities have launched workshops and have ordered local administrators to conduct business only in Chinese, telling them th…
Read more →His Holiness Dalai Lama: A Symbol of Happiness and Peace
“The heart of the Buddha’s teaching is a combination of compassion and wisdom and as Buddhists our task is cultivate these two qualities” -His Holiness Dalai Lama…
Read more →Fighting for the Truth: Gonpo Kyi’s Relentless Fight for Dorje Tashi
Tibet, which was unlawfully occupied by China, is the least-free country on earth . According to a report released by freedom watchdog Freedom House, Tibet has a global freedom sco…
Read more →The Dalai Lama, Environmentalist
This excerpt has been taken from 'This Fragile Planet: His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Environment' which features 80 inspiring quotations from His Holiness the Dalai Lama o…
Read more →Tibet & Losar 2023 : Looking Back and Ahead
The events of 2022 tested Tibet and Tibetans more than any other sovereign nations. China’s continued aggressive policy, coupled with Xi Jinping assertive control over the po…
Read more →SANG-SOL or LHA-SANG
By Jigme Yeshe Lama (Assistant Professor, University of Calcutta) This year (2023), the Tibetan New Year or Losar will be celebrated on the 21st of February. As Tibetans follow the…
Read more →COP-PING IN, COP-PING OUT: CHINA HAS NOW LEFT THE ENVIRONMENT ROOM
This article was originally published in rukor.org. China is the leader of the developing world. So China says. China speaks up for all developing countries, from Cairo to Capetown…
Read more →An Open Letter to World Leaders: Help raise the issue of Tibet Climate Crisis
By Tenzin Tseten "I often joke that the moon and stars look beautiful, but if any of us tried to live on them, we would be miserable. This planet of ours is a delightful habit…
Read more →Education in Tibet: An Indoctrination Tool of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Introduction In the month of July 2021, without giving any official reason, the Chinese authorities in Golog, eastern Tibet, ordered [1] to shut down a private Tibetan school, Seng…
Read more →The 17 point Agreement- A guide to Beijing’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
Introduction When the communist government came to power, they called upon reclaiming all the territories under the former Qing dynasty, ironically the dynasty regime was so despis…
Read more →Tibet Brief 2021
Introduction “My message for the Chinese government is Free Tibet. Tibet belongs to Tibetans.” Enes Kanter Freedom is perhaps the one significant voice in 2021 that mad…
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