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Tibetan Serfdom: A Political Propaganda Used to Define Tibetans
For decades, China has repeatedly described Tibet before 1959 as a society of “feudal serfdom” and portrayed itself as the force that liberated Tibetans from oppression. The messag…
Read more →US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price
By Tibet Rights Collective Introduction The white dome of Boudhanath rises above the crowded streets of Kathmandu as it has for generations. Crowned by a golden spire and marked wi…
Read more →Ten Years on Speaking for Tibetan Refugees in Nepal at the United Nations in Geneva
By Tibet Rights Collective Introduction On 4 November 2015, during Nepal’s Universal Periodic Review at the United Nations in Geneva, a significant side event was held at the…
Read more →Tibetans in India: Protected by Democracy, Persecuted in Chinese-Occupied Tibet
India — The Lifeline of the Tibetan Struggle When Chinese troops brutally crushed the Tibetan uprising in March 1959, the world largely looked away. But India did not. It ope…
Read more →Losar in Occupied Tibet: A Staged Spectacle Under Chinese Rule
The recent equestrian show in Lhasa, heavily publicized by Chinese state media, is yet another example of Beijing’s relentless attempt to mask its oppressive rule over Tibet …
Read more →Chinese Geopolitical Buddhism: Real Panchen Lama is Captive, and the Fake is in Nepal
The upcoming visit of Gyaltsen Norbu, the Chinese-appointed 11th Panchen Lama, to Nepal has triggered significant debate over China’s strategic use of Tibetan Buddhism to exe…
Read more →A conversation with Amy Yee: The author of Far from the Rooftop of the World
Amy Yee is author of Far from the Rooftop of the World : Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents with a Foreword by the Dalai Lama (University of North Carolina Press 202…
Read more →17th Anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s U.S. Congressional Gold Medal: Celebrating a Legacy of Peace and Compassion
On October 17, 2024, the world marks the 17th anniversary of a momentous occasion: the awarding of the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. In 2007, H…
Read more →17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje to return to India After Exile?
Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa and one of Tibet’s most prominent religious figures, may soon return to India after living in exile since December 1999. The Tibetan spi…
Read more →The Significance of 31st March for His Holiness the Dalai Lama
March 31st holds profound significance in the life of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, marking a pivotal moment in his journey that has shaped the course of Tibetan history and gl…
Read more →Nepal`s Himalaya Airlines Initiates Historic Flight Route to Lhasa, Tibet
Source: Radio Free Asia Nepal's Himalaya Airlines has made history by becoming the first foreign airline to commence regular flights to Lhasa, the regional capital of Tibet. Th…
Read more →Nepal`s decision to receive Drones from China raises concerns over Sovereignty and Security
Nepal's recent decision to acquire 21 drones from China has sparked discussions about the implications for the nation's security and sovereignty. While the move is presente…
Read more →March 31, 2023: 64th anniversary of Dalai Lama arriving in India
Today marks the 64th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's arrival in India. On March 31, 1959, the Tibetan leader fought his way through treacherous snow to reach Chutangmu, a tiny …
Read more →The Tibet Fund provides rainwater harvesting units in Mundgod
The Tibet Fund collaborated with Reimagining Doeguling Tibetan Settlement to provide rainwater harvesting units to Pema Tsel Hostel students, as well as patients and staff at Gaden…
Read more →Explained: China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification & implications
China is employing several techniques to spread its influence overseas and push Chinese Communist Party’s agenda. A key component of its overseas influence operations in Unit…
Read more →China is making incursions along the Indo-Tibet border: Sikyong Penpa Tsering
Central Tibetan Administration’s Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of the Tibetan Government in Exile, asserted on Tuesday that all incursions along the Indo-Tibetan border ha…
Read more →US Budget Bill 2023 says USAID should consider to provide housing for Tibetan diaspora in India
United States budget 2023 passed by Congress said that USAID should consider supporting a project to provide housing for Tibetan refugee families in India. “The Secretary of …
Read more →Tibetans in exile protest against Chinese encroachment in Tawang
Source: ANI On December 9, Tibetan refugees in Dharmshala, Himachal Pradesh, protested against China's incursion into Indian territory in the Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh…
Read more →Tibetan activist Tsundue speaks about Tibet in Allahabad
On November 23 2022, Tenzin Tsundue, a Tibetan activist, was invited to Allahabad by the Institute for Social Democracy to deliver the Khursheed Smriti Memorial Lecture at the Swar…
Read more →Tibet Film Festival London to screen Amala: The Life and Struggle of Dalai Lama’s Sister
London: On November 23, 2022, at 6:45 p.m., Genesis Cinema in London will host the 13th Tibet Film Festival London, United Kingdom screening of the documentary film Amala, the Life…
Read more →CM Pema Khandu praises Tibetan settlers for maintaining good relationships with inhabitants
Source: Outlook Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu Wednesday said the state government is committed to preserve the rich cultural heritage of the indigenous communities o…
Read more →TCHRD Workshop teaches human rights and sustainable development to Tibetan youth
In order to better understand and promote human rights in their everyday life as well as in their own community, a group of Tibetan refugees who are pursuing higher education in va…
Read more →APIPFT holds meeting with members of Core Group for Tibetan Cause, India.
New Delhi: At the initiation of the apex coordinating body of Tibet Support Groups in India – Core Group for Tibetan Cause – India (CGTC-I), a meeting of the All Party …
Read more →ENVISION : A project that is helping empower Tibetan youth in India
New Delhi : Empowering the Vision Project (ENVISION) was set up in December 2007 as a Trust to strengthen the Tibetan community through youth empowerment. The vision is to see trul…
Read more →Indian PM Modi calls Dalai Lama on his birthday; Extends greetings.
New Delhi : Indian Prime MInister Narendra Modi extended birthday greetings to His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama on the occasion of his 87th birthday. "Conveyed 87th birt…
Read more →Tibetan CEO wins ‘Innovator title’ at 2022 Women of the Year awards
The CEO of Flutter Care, Dolma Tsundu, bagged the Innovator title among the 2022 Women of the Year awards, to be featured in the May/June 2022 issue of BCBusiness magazine. Born to…
Read more →Police surveillance of Tibetans in Nepal remained high in 2021: US Report
Kathmandu: The US government’s international religious freedom report 2021 by The Office of International Religious Freedom has stated that police surveillance of Tibetan ref…
Read more →Former Director of Tibet Policy Institute, Thubten Samphel passes away
Dharamshala: Former Secretary and Director of Tibet Policy Institute of the Central Tibetan Administration Thubten Samphel passed away on 4 June at Tsering Gyepheling in Bylakuppe …
Read more →US Special Coordinator for Tibetan issues meets with Tibetans in Nepal
Kathmandu: On her three-day visit to Nepal’s capital Kathmandu beginning May 20, US Under Secretary for Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, Ms. Uzra Zeya, has paid a cour…
Read more →Ambassador Khatri meets with the Tibet Special Coordinator.
In Washington, DC, Nepali Ambassador Shridar Khatri met with Uzra Zeya, the US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues. They 'addressed the strong US-Nepal relationship in advan…
Read more →Favourite Tibet Reads Of 2023
2023 is over. As the year draws to a close, we asked researchers, activists and journalists to name their favourite Tibet reads of 2023 that left an impression on them. Here are th…
Read more →We must continue our resistance, keep the Tibet issue alive: Tsering Passang on Tibetan Resistance Movement
Excerpts from our conversation with Tsering Passang la, Founder and Chair of Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities (GATPM), London, England. 1. Could you share the …
Read more →Book Review
By Rinzin Namgyal "The Chinese Communist Party's Capacity to Rule: Ideology, Legitimacy and Party Cohesion" by Jinghan Zeng . This book consists of seven chapters whi…
Read more →Exploring Changing Dynamics of Citizenship: An Interview with Dickey Choeden
In the backdrop of shifting dynamics of Indian citizenship, Ms. Dickey Choeden's PhD thesis conducted at The Gandhigram Rural Institute delves into the experiences and perspect…
Read more →Significance of Sikkim for Buddhism and His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Introduction Tibetan Spiritual Leader, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to visit Sikkim from October 10 to 14 this year. Sikkim's Chief Minister, Prem Singh Tamang, has officia…
Read more →Long live the Dalai Lama, personality omnipresent in the hearts of Tibetans!
By Senator Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio Longue vie au Dalaï Lama, personnalité omniprésente dans le cœur des Tibétains ! Sénatrice du Val d&rsq…
Read more →The Dalai Lama: Simple Monk or Incarnation of a Higher Being?
His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama, Buddhist spiritual master and symbolic leader of the people of Tibet, who currently lives in exile in Dharamsala, India, regularly says that he…
Read more →An Anguish, an Everlasting Trauma: The Dalai Lama is a leader of the world
By Tenzing Dhamdul, FNVA “Someone who has little knowledge, Will find fault with those who understand. All look with awe on expensive belongings, But who would notice a piece…
Read more →Book Excerpt: Tibet exerted a huge religious and cultural influence on the Himalayan regions
This excerpt (Pages: 27-30) from Nirupama Rao’s ‘ The Fractured Himalaya: India China Tibet 1949-1962 ’ has been published with permission from Penguin Random Hou…
Read more →Issue of Tibet must be brought to the international level: Yoko Ishii on Free Tibet Fukuoka and Japanese support for Tibet cause
Yoko Ishi was born in Fukuoka, Japan. She is a political activist who has been working as a journalist and artist since 2012. She is the President and her husband Mr. Hidetoshi Ish…
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 →Mass Protest Rally by pan-Europe Tibetans in Rome this March
By Tenzin Kunga, Advocacy Officer, Free Tibet Large contingents of Tibetans living across Europe will gather in Italy’s historic capital city on 10th March to mark the 64th a…
Read more →A Day with Tibetan Sweater Sellers in Gurgaon
Delhi winter is almost over, and the Tibetan winter handloom markets are gearing up to wind up their businesses. The winter business is a four-month hustle that starts in October a…
Read more →Book Review: The High Road to China
Author- Kate Teltscher Publisher – Bloomsbury Publishing Tenzing Dhamdul, Research associate, FNVA Introduction: The Great Game that occurred before the so called ‘Grea…
Read more →Favourite Tibet Reads of 2022
2022 is almost over. As the year draws to a close, we asked researchers, activists and journalists to name their favourite Tibet reads of 2022 that left an impression on them. Here…
Read more →Jiang Zemin & his tainted Tibet Legacy
By Team TRC China has been rocked by widespread protests against its irrational, absurd and brutal Zero-COVID policy and unscientific lockdowns since the last few weeks. Referred t…
Read more →Pah-Lak, a play we Tibetans must entertain to remember who we are
Tenzing Dhamdul, Research Associate FNVA, New Delhi The set-up: It was pouring cats and dogs in New Delhi but people came in scores including our Indian sisters and brothers who ma…
Read more →20th CCP Congress & Tibet: What are the Implications?
By Tenzin Samphel The 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is underway in Beijing. Ahead of the event, China had started reinforcing its tight control over occu…
Read more →Sovereignty in Settler Colonial Times: Kinship and Education in the Tibetan Exile Community
By Dawa Lokyitsang (This article was originally published on The American Ethnologist and Lhakar Diaries ) When the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, along with his administration and more th…
Read more →China’s White Papers – Its purpose and implicit propagation of the One China Principle
By Tenzing Dhamdul Introduction: It has only taken a few days for Beijing to come out with another one of its preposterous White Papers that too on Taiwan after a gap of more than …
Read more →Sound and Fury: Analysing Chinese Response to Anything that has Tibet in it
By Lakshmi P & Jyotsna Jayaram United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is currently on an Asia tour. The mere rumours of Pelosi including Taiwan- a self-ruled island that Chin…
Read more →On National Identity…
By Tenzin Jampa I love to meet new people. I love to know where they come from, what they think about things, what they hold dear to and more. But there is one question that I drea…
Read more →The Cries of Self-Immolation by Tibetans Echo Repression and Oppression by Beijing
By Tenzing Dhamdul Research Associate, FNVA Prologue: We humans are capable of great things, when we work together. However not all phenomenon leads to a morally good conclusion in…
Read more →Bedding with Authoritarian Regimes: Is the West losing its Core Principles over Trade and short-term Gains?
By Tsering Passang(Founder and Chairman of Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities) The rugged mountains of remote Mustang, near the Nepal-Tibet border, was a perfect…
Read more →President Xi’s Odyssey from Savior to Satan towards Buddhism in Tibet & Tibetans Worldwide
By Tenzing Dhamdul Introduction President Xi Jinping coming to power in China brought much optimism especially among many Tibetans and the larger Buddhist community in China becaus…
Read more →The Luminescence of the Moon Captured by Beijing, The Panchen Lama Conundrum
By T enzing Dhamdul Key Words Panchen Lama: The second highest lama in Tibet especially in the Gelugpa tradition. Gelugpa: One of the major sects in Tibetan Buddhism with its found…
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…
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