Despots Fear Ridicule: China’s Great Game Over Dalai Lama’s Succession Can Be Stopped: OPED
November 15, 2023By Tsering Passang. November 13, 2023. For the people of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the manifestation of Chenrezig, or Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Successive Dalai Lamas have held spiritual and temporal power over the Tibetan Buddhist Kingdom for 400 years. Buddhists from the Himalayan belt and read more →
China’s new law on religion: A great leap backward
November 14, 2023-By Tsewang Gyalpo Arya for The Japan Times In September, the Chinese Communist Party made a move to further subjugate and control religious institutions in China and the occupied regions of Tibet, East Turkestan and Southern Mongolia The five major religions recognized by China are Buddhism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam and read more →
Buddhist Monk in Tibet Confirmed as Detained by Chinese Authorities
November 10, 2023He was arrested for allegedly contacting people outside the region. -by Radio Free Asia Chinese authorities have arrested and detained a Tibetan Buddhist monk from Tashi Monastery in Gansu province for allegedly contacting people outside the far-western region, two people with knowledge of the situation said. Kunchok Dakpa was taken in read more →
Tibetan Leader Offers Students Window into ‘Roof of the World’
November 9, 2023By Sophie Hauck for the Gazette. AMHERST — Penpa Tsering, leader of the Tibetan “government in exile,” recently traveled to the University of Massachusetts to discuss how China is attempting to eradicate Tibet’s unique cultural identity, urging listeners to be wary of “the dragon” — his nickname for the East read more →
China urges Tibetan students to denounce Dalai Lama
November 9, 2023By Pelbar for Radio Free Asia China is urging teachers and students in western Tibet to pledge allegiance to the one-party state and denounce the Dalai Lama and what authorities say are his separatist ways, according to two Tibetans living inside Tibet. Officials summoned more than 400 teachers and students read more →
The Battle for the Soul of the Dalai Lama
November 8, 2023To Control Tibet, Communist China Ventures Into the Spiritual Realm -by Lobsang Sangay for Foreign Affairs n 1954, China’s paramount leader Mao Zedong met Tenzin Gyatso, the then 19-year-old who was the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet. “Religion,” Mao acerbically observed to the young Dalai read more →
Representative of Tibet House Japan says “Thank you to the Jogye Order for speaking out for Tibet”
November 5, 2023This is an English translation of South Korean news. Source: Buddhist Newspaper Seoul: Dr. Arya Tsewang Gyalpo, Representative of Tibet House Japan and East Asia, met with Rev. Ju – Kyeong, Chairman of the Central Council of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism Central Council, and the members of the read more →
Biden Cabinet Members Urged on Tibet DNA Collection, Family Separation
October 28, 2023-by International Campaign for Tibet The chairs of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China have written to three Biden administration cabinet members urging action, including possible Global Magnitsky sanctions, on mass biometric data collection and family separation in Tibet. In their letter to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, Secretary of the read more →
Is China using new boarding schools to dilute Tibetan identity?
October 28, 2023The Associate Post First-grade students, hands folded on their desks, watch a teacher write a brush-like stroke on a blackboard in their Tibetan alphabet. Outside, craggy mountains climb toward the brightest of blue skies. The air is clean and crisp at 2,800 meters (9,100 feet), if a bit thin. The read more →
Eight Tibetans Detained After Collecting Donations for Religious Offering
October 27, 2023Darlak County Police issue notice soliciting information on the group detained in exchange for rewards. -by Tibet Watch Darlak County police arbitrarily detained eight Tibetans under the charges of “creating criminal organisation”, “picking quarrel and provoking trouble” and “extortion and blackmail” on 20 October. A source with knowledge of the read more →