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Two Sisters Devoted to Community Service Detained in Eastern Tibet
Tsomo and Nyidon were detained after sending voice messages in chat groups, encouraging virtuous actions. -by Tibet Watch Two Tibetan women, known for helping the poor and needy in their village were detained on 23 October after sending voice messages in chat groups on the social media application WeChat, encouraging read more →
Leader of Tibetan Government in Exile Warns France over China’s Policies
Penpa Tsering, the political leader of Tibet’s government in exile, was in Paris this week to raise awareness about the increased repression faced by Tibetans living in Chinese-controlled areas. He spoke to RFI about issues such as intense surveillance and the destruction of Tibetan cultural identity. -by Jan van der read more →
China Requires Job Applicants in Tibet to Denounce Dalai Lama
-by Radio Free Asia Tibetans who want to get public sector jobs must comply with a harsh Chinese rule requiring them to denounce the Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism. The move would seem to violate China’s constitution, which officially protects the freedom of religion. An official directive from Beijing read more →
Erasing Tibet Chinese Boarding Schools and the Indoctrination of a Generation
China’s brutal treatment of Uyghur Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang has won tremendous international attention in recent years, with human rights groups decrying the systematic detention in internment camps of a million people, as well as the Chinese state’s attempts to suppress Uyghur culture and the practice of read more →
Why China wants to erase ‘Tibet’
By Khedroob Thondup for Taipei Times. China has started to call Tibet “Xizang” instead of Tibet for several reasons. First, China wants to assert its sovereignty and legitimacy over Tibet, which it claims as an integral part of its territory and history. China argues that the term Xizang, which read more →
As Tibet Becomes Xizang, Delhi Faces a New Concern
-By Claude Arpi for Deccan Chronicle Communist China often changes the names of the people, places and even nations. It is the case of Tibet, which is now called Xizang On November 10, Xinhua reported that the State Council Information Office had just released a white paper on the governance read more →
Preserving the Abodes of Tibetan Buddhist Deities
-By Bikash K. Bhattacharya for the Earth Island Journal Under increasing climate pressures in Northeast India, monks and monasteries safeguard local lakes and forests. A singular, seventeenth-century thangka painting adorns the central hall of Ganden Namgyal Lhatse, the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in India. The painting depicts a haggish figure read more →
The False Panchen Lama Ordains Monks in Tashi Lhunpo Monastery—for the Communist Party
By Lopsang Gurung for Bitter Winter. He told them to “be grateful to the Party, listen to the Party, follow the Party, promote the Party.” The Tibetans know the story and readers of “Bitter Winter” know it too. In the Tibetan Buddhist Gelug tradition, the Panchen Lama is the second read more →
China Spending Massively on Surveillance in Tibet, Say Scholars
The Hindu Bureau. The nature and extent of surveillance that the Chinese government has on people in its restive provinces was in focus on the second day of the three-day All India Conference of Chinese Studies at the University of Hyderabad. Apa Lhamo, research fellow at the Centre for China read more →
Biden Urged to Press Beijing to Return to Direct Dialogue with Tibetan People
A readout of the meeting issued by the White House said Biden did raise the issues with Xi during the summit meeting in Woodside, California. -by Deccan Herald San Francisco: Expressing concern that the issue of Tibet did not come up during the Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting, the International Campaign read more →
Tibet’s Government-In-Exile Urges Australia not to ‘compromise’ on China’s Human Rights Record
-By Daniel Hurst for The Guardian Australia must not compromise on human rights as it improves its relationship with China because “the truth must be told”, a minister from the Tibetan Government-in-exile has said during a visit to Canberra. Norzin Dolma, a minister of the Central Tibetan Administration based in read more →
4 Tibetans Sentenced to Prison for 2nd Time for Religious Activities
Previously, authorities detained them for 11 months on the same offence. -by Radio Free Asia China has sentenced four Tibetans from Sertar county in Sichuan province to two years in prison each for engaging in religious activities — the second time they have been arrested and given jail time, said read more →
China’s New ‘White Paper’ on Tibet: Ominous Silence Amid Barrage of Party Language
-by International Campaign for Tibet The new “White Paper” on Tibet released on Nov. 10, 2023 by China’s State Council unsurprisingly presents an overwhelmingly flowery image of the situation in Tibet, while its barrage of figures and alleged achievements, along with language characteristic to the Communist Party under Xi Jinping, read more →
China Is Slowly Erasing Tibet’s Name
By Micah McCartney for News Week. The Chinese government is gradually dropping the name “Tibet” in official English-language references in favor of the region’s Mandarin Chinese name—”Xizang”—with experts saying the move is in line with Beijing policies aimed at erasing Tibetan culture. The propaganda department of China’s State Council, its central read more →
Despots Fear Ridicule: China’s Great Game Over Dalai Lama’s Succession Can Be Stopped: OPED
By 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 →