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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 →
China’s new law on religion: A great leap backward
-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
He 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’
By 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
By 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
To 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”
This 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
-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?
The 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 →