Tibetan Review
Chinese Tibetologists’ task to sell propaganda narratives on Tibet underlined
(TibetanReview.net, Jun23’26) – China claims that Tibet has been an integral part of it since ancient times and the Tibetan culture in all its aspects – religion, medicine. performing arts, and so forth – are parts or aspects of...
Penning a book on China’s colonial games in Tibet
BOOK REVIEW Compiling nearly 60 essays and presentations by 39 leading experts on Tibet and China, which were discussed in over 30 international webinars over 2020-23, Vijay Kranti’s “China’s Colonial Games in Tibet” is a useful work for all...
From Ama Drime to Artificial Intelligence: Tibet’s High-Purity Quartz Discovery and the New Global Resource Frontier
OPINION Tenzin Jigmey* makes the point that while the recent discovery of potentially vast reserves of rare top quality quartz from southern Tibet is great news for modern digital and clean energy technologies in diverse fields of great importance,...
India raises its guard as China accelerates building of world’s largest, potentially most dangerous hydropower dam in Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Jun20’26) – India is monitoring with high alarm the site in Tibet where satellite imagery and intelligence inputs reveal a sharp acceleration in China’s construction of the world’s largest hydroelectric dam in a seismically active area on the...
UN rights chief censored by his own office on his remarks on China’s ethnic unity law?
(TibetanReview.net, Jun20’26) – The top human rights officer of the United Nations on Jun 15 expressed “serious concern” on China’s recently adopted Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, saying it “could deepen existing restrictions on minority communities” and...
‘This Land is My Land’ – Remembering Lhasang Tsering
Wangpo Tethong* remembers Lhasang Tsering, who passed away just recently, for the remarkably cool-headed manner in which he steered the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) as its President when His Holiness the Dalai Lama made his Strasbourg proposal in 1988...
Another Xi Jinping thought is made China’s official party doctrine
(TibetanReview.net, Jun19’26) – China’s ruling Communist Party has coined a new phrase to make Xi Jinping the country’s ideological Czar on Party Building, stressing governing the party with discipline and unified leadership, under him of course. In this connection,...
China makes clear it disapproves of Western aid projects, influence in Nepal
(TibetanReview.net, Jun18’26) – China has on Jun 15 sought to drive home to visiting Nepali Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal the point that the West, especially the United States, should not be trusted whereas “good neighbour” China is always there...
Robert Thurman, top Buddhist scholar who espoused Tibetan culture, cause
(Aug 3, 1941 – Jun 16, 2026) OBITUARY (TibetanReview.net, Jun18’26) – Professor Robert AF Thurman, the first Westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and who went on to become an...
US House committee chair cosponsors Tibet genocide bill
(TibetanReview.net, Jun17’26) – Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the Select Committee on China, US House of Representatives, has on Jun 15 cosponsored the Tibet Atrocities Determination Act introduced earlier on Jun 2 by Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Select...











