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Czech President calls on Dalai Lama in Ladakh, China throws up a tantrum
(TibetanReview.net, Jul28’25) – The President of the Czech Republic, Mr Petr Pavel, has on Jul 27 called on the Dalai Lama in Leh, capital of India’s Union Territory of Ladakh, where the latter has been sojourning since Jul 12,...
China calls acceptance-challenged Gyaincain Norbu ‘one of the most influential Living Buddhas in Tibetan Buddhism’
(TibetanReview.net, Jul27’25) – Continuing his annual months-long tour of Tibet after arriving in Lhasa from Beijing on Jun 27, the Chinese government-appointed 11th Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu has spent 12 days in Chamdo City from Jul 7 and then...
Thiksey Rinpoche has donated land for relocating Tibetans stuck in Ladakh’s remote inhospitable north
(TibetanReview.net, Jul27’25) – The head of the Thiksey Monastery in Leh, the capital of India’s Union Territory of Ladakh, has donated a sizeable area of 62 kanals (7.5 acres) of land to the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) for the...
China’s Panchen on mission to align Tibetan Buddhism with Chinese socialist society
(TibetanReview.net, Jul26’25) – Gyaincain Norbu, appointed by China as the 11th Panchen Lama back in 1995 (after abducting and disappearing the incumbent Gedhun Choekyi Nyima), but not recognized by mainstream Tibetan Buddhists, has reiterated his call for aligning Tibetan...
China silent on EU raising of Tibet, Dalai Lama reincarnation issues during Beijing summit
(TibetanReview.net, Jul25’25) – Although not the main item on the agenda, the European Union (EU) has on Jul 24 strongly raised its concerns on the human rights abuses in Tibet, including religious repression and political interference in the Dalai...
China welcomes India’s tourist visa opening, but calls conditions unreasonable
(TibetanReview.net, Jul24’25) – China has welcomed India’s decision to resume the issuing of tourist visas to its citizens from Jul 24, after a gap of five years, but its official media has called the conditions unreasonable. The move came...
CPC Central Committee member, a former ‘Tibet’ governor, headed for corruption trial
(TibetanReview.net, Jul23’25) – After being put under investigation on Jan 23, 2025 by China’s top party and government anti-corruption bodies, Qizhala (also written as Qi Zhala, Qe Dalha or Che Dalha), a CPC (Communist Party of China) Central Committee...
China has razed hundreds of stupas, two sacred statues at monastery in Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Jul22’25) – Claiming they were built on government land and also violated uncited regulations, Chinese authorities have recently demolished over 300 Buddhist stupas and a statue of Guru Padmasambhava – who introduced tantric Buddhism in Tibet in the...
Dalai Lama inaugurates Buddhist debate event, new palace in Padum, Ladakh
(TibetanReview.net, Jul22’25) – After being delayed by bad weather for two days, the Dalai Lama has flown by helicopter to Padum in Zanskar, Ladakh, on Jul 21 to inaugurate a Great Summer Debate event at the Karsha Monastery and...
Stealing Tibet’s Children: China’s Shameful Colonial Project to Eradicate Tibetan Identity
OPINION Calling China’s secretive, coercive, and repressive boarding school system that incarcerates nearly a million Tibetan children a profound violation of the world’s shared commitment that every child should grow up secure in their identity, language, and family’s love,...
China frees Tibetan environment rights protester, subject to tight restrictions
(TibetanReview.net, Jul21’25) – China has released on Jul 8 after eight months a Tibetan environment rights protester in Sichuan province who should never have been jailed in the first place, subject to stringent conditions that severely curtails his freedom,...
China begins building world’s biggest hydropower dam in seismically active Himalayan Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Jul20’25) – Chinese Premier Li Qiang has announced on Jul 19 the start of the construction of the world’s biggest hydropower dam over the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Metog county of Nyingchi (Tibetan: Nyingtri) prefecture, Tibet, close to...
Urgent reforms needed to sustain the TCV schools
OPINION Tenzin Jigmey* argues that While TCV has undoubtedly succeeded in preserving cultural continuity and providing moral guidance rooted in Tibetan values and Buddhist principles, it has fallen short in delivering the rigorous academic foundation required for those under...
China nets young Tibetan singer in Dalai Lama birthday crackdown
(TibetanReview.net, Jul19’25) – As Tibetans across the free world commemorate the 90th birthday Jul 6 of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with a year-long series of events, China has taken extra security measures to ensure that no festive displays...
US state showers historic honours on Dalai Lama for his ‘Year of Compassion’ 90th birthday
(TibetanReview.net, Jul18’25) – The US state of Massachusetts, which is officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on Jul 10 unveiled what has been described as a historic series of actions to honour His Holiness the Dalai Lama for...
China’s Quiet War on Tibetan Identity: The Boarding School Crisis
OPINION Aritra Banerjee* notes that while China officially seeks to present its state-run boarding school system in Tibet as pathways to education, to Tibetans it is a crisis that stands at the heart of Beijing’s assault on their culture,...
Former Tibet party chief, top Qinghai official get suspended death sentences for corruption
(TibetanReview.net, Jul17’25) – A court in Beijing on Jul 16 sentenced former party chief of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) to death, with a two-year reprieve, for accepting bribes totalling more than 343 million yuan ($47.78 million), reported China’s official...
US Senate declares Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday as ‘Day of Compassion’
(TibetanReview.net, Jul16’25) – The US Senate has on Jul 14 unanimously approved a resolution, declaring the 90th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a “Day of Compassion”. A House version of the resolution is expected to come up...
Veteran Indian journalist pays visual tribute to Dalai Lama on latter’s 90th birthday
(TibetanReview.net, Jul16’25) – Veteran Indian Journalist Vijay Kranti, whose association with the Tibet issue and the Dalai Lama began in 1972, has paid a richly reminiscing visual tribute to the exile spiritual leader of Tibet on his 90th birthday,...
Indian foreign minister raises series of issues in China amid ‘good progress’ in ties
(TibetanReview.net, Jul15’25) – India’s External Affairs Minister Mr S Jaishankar has said Jul 14 that India-China relations had made good progress in the last nine months as he met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during his ongoing three-day...
Dalai Lama has spoken of having declined China invites due to lack of freedom to teach
(TibetanReview.net, Jul14’25) – The Dalai Lama has on Jul 13 spoken of having received many invitations to visit China but declined because of lack of freedom to give Buddhist teachings there, according to the hindustantimes.com Jul 13. The exile...
Seven European rights envoys reject state interference in Dalai Lama succession
(TibetanReview.net, Jul14’25) – As China cites false history, questionable imperial legacy, and colonially imposed law to assert brute power to claim the right to appoint the “reincarnation” of the current Dalai Lama, the human rights ambassadors of seven European...
China attacks Indians who defy New Delhi’s stance to condemn its Dalai Lama reincarnation meddling
(TibetanReview.net, Jul14’25) – Apparently not satisfied with India’s stance of not taking a position on faith or religion, expressed by its ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Jul 4, the Chinese embassy in New Delhi said Jul 13 that...
India urged to recognize Tibet, restore ‘Indo-Tibet border’ nomenclature
(TibetanReview.net, Jul13’25) – A day after Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Mr Pema Khandu said India does not share any historical boundary with China, BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sujeet Kumar has doubled down on the issue on Jul 11, saying...
Officials okayed to do side jobs, luxury hotels sell street food as China’s economic doldrums continue
(TibetanReview.net, Jul13’25) – China’s economy continues to be in dire strait after being crippled by the 2020 Covid pandemic and now harried by US President Donald Trump’s tariff strangulation of its export industry, going by at least three most...
Dalai Lama lands in Ladakh for a month-long stay
(TibetanReview.net, Jul12’25) – The Dalai Lama was today accorded a grand ceremonial welcome at Leh, the capital of India’s Union Territory of Ladakh, where he is expected to spend the next one month to rest, give religious teachings, and...
China vents spleen on Tibetan leader’s criticism of its Tibet policy, Dalai Lama reincarnation meddling
(TibetanReview.net, Jul12’25) – The Chinese consulate in the Australian city of Sydney has on Jul 11 expressed bitter anger over criticisms the visiting Sikyong (executive head) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at Dharamshala, India, had made on Beijing’s...
The Purge Deepens: Xi Jinping’s Military Reshuffling Reveals Broader Vulnerabilities
OPINION While taking note of the fact that some experts see the recent surge of removal from office for corruption etc of some of President Xi Jinping’s known close associates and loyalists as his loss of grip on power,...
Update: Glacial lake burst in Tibet led to devastating Tibet-Nepal flood
(TibetanReview.net, Jul10’25) – The deadly flood in Nepal’s Bhote Koshi River that killed at least nine people and left more than two dozen missing this week was triggered by the draining of a supraglacial lake in Tibet, reported Reuters...
India rescues Tibet-Nepal flash-flood stranded Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrims
(TibetanReview.net, Jul10’25) – Indian pilgrims returning after visiting Mt Kailash and Lake Mansarovar in eastern Tibet’s Ngari prefecture, stranded by the devastating Jul 8 Tibet-Nepal border flash floods, were safely evacuated via the Zhangmu (Tibetan: Dram) Port in Nyalam...
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