Tibetan Review
India-China reopening yet to reach Himachal’s annual Tibet-border trade fair
(TibetanReview.net, Nov14’25) – India and China have been slowly reopening each other to business, pilgrimage, tourism, and flight services in recent months after a freeze in bilateral ties that lasted some five years as a result of border clashes...
China’s massive fuelling of Russia’s Ukraine war chest called a threat to Europe, NATO
(TibetanReview.net, Nov13’25) – Finland’s Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen said Nov 12 that China was “massively” financing Russia’s war efforts, which increases the security threat in Europe and poses a challenge to NATO, reported the AFP Nov 13. Speaking in...
India’s commissioning of new airfield in Ladakh a strategic milestone for countering China
(TibetanReview.net, Nov13’25) – Amid reports that China continues to greatly strengthen its military build-up in occupied Tibet’s southern border, including with building of new missile bases and fighter plane hangars close to Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh, India has been...
Guinness records 416-year-old grape vine found in Tibet as world’s oldest
(TibetanReview.net, Nov12’25) – A grape vine discovered deep in the mountains of eastern Tibet’s Chamdo (Chinese: Changdu) City has weathered four centuries of wind and frost, becoming the world’s oldest wild living vine, according to the guinnessworldrecords.com Nov 10....
Hongqi Bridge collapse in eastern Tibet triggered by nearby hydroelectric power dam?
(TibetanReview.net, Nov12’25) – A massive section of the newly constructed Hongqi Bridge in a historically Tibetan region of what is now part of Republic of China’s Sichuan province has dramatically collapsed into a river below on Nov 11 afternoon,...
China opens more convenient Tibet-pilgrimage route from Mustang, Nepal
(TibetanReview.net, Nov10’25) – Pilgrims from Nepal as well as other countries can now travel to western Tibet’s sacred Mount Kailash and Mansarovar Lake directly through the Korala border point in Mustang, following the start of operation of a new...
Indian Army set for harsh winter deployment, geo-tagging of key features along Ladakh border
(TibetanReview.net, Nov10’25) – Even as Sino-India relations appear to continue towards normalization with the resumption of Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage, direct flight services, issuance of tourist visas, and so forth, the military situation along their Tibet-border, whose flareup in 2020 reset...
Overtourism not a problem in Tibet?
(TibetanReview.net, Nov08’25) – Tourist sites in some countries in Europe, as well as Japan and others have been trying to limit tourist footfalls in recent times through various measures due to the adverse impact of what is called overtourism....
“Even Silence Burns” Days after March 10, 1959—the horrific invasion of Tibet by China.
Paying homage to the people in Tibet today whose culture, language, and identity have been suppressed after China’s invasion of their homeland, Meadon Lhamo* says she wrote this piece to show that even when voices are silenced, memory speaks...
Special event held in UK parliament as part of global 90th Dalai Lama birthday commemoration
(TibetanReview.net, Nov06’25) – A special event to celebrate the Dalai Lama’s contributions to humanity was held on Nov 3 in a committee room of the House of Commons in UK’s parliament as a part of a year-long global commemoration...
Prof Samdhong Rinpoche’s birthday marked as Teacher’s Day
(TibetanReview.net, Nov06’25) – Exile Tibetan schools observed the birthday of Prof Samdhong Rinpoche on Nov 5 as their Teacher’s Day following its designation at the 8th Tibetan General Conference on Education of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) held earlier...
China-disappeared 11th Panchen Lama awarded democracy medal by US foundation
(TibetanReview.net, Nov05’25) – A congressionally-funded non-profit foundation in the USA promoting democracy and human rights globally has presented its Democracy Service Medals to four individuals and groups, including the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima of Tibet, at a...
Arunachal Pradesh to host 6th Dalai Lama global conference next month
(TibetanReview.net, Nov05’25) – Arunachal Pradesh,India’s northeastern Tibet-border state of India, is to host a global conference on the 6th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1683-1706 AD) next month. The Dalai Lamas since the 5th have been the temporal head and...
Tibetan IT centre says its Chatbot outperforms all major AI platforms in Tibetan
(TibetanReview.net, Nov05’25) – The Monlam Tibetan IT Research Centre of exile Tibetans based in India has said at its third annual event on Nov 3 in Dharamshala, India, that its Melong.ai surpasses existing large language models such as Gemini,...
Chinese goods are set to re-enter Indian markets after over four years
(TibetanReview.net, Nov04’25) – In a continuing trend of normalization in bilateral ties, Chinese goods are set to re-enter Indian markets after nearly four years of stalled clearances triggered by border clashes in the Union Territory of Ladakh in 2020,...
Pressuring UK university ultimately fails to stop research on rights abuses in China
(TibetanReview.net, Nov03’25) – China carried out a campaign of threats and intimidation lasting more than two years in attempts to get a university in the UK to shut down sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses, reported bbc.com and...
Tibetan Sikyong questions China’s ‘golden urn decree’ trick in claiming Dalai Lama reincarnation right
(TibetanReview.net, Nov02’25) – China rests its right to appoint the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama on false or at best distorted history, the executive had of the Central Tibetan Administration, Sikyong Penpa Tsering, has said while addressing the National...
Czech President to copatron Dalai Lama 90th birthday gala this month
(TibetanReview.net, Nov01’25) – Czech President Petr Pavel is to copatron in capital Prague on Nov 11 a special gala evening to honour the Dalai Lama for his 90th birthday, along with commemorating the country’s late first President Václav Havel...
India’s call for respect for int’l law in South China Sea disputes a message to China
(TibetanReview.net, Nov01’25) – In comments clearly directed at China without mentioning it by name, India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has on Nov 1 advocated for respect for international law and freedom of navigation and overflight in the hotly contested...
Last of Dingri earthquakes victims moved into new homes as questions linger about scale of disaster
(TibetanReview.net, Oct31’25) – The true scales of the death and destruction caused by the devastating 6.8-manitude earthquake which hit Tibet’s Mt Everest county of Dingri on Jan 7 remains unknown due to China’s denial of access and tight control...
Early heavy snowfall traps hikers on both sides of Mt Everest, Nepali locals
(TibetanReview.net, Oct31’25) – Both the Nepali and Tibetan sides of the Mt Everest region were closed to tourism on Oct 29 due to heavy snow brought by cyclone winds, with deep snowdrifts causing a helicopter to crash as it...
Tibetan Sikyong bemoans information void in Tibet as VOA, RFA defunding bites
(TibetanReview.net, Oct30’25) – The executive head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at Dharamshala, India, Sikyong Penpa Tsering, has on Oct 29 expressed disappointment over the fact that the Trump administration’s move to defund Radio Free Asia (RFA) and...
India, China reaffirm border stability at their 23rd field-commander-level meeting
(TibetanReview.net, Oct29’25) – Talks between India and China for the restoration of normalcy along the Ladakh-border has been ongoing at both diplomatic and field-commander levels for a number of years and the latest one has taken place after a...
India-China flights resume, but trust deficit remains intractable
(TibetanReview.net, Oct28’25) – China has described the resumption of direct flight services between it and India on Oct 26 after a gap of more than five years as a ‘positive step’ and a ‘very important day’ for bilateral relations,...
China hails resumption of India flight services as ‘positive step’ for normalising bilateral ties
(TibetanReview.net, Oct27’25) – China, which has for long been calling for normalising ties with India despite an ongoing border dispute, which has at times resulted in violent skirmishes, has on Oct 26 hailed the resumption of direct flight services...
The War for Tibet’s Story: Reclaiming Identity in an Age of Algorithmic Occupation
OPINION Aritra Banerjee* examines Beijing’s cognitive-warfare strategy in Tibet through the lens of strategic communication, drawing on Dr Neville Bolt’s formulation of “the continual calibration of persuasion and coercion, of friendship and force.” It traces how boarding schools, relocation policy,...
His Eminence Samdhong Rinpoche: An Educator Extraordinaire
Professor Nawang Phuntsog* firmly believes that celebrating November 5th as Tibetan National Teacher’s Day is one way to honor His Eminence Samdhong Rinpoche’s exceptional lifelong dedication to education, service, and the promotion of truth and non-violence. I was in...
China has built more insidious new missile launch complexes across Ladakh
(TibetanReview.net, Oct25’25) – Even as it speaks of peace and tranquillity and restoration of normal ties with India, China continues to be busy preparing for war on a massive scale just across the border in occupied Tibet, according to...
Beyond Faith and Formula: The Dalai Lama’s Scientific Renaissance
Tenzin Jigmey* dwells on the role the Dalai Lama has played as a global mediator, guiding both scientists and contemplatives toward a more holistic vision of knowledge which unites the outer science of matter with the inner one of mind. ...
China, Russia-led efforts to starve funding for UN rights works exposed
(TibetanReview.net, Oct23’25) – China and Russia have for years led repeated efforts to block funding for human rights-related works at the UN in closed-door meetings of the world body, reported Reuters Oct 22, citing Geneva-based non-profit group International Service...


































