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Dorjee Rinzin Assumes Charge as New Tibetan Settlement Officer of Kunphenling Settlement

Ravangla: Kunphenling Tibetan Settlement Office in Ravangla, Sikkim, held an official handing-taking over ceremony between outgoing Settlement Officer Dorjee Rinzin and incoming Settlement Officer Tenzin Lekshey on 19 November 2023. The Tibetan Settlement Officer from Kalimpong, Karma Gelek, representing...

The False Panchen Lama Ordains Monks in Tashi Lhunpo Monastery—for the Communist Party

He told them to “be grateful to the Party, listen to the Party, follow the Party, promote the Party.” by Lopsang Gurung The Tibetans know the story and readers of “Bitter Winter” know it too. In the Tibetan Buddhist Gelug...

Urgent Call to Protect Tibetan Children from Chinese Communist Party on World Children’s Day

The post Urgent Call to Protect Tibetan Children from Chinese Communist Party on World Children’s Day appeared first on Central Tibetan Administration.

Former European Parliament President Dr. Hans-Gert Pottering Visits Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile

Dharamshala, 20 November 2023: Dr. Hans-Gert Pottering, former President of the European Parliament, visited the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile earlier today. He had a meeting with Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, Deputy Speaker Dolma Tsering Teykhang, and members of the Standing Committee and...

World Children’s Day: Belgium condemns China’s forced assimilation schooling for Tibetan children

(TibetanReview.net, Nov20’23) – As China continues its propaganda drive to dismiss well-documented reports, including by the United Nations, that it is carrying out an acculturation schooling system for Tibetan children in their occupied homeland, the Belgian parliament has issued...

Former Tibetan political prisoner wins international democracy award

The award honors “courageous democracy activists who have been imprisoned or killed due to their work.”

Announcement: Registration for Obtaining Teaching Pass to Attend His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Teaching at Bodh Gaya

Dharamshala: Department of Security, Central Tibetan Administration, is pleased to announce that the registration for obtaining Teaching Pass to attend teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Bodh Gaya will made available online. The initiative is taken to...

Australian All-Party Parliamentary Tibet Group Writes to Foreign Minister Penny Wong Urging to Raise Tibet at UN Periodical Review on China

Canberra: The Australian All-Party Parliamentary Tibet Group (AAPPGT) on Thursday, 16 November, wrote to Foreign Minister Penny Wong urging her to raise the Sino-Tibet conflict and China’s appalling human rights record at the UN Periodical Review on China due...

Japan, Tibet, Uyghur, and Southern Mongolia Conduct Seminar Condemning China’s Infamous Religious Order No. 19

Tokyo: Save Tibet Network and Tibet House Japan organised a seminar on China’s Religious Order No.19 issued on September 1 at Shinjuku Historical Museum today in Tokyo. The panellist comprising Japanese Parliamentarian Mitusbayashi Hiromi, Dr. Miyawaki Junko, Vice Chairman of...

Additional Secretary Kunga Gyaltsen Attends Ratna Menling Nunnery’s Commencement of Geshema Degree

Dharamshala: Additional Secretary Kunga Gyaltsen from the Department of Religion and Culture (DRC), Central Tibetan Administration, attended the Ratna Menling Nunnery’s commencement of Geshema Degree to its second batch of Karampa on 17 November 2023. The event was also...

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...

MP Tenzin Doring Attends Inaugural Session of V-TAG Australia as the Guest Speaker

Canberra: Resident MP Tenzin Doring attended the maiden session of the V-TAG MEET held between 17-18, November in Australia’s capital city, Canberra, jointly organized by the Department of Information and International Relations and the Tibet Information Office, Canberra. The...

Parliamentarian Tsaneytsang Dhondup Tashi Concludes Nepal Visit

Dharamshala: As a part of the Tibetan parliament’s periodical visitation to Tibetan settlements and cluster communities across India, Nepal, and Bhutan, parliamentarian Tsaneytsang Dhondup Tashi has successfully concluded his official visit to Tashi Palkhel and Tashiling in Pokhara and...

President of Foreign Affairs Committee of Belgian Federal Parliament Calls for the End to Coercion of Tibetan Children

Brussels: On the occasion of World Children’s Day, 20 November 2023, Ms Van Hoof, President of Foreign Affairs Committee of the Belgian Federal Parliament, condemns the forced assimilation of one million Tibetan children in Chinese state-run boarding schools separated...

Security in readiness to act as Shigatse Tibetans lined up to file past China’s Panchen Lama

(TibetanReview.net, Nov19’23) – Serious-looking security personnel stood in readiness to handle anything that might breach the peace and embarrass the authorities as Tibetans stood in line to file past the Chinese government-appointed 11th Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu at Tashilhunpo...

Kalon Norzin Dolma Arrives in Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington : Following her successful visit to Australia, Kalon Norzin Dolma of Department of Information and International Relations, CTA arrived in Wellington, New Zealand on 19 November 2023. Kalon was warmly received at the airport by Robin Greenberg ,...

Army joins rescue op for vertical drilling at Uttarkashi tunnel, but trapped workers fear ‘end is near’

Six days after a section of the under-construction Silkyara Tunnel in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district collapsed, number of those believed to be trapped inside has reached 41.

China condemns US President Biden’s branding of Xi as dictator, still paints a glowing account of their summit

(TibetanReview.net, Nov18’23) – China has condemned US president Joe Biden’s reiteration of his position that its virtually life-time President Xi Jinping is a “dictator”, although this does not appear to have soured Beijing’s portrayal of the two leaders’ Nov...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seeks to dictate and regulate the interpretation of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures.

During a seminar held in Beijing, monks were instructed that the interpretation of religious classics should adhere to "Sinicized" principles along with socialist ideologies.

V-TAG Australia Strategy Meeting Concludes with Appointment of Regional Coordinators and Adoption of Action Plan

Canberra: The second day of the V-TAG Australia Strategy Meeting and Advocacy Training concluded with a series of key developments, including the appointment of regional coordinators and the formulation of an action plan aimed at advancing and sustaining Tibet...

Lesser mother: Is CTA’s maternity policy stuck in another age?

By Tenzin Dharpo and Tenzin Nyidon An uncharacteristic chatter is abuzz in sections of the Tibetan community these past few days. A YouTube vlog by a young Tibetan mother lamenting her position of having to choose between her child...

Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: Rescue operation halted after snag, cracking sound | Top 10 updates

Rescue operation temporarily suspended after cracking sound heard and drilling machine develops snag in Uttarakhand tunnel collapse.