Great prayer festival at the Kirtighar Samyeling. Image courtesy of the author A Great Prayer Festival (Tib: སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ།, monlam chenmo) dedicated to the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama was held at Kirtighar Samyeling, a branch of...

A magnitude-7.1 earthquake in Tibet's Dingri County left 126 dead and over 330 injured. Amid freezing temperatures, videos of devastated sites, like a collapsed nunnery, provide rare insights for Tibetans abroad, highlighting the region's challenges and restricted information flow.

Washington DC: On 12 January 2025, the Chinese Women’s Rights Organisation and the Office of Tibet, Washington DC jointly held a memorial service for Li Jianglin, a Chinese scholar of modern Tibetan history and author. Attendees remembered the distinguished...

China's tighter control over Tibet has sharply reduced escapes to India, impacting Tibetan schools and efforts to preserve culture in the diaspora.

Human kindness is as natural as human selfishness. We can tip the balance by shifting our focus to one or the other. The post From Empathy to Compassion first appeared on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. The post From Empathy...

By Kalpit A. Mankikar Sun Tzu’s treatise on war offers many stratagems to deal with the enemy. He emphasises deception and patience, cautioning that the general who makes many calculations like a chess player is more likely to win....

(TibetanReview.net, Jan14’25) –The dangers of building any dam in a known and acknowledged seismically active earthquake-prone zone does not bear any mentioning. Nevertheless, China has pushed ahead with its decision to build the world’s largest dam on the Yarlung...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Jan. 14: The Tibetan community in France has announced the cancellation of this year’s Tibetan New Year (Losar) celebrations in solidarity with those affected by the devastating earthquake that struck Shigatse Prefecture’s Dingri County and surrounding regions in...

Australian MPs urge aid for Tibet earthquake victims, call for transparency from China to ensure safety and respect for Tibetan culture and rights.

Tibetan delegation meets Taiwan’s Labour Minister Hung Sun-han, discusses Dingri earthquake, and plans 2025 Tibetan National Uprising Day events.