Geshe Lharampa Kunchok Choedak.

In December 2024, acting tead and scriptural Teacher of Hor Tsang Kirti Monastery, was forcibly detained by Chinese authorities in Sangchu (Ch: Xiahe) County, Kanlho (Gannan) Prefecture in Tibet’s traditional province of Amdo, incorporated into China’s Gansu Province. According to a reliable source, Chinese authorities also conducted a search of his residence and confiscated numerous documents and materials linked to the Kirti Monasteries General Buddhist Education Supervisory Group.

Despite more than eight months having passed since Geshe Kunchok Choedak’s detention, the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has provided no statement regarding his well-being and whereabouts, raising serious concerns regarding his health.

In Tibet, the PRC government has intensified human rights violations by using surveillance, detention, and arbitrary imprisonment—classifying peaceful religious and civic activities as illegal under a broad application of “National Security Law”—to persecute religious leaders, lamas, teachers, singers, environmental activists, educators, and community leaders.

The arbitrary arrest and incommunicado det...