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Entrance Exam Notification for Admission to Academic Session 2026-27 at  Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath

The Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS), Sarnath, Varanasi, a premier institution established through the collaborative vision of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and the Government of India, announces its Entrance Examination for admission to the academic...

Shipki-La in Himachal proposed as alternative route for Mt Kailash pilgrimage

(TibetanReview.net, May05’26) – Ahead of its Tibet-border trade reopening on Jun 1 after a gap of six years, the government of Himachal Pradesh has said it is actively pushing to operationalise the Kailash Mansarovar yatra (pilgrimage) through the strategic...

EC revokes voting rights of Tibetans in Nepal’s Choejor again, faces legal challenge

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, May 5: The Central Tibetan Administration’s Election Commission (EC) has once again reversed its stance on the participation of voters from the Choejor Tibetan settlement in Nepal, ultimately revoking their voting rights despite earlier assurances that the final...

Beijing indoctrinating kindergarten children to erase Tibetan identity

A new report by Human Rights Watch denounces the systems used by the People's Republic to promote Han Chinese identity starting in kindergarten. Tibetan is no longer used in teaching, while parents are forced to send videos to schools...

HRW Report Says China’s Preschool Policy Undermines Tibetan Language

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 5 April: A new Human Rights Watch report titled Start with the Youngest Children: China Uses Preschools to “Integrate” Tibetans says China’s “Children’s Speech Harmonisation Plan,” introduced in 2021 by the Ministry of Education, has...

Press freedom group raises alarm over deteriorating health of imprisoned journalist in China

Paris:  A leading international press freedom organisation expressed grave concerns over the deteriorating health condition of Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu, citing his family, who said that he was recently hospitalised and diagnosed with an unidentified tumour. Reporters Without Borders...

Satire under surveillance in Tibet

IN TIBETAN, the word for satire is zurza (ཟུར་ཟ་), which literally means “eating from the sides”. It is an art of indirection, inversion and wit. In Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo, the scholar Timothy Thurston...

EU Stands Firm on the Succession of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Strongly Opposes Any State Interference

Brussels, 5 May: Following a decisive European Parliament debate on China’s “Ethnic Unity Law” on 29 April 2026, European Commissioner Hadja Lahbib delivered a powerful post-debate intervention reaffirming the European Union’s unwavering commitment to Tibetan religious freedom. “The EU...

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