Bir, 21 October 2026: Health Kalon Pema Tso of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) conducted her maiden official visit to the Tibetan settlements of Chauntra, Bir Dege, Bir Tibetan Society, and Tashi Jong. During the visit, she met settlement...

Dharamshala: In a circular issued on 21 October 2026, the Kashag announced the appointment of Chhime Rigzin Chhoekyapa, Secretary of the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Tashi Tsering, Secretary of the Human Rights Network for Tibet...

In an interview with FRANCE 24, exiled former Tibetan leader Lobsang Sangay said any successor to the Dalai Lama appointed by China "is going to be a fake one". He also likened Beijing's ethnic unity law to "an ethnic...

By Khedroob Thondup For decades, Beijing has pursued the project of Sinicisation in Tibet—an attempt to erase Tibetan identity and replace it with a homogenised Chinese one. Schools are stripped of the Tibetan language, monasteries are surveilled and hollowed...

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 22 Oct: Eight Tibetan homes and three large residential compounds were forcibly demolished by Chinese authorities on 16 October in the Nyi-woe residential area of Darlag County, located in the Golok region of Amdo, eastern...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 21: A three-judge bench of the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission (TSJC), the apex judicial body of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on Wednesday issued its final judgment in Case No. 23, ruling that the plaintiff,...

Raising Fresh Concerns Over Religious Freedom in Tibet The reported imprisonment of Lobsang Tenpa, former abbot of Ragya The post China Sentences Former Tibetan Monastery Abbot to Five Years in Prison, Raising Fresh Concerns Over Religious Freedom first appeared...

Tenpa Gyatso, also known as Lobsang Tenpa, was jailed after security forces searched his quarters and found recordings of the Dalai Lama’s teachings Source

Chinese police searched his quarters and allegedly found portraits of the Dalai Lama and Shingza Rinpoche, the monastery's head lama, along with a USB drive containing the Dalai Lama's teachings and videos.