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The Dilemma of Return — Tibetan Lamas and the Politics of Pilgrimage

By Khedroob Thondup The question of whether Tibetan lamas in exile should visit Tibet if permitted by Beijing is not simply a matter of travel. It is a profound test of spiritual fidelity, political calculation, and communal unity. On...

Dear Beijing, if Arunachal is ‘South Tibet’, let’s talk about Tibet

By Utpal Kumar | Firstpost | 10 August 2026 Former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, in his book How China Sees India, recounts an extraordinary conversation between Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1972.

China’s state media attacks India’s standardizing of Arunachal placenames, calls the territory its ‘Zangnan’

(TibetanReview.net, Aug10’26) – China’s state-employed experts have criticized India’s counter-move to standardize on its map the names of 27 locations in its strategic border state of Arunachal Pradesh. Speaking to the Party-mouthpiece globaltimes.cn Aug 9, they have called the...

As China begins building world’s largest dam across its Tibet-border, India seeks hydrological data transparency

(TibetanReview.net, Aug10’26) – China has already been wielding the hydrological data it controls in occupied Tibet as a weapon against India, refusing to share it despite an agreement after bilateral relations turned sour in the aftermath of the 2020...

International Tibetan studies conference pushed online after pressure from China 

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug.10: The 17th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS), scheduled to bring more than 700 scholars and researchers to Kathmandu from August 23 to 29, has been moved online after the Government of...

Opinion: The Cost of Being Tibetan

By Kaydor Aukatsang The struggle for our homeland must be financed by us. If we don’t, no one will. In 1921, Mahatma Gandhi launched the Tilak Swaraj Fund, which raised around one crore rupees in six months through mass...

Belgian Parliament Raises Alarm Over China’s Ethnic Unity Law and Risks to Tibetans Abroad

Belgian lawmakers have raised concerns that China’s new Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress could intensify the erosion of Tibetan identity inside Tibet while also exposing Tibetans and other diaspora communities abroad to new forms of pressure and...

The Roadmap of Faith: Why Six Million Tibetans Stand With His Holiness

By Khedroob Thondup I am one of six million Tibetans who wholeheartedly support His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s roadmap for his next reincarnation. This is not merely a matter of faith, nor simply a question of tradition. It is...

Nepal halts Tibet academic conference after China objects

KATHMANDU -- Nepal's government has forced a major Tibetan studies conference out of Kathmandu after China objected to the gathering, prompting accusations of state interference in academic freedom.

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