Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 19: Former North America Representative for H.H. the Dalai Lama, Kelsang Dorjee (Kaydor) Aukatsang announced his candidacy for the 2026 presidential elections of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) on Wednesday, entering what is expected to...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 17: The Central Ghoton Organising Committee of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) on Monday commemorated the 75th anniversary of His Holiness the Great 14th Dalai Lama’s assumption of spiritual and temporal leadership of Tibet at...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 17: The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama has earned his first Grammy nomination, receiving global recognition for his spoken-word album Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.  The project has...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 14: Chinese authorities are intensifying ideological indoctrination among Tibetan elementary school students through “red” re-education campaigns, Mao-centric propaganda, and military-style training, according to a new report by the Washington-based advocacy group International Campaign for Tibet...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 13: The newly constructed Hongqi Bridge at the Shuangjiangkou Hydropower Station in Barkham (Ch. Ma’erkang), Aba (Ngaba) Tibetan Prefecture, in the traditional Tibetan province of Amdo suddenly collapsed on Tuesday afternoon. The construction of the...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 12: Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has extended his warm congratulations to Catherine Connolly on her election as the President of Ireland, expressing confidence that her long years of public service will guide...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 12: The Czech capital celebrated the 90th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the enduring friendship he shared with the late Czech President Václav Havel at a gala event titled “Dalai Lama 90, Havel...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 10: Czech President Petr Pavel will co-patron a special gala evening in Prague on November 11 to honour the 90th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The event will also commemorate the 89th birthday...

Tenzin Cheme The intent of this commentary on the Charter of the Tibetans in Exile is to highlight inconsistencies in its present framework and perhaps inspire broader calls for reforms that advance equitable and balanced representation. As outlined by...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 7: The Central Election Commission (CEC) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has announced an extension of the voter registration deadline for the upcoming elections of the President and the members of the 18th Tibetan...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 7: The 15th edition of the “Rendez-vous Bundesplatz” light show, titled “Voyage,” currently lighting up the facade of Switzerland’s Federal Palace in Bern, has come under scrutiny after organizers dropped a planned projection of Tibet following intervention from the...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 6: Tibetan-origin American politician Aftab Karma Singh Pureval has been re-elected as the Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, securing a decisive second term after defeating Republican challenger Cory Bowman, half-brother of US Vice President JD Vance,...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 5: Gonpo Kyi, the sister of imprisoned Tibetan businessman and philanthropist Dorje Tashi, has reportedly sustained severe sprains to her feet and waist after jumping from a hotel in Lhasa on October 20, marking her...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 5: The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) presented its 2025 Democracy Service Medal to Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, whose enforced disappearance by Chinese authorities in 1995 remains one of the most enduring...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 4: The Monlam Tibetan IT Research Center, a pioneering developer of Tibetan educational software, on Monday unveiled four major digital tools at the 2025 Monlam Manifestation ceremony held at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 31: The President of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), also known as the Tibetan government in exile, Penpa Tsering, announced that a conference will be convened to examine the historical validity of China’s so-called 1793...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 30: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Monday organized a so-called “International Academic Symposium on Boarding Education and Plateau Development” at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The event gathered...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 29: A rare protest in Beijing’s Sanlitun district, held shortly after the conclusion of the Fourth Plenary Session, condemned the Chinese Communist Party and called for an end to its political monopoly, urging free competition,...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 28: The President of the Tibetan government in exile, known officially as the Central Tibetan Administration Penpa Tsering began his official visit to the United States on Monday with a series of engagements on Capitol...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 27: The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) has conferred its prestigious Snow Lion Human Rights Award on longtime human rights defender Dr. Sophie Richardson and Tibetan Buddhist scholar Geshe Lobsang Monlam at a ceremony held in Berlin....

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 27: A record number of Tibetan Buddhist nuns have excelled in the 2025 Geshema examinations, with 154 out of 161 candidates successfully passing and an extraordinary 96% pass rate, the highest since the degree was...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 24: Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) France staged a protest at the Pompidou Centre in Paris on Thursday, condemning the French contemporary art institution for celebrating Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, whose recent firework display in...

Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 24: A Tibetan man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for his role in a scheme to file fraudulent asylum applications for profit, according to a report released by U.S. Citizenship and...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 24: The Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF), one of India’s most loved independent film festivals, is set to return for its 14th edition from October 30 to November 2 at the Tibetan Children’s Village (TCV)...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 23: Tibetan-Australian musician and Grammy-nominated artist Tenzin Choegyal has won the 2025 Australian Folk Music Award (AFMA) for Contemporary Album of the Year for his latest work, Whispering Sky. Sharing the news on his social...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 23: Veteran Tibetan activist Jamyang Tenzin has resumed his seventh solo cycling campaign on October 18 from Wani in Maharashtra, after a brief hiatus due to health complications. The 65-year-old activist had originally launched the...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 23: New satellite imagery and open-source analysis reveal large-scale construction near Golmud in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province, pointing to an expansion of China’s People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) and its long-range...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 22: The exile spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Wednesday extended warm congratulations to Sanae Takaichi on her election as the Prime Minister of Japan, acknowledging her decades of public service and the...

Tenzin  Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 21: Victor Gao, former translator for late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and a prominent defender of Beijing’s policies, has warned that China would “retaliate in kind” if the British government decides to block plans for a...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 20: Chinese authorities have reportedly conducted widespread searches at religious institutions and Tibetan households in Amdo, eastern Tibet, forcibly confiscating photographs of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, according to Tibet Times, a Dharamshala-based Tibetan-language media outlet....