(TibetanReview.net, Apr29’25) – China has been flooding the UN, including its Human Rights Council in Geneva, with an army of fake NGOs to monitor and intimidate rights activists as well as to defend and heap glowing praises on Beijing’s...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr28’25) – China has confirmed today India’s External Affairs Ministry statement Apr 22 that the annual Indian pilgrimage to Mt Kailash and lake Mansarovar will resume and take place over Jun-Aug this year after a hiatus of five...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr27’25) – As India and China marked progress in normalizing bilateral ties with the announcement of the resumption of the Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage in western Tibet for Indian believers from Jun 30 after a gap of nearly five years,...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr26’25) – As China continues to keep in hiding the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima in defiance of decades-long global demands for access to him, including from the United Nations, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr25’25) – Ahead of the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday, which the Central Tibetan Administration plans to commemorate with a year-long series of events internationally, and as China remains determined to select the 15th “reincarnation” of him in defiance...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr24’25) – After a temporary block on his March order by a New York judge, a federal district judge in Washington, DC, has on Apr 23 ordered the Trump administration to restore all jobs and funding for the...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr23’25) – Starting Jun 30, Indian devotees will finally be able to undertake government-organized pilgrimage to Mt Kailash and Lake Mansarovar in eastern Tibet’s Purang County, Ngari Prefecture, after a gap of some five years, according Indian media...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr22’25) – The Dalai Lama has on Apr 21 expressed sadness over the death of Pope Francis, writing to The Most Reverend Leopoldo Girelli, The Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal, the ambassador of the Holy See. The...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr21’25) – China has responded to the US sanctioning of six of its officials on the mainland and Hong Kong last month by announcing Apr 21 sanctions on some US congress members, government officials as well as heads...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr21’25) – As both China and Vietnam continued to remain tight-lipped over the arrest and custodial death under suspicious circumstances on Mar 29 of a highly respected fugitive Tibetan lama and the secretive and hasty cremation on Apr...

OPINION While it is generally believed that Buddhism had become almost extinct in India by the end of the 12th century, the fact that Buddhaguptha Natha, a Tamil Yogi who appeared like ‘Shukra’ in the sky of India’s Buddhism,...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr19’25) – China on Apr 18 night secretly and under tight security moved the body of Tulku Hungkar Dorje, who died suddenly and inexplicably under the custody of its police in Vietnam late last month, to a crematorium...

Recalling his experiences of listening clandestinely to the US government-funded radio broadcast services while living in Tibet and later working for it at great personal cost after arriving in exile, Gyaltsen Choedrak* argues that while China is spending many...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr18’25) – The executive head, the Sikyong Mr Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has on Apr 17 made a courtesy call on Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu of Himachal Pradesh in the state Secretariat...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr17’25) – China is greatly strengthening the digital offensive capability of its police force in Tibet, with a state-owned digital forensics firm providing an offensive cyber operations training environment and digital forensic laboratory to the Tibet Police College...

When lost in a crisis self-confidence and identity, Menda Rewa* finds that there is no alternative to sticking to one’s Tibetan root. In India, she carried seven thick textbooks that were written entirely in Tibetan and a pencil case...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr17’25) – As Tibetan Buddhists, government leaders, parliaments, human rights groups, and religious organizations in numerous countries expressed their opposition to China’s move to hijack the Dalai Lama reincarnation recognition process, atheist Beijing has turned to foreign Buddhists...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr16’25) – China has launched a crackdown on Lung-ngon Monastery and surrounding Tibetan villages in Gade (Chinese: Gande) County of Golok (Guoluo) prefecture, Qinghai Province, even as it remains tight-lipped about the circumstance of the death of its...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr16’25) – Despite strong criticisms from the Chinese embassy, the Dutch House of Representatives has passed a resolution on three motions on Tibet on Apr 15, which the exile Tibetan administration has called a significant development after a...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr15’25) – Humans had moved to Tibet over 10,000 years ago, according to recent discovery of stone tools and animal fossils, reported China’s online Tibet news service tb.tibet.cn Apr 15, citing Chinese archaeologists. The report claims this to...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr14’25) – Following a major controversy amid large-scale publicity, monks visiting an international hospital in Vietnam some days ago were only briefly shown just the face of the deceased head of their monastery – which is located in...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr14’25) – In a tit-for-tat move, China said Apr 14 that it will implement reciprocal visa restrictions against individuals from the United States who have acted improperly regarding Xizang-related issues, reported China’s official news outlets chinadaily.com.cn and globaltimes.cn Apr 14, using China’s...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr13’25) – As US President Donald Trump’s tariffs target China much more severely than any other country, Beijing is acting with a “sense of urgency” about shoring up ties with its neighbours and other major trading partners of...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr12’25) – Chinese researchers have revealed, using advanced prediction systems, that the Tibetan Plateau is expected to experience accelerated warming in the next 10 years, reported China’s official Xinhuanews agency Apr 11, citing the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP)...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr11’25) – China is using current nationalist rhetoric to fabricate narratives which suggest that prehistoric archaeological discoveries made in Tibet recently show the territory to be part of its sovereignty even during such periods when the idea of...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr11’25) – Members of the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest Tibetan NGO, have staged a protest in front of the Chinese embassy in New Delhi today over the explained sudden death in Chinese police custody in Vietnam of...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr10’25) – Following reports that a prominent religious figure in Golog (Chinese: Guoluo) prefecture of Qinghai province had died under explained circumstances in Vietnam under Chinese police custody late last month, the Dalai Lama has said prayers for...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr10’25) – Around 1,300 people from the Spiti Valley, which borders Tibet in Himachal Pradesh state of India, gathered at the Tsuglakhang, Dharamshala, on Apr 10 to make a long-life prayer offering to His Holiness the Dalai Lama....

(TibetanReview.net, Apr09’25) – It has now been revealed that the recently reported death of a locally highly popular Buddhist leader in Chinese ruled Tibet was a victim of transnational repression which occurred in Vietnam. He was stated to have...

Shar Phak Khukta* argues that Tibetans remain ready to return to an autonomous homeland within the People’s Republic of China whereas the Chinese government keeps levelling false accusations and imposing impossible preconditions to prevent talks towards the realisation of...