(TibetanReview.net, Aug05’25) – The Supreme Court of India has on Aug 4 agreed to examine a long-pending plea by a section of Buddhists in the country, seeking total Buddhist control over the management and administration of the UNESCO World...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug04’25) – Beijing has long been known and reported in the United Sates and elsewhere to use student bodies affiliated with its embassies and consulates to control overseas Chinese students so that they don’t criticise or question the...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug03’25) – Nepal has on Aug 1 raised a host of grievances, including with a call for the restoration of the pre-2015-earthquake border trade patterns, during a border security meeting between the two sides in Zhangmu (Tibetan: Dram)...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug02’25) – China deployed armed forces equipped with live ammunition, established round-the-clock checkpoints, and conducted house-to-house searches, while banning religious observances, to prevent Tibetans across the Roof of the World from celebrating or otherwise marking the milestone 90th...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug01’25) – The postal service of the Kingdom of Belgium has issued a set of three postage stamps that commemorates the “Year of Compassion” dedicated by the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) in honour of His Holiness the 14th...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug01’25) – A meeting was held in Tibet’s capital Lhasa on Jul 28 to see off China’s 10th batch of so-called “Aid Tibet” talented cadres and to welcome the 11th, with the programme’s agenda being to implement the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul31’25) – China’s $167 billion mega-dam in Tibet is more than anything else a tool to assimilate Tibet through economic integration and infrastructure dominance, reinforced by its potential to revive the country’s ailing economy and as a weapon...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul30’25) – Chinese authorities in Ngaba (or Ngawa, Chinese: Aba) county in Sichuan province have arrested some four weeks ago a Tibetan monk for making social media display of a picture of a religious hat to symbolise His...

OPINION A picture of a Tibetan mother with her baby tied to her back and shovelling the earth on a road construction site somewhere in Himalayan India in the 1960’s reminds Tenzin Kunga* of his grandmother’s grim, determined early...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul28’25) – The President of the Czech Republic, Mr Petr Pavel, has on Jul 27 called on the Dalai Lama in Leh, capital of India’s Union Territory of Ladakh, where the latter has been sojourning since Jul 12,...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul27’25) – Continuing his annual months-long tour of Tibet after arriving in Lhasa from Beijing on Jun 27, the Chinese government-appointed 11th Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu has spent 12 days in Chamdo City from Jul 7 and then...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul27’25) – The head of the Thiksey Monastery in Leh, the capital of India’s Union Territory of Ladakh, has donated a sizeable area of 62 kanals (7.5 acres) of land to the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) for the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul26’25) – Gyaincain Norbu, appointed by China as the 11th Panchen Lama back in 1995 (after abducting and disappearing the incumbent Gedhun Choekyi Nyima), but not recognized by mainstream Tibetan Buddhists, has reiterated his call for aligning Tibetan...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul25’25) – Although not the main item on the agenda, the European Union (EU) has on Jul 24 strongly raised its concerns on the human rights abuses in Tibet, including religious repression and political interference in the Dalai...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul24’25) – China has welcomed India’s decision to resume the issuing of tourist visas to its citizens from Jul 24, after a gap of five years, but its official media has called the conditions unreasonable. The move came...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul23’25) – After being put under investigation on Jan 23, 2025 by China’s top party and government anti-corruption bodies, Qizhala (also written as Qi Zhala, Qe Dalha or Che Dalha), a CPC (Communist Party of China) Central Committee...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul22’25) – Claiming they were built on government land and also violated uncited regulations, Chinese authorities have recently demolished over 300 Buddhist stupas and a statue of Guru Padmasambhava – who introduced tantric Buddhism in Tibet in the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul22’25) – After being delayed by bad weather for two days, the Dalai Lama has flown by helicopter to Padum in Zanskar, Ladakh, on Jul 21 to inaugurate a Great Summer Debate event at the Karsha Monastery and...

OPINION Calling China’s secretive, coercive, and repressive boarding school system that incarcerates nearly a million Tibetan children a profound violation of the world’s shared commitment that every child should grow up secure in their identity, language, and family’s love,...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul21’25) – China has released on Jul 8 after eight months a Tibetan environment rights protester in Sichuan province who should never have been jailed in the first place, subject to stringent conditions that severely curtails his freedom,...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul20’25) – Chinese Premier Li Qiang has announced on Jul 19 the start of the construction of the world’s biggest hydropower dam over the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Metog county of Nyingchi (Tibetan: Nyingtri) prefecture, Tibet, close to...

OPINION Tenzin Jigmey* argues that While TCV has undoubtedly succeeded in preserving cultural continuity and providing moral guidance rooted in Tibetan values and Buddhist principles, it has fallen short in delivering the rigorous academic foundation required for those under...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul19’25) – As Tibetans across the free world commemorate the 90th birthday Jul 6 of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with a year-long series of events, China has taken extra security measures to ensure that no festive displays...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul18’25) – The US state of Massachusetts, which is officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on Jul 10 unveiled what has been described as a historic series of actions to honour His Holiness the Dalai Lama for...

OPINION Aritra Banerjee* notes that while China officially seeks to present its state-run boarding school system in Tibet as pathways to education, to Tibetans it is a crisis that stands at the heart of Beijing’s assault on their culture,...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul17’25) – A court in Beijing on Jul 16 sentenced former party chief of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) to death, with a two-year reprieve, for accepting bribes totalling more than 343 million yuan ($47.78 million), reported China’s official...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul16’25) – The US Senate has on Jul 14 unanimously approved a resolution, declaring the 90th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a “Day of Compassion”. A House version of the resolution is expected to come up...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul16’25) – Veteran Indian Journalist Vijay Kranti, whose association with the Tibet issue and the Dalai Lama began in 1972, has paid a richly reminiscing visual tribute to the exile spiritual leader of Tibet on his 90th birthday,...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul15’25) – India’s External Affairs Minister Mr S Jaishankar has said Jul 14 that India-China relations had made good progress in the last nine months as he met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during his ongoing three-day...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul14’25) – The Dalai Lama has on Jul 13 spoken of having received many invitations to visit China but declined because of lack of freedom to give Buddhist teachings there, according to the hindustantimes.com Jul 13. The exile...