Tibetan Review
Tibetan live-streamer anguished at China’s persecution for promoting his mother tongue
(TibetanReview.net, Sep14’24) – Chinese authorities had been persecuting a Tibetan social media influencer, suspending his account and detaining him, between August and early this month, due to the growing popularity of his Tibetan language-promotion activities, according to Dharamshala-based Tibetan...
China learnt to have jailed Tibetan monastic librarian for alleged ‘separatism’
(TibetanReview.net, Sep14’24) – China has jailed a Tibetan Buddhist monk, arrested in Jun 2023 in Ngaba county and prefecture of Sichuan province, to a three-year jail term, reported the Tibetan service of rfa.org Sep 13, citing local Tibetan sources...
India and China report progress in border disengagement, but differ on restoration of normal ties
(TibetanReview.net, Sep14’24) – China has agreed with India progress had been made in military disengagement between the two sides in eastern Ladakh along Tibet’s border, adding they had taken place at four places. However, while India has called for...
Tibetan monastery now lies at the bottom of a Chinese dam, dislocating over 15,000 residents as well
(TibetanReview.net, Sep13’24) – The historically Tibetan area in Dragkar (Chinese: Xinghai) county of Tsolho (Hainan) prefecture in Qinghai province, which until recently hummed with Buddhist prayers and teemed with streams of worshippers, regaled by several annual religious festivities, now...
Indian minister cites Tibet-border progress with China, cites a host of other difficulties in bilateral ties
(TibetanReview.net, Sep13’24) – India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said Sep 12 that roughly 75% of the “disengagement problems” with China in the eastern Ladakh border area with Chinese-ruled Tibet had been sorted out, citing this as a...
Opaque China still silent on disappeared foreign minister, said to be demoted to low-level publishing job
(TibetanReview.net, Sep12’24) – In a possible indication that he had been removed from power and disappeared from public view not for any criminal responsibility but for a widely reported moral misbehaviour, washingtonpost.com Sep 8 reported that former Foreign Minister...
Five Tibetan boys reportedly attempted suicide due to prison-like Chinese colonial boarding school
(TibetanReview.net, Sep11’24) – Forced to leave their monastery to be enrolled in a government-run colonial-style boarding school meant to Sinicize them and where they found the conditions atrocious, five Tibetan boys have attempted to commit suicide in a historically...
China-appointed Panchen urges firm upholding of final party say on reincarnation issue
(TibetanReview.net, Sep11’24) – The Chinese government Appointed “11th Panchen Lama reincarnation” Gyaincain Norbu has on Jul 18 called on the Tibetan people to firmly uphold the final say of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on the reincarnation issue...
Exile Tibetan parliament begins session amid campaign for action on justice commissioner appointments
(TibetanReview.net, Sep11’24) – The 8th regular session of the 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) began today at Dharamshala, India, with a large group of the Tibetan public gathering on the nearby basketball court to demand that it carry...
Largest lake in ‘Tibet’ may merge with another lake by 2030 due to rapid climate change
(TibetanReview.net, Sep10’24) – The largest lake in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), located in Nagchu (Chinese: Naqu) prefecture-level city, has expanded to spill over into another lake and they could merge by 2030 as a result of climate change, reported...
Exile administration alarmed by China’s aggressive colonial boarding school enrolment in Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Sep10’24) – China has recently sacked over 1,700 young monks from three monasteries in a historically Tibetan region that is now part of its Sichuan province and force-enrolled them in government-run schools set up for the purpose of...
Overlapping patrolling, not encroachment: Union minister on reported Chinese troops’ camping inside Indian territory
(TibetanReview.net, Sep10’24) – While the Indian army has not responded to a query, a union minister has suggested Sep 9 that the reported evidences of camping by Chinese troops some 60km inside Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh very recently...
German Tibet activist could visit China, but turned away from Hong Kong
(TibetanReview.net, Sep09’24) – A Tibet activist from Germany was able to travel across China under the latter’s visa-free entry policy for citizens of his country but turned away from Hong Kong, supposedly a bastion of democracy and freedom under...
Chinese army intrusion in Arunachal alleged; China refutes border conflict rumours
(TibetanReview.net, Sep09’24) – Troops from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had allegedly camped for some time recently at a location at least 60 km inside Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh and left tell-tale marks to assert their territorial...
Samajwadi Party MP meets with Dalai Lama, expresses Tibet solidarity
(TibetanReview.net, Sep08’24) – Dimple Yadav, a prominent member of parliament from India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, has on Sep 7 met with the Dalai Lama at his residence in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala, for what she said was...
Tibet support group of Arunachal Pradesh visits D’shala, vows active campaign for the cause
(TibetanReview.net, Sep08’24) – As Chief Minister Pema Khandu of India’s Tibet-border state of Arunachal Pradesh visited Dharamshala, which included a meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Sep 6 and leading a long-life prayer ceremony offered to the...
Arunachal Chief Minister participates in long-life prayers offering to Dalai Lama
(TibetanReview.net, Sep07’24) – Chief Minister Mr Pema Khandu of India’s Tibet-border state of Arunachal Pradesh has on Sep 6 called on His Holiness the Dalai Lama at his exile residence at McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala, to seek his blessing and...
Dozen-plus UN rights experts express deep concern over China’s repressive hydropower dam policy in Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Sep07’24) – Over a dozen independent human rights experts and a working group with the United Nations have revealed Sep 6 that they had made a joint representation to the government of China in July this year, expressing...
Support-teachers from China claimed to help Tibetans ‘better understand’ history
(TibetanReview.net, Sep06’24) – China began a new phase of Sinicizing the education curricula in Tibet Autonomous Region in Aug 2014 with the dispatch of teachers from Beijing to teach the Tibetan children. It was a pilot project in which...
Arunachal MP hopeful for Karmapa’s return to India
(TibetanReview.net, Sep06’24) – Mr Tapir Gao, one of the two Lok Sabha (lower house) Member of Parliament from India’s Tibet-border state of Arunachal Pradesh, has on Sep 5 called for the 17th Karmapa’s return to India to manage his...
China holds seminar to underline gov’t role in recognizing reincarnations in Tibetan Buddhism
(TibetanReview.net, Sep06’24) – Ahead of holding its own version of a global Buddhist conference in the eastern city of Ningbo next month, China has organized a seminar in Lanzhou, Gansu province, on Sep 3, with the agenda to discuss...
China reports over 300 cultural relic sites discoveries in ‘Tibet’
(TibetanReview.net, Sep05’24) – China said Sep 4 it had discovered more than 300 cultural relic sites in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) during an ongoing archaeological survey in areas 4,500 metres above sea level. China is known to use archaeological...
‘Greatness of Spirit’ series launched to honour Dalai Lama on 65th anniversary of his winning Ramon Magsaysay Award
(TibetanReview.net, Sep05’24) – The Board of Trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF) has on Sep 4 launched a seven-volume “Greatness of Spirit” series to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the presentation of the award to His Holiness...
Top French museums have succumbed to China’s soft power on Tibet etc?
(TibetanReview.net, Sep04’24) – Some top museums in France have succumbed to China by going along with the latter’s propaganda distortion of history and silencing of the cultures of minority groups, including those concerning Tibet, reported decotidien.com, citing a collective...
China’s Panchen reappointed to head ‘Tibet’ branch of PRC’s Buddhist authority
(TibetanReview.net, Sep04’24) – The “Tibet” branch of the Buddhist Association of China (BAC) has a new president, and he is the Chinese government-appointed 11th Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu again. He is being groomed and has been mandated by China...
After ‘Xizang’ for ‘Tibet’, is it ‘Northern frontier’ for ‘Inner Mongolia’?
(TibetanReview.net, Sep04’24) – After a new insistence on using the Chinese term “Xizang” (western treasure) to refer to Tibet (and Tibet Autonomous Region) even in English-language media, party authorities in China are now calling for the phrase “northern frontier...
Taiwan challenges China to claim land lost to Russia if it’s all about territorial integrity
(TibetanReview.net, Sep03’24) – The People’s Republic of China, founded in 1949, has never exercised authority over the self-governed island of Taiwan. Nevertheless, it claims the legacy of the rulers of China, including foreigners, dating back over millennia and insists...
India and China seen as warming towards border normalization, Xi-Modi meeting
(TibetanReview.net, Sep03’24) – India and China appear to be warming up to each other, raising the possibility that President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra may meet on the sidelines of either the BRICS summit at Kazan, Russia, to...
Tibetans mark 64th Democracy Day with Estonian guests
(TibetanReview.net, Sep02’24) – The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) commemorated the 64th Tibetan Democracy Day of Sep 2 at the Tsuglakhang courtyard, Dharamshala, by expressing gratitude to His Holiness the Dalai Lama for his gift of full democracy to the...
Tibet group welcomes former exile Tibetan administration head to Arunachal Pradesh capital
(TibetanReview.net, Sep01’24) – A delegation of the Tibet Support Group of Arunachal Pradesh (TSGAP), led by its president Mr Tarh Tarak, has called on former executive head Prof Samdhong Rinpoche, of the Central Tibetan Administration at the state guesthouse...

































