It was a nation of dreams, built for the screen. Then it shatteredThe first impression America gave me was gentle carelessness. We were driving down from Canada to visit family friends in Texas sometime in the mid- to late...

A Buddhist reality check The post The List appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

By Jessica C. Teets, Katherine Michaelson, MacKenzie Van Mete and Marisa Jones (FPRI) -- Flowing from Tibet, the Lancang River goes through twelve Chinese megadams before reaching Laos as the Mekong River, a crucial freshwater source in Southeast Asia....

The Chinese government on March 29 sent shock waves through the Tibetan Buddhist community by announcing the untimely death of one of its most revered spiritual figures, Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche.

While Guo Zhenming is punished, performances by a state-backed Uyghur dance troupe in Europe are promoted.

A conference in Beijing on April 8 confirmed that possible excesses in setting animals free are used as a pretext for a stricter control of Buddhist practices. The post China, United Front Calls for More Control of Buddhist Life...

This report examines how the pervasive securitisation of – and securitisation through – digital networks affects Tibetans’ psychological well-being and societal cohesion, and draws comparative parallels with similar tactics used against other diaspora groups.  Source

Officials place monastery of Tulku Hungkar Dorje under strict surveillance, forbid public memorials.

April 15, 2025: AFI published an edited transcript of Christianity and the Persecution of Christians in China, a live podcast streamed on March 19, 2025. The report can be downloaded from the AFI website. The complete podcast is available...

How we can practice renunciation in our everyday lives The post Letting Go and Letting Be appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

The Dalai Lama’s new book offers a searing political account of Tibet’s fate—and a vision of compassion-based resistance. The post ‘Voice for the Voiceless’ appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Move comes two weeks after Chinese officials were hit with US visa curbs over allegedly restricting access to Tibetan areas.

He was “disappeared” in December 2024. The authorities announced he was dead on April 5 and now claims he died in Ho Chi Minh City. The post Surprise: Lama Humkar Dorje Rinpoche “Died in Vietnam” first appeared on Bitter...

China’s government has arrested dozens of people in Tibetan areas since 2021 for politically motived phone and internet-related offenses, Human Rights Watch said. Tibetan journalists in exile report that these arrests typically target Tibetans accused of keeping “banned content”...

A Tibetan Buddhist monk and a woman share a mobile phone outside the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on June 1, 2021.

Tibetan activists scuffle with police at the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, devotees held vigil in Dharamsala

TROPICAL DENISOVAN? A mandible dredged up from the seafloor near Penghu is the first fossil evidence of a theory that ancient Denisovans had reached Oceania

Taipei, April 11 (CNA) Denisovans, an extinct species of archaic human, once inhabited ancient Taiwan, according to the National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS) on Friday.

By Anand Kumar The visit of Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser, Muhammad Yunus, to China from 26 March to 29 March 2025 marks a significant diplomatic shift. Traditionally, the leaders of South Asian nations—except for Pakistan—prefer to prioritise India for their...

We, the undersigned Tibet organisations, express our profound concern regarding the sudden death of 56-year old Tulku Rigzin Hungkar Dorje, the Abbot of Lung Ngon Monastery in Gade County, Golog, Amdo, Tibet [CH: Gande County, Guoluo Prefecture, Qinghai Province] while in detention in Vietnam in late March 2025. We note with alarm the lack of clarity around both the circumstances and exact cause of his death.

(Taipei) – The Vietnamese government should investigate the death under suspicious circumstances of a senior Tibetan lama, Humkar Dorje Rinpoche, in Ho Chi Minh City on March...

Sources inside Tibet tell RFA that Tulku Hungkar Dorje’s monastery is prohibited from holding memorial services.

We, the undersigned Tibet organisations, express our profound concern regarding the sudden death of 56-year old Tulku Rigzin Hungkar Dorje, the Abbot of Lung Ngon Monastery in Gade County, Golog, Amdo, Tibet [CH: Gande County, Guoluo Prefecture, Qinghai Province] while in detention in Vietnam in late March 2025. We note with alarm the lack of clarity around both the circumstances and exact cause of his death.