New book by spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism will raise the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control of TibetThe Dalai Lama’s successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new...

NEW DELHI — Dozens of Tibetan protesters clashed with police outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi on Monday as Tibetans living in exile marked the 66th anniversary of their uprising against China that was crushed by Chinese forces. As...

On differentiating between Zen koans, Chan gongans, and Dzogchen pith instructions The post Wisdom Beyond Reason appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Now that the US have left the UN Human Rights Council, China’s energetic efforts to increase its power within the body represent a serious global threat. The post Will China Become the Global Human Rights “Leader”? first appeared on...

Click to expand Image Tibetan monks in exile in India take part in a peace march commemorating the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, near Dharamsala, March 10, 2024. © 2024 Sanjay Baid/AFP via Getty Images Today, March 10,...

While the flight is seen as a step towards boosting connectivity and attracting Chinese tourists, concerns remain about the airport’s sustainability and overall viability.

Before the comics, there were the dime novels of the Belle Époque. Rosicrucians, Theosophists, and occultists were among their most memorable characters. The post Irma Plavatsky, Sâr Dubnotal, Fascinax: Rosicrucianism and Dime Novels first appeared on Bitter Winter.

While the world watches the race of competition between the USA and China in imposing tariffs on products from other countries, even more, perhaps more substantial differences than those in the management of the economic policy of the two...

A Hong Kong cleaners union has asked a sanitation contractor to clarify the status of four cleaners accused of faking work records after they were captured on video pasting up flyers then taking them down. The Cleaning Workers Union...

Students from Lhasa Teachers College supplied “Bitter Winter” with some interesting documents. The post Tibetan Students Told Not to Attend Religious Activities During the Holidays first appeared on Bitter Winter.

Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was being prepared for traditional Tibetan funeral rites, marks were found indicating he had been brutally tortured in...

President Ronald Reagan laid the rhetorical foundations for the National Endowment for Democracy in a 1982 speech to the British Parliament. Support for its creation in Congress was bipartisan.

By Sam Davies and Luna Lin China vowed to fight a trade war with the United States “to the end” on Thursday, as tariffs from Washington buffeted the global economy and threatened to hit Beijing’s lagging growth. Beijing set an...

Ann Tashi Slater talks with best-selling author Bianca Bosker about how art helps us live more expansively and brings us closer together. The post Appreciating Life and Creating a Life Worth Appreciating appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Lawmakers from Tibet on Thursday hailed recent economic progress and vowed to keep “high pressure” on alleged separatists in the region, where Beijing stands accused of widespread repression of minorities. Sparsely populated Tibet, which borders India, is one of...

Given the enormous geostrategic and environmental importance of the Tibetan Plateau, what the People’s Republic of China (PRC) does with Tibet’s waters and its minerals does not concern the PRC only. It concerns the entire Himalayan region and their people, their security, and ecological interests.

His only crime is his consistent refusal to join the government-controlled Three Self Church. The post Decision Delayed for Imprisoned Yinchuan Preacher Ma Yan first appeared on Bitter Winter.

BEIJING — China said on Wednesday it would develop a package of major projects to tackle climate change as it moves to bring its carbon dioxide emissions to a peak before 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060. The world's...

He turns steelworks into parks and makes ‘rebirth bricks’ from earthquake rubble. As the novelist, meditator and ‘accidental architect’ wins the Pritzker prize, we look at the masterful temples, caves and public spaces of this one-man antidote to Chinese...

Items seized in New York include pottery, jade, bronze and Tibetan Buddhist art, some dating back thousands of years.

Tibet is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. Many of those languages are at risk of extinction. 

For more than a decade, they have been kept in horrible conditions by Thai authorities. Now they will meet their fate in China. How long can the international community tolerate this? The post China Wins Again: 48 Uyghur Refugees...

More than 50 workers submerged under snow and debris after an avalanche hit a construction camp in Uttarakhand state.