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Dharamshala, 5 October 2026: Kalon (Minister) Palden Dhondup of the Department of Home, Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), paid a courtesy visit to Shri Hemraj Bairwa, IAS, Deputy Commissioner of Kangra District and Shri Rahul Sharma, Tehsildar cum Executive Magistrate...
Beijing’s Strategy on the Dalai Lama
By Khedroob Thondup Beijing has consistently refused to negotiate with the Dalai Lama. This stance is not tactical indecision but a deliberate strategy: the Chinese leadership is playing a waiting game, anticipating that His Holiness’s passing will allow them...
County in Qinghai overrun by Chinese tourists following completion of a highway
(TibetanReview.net, Oct05’26) – The Qilian (Tibetan: Chilen or Dhola) county in Haibei (Tsojang) Prefecture, Qinghai province, which is considered by Tibetans as the bulk of their historical Amdo (or Domey) province, has been overrun by Chinese tourists during China’s...
Tibet beyond the Dalai Lama and the question of who speaks for its people
OPINION While the bill before the US Congress on Assuring the Future of Tibet Act (AFTA) of 2026 – should it become law – will not settle the Sino-Tibetan dispute, nor enable Washington to determine Tibet’s future, what it...
42 days, 1000 kms: US Tibetan activist heads to UN for final leg of ‘Freedom March’
Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 6: Tibetan activist and lone marcher Sonam Dorjee has covered more than 1,000 kilometres on foot in 42 days as part of his ongoing “Freedom March” across the United States, a journey he says is...
Chinese national arrested in US for spying on Taiwan President’s son
Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 6: A Chinese national has been arrested in the United States for allegedly acting on behalf of Beijing to conduct surveillance on the son of Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te, according to US authorities. The Federal...
CTA remembers Tibetan writer Gudrup, raises concerns over China’s Tibet policy
The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has remembered Gudrup, a 43-year-old Tibetan writer and blogger who died after self-immolating in protest in Driru, Nagchu, Tibet, on October 4, 2012.
California Arrest Brings Renewed Focus on China’s Transnational Repression
By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 5 Oct: A California woman has been arrested while attempting to depart to China on charges of acting as an unregistered Chinese agent and spying on the son of Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te. The case...
གསར་འགོད་པའི་ས་མིག
གསར་འགོད་པའི་ས་མིག ༄༅།། འདི་ག་བོད་ཀྱི་དུས་བབ་གསར་ཁང་དུ། གསར་འགོད་པ་གཅིག་གི་ས་མིག་ཡོད་པས། ལས་གནས་འདིར་ཞུགས་འདོད་ཡོད་རིགས་ཚོས་འོག་གི་ཆ་རྐྱེན་ལྟར་སྙན་ཞུ་འབུལ་དགོས། ས་མིག་འདིའི་ལས་འགན་གཙོ་བོ་དུས་རྒྱུན་གསར་འགོད་ལས་རིགས་དང་བརྙན་ཕབ། ཞོར་དུ་ཡིག་བསྒྱུར་སོགས་ཡིན། དགོས་ངེས་ཆ་རྐྱེན། ༡། བོད་ཡིག་གཙོ་བོར་བྱས་ཏེ་སྐད་ཡིག་གཉིས་པ་དབྱིན་ཡིག་དང་ཧིན་རྡུ། རྒྱ་ཡིག་གང་རུང་རང་སྐྱ་འཕེར་བ། ༢། གསར་འགྱུར་སྙན་སྒྲོན་དང་བཅར་འདྲི་སོགས་བྱེད་པར་སྨྲ་ལྕེ་དག་པོ་ཡོད་པ། ༣། རང་བཙན་ལག་དེབ་ཀྱི་དཔྱ་དངུལ་དུས་ཐོག་ཕུལ་ཟིན་པ། ༤། རྒྱ་གར་ནང་གནས་སྡོད་ཆོག་པའི་ལག་འཁྱེར་ཡོད་པ། གསལ་བཤད། ➢ ལས་བྱེད་འདེམ་སྒྲུག་བྱེད་ཕྱོགས་ནི། འདི་གར་སྙན་ཞུ་འབྱོར་རིམ་ལྟར། ལས་ཀའི་ཉམས་མྱོང་དང་ཤེས་ཡོན་གནས་ཚད། དགོས་ངེས་ཆ་རྐྱེན་སོགས་ལ་བལྟས་ཏེ་ཐད་ཀར་འདེམ་པ་དང་། ཡང་ན། ཡིག་རྒྱུགས་ཀྱི་ལམ་ནས་འདེམ་སྒྲུག་བྱ་རྒྱུ་ཡིན། ➢ དུས་བབ་ལས་བྱེད་དུ་བདམས་ཟིན་རིགས་ཐོག་མའི་ཟླ་གསུམ་རིང་ཟླ་ཕོགས་ཧིན་སྒོར་ ༣༠༠༠༠ ཡིན་པ་དང་། ཟླ་གསུམ་ཚང་སྟེ་ལས་བྱེད་དངོས་ལ་ཞུགས་རྗེས་ཟླ་ཕོགས་སྤར་ཆ་བྱས་ཏེ་དུས་བབ་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱི་ལས་བྱེད་སྤྱི་མཚུངས་ལྟར་ཡིན། ➢ གསར་འགྱུར་སྙན་སྒྲོན་དང་བརྙན་སྒྲིག་སྦྱོར་སོགས་ཀྱི་ཉམས་མྱོང་ཡག་པོ་ཡོད་མཁན་ཚོར་དམིགས་བསལ་འདེམ་སྒྲུག་གི་གོ་སྐབས་ཡོད་པ་དང་། གལ་སྲིད་ཡིག་རྒྱུགས་ཀྱི་ལམ་ནས་འདེམ་སྒྲུག་བྱས་ནའང་སྐར་གྲངས་སྤར་ཆ་ཡོད། གསར་འགོད་ལས་རིགས་ལ་ཐུགས་འདོད་ཡོད་རིགས་ཚོས་ ༢༠༢༦ ཟླ་ ༡༠ ཚེས་ ༢༠ འགྱངས་མེད་སྙན་ཞུ་འབུལ་དགོས། སྙན་ཞུའི་ཡི་གེ་སྦྲགས་ཐོག་དང་གློག་འཕྲིན་གང་རུང་བརྒྱུད་བསྐུར་ཆོག་ཅིང་། སྙན་ཞུ་དང་མཉམ་དུ་ལས་ཀའི་ཉམས་མྱོང་དང་སློབ་ཐོན་ལག་འཁྱེར། དཔྱ་དངུལ་ལག་དེབ་ཀྱི་ངོ་བཤུས། དེ་མིན་ཕྱག་འཁྱེར་གང་ཡོད་ཀྱི་ངོ་བཤུས་དང་། དོ་བདག་གི་གློག་འཕྲིན་དང་སྡོད་གནས་ཁ་བྱང་། ཁ་པར་ཨང་སོགས་མཉམ་དུ་བསྐུར་དགོས། གསལ་བསྒྲགས་འདིའི་ཐད་དྲི་བ་དང་དོགས་པ་ཡོད་རིགས་ཚོས་འོག་གི་གློག་འཕྲིན་ཁ་བྱང་དང་ཁ་པར་ཨང་གྲངས་བརྒྱུད་འདྲི་བརྩད་ཞུས་ཆོག གློག་འཕྲིན། editor@tibettimes.net / office@tibettimes.net ཁ་པར། ༩༤༥༩༥༤༩༨༧༡ / ༨༠༩༡༦༤༤༣༧༢ བོད་ཀྱི་དུས་བབ་གསར་ཁང་ནས་ ༢༠༡༦ ཟླ་ ༡༠ ཚེས་ ༥ ལ།
From “Government in Exile” to “Central Tibetan Administration”: What’s in a Name?
By Khedroob Thondup In the world of geopolitics, even the names we choose can carry immense weight. The terms "Tibetan Government in Exile" and "Central Tibetan Administration" (CTA) are more than mere labels—they reflect nuanced shifts in identity, diplomacy,...
Sikyong Penpa Tsering to Attend Forum 2000 Conference in Prague
By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 5 October: Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) Sikyong (President) Penpa Tsering departed Dharamsala on Monday for an official tour that will take him to Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Germany. The tour includes participation in the...
Sikyong Penpa Tsering to Visit Switzerland, Czech Republic and Germany; Will Attend Forum 2000
Dharamshala: Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) embarked on an official visit to three European countries earlier this morning and is scheduled to attend the upcoming Forum 2000 conference in Prague, Czech Republic. Over the next...
China among countries invited to international tourism summit in Tawang
(TibetanReview.net, Oct04’26) – The government of India is to hold a mega international tourism event in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, towards the end of this month, with China being among the invitees. China claims Arunachal Pradesh, especially the Tawang region,...
Bollywood war drama Maatrubhumi gets gov’t approval, storyline now shows China in positive light
(TibetanReview.net, Oct04’26) – The Bollywood film starring superstar Salman Khan that was announced as Battle Of Galwan, based on the brutal 2020 Ladakh-border conflict between India and China, but retitled as Maatrubhumi: May War Rest In Peace earlier this...
Seven Years in Tibet back on Netflix shelves after 20 years
(TibetanReview.net, Oct03’26) – Subscription-based streaming service Netflix has included on Oct 1 the biographical epic Seven Years in Tibet (1997) among many movies it added to its digital shelves, reported uk.news.yahoo.com Oct 1. The film follows the true story...
New eastern Tibet discovery bolsters China’s lithium reserves by over one million tonnes
(TibetanReview.net, Oct03’26) – China has greatly increased the amount of lithium deposit present in an already super-large reserve located in the eastern Tibetan city of Barkham (Chinese: Maerkang), in Amdo Ngaba, which is currently part of Sichuan province. The...
India issues standard Ladakh placenames that identify incursion spots
(TibetanReview.net, Oct03’26) – After Arunachal Pradesh, India has issued standard, official names of places and geographical features in its Union Territory of Ladakh in a new map to make clear they are parts of its territory, given that they...
WUC weekly brief highlights China’s surveillance, Uyghur rights concerns
According to the WUC weekly brief, a new report by the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), titled “Monitoring the Frontier,” examined what it described as an interconnected architecture of surveillance and control across East Turkistan, Tibet, Inner Mongolia...
EBC Trek vs 7 Days Annapurna Base Camp Trek
Most people comparing treks in Nepal end up looking at the wrong things first — altitude charts, day-by-day distances, maybe a photo of a famous viewpoint. That’s useful… The post EBC Trek vs 7 Days Annapurna Base Camp Trek...
The Reckoning Deferred: Tibet’s Succession Question
OPINION Dr Yashwant Singh* argues that the issue concerning the recognition of the reincarnation of the current Dalai Lama, when the time comes eventually, will force governments to adopt what may amount to a position on the political status...
Nearly 22.5% of mining rights across ‘Tibet’ lie within 5km of glaciers
(TibetanReview.net, Oct02’26) – China says climate change caused the catastrophic Aug 26 Tibet-Nepal avalanche floods, which caused over 1,494 deaths and left more than 6,264 people missing across Nepal and Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), but nearly 22.5% of the...
On Gandhi Jayanti, Tibetan Sikyong calls for peace, human dignity, freedom; urges China to learn
The Tibetan government-in-exile observed the 157th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in Dharamshala, with Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) President Penpa Tsering calling for peace, human dignity and freedom and saying that governments should work for the welfare and aspirations...
Demand for climate justice rises in Nepal; commemoration continues for flood victims
Collectively, the activists called for climate justice, warning the global community of the looming crisis that will eventually affect countries in the coming years.
Tibetan activist concludes 600-km ‘Rangzen Yatra’ from Dharamshala to Delhi
Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 2: Tibetan activist Lhodrak Tharchin on Thursday concluded his more than 600-kilometre “Rangzen March” or “Azad Yatra”, a solo march from Dharamshala to New Delhi advocating Tibetan independence. Lhodrak began the peaceful march on August...
China reportedly expands drone surveillance and counter-drone network across Tibet
Titled Eyes Above the Plateau: Drones, DJI, and the Aerial Architecture of Control in Tibet, the report was released on September 29 with research support from US-based non-profit C4ADS. It examines Chinese government records dating back to 2017, including...






























