(TibetanReview.net, Jan15’26) – China appears to have adopted a sect-wise Sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism not only to make it conform to its so-called socialist principles but also to possibly assimilate it with Chinese Buddhism. A symposium on Chinese-Tibetan Buddhism in the name of “Han–Tibetan Buddhist Studies” was held for this purpose from Jan 10 to 11 at Tsinghua University in Beijing, reported China’s online Tibet news service m.tibet.cn/eng Jan 14.
The report said 50 scholars and eminent monks engaged in in-depth dialogue on the historical origins and contemporary development of the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism at an event called the 2026 Symposium on Han–Tib...





