Niece of Deceased Tibetan Lama Speaks Out
Prominent Tibetan religious leader and Dalai Lama supporter Tenzin Delek Rinpoche died in July...
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Chinese, Hong Kong, Uyghur Activists Denied India Visas
Indian authorities have denied that Chinese pressure lay behind a decision to deny or revoke visas...
Tibetan Leader Knows Value of Taking the Long View
At the New York Times, Ellen Barry spoke with Lobsang Sangay, head of the exiled Tibetan...
Tibetans Divided Over Right to Vote in India
48,000 Tibetans in India are eligible to vote for the first time this year following a rule change...
Robert Barnett: The Long Wait for Tibetan Freedom
At Al Jazeera, Robert Barnett, the director of modern Tibetan studies at Columbia...
Dharamsala: Ground Zero in China’s Cyberwar
Jonathan Kaiman reports at Foreign Policy on China’s intense hacking and surveillance...
Tibet’s National Spirit Advisor
At Foreign Policy, Jeffrey Bartholet talks to Thupten Ngodup, medium or kuten for the Nechung Oracle which is said to have warned the Dalai Lama to flee Tibet in 1959. They discuss the processes of selection and consultation,...
Flames Of Protest: The History Of Self-Immolation
In the week since news emerged of the 100th Tibetan self-immolation within China’s borders since 2009, four more cases have been reported. Most recently, according to Dharamsala-based Phayul.com, a pair of teenaged former...
87th Self-Immolation, Death of Earlier Protester Reported
Dharamsala-based Phayul.com reports the 25th self-immolation case this month and news of one of the five Tibetans who set fire to themselves on November 7th, on the eve of China’s 18th Party Congress. The man is said to...
80th Tibetan Self-Immolation Reported
From RFA: Former monk Tamdin Kyap, 23, burned himself to death in Luchu (in Chinese, Luqu) county in the Kanlho (Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture late Thursday, the sources said. “He set himself on fire at a site...
79th Tibetan Self-Immolation Reported
Exile news site Phayul reports the tenth self-immolation in Tongren (Rebkong) this month, bringing the overall total since 2009 to 79. The Dharamshala-based site also claims that Chinese officials have been ordered to deter...
Another Self-Immolation as Tibetan Man Dies
A Tibetan man set himself on fire and died in Gansu province on Saturday, according to Radio Free Asia, the third self-immolation in the past week: Sangay Gyatso, 27, self-immolated in a monastery compound near Tsoe (in Chinese,...
Dalai Lama “Neutral” on Self Immolations (Updated)
Radio Free Asia reports that a 43rd Tibetan self-immolation protest took place just north of Lhasa on Saturday. It is not known whether the protester survived. The man, in his 20’s, shouted slogans in support of Tibet’s...
Tibetan Envoys Resign As Situation Worsens
Edward Wong of The New York Times reports that two senior representatives of the Dalai Lama who took part in nine rounds of negotiations with China have resigned: […]The envoys, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, said in a...
Obama Officials Meet Dalai Lama in India
China has reacted angrily to a meeting between Obama administration officials and the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. From Xinhua: According to media reports, three top aides to U.S. President Barack Obama, met the Dalai Lama...
Wily Tibetan Messengers Outfox Censors of ‘Great Firewall’ of China
Times Online has more about an effort by exiled Tibetans to communicate with their peers in China through the Internet: Sonam contacts about fifty or so people every day and says that half are willing to chat and five or six...
Tibetan Education Thrives – in Exile
While tensions rise in Tibet and surrounding areas in the run-up to March 10, the Christian Science Monitor reports on how Tibetans are preserving their culture and language through the education of their children in exile: This...
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