In the current repressive environment, how do Tibetans in Tibet hold onto their cultural identity? How does the world find out what is happening there? How do exiles stay connected with their families and homeland? Where can we...
CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
Addressing annual meetings of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress in...
As political appointments set the stage for one leadership transition in China, authorities are...
According to Xinhua, Chinese government-backed Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu began a four-day...
A government official who serves as a liaison to Tibetans claimed on Sunday that Gendun Choekyi...
May 17 marked the 20-year anniversary of the disappearance of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the Tibetan...
Reports of a relaxation of anti-Dalai Lama policies in Sichuan, Qinghai and even the Tibetan Autonomous Region surfaced last week, only to be swiftly denied by both government and monastery officials. Tibetan writer Woeser added...
The recent surge in self-immolations by Tibetans protesting Beijing’s policies has continued unabated. At least 76 Tibetans have self-immolated since 2009. Most recently, 25-year-old Wangchen Norbu set himself on fire in...
The new Tibetan Prime Minister will assume office on Monday and Lobsang Sangay has given more indication on his position versus the Chinese government. From Voice of America: The newly-elected Tibetan prime minister-in-exile,...
In 1995, the Dalai Lama selected a young boy as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second highest monk in Tibetan Buddhism. The same year, the Chinese government selected another boy for the position, and put the Dalai...
The man selected by Beijing to be the Panchen Lama has visited the Qinghai earthquake zone to lead prayer services for residents. From AFP: The visit by Gyaincain Norbu, chosen by Beijing as the Panchen Lama after it rejected a...
Since the Dalai Lama selected him as the next Panchen Lama 15 years ago at the age of 5, Gendun Choekyi Nyima has not been seen or heard from in public or accounted for by the Chinese government. The new governor of Tibet...
Gyaltsen Norbu, the Beijing-appointed Panchen Lama, has been given a seat on the CPPCC, the New York Times reports: Although membership in the advisory group, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, is of nominal...
AsiaNews.it reports that the Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, recognized as such by the Dalai Lama in 1995, turns twenty today. He and his family were taken hostage by the Chinese government later in 1995, when he was six,...
Lucy Hornby of Reuters writes about China’s move to co-host the Second World Buddhist Forum: Communist China and Taiwan are for the first time jointly hosting a Buddhist forum at this lakeside city on Saturday, as Beijing...
Howard French reposted some of the text of a New York Review of Books article from December 19, 2007: Wang Lixiong, who is one of the very few Chinese intellectuals to have met the Dalai Lama, told me that Tibetans have no faith...
Gyaltsen Norbu, the Tibetan youth chosen by China to be the 11th Pachen Lama, or Tibet Buddhism’s second-highest ranking figure, will not become a member of this year’s parliament, as previously reported, because he...
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