Interview with Dr. Gyal Lo: Tibetan Children Are Becoming “Strangers in Their Own Homes”
In 2021, Tibet Action Institute (TAI) published a groundbreaking report exposing the extensive use...
Tibetan culture
Colonial Boarding Schools and Reincarnation Policies Help China Control Tibet’s Future
Tibet’s future remains imperiled by the Chinese government’s continued efforts to sever the generational links that sustain Tibetan culture. Recent reports have analyzed how this dynamic plays out in the realms of education and...
Reports Describe Expanding Digital Repression in Tibet
Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital connectivity to enhance its repression of Tibetans on the plateau and in the diaspora. On Wednesday, Turquoise Roof and Tibet Watch...
Languages in Tibet Struggle for Survival
Friday marked the 25th International Mother Language Day, a UNESCO observance for promoting the preservation and protection of linguistic diversity. For Tibetan communities on the Tibetan plateau and in the diaspora, the issue...
Dam Construction in Tibet Threatens Local Communities and Environment
Infrastructure projects in Tibet have often drawn controversy for failing to balance development, human rights, and environmental protection. As CDT has covered this year, state-sponsored hydropower projects have forcibly...
More Than 100 Arrested Following Dam Protest in Tibetan Region of Sichuan Province
Chinese authorities have reportedly arrested more than 100 Tibetan Buddhist monks and other residents of largely Tibetan Dege County in Sichuan Province, following protests against a vast dam project that would destroy six...
Interview: Dechen Pemba on Centering Tibetan Voices Through Translation and Film
Dechen Pemba Starting in March 2008, Tibetans across the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan took to the streets to call for religious freedom and an end to oppressive political and social...
U.N. Experts and Activists Sound Alarm Over Forced Assimilation and Coercive DNA Collection in Tibet
This week, three U.N. human rights experts stated that roughly one million Tibetan children have been separated from their families and put into state-run boarding schools in an ongoing effort by the Chinese government to...
HRW: China Cracks Down on Tibetan Social Groups
A new report from Human Rights Watch examines China’s practice of targeting political...
Tsering Shakya on Tibet, Development, and Diversity
In an interview with Himal Southasian, University of British Columbia historian Tsering Shakya...
Tibetan Language Activist Sentenced to Five Years
Tibetan entrepreneur and language education activist Tashi Wangchuk was detained in January 2016,...
“Almost Total Suppression of Information” After Tibet Fire
Lhasa’s Jokhang temple, a sacred Tibetan Buddhist site dating back in parts to the seventh...
Badiucao: Silencing the Snow Lion
Last week, Tibetan activist Tashi Wangchuk was tried in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,...
Tibetan Activist Tried For “Inciting Separatism”
Tibetan entrepreneur and language education advocate Tashi Wangchuk was detained in January 2016...
Person of the Week: Tang Danhong
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short...
Tibetan Cultures Pressured From Within and Without
Since 2009, over 140 Tibetans have self-immolated in protest as authorities have tightened...
Inciting Separatism Charge for Tibetan Education Advocate
Tibetan entrepreneur and language education advocate Tashi Wangchuk, who was earlier this month...
A Showcase of Tibetan Culture Serves Beijing
At The New York Times, Edward Wong reports on this year’s government run horse festival in...
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