Letter reaffirms that the Gaden Phodrang Trust has the sole authority to recognise the reincarnation of future Dalai Lamas.

For Tibetans, the name ‘Xizang’ is nothing short of offensive. It is colonial language that builds upon the perception China is trying to enforce, that Tibet is and always has been a part of China, ...

The head of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery is in critical condition after his imprisonment following peaceful protests against the construction of a major hydropower dam in Derge (Dege), Tibet.

The process of selecting the Dalai Lama would traditionally involve the Panchen Lama – the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama’s teacher. However, in 1995 the 11th Panchen Lama was kidnapped by the ...

This is more than double the 11 recommendations on Tibet issued by nine states at China’s last UPR in 2018, and a massive increase on the four states that raised Tibet at China’s first UPR in 2009.

Tibet Watch has learned of the demolition of a third large Buddhist statue in Drago County. In November 2021, Chinese authorities of Drago County demolished a statue of eighth-century Indian Tantric ...

Reports indicate that, as of Friday 23 February, police have arrested hundreds of Tibetans and violently attacked others protesting a dam project along the Drichu River in Kardze, eastern Tibet. The ...

Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch has learned that Tibetan political prisoner, Tsultrim Gyatso, was handed a six-month reduction of his prison sentence in April last year. The ruling by the ...

News related to the policy’s implementation first emerged in August 2021 when a 19-year-old student in Ngaba was arrested after he refused to attend a propaganda meeting called “Meeting on Praising ...

China’s policy of constructing mega dams on Tibet’s rivers and extracting its resources risks social and environmental catastrophe in Tibet and throughout Asia. This is according to a new report ...

Tibet groups condemn cremation of deceased Tibetan Lama in Vietnam without family consent following his death in custody; demand international investigation. Body Reportedly Cremated Before Inquiry ...