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More than 6000 people gathered at the main Tibetan temple today to express gratitude to His Holiness the Dalai Lama for his kindness, beginning with his assumption of the spiritual and temporal leadership of Tibet on 17th November 1950 — 75 years ago today www.dalailama.com/news/celebra...
The Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama | The 14th Dalai Lama
The Official Website of The Office of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
www.dalailama.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
More than 6000 people gathered at the main Tibetan temple today to express gratitude to His Holiness the Dalai Lama for his kindness, beginning with his assumption of the spiritual and temporal leadership of Tibet on 17th November 1950 — 75 years ago today www.dalailama.com/news/celebra...
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The 75th anniversary of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s assumption of spiritual and temporal leadership of #Tibet was marked today at the Tsuglakhang in #Dharamshala as part of yearlong celebrations worldwide of his 90th birthday.
www.tibetanreview.net/dalai-lamas-...
www.tibetanreview.net/dalai-lamas-...
Dalai Lama’s 75-year leadership of Tibet marked with celebrations of gratitude - Tibetan Review
(TibetanReview.net, Nov17’25) – The 75th anniversary of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s assumption of spiritual and temporal leadership of Tibet was marked today at the Tsuglakhang in Dharamshala as par...
www.tibetanreview.net
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The 75th anniversary of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s assumption of spiritual and temporal leadership of #Tibet was marked today at the Tsuglakhang in #Dharamshala as part of yearlong celebrations worldwide of his 90th birthday.
www.tibetanreview.net/dalai-lamas-...
www.tibetanreview.net/dalai-lamas-...
The Dalai Lama welcomes @NEDemocracy
medal to Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the Panchen Lama, disappeared since 1995, and remains hopeful that he will be able to live a life of dignity + freedom
medal to Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the Panchen Lama, disappeared since 1995, and remains hopeful that he will be able to live a life of dignity + freedom
November 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The Dalai Lama welcomes @NEDemocracy
medal to Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the Panchen Lama, disappeared since 1995, and remains hopeful that he will be able to live a life of dignity + freedom
medal to Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the Panchen Lama, disappeared since 1995, and remains hopeful that he will be able to live a life of dignity + freedom
China is weaponising sacred Buddhist rituals for political control. In October, Beijing's appointed Panchen Lama led a Kalachakra empowerment at Tashi Lhunpo monastery—one of Tibetan Buddhism's most sacred ceremonies. Tibet Watch report explores what this means: tibetwatch.org/setting-a-re...
Setting a Religious Trap
On 9-12 October, Gyaltsen Norbu, Beijing’s appointed 11th Panchen Lama, led a four-day Kalachakra empowerment - one of the most sacred initiations in Tibetan Buddhist practice - at Tashi Lhunpo monast...
tibetwatch.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
China is weaponising sacred Buddhist rituals for political control. In October, Beijing's appointed Panchen Lama led a Kalachakra empowerment at Tashi Lhunpo monastery—one of Tibetan Buddhism's most sacred ceremonies. Tibet Watch report explores what this means: tibetwatch.org/setting-a-re...
Join the conversation - tomorrow, University of Westminster, #London: 'The Legacy of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in a Contested World: Compassion, Reincarnation, and Geopolitics' westminster.ac.uk/events/the-l...
The Legacy of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in a Contested World: Compassion, Reincarnation, and Geopolitics
westminster.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Join the conversation - tomorrow, University of Westminster, #London: 'The Legacy of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in a Contested World: Compassion, Reincarnation, and Geopolitics' westminster.ac.uk/events/the-l...
#China's Five Year Plan - that runs from 2026 to 2030 locks #Tibet into China as never before. Xi Jinping prioritises the Yarlung Tsangpo mega hydro project + Sichuan-Tibet railway. Gabriel Lafitte analysis at rukor.org/a-plan-of-at...
PLANNING A PLAN OF ATTACK – Rukor
rukor.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#China's Five Year Plan - that runs from 2026 to 2030 locks #Tibet into China as never before. Xi Jinping prioritises the Yarlung Tsangpo mega hydro project + Sichuan-Tibet railway. Gabriel Lafitte analysis at rukor.org/a-plan-of-at...
#Tibet should be framed as global priority for its strategic + environmental significance, should have more visibility on multilateral platforms as a part of Indo-Pacific narrative - new report by Jagannath Panda w/contributions from Gabriel Lafitte, Dechen Palmo www.isdp.eu/wp-content/u...
www.isdp.eu
October 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#Tibet should be framed as global priority for its strategic + environmental significance, should have more visibility on multilateral platforms as a part of Indo-Pacific narrative - new report by Jagannath Panda w/contributions from Gabriel Lafitte, Dechen Palmo www.isdp.eu/wp-content/u...
China's reckless space ambitions poison #Tibet as rocket crashes in nomadic grasslands of Amdo, triggering massive fire: www.tribuneindia.com/news/amdo/ch...
Chinas reckless space ambitions poison Tibet again as Chinese rocket debris sparks toxic disaster - The Tribune
Video clips circulating online show flaming debris crashing into open fields as dense orange fumes rise into the air, with Tibetan voices in the background expressing alarm. One person can be heard sh...
www.tribuneindia.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
China's reckless space ambitions poison #Tibet as rocket crashes in nomadic grasslands of Amdo, triggering massive fire: www.tribuneindia.com/news/amdo/ch...
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Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of the banned Tibetan novel, now in English, "The Red Wind Howls": chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
September 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of the banned Tibetan novel, now in English, "The Red Wind Howls": chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Shapeshifting 'braided river' in Tibet is the highest in the world, and is becoming increasingly unstable — Earth from space www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Shapeshifting 'braided river' in Tibet is the highest in the world, and is becoming increasingly unstable — Earth from space
A 2025 satellite photo shows a particularly complex section of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it twists its way through the Tibetan Plateau. This part of the "braided" waterway has experienced drastic vi...
www.livescience.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Shapeshifting 'braided river' in Tibet is the highest in the world, and is becoming increasingly unstable — Earth from space www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
'Voice of the Disappeared', a rights collective initiated by #Tibet supporters in the UK, has produced a vivid graphic story 'The Message' telling the tale of a #Tibetan couple who face the wrath of the Chinese Party state - now available online www.youtube.com/watch?featur...
The message
YouTube video by voice disappeared
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
'Voice of the Disappeared', a rights collective initiated by #Tibet supporters in the UK, has produced a vivid graphic story 'The Message' telling the tale of a #Tibetan couple who face the wrath of the Chinese Party state - now available online www.youtube.com/watch?featur...
Friends in #London : launch of new report at Int Centre for Sustainability on unfolding climate crisis in #Tibet by @jppjagannath1 , highlighting its far-reaching human, environmental, and geopolitical implications: eventbrite.co.uk/e/whither-ti...
Whither Tibet in the Climate Crisis Agenda?
Join Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific, in conversation with Shruti Kapil.
eventbrite.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Friends in #London : launch of new report at Int Centre for Sustainability on unfolding climate crisis in #Tibet by @jppjagannath1 , highlighting its far-reaching human, environmental, and geopolitical implications: eventbrite.co.uk/e/whither-ti...
Election dates for Sikyong + #Tibetan Parliament in exile announced by CTA in Dharamsala, warning of risks of disinfo + fake news tibet.net/central-elec...
Central Election Commission Announces Schedule for 2025–2026 Sikyong and 18th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile Elections, Along with Election Code of Conduct – Central Tibetan Administration
Dharamshala: On the morning of 7 October 2025, the Central Election Commission of the Central Tibetan Administration convened a press conference to officially announce the schedule for the upcoming 20...
tibet.net
October 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Election dates for Sikyong + #Tibetan Parliament in exile announced by CTA in Dharamsala, warning of risks of disinfo + fake news tibet.net/central-elec...
'#Tibet must no longer remain the blind spot of global environmental governance as the crisis unfolding on the Roof of the World is already shaping the future of water, food + energy security across the Indo‑Pacific and beyond'
@ISDP_Sweden www.tibetanreview.net/ahead-of-cop...
@ISDP_Sweden www.tibetanreview.net/ahead-of-cop...
Ahead of COP30, Stockholm paper raises alarm over lack of global climate diplomacy on environmental devastation in Tibet - Tibetan Review
(TibetanReview.net, Oct07’25) – China has transformed the Tibetan Plateau, one of the world’s most fragile environments, into a zone of extreme ecological stress under its state‑centric model of infra...
www.tibetanreview.net
October 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
'#Tibet must no longer remain the blind spot of global environmental governance as the crisis unfolding on the Roof of the World is already shaping the future of water, food + energy security across the Indo‑Pacific and beyond'
@ISDP_Sweden www.tibetanreview.net/ahead-of-cop...
@ISDP_Sweden www.tibetanreview.net/ahead-of-cop...
UN rights experts call #Vietnam + #China to account for suspicious death, cremation + obstruction of justice in the case of the revered senior Tibetan Buddhist leader, Tulku Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas... + spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...
spcommreports.ohchr.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
UN rights experts call #Vietnam + #China to account for suspicious death, cremation + obstruction of justice in the case of the revered senior Tibetan Buddhist leader, Tulku Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas... + spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...
#Tibet Film Festival #London is back - 28/10 + 1/2/11 www.tibetfilmfestival.org/london2025 w/ screenings inc State and Statelessness, UK premieres of 'My Sweet Pala' + 'Mola - A Tibetan Tale of Love and Loss'
LONDON — Tibet Film Festival
www.tibetfilmfestival.org
October 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
#Tibet Film Festival #London is back - 28/10 + 1/2/11 www.tibetfilmfestival.org/london2025 w/ screenings inc State and Statelessness, UK premieres of 'My Sweet Pala' + 'Mola - A Tibetan Tale of Love and Loss'
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#China govt efforts to legislate "ethnic unity" doesn't protect existing #humanrights. Rather, it sets up even more #arbitrarydetentions on baseless charges of "splittism," "separatism"; runs contrary to intl law obligations, including #CERD. @chrdnet.bsky.social
npcobserver.com/legislation/...
npcobserver.com/legislation/...
Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress - NPC Observer
Texts, legislative records, translations (if any), and related coverage of China's Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress. - Law of the People’s Republic of China on Promoting Ethnic Unity a
npcobserver.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
#China govt efforts to legislate "ethnic unity" doesn't protect existing #humanrights. Rather, it sets up even more #arbitrarydetentions on baseless charges of "splittism," "separatism"; runs contrary to intl law obligations, including #CERD. @chrdnet.bsky.social
npcobserver.com/legislation/...
npcobserver.com/legislation/...
UN Cultural Rights Rapporteur challenges #China over disappearance of the word #Tibet from exhibitions at French museums, saying that this deliberate erasure directly compromises Tibetan rights to "cultural heritage and self-determination" spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...
spcommreports.ohchr.org
October 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
UN Cultural Rights Rapporteur challenges #China over disappearance of the word #Tibet from exhibitions at French museums, saying that this deliberate erasure directly compromises Tibetan rights to "cultural heritage and self-determination" spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...
Zhang Yadi: "I don’t think she expected this heavy charge, because we are not advocating for separatism". London-bound international #Chinese student held in #China for #Tibet support www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘She didn’t realise how dangerous it was’: London-bound student held in China over Tibet support
Zhang Yadi was due to begin a degree in the UK but the activist vanished on holiday amid tensions over Dalai Lama
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Zhang Yadi: "I don’t think she expected this heavy charge, because we are not advocating for separatism". London-bound international #Chinese student held in #China for #Tibet support www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK #Tibetans + @freetibetorg.bsky.social supporters gathered at the White Cube gallery in #London to protest #Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang's damaging fireworks display in #Tibet - @TheArtNewspaper : www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/30/p...
Protest at White Cube gallery over Cai Guo-Qiang's fireworks display
The Chinese artist, whose exhibition ‘Gunpowder and Abstraction 2015-25’ is currently on show at the London gallery, has been accused of ‘cultural violence’ in Tibet
www.theartnewspaper.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
UK #Tibetans + @freetibetorg.bsky.social supporters gathered at the White Cube gallery in #London to protest #Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang's damaging fireworks display in #Tibet - @TheArtNewspaper : www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/30/p...
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This is yet another story about authoritarianism — but one that hits a little different. Phurba is resilience incarnate, a person born for these times. And his tale is bonkers. I hope you enjoy reading it as much we did reporting it. Gift link: www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
The Daring Caper of a Faithful Tibetan Who Outfoxed China
He escaped from police and crossed thousands of miles of wilderness on a decadelong odyssey toward freedom.
www.wsj.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This is yet another story about authoritarianism — but one that hits a little different. Phurba is resilience incarnate, a person born for these times. And his tale is bonkers. I hope you enjoy reading it as much we did reporting it. Gift link: www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
Outdoor clothing brand Archteryx forced to apologise
for its fireworks display in #Tibet w/ a Chinese artist- in complete contradiction to the brand's claims of commitment to conservation - after facing backlash for its potential impacts on the fragile ecosystem: edition.cnn.com/2025/09/22/w...
for its fireworks display in #Tibet w/ a Chinese artist- in complete contradiction to the brand's claims of commitment to conservation - after facing backlash for its potential impacts on the fragile ecosystem: edition.cnn.com/2025/09/22/w...
September 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Outdoor clothing brand Archteryx forced to apologise
for its fireworks display in #Tibet w/ a Chinese artist- in complete contradiction to the brand's claims of commitment to conservation - after facing backlash for its potential impacts on the fragile ecosystem: edition.cnn.com/2025/09/22/w...
for its fireworks display in #Tibet w/ a Chinese artist- in complete contradiction to the brand's claims of commitment to conservation - after facing backlash for its potential impacts on the fragile ecosystem: edition.cnn.com/2025/09/22/w...
Gifted Chinese international student 22-year-old Zhang Yadi (
@TaraFreesoul), who lived in France + was dedicated to sharing #Tibetan culture, was detained in China on July 30 while visiting her family. No contact with her family for 47+ days. Her lawyer was also detained though now released
@TaraFreesoul), who lived in France + was dedicated to sharing #Tibetan culture, was detained in China on July 30 while visiting her family. No contact with her family for 47+ days. Her lawyer was also detained though now released
September 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Gifted Chinese international student 22-year-old Zhang Yadi (
@TaraFreesoul), who lived in France + was dedicated to sharing #Tibetan culture, was detained in China on July 30 while visiting her family. No contact with her family for 47+ days. Her lawyer was also detained though now released
@TaraFreesoul), who lived in France + was dedicated to sharing #Tibetan culture, was detained in China on July 30 while visiting her family. No contact with her family for 47+ days. Her lawyer was also detained though now released
#China has launched a pilot program deploying #PLA soldiers in state-run boarding schools in Nagchu, #Tibet. The programme targets children as young as 4, with 13 veterans across 7 schools teaching military training + political education - our report: tibetwatch.org/china-deploy...
China Deploys Military Veterans at Schools in Tibet
China has launched a new pilot programme deploying Chinese military veterans in state-run boarding schools to indoctrinate Tibetan children as young as four with military training and political educat...
tibetwatch.org
September 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
#China has launched a pilot program deploying #PLA soldiers in state-run boarding schools in Nagchu, #Tibet. The programme targets children as young as 4, with 13 veterans across 7 schools teaching military training + political education - our report: tibetwatch.org/china-deploy...
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A cultural centre in the U.S. state of Indiana demonstrates how the authority of #Tibet’s spiritual leader has gained new forms of strength in exile, says @timothyagrose.bsky.social
thediplomat.com/2025/09/how-...
thediplomat.com/2025/09/how-...
How Indiana Became a Stronghold for Tibetan Culture – and the Dalai Lama’s Influence
A cultural center in the U.S. state demonstrates how the authority of Tibet’s spiritual leader has gained new forms of strength in exile.
thediplomat.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A cultural centre in the U.S. state of Indiana demonstrates how the authority of #Tibet’s spiritual leader has gained new forms of strength in exile, says @timothyagrose.bsky.social
thediplomat.com/2025/09/how-...
thediplomat.com/2025/09/how-...