Jamyang Tsering, 77, has been jailed for one and a half years by a court in Dzogang county in Chamdo for advising a group of Tibetan students to abide by the Dalai Lama’s call not to participate in Shugden, a controversial form of worship deemed “divisive” by HH the Dalai Lama, and to always “hold to their pride in being Tibetan”. There is concern for his health.