Prison for an Activist in China
By Mary Trewartha / January 30, 2014
Xu Zhiyong, a prominent legal activist, has been sent to prison for four years. Detained under house arrest since 2009, Xu was finally arrested formally on August 22 last year on the charge of “assembling a crowd to disrupt order in a public place.” His trial ended without a verdict read more →
Remembering the 10th Panchen Lama
By Demay Tsering / January 30, 2014
January 28 marked 25 years since Lobsang Trinley Lhundup Choekyi Gyaltsen, the 10th Panchen Lama, died aged 51 years. The Panchen Lama is the second highest ranking Lama after the Dalai Lama in the Gelugpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Ven Bagdro, a Tibetan Buddhist monk and former political prisoner who read more →
Fire Devastation in Tibet
By Mary Trewartha / January 28, 2014
One of Tibet’s most influential Buddhist learning centres, the Larung Gar Buddhist Institute in Serthar, in the Karze region of eastern Tibet (incorporated into China’s Sichuan Province), was extensively damaged by fire on January 9. Two nuns were injured, and more than 100 houses destroyed, although no loss of life read more →
More Evictions in Dhasa
By Wendhe Choetsoe / January 27, 2014
The news of the eviction of the people living in 210 Tibetan homes in a case of alleged illegal encroachment of forestland created much tension in the small Tibetan hub in Dharamshala. Recently, local news agencies reported that the next hearing for the case has been set on March 27. read more →
Latest Reports from Tibetan Human Rights Group
By Migmar Dolkar / January 22, 2014
Earlier this month the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), a research centre based in Dharamsala, released its annual report for 2013. The Report focuses on the human rights situation in Tibet. TCHRD also released a special report , “Gulags of Tibet,”describing the strategy of re-education through labour read more →
Detained Khenpo in Serious Condition
By Tashan Mehta / January 20, 2014
The detention of Khenpo Kartse, a senior monk at Japa monastery in Nangchen, has a sparked a series of protests and further arrests. Kartse was detained in Chengdu town on December 6 while buying a statue for his monastery. His detention was allegedly due to his involvement in several incidents read more →
Protests and Arrests over Tunnel Construction
By Ugolino Vivaldi / January 15, 2014
Twenty Tibetans have been taken into custody by the Chinese authorities as a result of their alleged participation in recent protests against the construction of a local tunnel in Derge county, or Kardze in Chinese, in the Sichuan province. On January 7 more than 1,000 paramilitaries from the People’s Army read more →
His Holiness Delivers the Lam Rim Teachings in Karnataka
By Vanshika Tripathi / January 14, 2014
His Holiness the Dalai Lama spent a week in Karnataka where he delivered various discourses on the “18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) commentaries” at Sera Monastery. Gaden Shartse Monastery and His Eminence Ling Choktrul Rinpoche had personally requested that these teachings, which began on December 26, be read more →
Education Conference Attracts Record Attendence
By Jigme Thinlay / January 12, 2014
The sixth Tibetan General Conference on Education was held from Januay 7-9 and was the largest gathering to date. 236 participants from 76 schools attended from India and Nepal, including principals, directors and teachers. The conference was organised by the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) Department of Education, and funded by read more →
China Threatens to Throw out International Investigators
By Harry James / December 29, 2013
The Chinese government is threatening to expel nearly two dozen foreign correspondents from the New York Times and Bloomberg, a New York based international financial and business news agency, following investigations that exposed the private wealth of Chinese leaders. Unless the government changes course, reporters and their dependants will be required to leave the country read more →