Renowned Tibetan school ordered to teach in Chinese or face shutdown

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Renowned Tibetan school ordered to teach in Chinese or face shutdown

August 25, 2021;

Staff writer for FreeTibet.org. 23 August 2021. Founded by a revered Rinpoche, Gyalten Getsa Tibetan school is recognised for its outstanding contributions Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch has learned that in early August this year, Chinese authorities in Tehor Rongbacha Township (Tib:མདོ་ཁམས་ཏྲེ་ཧོར་རོང་པ་ཚ་) in Kham Karze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture has ordered Gyalten Getza school (Tib:རྒྱལ་བསྟན་དགེ་རྩ་སློབ་གྲྭ་)…