Tibetan Review
Prayers, protests mark 49th day of Lobga Rangzen’s self-immolation death, and to protest China’s forced assimilation move in Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Aug21’26) – Prayer services as well as peace and protest marches have been held by Tibetan communities and supporters across the free world Over Aug 19-20, marking the end of the seven weeks since Lobsang Palden, better known...
Facts on Record: The Second Fact-Finding Delegation, 1980
OPINION After witnessing a video commentary on the second fact-finding delegation sent by His Holiness the Dalai Lama which toured Tibet from 1 May 1980, Phuntsog Wangyal*, a member of that delegation, asks that the record be set straight...
Latest satellite images confirm China’s continuing assault on Larung Gar Buddhist learning centre in Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Aug20’26) – Latest satellite images are stated to confirm reports that China has been carrying out large-scale demolitions at the famed – and the world’s largest Buddhist learning centre – located in a Tibetan County and prefecture in...
China-appointed Panchen has asserted that ‘true Dharma’ begins with observing the coercive ethic unity law
(TibetanReview.net, Aug20’26) – While members of China’s so-called ethnic Minority groups in the free world, including Tibetans, as well as the international community, have condemned China’s recently implemented Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law as a tool of forced...
Xi Jinping praises Tiananmen crackdown on Jiang Zemin’s birth centenary, paints a bright future for China under his leadership
(TibetanReview.net, Aug20’26) – While even an indication of referring to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre by ordinary citizens invites instant merciless crackdown, President Xi Jinping has on Aug 17 praised the Communist Party of China (CPC) he heads for...
As I Saw It: Why a daytime candlelight vigil?
OPINION Palden Sonam* is piqued by the phenomenon of candlelight vigils being held when the sun is still up, and therefore in broad daylight, and asks whether this does not dilute the effectiveness of holding the events. Whoever coined the...
China aiming for the world’s AI systems being trained on its propaganda data
(TibetanReview.net, Aug17’26) – Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology tested ChatGPT when it was still a new technology and their findings, published in 2023, said the chatbot generated a large amount of “biased commentary about China” and “would...
China says ‘Taksing’ in Arunachal border is its ‘Taxin’ in ‘Zangnan’, calls incursion allegations a hype
(TibetanReview.net, Aug15’26) – China’s official media has not specifically denied but simply described as hype allegations that its troops’ had made incursion into India’s Taksing border area of Arunachal Pradesh. And while both the state and central governments have...
China criticizes everyone but itself for Lobga Rangen’s protest self-immolation
(TibetanReview.net, Aug14’26) – While Lobga Rangzen cited China’s campaign of forced assimilation of Tibet and the imperative of Tibetan unity in the campaign for independence as the urgent need of the hour, China’s official media has blamed everyone else...
A Flame That Does Not Go Out: Remembering Loga Rangzen and Thupten Ngodup
To Palden Gyal* this article is a personal and deeply moving reflection that links the self-immolations of Loga Rangzen la and Thupten Ngodup la—spanning nearly three decades—as enduring symbols of Tibetan sacrifice, resistance, and the struggle to preserve Tibetan...













