Tibetan Review
Report: 3.36 million Tibetans affected by China’s forced labour drive since 2000, 650,000 in 2024 alone
(TibetanReview.net, Jan23’26) – UN rights experts have on Jan 22 expressed deep concern stemming from allegations of forced labour affecting Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz minority groups as well as Tibetans in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and across other...
Famed Tibetan King’s Nepali queen no longer in home country’s national luminaries list
(TibetanReview.net, Jan22’26) – Bhrikuti, Bhelsa Tritsun in Tibetan, is no longer in Nepal’s list of national luminaries because there was no proper research on her despite the fact that her contribution to Buddhism and Buddhist culture in Tibet as...
Two Gelug exile Tibetan parliament members offer their penitence after the state oracle rebuke
(TibetanReview.net, Jan21’26) – The two Gelug members of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) have on Jan 20 offered their solemn penitence in keeping with a directive issued by the Lachi of the Drepung monastic university in the Doeguling...
Record 10,500 Tibetan students taken to schools in China in 2025 as Sinicization drive intensified
(TibetanReview.net, Jan20’26) – The number of Tibetan students sent to study in classes especially set up for them in schools in various provinces of China has increased in recent years in keeping with Beijing’s intensified drive to Sinicize Tibet...
China’s birthrate fell to lowest since 1949, its economic growth among slowest in decades
(TibetanReview.net, Jan19’26) – Despite a slew of socio-economic measures over the past one decade directed at encouraging the youth to marry and have children, and the married to have more children, China’s birth count plummeted to a record low...
When Science Touches a Wound: Be–Nb–Ta Mineralization and Displacement in Nyalam, Southern Tibet
OPINION Taking a recent journal report by Chinese scientists on the discovery and analysis of rare earth minerals near his birthplace in Tibet to task, Tenzin Jigmey* argues that scientific exploration must account for local impact and incorporate local...
The Dalai Lama and American Presidents: A Story of Faith, Diplomacy, and Friendship
Who was the first US President to write to the Dalai Lama and who the first to meet with him? Which US president became the first to call on China to open dialogue with the Dalai Lama, and which...
Elections’26: How Smartvote Tibet Can Strengthen Democracy in Exile
OPINION By obliging candidates to disclose their positions and be judged on them, the smartvote Tibet campaign shows at a glance comprehensive, comparable, and accessible information about all candidates at one place, enabling voters to know which of them...
Sinicization, patriotism educations marginalizing Buddhist education in Tibet’s monasteries?
(TibetanReview.net, Jan16’26) – Rather than being allowed to focus primarily on learning their mother tongue and the extensive religious texts which are written in it, China’s campaign for Sinicizing Tibetan Buddhism and making religion conform to its so-called socialist...
Sincizing Tibetan Buddhism by renaming ‘Chinese Buddhism’ as ‘Han Buddhism’?
(TibetanReview.net, Jan15’26) – China appears to have adopted a sect-wise Sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism not only to make it conform to its so-called socialist principles but also to possibly assimilate it with Chinese Buddhism. A symposium on Chinese-Tibetan Buddhism...















