Herbertpur: On the auspicious occasion of Buddha Purnima (Vesak), the Herbertpur-Based Gongkar Tsedup Lhakhang in Dehradun organised a mass feeding programme for more than 3,000 local residents as part of the Ghoton initiative. According to the organisers, this modest...

(TibetanReview.net, May05’26) – Ahead of its Tibet-border trade reopening on Jun 1 after a gap of six years, the government of Himachal Pradesh has said it is actively pushing to operationalise the Kailash Mansarovar yatra (pilgrimage) through the strategic...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, May 5: The Central Tibetan Administration’s Election Commission (EC) has once again reversed its stance on the participation of voters from the Choejor Tibetan settlement in Nepal, ultimately revoking their voting rights despite earlier assurances that the final...

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 5 April: A new Human Rights Watch report titled Start with the Youngest Children: China Uses Preschools to “Integrate” Tibetans says China’s “Children’s Speech Harmonisation Plan,” introduced in 2021 by the Ministry of Education, has...

Paris:  A leading international press freedom organisation expressed grave concerns over the deteriorating health condition of Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu, citing his family, who said that he was recently hospitalised and diagnosed with an unidentified tumour. Reporters Without Borders...

Dehradun: The Tibetan settlement officer of Dehradun, Dr. Tsewang Phuntsok attended a Buddha Purnima (Vesak) celebration organised by Jaya Siddhartha Hospital near Dekyiling Tibetan settlement as the chief guest on 1 May 2026. The event featured Tibetan cultural performances,...

Dharamshala: On 29 April, the Education Council under the Department of Education, Central Tibetan Administration, convened a meeting to review sets of five children’s storybooks and five illustrated children’s encyclopaedias at the department’s meeting room. As usual, once the...

Policy for Kindergarten Children Imposes Chinese-Medium Environment, Indoctrination – By Human Rights Watch, 4 May 2026 A 2021 Ministry of Education directive—the Children’s Speech Harmonization plan—mandates the use of standard Mandarin Chinese for all preschool instruction and care, including...

IN TIBETAN, the word for satire is zurza (ཟུར་ཟ་), which literally means “eating from the sides”. It is an art of indirection, inversion and wit. In Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo, the scholar Timothy Thurston...

Brussels, 5 May: Following a decisive European Parliament debate on China’s “Ethnic Unity Law” on 29 April 2026, European Commissioner Hadja Lahbib delivered a powerful post-debate intervention reaffirming the European Union’s unwavering commitment to Tibetan religious freedom. “The EU...

OPINION Commenting on the subject of language, lineage and the survival of Tibetan Buddhism under China’s assimilationist policies, Saurabh Chauhan* explores the impact of Beijing’s new ethnic unity law on Tibetan language, Buddhist transmission, and cultural survival. There’s a...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, May 7: The U.S. House Appropriations Committee, in its fiscal year 2027 report, has called on the U.S. Department of State to press the government of Nepal to safeguard the rights of Tibetan refugees. The committee...

(TibetanReview.net, May04’26) – India has on May 3 rejected Nepal’s objection to its plan, in agreement with China, to organize its Kailash Mansarovar Yatra (pilgrimage) in Tibet this year also for its citizens through the Lipulekh Pass. The pass...

By Tenzin Palkyi DHARAMSALA, 2 May: Rignor Labs, a Bangalore-based software firm founded by Lobsang Tashi and Tashi Choetso on 3 January 2021, marks five years since its establishment. It specialises in AI, web, and mobile solutions for businesses...

Kathmandu: Nepal on Sunday objected to India and China planning to conduct the upcoming Kailash Mansarovar Yatra via Lipulekh Pass, claiming that it is Kathmandu's territory.In a statement, the Nepalese Foreign Ministry said that Kathmandu was not consulted before...

(TibetanReview.net, May03’26) –The Election Commission of the Central Tibetan Administration has on May 1 withdrawn its earlier decision on Apr 23 to not just countermand but annul the Choejor (Choeten-Boudha plus Jorpati) polling station for the final poll after...

China remained the world's largest prison for journalists and its regime conducted a campaign of repression against journalism and the right to information across the world, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in its latest annual survey. Currently, China...

Press freedom is the bedrock of accountability. It is a vital light that prevents absolute power from operating in the dark. More than just the right to publish, it is the fundamental human right to seek the truth, expose reality, and demand equality. ...

The eye that framed India

India’s visual memory of the last 60 years, from the power corridors in Delhi, to the dust and smoke in Bhopal, is impossible to imagine without Raghu Rai. His photographs turned news into history and everyday life into something unforgettable.

(TibetanReview.net, May02’26) –Press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in a quarter of a century and China as the world’s biggest jailer of journalists remains among the top violators in this unfortunate saga, according to Paris-based Reporters Without...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, May 2: The Association of Tibetan Journalists (ATJ), a collective of Tibetan journalists in exile, commemorated World Press Freedom Day on Saturday under the banner, “We are the custodians of our language. Let us learn, use,...

Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, May 2: The Central Tibetan Administration’s Election Commission (EC) has issued a fresh directive concerning the Choejor Tibetan settlement in Nepal, effectively rolling back its earlier decision to withdraw the final election of the polling station there. In...

A 13th century Buddha statue stolen from a Kathmandu temple in the 1980s has been returned from Tibet House US in New York, hailed in Nepal as a major cultural victory.