China arrests a major eastern Tibet monastery teacher, drives its administrator to suicide

8 months ago

(TibetanReview.net, Aug27’25) – The administrative head of a major monastery in eastern Tibet located in Ba (also called Gepasumdo / Kawasumdo / Thunte; Chinese: Tongde) county of Tsolho (Hainan) prefecture, Qinghai Province, has committed protest suicide recently while a teacher of the monastery remains disappeared after being arrested by Chinese police nearly two months ago. Both incidents are connected to China’s increased repression in connection with the commemoration of the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday this year, according to the Tibetan language tibettime.net Aug 22 and 25 and other recent reports.

Shersang Gyatso, the 52-year-old head of the Democratic Management Committee...

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