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The United Nations has issued a stark and urgent demand to the governments of Vietnam and China: explain the suspicious death of Tibetan spiritual leader Tulku Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche, or face international scrutiny for possible human rights violations.
Tulku Hungkar Dorje, revered abbot of the Tibetan Buddhist Longen Monastery in Qinghai, died in Vietnamese custody on March 28 or 29, 2025, under circumstances so opaque and troubling that four UN human rights bodies—including the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, and the Special Rapporteurs on extrajudicial executions and on minority issues—formally intervened. Their joint communications, sent to Hanoi and Beijing on August 8, cite “grave concern” over his detention, disappearance, and death, warning that both governments may have breached international law.
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