Tibetan Buddhist leader detained as Chinese authorities shutter yet another Tibetan language school

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Choktrul Dorje Ten Rinpoche, a prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader, was detained by Chinese authorities around December 4, 2025, under unknown circumstances, according to sources close to him. Choktrul Dorje Ten is the abbot of Osel Thegchok Chokhorling monastery and founder of the Dorje Ten Ethnic Vocational and Technical High School, a Tibetan-medium instruction school in the northern Tibetan region of Amdo, which has now been forcibly closed.

Detained and held incommunicado

According to a Tibetan source who spoke to International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), Choktrul Dorje Ten was apprehended by Chinese authorities while traveling alone from his monastery to his home.

Concerningly, it remains unclear which Chinese security agency or agencies carried out his detention, and his whereabouts and status remain unknown.

“The detention of Choktrul Dorje Ten Rinpoche and the closure of his Tibetan-language instruction school is another painful reminder that...

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