(TibetanReview.net, May25’25) – As hopes rise for the revival of border trade between India and Tibet through Shipki La in Kinnaur district, of Himachal Pradesh state and residents have urged the local authorities to take up the issue with...

(TibetanReview.net, May24’25) – China appears to be preparing to make a big deal of celebrating the 60th anniversary of its establishment of Tibet Autonomous Region, following its annexation of the Himalayan Buddhist country in 1951. Apart from everything else, a...

(TibetanReview.net, May23’25) – As Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, nears his 90th birthday, with the possibility of making an announcement on the issue of his reincarnation, which China plans to derail, the government of Scotland has added...

(TibetanReview.net, May23’25) – As India’s Operation Sindoor continues, with a ceasefire declared after four days of military operations, China has taken further steps to align itself militarily with Pakistan even as it claims to stand for a peaceful settlement...

(TibetanReview.net, May22’25) – China’s plan – in agreement with New Delhi – to open western Tibet’s Purang county of Ngari Prefecture for pilgrimage to Mt Kailash and Lake Mansarovar has moved forward with a total of 750 pilgrims being...

Dr A B Sai Prasad* discusses the role played by Professor Pokala Lakshmi Narasu, ‘an uncompromising opponent of Religion’, in popularizing Buddhism in the 19th century, the mantle currently borne by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. “In history textbooks,”...

(TibetanReview.net, May19’25) – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has on May 18 demanded the immediate release of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet, abducted by Chinese authorities 30 years ago at the age of six,...

(TibetanReview.net, May18’25) – Tibetans staged protests while political leaders, especially lawmakers, from several countries joined them in calling on China to free the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, Tibet’s second most prominent religious figure, as it continues its silence...

(TibetanReview.net, May17’25) – As they marked the culmination of the 49-day rituals on the death of Tulku Hungkar Dorje, Tibetans remain determined to find out about the sequence of events which led to the highly respected lama’s escape from...

(TibetanReview.net, May17’25) – To the rest of the world the highest peak in the world is Mt Everest. To Nepal, on whose northern border its southern part rises, it is Sagarmatha. And to Tibet, on whose southern border its...