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Manufacturing Faith: China’s Abduction of the 11th Panchen Lama and the Assault on Tibetan Religious Freedom

Tsering Passang On 25th April 1989, a boy named Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was born – a birth that would later carry profound spiritual significance for millions of Tibetans. Recognised in 1995 by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama as...

Peppa Pig Now Available in Tibetan to Support Language Preservation

Peppa Pig is now in Tibetan, launched by Tibet Fund to promote language learning and cultural preservation among young Tibetan children.

Panchen Lama turns 36 under China’s continued detention

ICT urges China to release the Panchen Lama on his 36th birthday, marking 30 years of enforced disappearance and religious repression in Tibet.

Sikyong Seeks Indian Government Support for Tibetan Medicine

Sikyong Penpa Tsering urges Indian AYUSH Minister to support Tibetan medicine under TRP 2014, aiming to strengthen Sowa-Rigpa tradition.

Tibetans in Dharamshala join rally, observe day-long market shutdown in solidarity with Pahalgam terror victims

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, April 24: Tibetans joined a rally in McLeod Ganj alongside local Indians today condemning the recent terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu & Kashmir and shut down their shops in the main market area for the entire...

Rare art collection documenting the 14th Dalai Lama’s enthronement heads for auction

Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, April 24: A collection documenting the 1940 enthronement of the 14th Dalai Lama will go under the hammer at Bonhams auction house in London on June 4, 2025. The Collection and Archive of Sir Basil Gould, the...

Sikyong Penpa Tsering Voices Solidarity with India Following Terror Attack in Jammu and Kashmir

Dharamshala: Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration has expressed deep sorrow over the recent terrorist attack in Jammu & Kashmir, which claimed lives and left many injured. In an official statement shared on the X platform (formerly...

Judge halts shutdown of VOA, RFA etc in a decision condemned by White House

(TibetanReview.net, Apr24’25) – After a temporary block on his March order by a New York judge, a federal district judge in Washington, DC, has on Apr 23 ordered the Trump administration to restore all jobs and funding for the...

Sikyong Penpa Tsering Calls on AYUSH Minister, Seeks Support for Traditional Tibetan Medicine Under TRP 2014

New Delhi: On 23 April 2025, Sikyong Penpa Tsering, as the incumbent Kalon (Minister) of the Department of Health, Central Tibetan Administration, paid a courtesy call to honourable Minister of AYUSH (Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha...

In Mourning and Solidarity: Tibetans Honour Kashmir Terrorist Attack Victims

*Tibetans in Dharamsala mourn the fatalities of the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir. *In Solidarity: Dharamsala Tibetans Close Businesses

Sikyong Penpa Tsering Participates in a Virtual Book Discussion Held by Foundation for Non-Violent Alternatives

Dharamshala: Sikyong Penpa Tsering on Wednesday, 23 April 2025, participated in an online book discussion on His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s recent book, Voice for the Voiceless, alongside Dr Thupten Jinpa, the editor of the book and chief English...

Tibetan Buddhist leader cremated in Vietnam under tight control points to Chinese transnational repression

April 23, 2025 The body of 57-year-old Tibetan Buddhist leader Hungkar Dorje (aka Trulku Hungkar Dorje, Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche) was cremated under darkness at 1am on April 20, 2025, in a highly secretive and tightly controlled ceremony in Ho...

Opinion: Vietnam’s Transnational Religious Repression Mirrors China’s Playbook

By Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh – Human rights activist living in exile in the United States and 2017 International Women of Courage Awardee (IWOC). April 22, 2025 The shocking case of Tulku Hungkar Dorje, a renowned Tibetan lama, who...

White House reinforces theory of COVID-19 originating from a lab in Wuhan, China

Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, April 23: In a shift in the United States federal government’s public position on the origins of COVID-19 virus, the Trump administration has replaced the content of official pandemic information websites with materials supporting the lab leak...

US federal judge orders funding restoration of Voice of America

Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, April, 23: U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth has ordered the immediate funding restoration of Voice of America (VOA) and related government-funded news services, ruling that recent drastic cuts likely violated both federal law and the Constitution....

Government-organized Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage to Tibet to resume Jun 30

(TibetanReview.net, Apr23’25) – Starting Jun 30, Indian devotees will finally be able to undertake government-organized pilgrimage to Mt Kailash and Lake Mansarovar in eastern Tibet’s Purang County, Ngari Prefecture, after a gap of some five years, according Indian media...

ICT statement on the Panchen Lama’s 36th birthday

April 23, 2025 April 25, 2025 marks the 36th birthday of the Panchen Lama, who has remained under continued detention by Chinese authorities since 1995, only for being recognized by the Dalai Lama as a prominent Tibetan Buddhist master....

Dalai Lama, Tibetan leaders express condolences on death of Pope Francis

Shimla: The Dalai Lama and leaders of the Tibetan govt-in-exile in Dharamshala have expressed their condolences over the death of Pope Francis.

Dalai Lama condoles Pope’s death, the two have never met

(TibetanReview.net, Apr22’25) – The Dalai Lama has on Apr 21 expressed sadness over the death of Pope Francis, writing to The Most Reverend Leopoldo Girelli, The Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal, the ambassador of the Holy See. The...

Exiled Tibetan Leadership condoles demise of Pope Francis 

DHARAMSALA, 22 April: The Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Central Tibetan Administration’s President Penpa Tsering, and the Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile, Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, have all expressed heartfelt condolences to the Roman...

Arunachal: Deputy CM Inaugurates maiden Global Buddhist Conclave

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA 22 April: In a first, the government of India has organised a two-day international Buddhist conclave in Arunachal Pradesh(AP), its bordering state with China-occupied Tibet, to highlight the spread and impact of Buddhism in India’s...

Central Tibetan Administration Observes Prayer Service to Mourn the Demise of His Holiness Pope Francis

Dharamshala: Today in the evening, the leadership and staff of Central Tibetan Administration gathered at Sikyong hall to observe a prayer service to mourn the demise of His Holiness Pope Francis and pay tributes to his legacies. The late...

Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel offers condolence over the demise of His Holiness Pope Francis

Dharamshala: Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, the Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, expressed heartfelt condolences to the Roman Catholic Church and its followers upon the demise of His Holiness Pope Francis. In the condolence letter,  Speaker wrote, “With most profound respect...

Sikyong Emphasises Resolving Tibet-China Conflict as Key Priority of Central Tibetan Administration During His Visit to Kamrao

Dharamshala: Sikyong Penpa Tsering arrived at the Kamrao Tibetan settlement on 20 April 2025, as part of his recent official visits, to a warm reception from community members led by the Tibetan Settlement Officer. Sikyong began his official programmes...

China to sanction US lawmakers, officials, NGO leaders for Hong Kong democracy support

(TibetanReview.net, Apr21’25) – China has responded to the US sanctioning of six of its officials on the mainland and Hong Kong last month by announcing Apr 21 sanctions on some US congress members, government officials as well as heads...