China shuts down late Tibetan abbot’s school in Qinghai for refusing to Sinicize its curricula

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(TibetanReview.net, Jun26’26) – Chinese authorities in Gade (Chinese: Gande) County of Golog (Guoluo) Prefecture, Qinghai Province, have on Jun 24 ordered immediate shutdown of a Tibetan language and culture education centre established by the late abbot Tulku Hungkar Dorje of the early 19th century Lung-ngon Monastery as China implemented its law ostensibly for promoting ethnic unity and progress.

The abbot had died in highly atrocious circumstances in Ho Chi Minh City, in Mar 2025, just after a team of visiting Chinese police took him into custody from its Vietnamese counterpart. The abbot had fled there as he was being subjected to severe political persecution by the Chinese for refusing...

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