• According to Reuters the Dalai Lama said in March 2012 he does not encourage the protests, but he has praised the courage of those who had engaged in self-immolation and blamed the self-immolations on "cultural genocide" by the Chinese. (wikipedia.org)
  • When asked by an Australian journalist - in the context of self-immolations to oppose Chinese rule and policies - if Tibetans are "losing patience with non-violence", the Dalai Lama replied: No. I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. (wikipedia.org)
  • Senior Chinese officials have rejected calls to meet with the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama or with authorities from the Tibetan exile government based in northern India. (globalsecurity.org)
  • A total of 89 Tibetans have self-immolated since February 2009, almost all of whom shouted slogans or left statements calling for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet , Tibetan freedom, relaxation of religious and cultural policy, and related issues. (hrw.org)
  • the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan issues. (amnesty.org)
  • He is reported to have shouted slogans calling for the return of the Dalai Lama and freedom for the Tibetan people. (voanews.com)
  • At least 85 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009, demanding freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama from exile. (voanews.com)
  • But U.N. officials did inform the interfaith coalition which organized the program and picked the participants that China would oppose an invitation to the Dalai Lama. (beliefnet.com)
  • The Chinese delegation walked out of the General Assembly chamber Tuesday night when a senior Tibetan monk, Drikung Chestsang Rinpoche, was delivering a message to the conference on behalf of the Dalai Lama. (beliefnet.com)
  • The Office of Tibet, the U.S. representative of the Dalai Lama, said it marked the first time Tibetans representing the Buddhist leader have spoken in the U.N.'s General Assembly hall since the early 1960s. (beliefnet.com)
  • The Chinese delegation to the summit includes a Tibetan Buddhist lama, Jamyang Shepa, the abbot of a large monastery in northeastern Tibet who has publicly criticized the Dalai Lama several times since his arrival in the United States. (beliefnet.com)
  • Huazi had misrepresented the Tibetan issue, including misquoting the Dalai Lama. (savetibet.org)
  • Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (center) is helped as he walks on a visit to the sacred Bodhi tree at the world heritage Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya, India, on Dec. 25, 2019. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • They detained 20 monks under suspicion of exchanging messages with overseas Tibetans, contributing relief to a sister monastery in Nepal and owning photos or texts related to the Dalai Lama. (abc.net.au)
  • China still maintains that Tibet is an 'integral' and 'inseparable' part of its territory, but many Tibetans' allegiances lie with their spiritual leader , the Dalai Lama. (abc.net.au)
  • After the failed Tibetan uprising in opposition to Chinese rule in 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama fled to India where he still lives in exile today. (abc.net.au)
  • Beijing is particularly concerned with the district of Tawang, home to an important monastery associated with the Dalai Lama's Tibetan Buddhist religious order and where the Dalai Lama stopped as he entered exile in India in 1959. (the-american-interest.com)
  • When the Dalai Lama made a return visit to Tawang in April, China promised "blows for blows. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Under pressure, a number of European countries adopted the "one China" phrase for Tibet and stopped high-level meetings with the Dalai Lama. (the-american-interest.com)
  • This helps Beijing cast the Dalai Lama as a "splittist" and support for him as "anti-China. (the-american-interest.com)
  • For its part, Beijing had no reason to take seriously the Sino-Tibetan Dialogue with representatives of the Dalai Lama, which collapsed in 2010. (the-american-interest.com)
  • The student wanted to peacefully celebrate the 81st birthday of the Dalai Lama in July along with hundreds of exiled Tibetans. (dw.com)
  • According to Kurba Nordu, 'these monks sacrifice themselves because the Chinese confiscate portraits of the Dalai Lama and send agents into monasteries to indoctrinate them. (worldcrunch.com)
  • In most instances, Chinese authorities have treated devotion to the Dalai Lama as a threat against China. (cecc.gov)
  • The Chinese government blames the Dalai Lama, who escaped Tibet after a foiled uprising in 1959, for orchestrating the self-immolations. (time.com)
  • But the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile, which is based in the Indian hill town of Dharamsala, say these are individual protests with no coordination from abroad. (time.com)
  • Only a very few qualified Tibetan Buddhist masters, including exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, can deliver such sermons. (rfa.org)
  • Tibetan monks continue to protest against the detention in a military camp of a large number of monks from the Kirti monastery in the Sichuan province of China ever since the self-immolation in March last of a young monk of the monastery in support of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and in condemnation of the repressive Chinese rule in the Tibetan areas. (c3sindia.org)
  • Oct. 16, 2019 - New job postings reveal that Chinese authorities are requiring college graduates from the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) who apply for jobs in public institutions to "expose and criticize the Dalai Lama" and "have clear and firm political principles. (yubanet.com)
  • These new requirements underscore how Tibetans are being forced to perform visible acts of loyalty to the Chinese state and to disavow any allegiance to the Dalai Lama, whom China forced into exile 60 years ago and who has not been allowed to return to Tibet ever since. (yubanet.com)
  • They continue to support the Dalai Lama out of their religious beliefs," said Xiong Kunxin, a professor with the Minzu University of China. (savetibet.org)
  • The findings of China's inspection team and the admission by Chen Quanguo that even cadres are looking to the Dalai Lama instead of to the Communist Party confirms the reality that despite all their efforts the Chinese authorities have not been successful in severing the historical and special bond between the Tibetan people and the Dalai Lama. (savetibet.org)
  • their steadfast devotion to the Dalai Lama and the existence of corruption at all levels in the Tibetan society in Tibet. (savetibet.org)
  • Dr Arya Tsewang Gyalpo, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Japan and East Asia and Chinese white papers on Tibet. (thetibetpost.com)
  • Tenzin Dorjee, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet, opposed that view on the CNN Belief Blog, urging to "understand the self-immolations" and arguing "instead of responding to China's oppression with revenge - a path far more tempting to the basic human instinct - Tibetans have chosen a means far more peaceful. (wikipedia.org)
  • During the online discussion, Locke also acknowledged his recent visit to Aba prefecture of China's Sichuan Province, where nearly two-thirds of the Tibetans who have set themselves on fire lived. (globalsecurity.org)
  • While U.S. representatives have raised the Tibetan issue with China's government, it is rare for a U.S. ambassador to visit Tibetan areas. (globalsecurity.org)
  • When asked about Ambassador Locke's call to reexamine Tibetan policies Tuesday, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei rejected the comments. (globalsecurity.org)
  • He says Tibetan affairs are China's internal affairs and China opposes any effort to interfere in internal affairs in any way. (globalsecurity.org)
  • BEIJING (AFP) - A Tibetan man has died after setting himself on fire in protest at China's rule of the Himalayan region, a rights group and overseas media said, the first self-immolation this year. (straitstimes.com)
  • The immolation happened in Xiahe, a county in western China's Gansu province known as Sangchu in Tibetan. (straitstimes.com)
  • DHARMSALA, India, Aug. 30 (AP)--The Tibetan government in exile denounced on Wednesday China's walk-out during a speech by the Dalai Lama's representative at a global gathering of religious leaders at the United Nations. (beliefnet.com)
  • China accuses the Tibetan Buddhist leader of ``creating turmoil'' in Tibet, which he fled in 1959 after an abortive uprising against China's occupation. (beliefnet.com)
  • Anyone that the Chinese authorities deem to have impaired China's national security and public interest can be punished under this law," Tsering said. (tibet.net)
  • A signed article by Zangzi analyzes the status of contact between Tibetan and Chinese representatives repudiating some of the issues raised in an article by Huazi in China's Tibet and subsequently published in the People's Daily. (savetibet.org)
  • Tibetan pilgrims add butter into Buddha lamps at the Sera Monastery during the Grand Summons Ceremony in the suburb of Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on March 10, 2009. (china.org.cn)
  • Many of the region's monasteries were destroyed during China's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 70s, and many Tibetans were also believed to have been killed. (abc.net.au)
  • When widespread protests on the Tibetan plateau in 2008 revealed China's failure to assimilate Tibet, Beijing elevated Tibet's importance in its international relations. (the-american-interest.com)
  • For Chinese democrats the addition of a democratic polity (albeit one with limited sovereignty) to China's periphery is, like the democratization of Taiwan, a welcome development. (the-american-interest.com)
  • According to the paper, the crackdown appears to be part of the growing conflict in Tibetan areas, which in the last year have been the site of the most intense and sustained protests against China's religious and political suppression. (newstrackindia.com)
  • This photo taken on May 3, 2023 shows the books on the Epic of King Gesar in the Tibetan language (L) and in Chinese in Xining, northwest China's Qinghai Province. (news.cn)
  • XINING, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Two new books on the Epic of King Gesar have been published as part of efforts to preserve the 1,000-year-old Tibetan epic, according to a research center in northwest China's Qinghai Province. (news.cn)
  • New Delhi [India], October 1 (ANI): Tibetan youths on Saturday protested outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi on the occasion of China's National Day - October 1. (bignewsnetwork.com)
  • Historically, on the 1st of October in 1949, China's newly declared Premier, Mao Zedong hoisted the Chinese flag on Tiananmen Square and announced the birth of a new communist nation, The People's Republic of China. (bignewsnetwork.com)
  • China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has deployed the first set of troops of the newly raised Tibetan unit (purely of Tibetan ethnicity), the Special Tibetan Army Unit (STAU), in the strategically important Chumbi Valley between Sikkim and Bhutan. (newsx.com)
  • Rarely listed among the government's biggest challenges is the country's ethnic situation, which encompasses grievances from Tibetans, Muslim Uighurs in China's northwestern Xinjiang region and Mongolians in the north of the country. (time.com)
  • The move to control access to the Sept. 15-17 sermon by prominent lama Gungthang Rinpoche Lobsang Jamyang Geleg Tenpe Khenchen in Gansu province's Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture comes amid growing criticism of China's policies in Tibet, where authorities restrict Tibetans' political activities and peaceful expression of cultural and religious identity. (rfa.org)
  • 30 July 2022: Experts in an international webinar on 'Tibetan Women and Human Rights Under China's Colonial Rule' were critical of China and its Communist Party for using forced abortion and coercive sterilization of Tibetan women as a normal practice of enforcing family planning and population control on the people of Tibet. (tibetanyouthcongress.org)
  • China's policy of settling large number of Han men into Tibet and the policy of giving special economic and other incentives for marriages between Tibetan women and Han men has only made it worse. (tibetanyouthcongress.org)
  • The requirements for Tibetan graduates go far beyond the language in a general college graduate recruitment announcement posted by the People's Republic of China's Ministry of Natural Resources in 2019, which applies to people across China and says only that applicants must "[r]esolutely support the Party's line, principles, and policies, comply with the law, and behave properly. (yubanet.com)
  • China published its latest white paper entitled "A Global Community of Shared Future: China's Proposals and Actions" on September 26, 2023. (thetibetpost.com)
  • U.S. Ambassador to China, Clark Randt, went to the Chinese Foreign Ministry Thursday to "protest China's treatment of the refugees" in the incident, embassy spokeswoman Susan Stevenson said. (wadias.in)
  • China expresses strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to Australia, in disregard of China's position and concern, allowing him to use the NPC platform to engage in separatist activities," the embassy argued in a letter handed to Reilly, The Age reported. (beijingnews.net)
  • The Chinese side urges the Australian side to see through the nature of the Dalai Clique, respect China's core interests and major concerns, and take concrete actions to remove the negative effects in order to prevent the disruption of the sound development of China-Australia relations and media cooperation. (beijingnews.net)
  • Tibetans are all too familiar with China's long arm of repression in Australia and globally. (beijingnews.net)
  • During 2018's Twin Sessions, two members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Zhang Endi and Ma Jin, put forward a proposal contrasting China's unchanged list with the annually updated IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, which reflects the conservation status of animal and plant species around the world. (lu.se)
  • Zhang Zhengwang is a professor at Beijing Normal University, deputy chair of the China Zoological Society and a member of China's Endangered Species Scientific Commission. (lu.se)
  • In 2011, a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans in Tibet, as well as in India and Nepal, occurred after the self-immolation of Phuntsog of 16 March 2011 in Ngawa County, Sichuan. (wikipedia.org)
  • Self-immolation protests by Tibetans also occurred in India and Kathmandu, Nepal. (wikipedia.org)
  • It certainly has done great damage to the credibility of the conference and the image of the United Nations,'' said Thubten Samphel, the spokesman for the Tibetan government in exile which is based in Dharmsala, India. (beliefnet.com)
  • Dawa Tsering, the director of the India-based Tibet Policy Institute, told RFA that "there are no proper guidelines on which the Chinese government has grounded these regulations in Tibet. (tibet.net)
  • T he border standoff between China and India is in its second month. (the-american-interest.com)
  • In June, Peoples Liberation Army troops were found building a road in disputed territory at the junction of Chinese-occupied Tibet, Bhutan, and India. (the-american-interest.com)
  • We are striving for a balance of foreign relations between India and China," he said. (dw.com)
  • The aim is to divide investment between India and China. (dw.com)
  • India would get contracts for hydropower and China would finance infrastructure in the context of its new Silk Road project. (dw.com)
  • Beijing, Apr 8 (ANI): Hundreds of Tibetans who attended a Buddhist ceremony in India in January have reportedly been detained by Chinese forces without any charge on their return to Tibet. (newstrackindia.com)
  • Chinese authorities have detained large numbers of Tibetan pilgrims returning from the ceremony known as the Kalachakra, held regularly in India among other places, for the first time. (newstrackindia.com)
  • They will join up with those 20,000 Tibetans who have sought refuge in Nepal to move on to Dharamsala, in India , the seat of the Tibetan government in exile. (worldcrunch.com)
  • After border tensions with India last year, the Chinese military realised that its soldiers from plains can't perform well in high altitudes, hence unable to stand up to Ladakhi or Tibetan soldiers joining the Indian Army. (newsx.com)
  • Recruiting unemployed Tibetan youths into Chinese army after 70 years of Tibet occupation, can be a two way move to not only target India but also gain Tibetan's sympathy and support. (newsx.com)
  • Tibetan activist Leden from Delhi, India. (thetibetpost.com)
  • Samyeling Tibetan Settlement in Majnu-ka-tila, Delhi, India. (thetibetpost.com)
  • Penpa Tsering is the second democratically elected Sikyong of the Central Tibetan Administration in India. (beijingnews.net)
  • Also known as the Central Tibetan Administration, the government-in-exile is based in Dharamshala, India and includes judicial, legislative and executive branches. (beijingnews.net)
  • He worked as a journalist with Indian Express in New Delhi, and as an official of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) in Dharamsala, India, before joining ICT. (savetibet.org)
  • Nepal and India share similar historical ties to Tibet and have both experienced changes in their relationships with China. (tibetexpress.net)
  • Bans like this are aimed at eventually wiping out the languages and culture of all ethnic minorities in the country," Nyiwoe, a researcher at the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy based in Dharamsala, India, said to the media outlet. (visiontimes.com)
  • Mahayana Buddhist traditions in places such as China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Bhutan, India, and Nepal were founded on translations of original Sanskrit texts, and Sanskrit texts are also important in Tantric Buddhist traditions. (lu.se)
  • Qinghai and Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) officials have in recent weeks employed forms of collective punishment to discourage immolations. (hrw.org)
  • Tibetan antelopes are mostly found in Tibet Autonomous Region , Qinghai Province and the western part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region . (china.org.cn)
  • Meanwhile, there are reports that the re-opening of the Tibet Autonomous Region-which spans about half of Chinese-occupied Tibet-for foreign tourism is decided. (savetibet.org)
  • In general, the Tibet Autonomous Region is the only area for which the Chinese government requires foreigners to obtain a specific Tibet Travel Permit issued by the TAR Tourism Bureau, in addition to a visa. (savetibet.org)
  • The Tibetan-style English font used in the headline of infographics introducing Tibet autonomous region. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Fusing elements of the Tibetan script with English letters, it was specially launched by China Daily' s layout design center for the newspaper's report of the 50th anniversary of Tibet autonomous region. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • A recent report by Human Rights Watch mentioned that there is an arbitrary collection of DNA from residents in several towns and villages throughout Tibet and the so-called Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) in particular, reported Tibet Press. (bignewsnetwork.com)
  • The PLA has deployed a new set of militia, which is known as Mimang Cheton (MC), in the Chumbi Valley under Yatung County in Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR)," said a source. (newsx.com)
  • The Tibet Daily reports Chen Quanguo, Party chief of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, as accepting the team's findings saying that they were "factual and comprehensive" and have "woken us up from the sleep of ignorance. (savetibet.org)
  • Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa, China. (bvsalud.org)
  • New York) - The self-immolation of seven Tibetans since November 26, 2012, highlights the failure of Chinese authorities to address Tibetan grievances, Human Rights Watch said today. (hrw.org)
  • As a direct result of those immolations, the authorities have since banned all Tibetans who reside outside the TAR from entering the region without written police guarantees. (hrw.org)
  • The authorities have also arrested Tibetans apparently for involvement in helping immolators plan or carry out their protests. (hrw.org)
  • Sources say Chinese authorities immediately arrived at the scene Monday and removed Wangyal's charred body. (voanews.com)
  • Chinese authorities imposed a new cyber law in Tibet that went into effect Wednesday, with the government announcing tougher punishments for anyone creating "public disorder by engaging in separatist acts. (tibet.net)
  • The law, initially passed in 2016, is designed to strengthen digital surveillance and censorship in the region, with the new requirements allowing authorities to target Tibetans for online activity deemed critical of Chinese rule in the region. (tibet.net)
  • The law itself does not specify the type of violations that would get individual Tibetans in trouble with authorities, raising fears that Chinese police would use it to target anyone having cultural, social, or religious conversations related to Tibet. (tibet.net)
  • The laws] will leave room for Chinese authorities to arrest and detain them on simple but also uncertain charges. (tibet.net)
  • We are relieved that Dhondup Wangchen has been released, but Chinese authorities will never be able to return the six years they've already taken from him," said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. (cpj.org)
  • In an apparent attempt to thwart any potential incidents during the sensitive period surrounding the anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising of March 10, 1959, Chinese authorities have announced the closure of the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa for pilgrims from March 8 to 10, 2023. (savetibet.org)
  • The chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Prof. Jacob Doek, yesterday morning urged the Chinese authorities to allow an independent body to verify the current status of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet. (tibet.net)
  • Describing the case as a ÃÆ'¢â‚¬Åâ€Å"returning issueÃÆ'¢â‚¬Â to the CRC, Prof. Doek suggested that the Chinese authorities could (tibet.net)
  • According to Tibetan news agencies, authorities had given permission for the celebration honoring the Tibetan leader. (dw.com)
  • Authorities in southwest China on Thursday cremated the body of a prominent Tibetan monk who died in prison last week, ignoring the pleas of relatives, religious leaders and thousands of supporters who had demanded that they be allowed to carry out funeral rites integral to Tibetan Buddhism. (staradvertiser.com)
  • From their earliest efforts at harassing him, all the way through to their disposal of his body, Chinese authorities' treatment of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche has demonstrated utter contempt for their own laws and for religious traditions,' said Sophie Richardson, the China director of Human Rights Watch. (staradvertiser.com)
  • Unanimously, the refugees denounce the hardened stance of Nepalese authorities since 2008, which is when Chinese repression began in the wake of Tibetan demonstrations in Lhasa. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Sichuan provincial security authorities intensified religious repression in the province's Tibetan areas in the mid- to late-1990s, resulting in more than 130 cases of detention or imprisonment during that period, according to data available in the CECC Political Prisoner Database (PPD) . (cecc.gov)
  • In Gansu's Gannan prefecture (or Kanlho in Tibetan), where the famous Labrang monastery is located, local authorities offered more than $30,000 in reward money for information on those who planned self-immolations there. (time.com)
  • Chinese authorities have restricted Tibetans from attending a key Buddhist event called the Kalachakra out of fear that the gathering of what sources on the ground suggest is more than 100,000 people could pose a threat to the government, according to Tibetans in the region. (rfa.org)
  • In a Sept. 10 directive obtained by RFA Tibetan, authorities in Dzoege county - a part of Tibet's historical eastern region of Amdo - said the sermon "is only arranged for residents of [the city of] Tsoe (in Chinese, Hezuo)" and that there "are no arrangements made for Tibetan devotees coming to attend from other parts of Tibet. (rfa.org)
  • A Tibetan in the region said that the sheer size of the audience for the Kalachakra had prompted authorities to restrict access to the event. (rfa.org)
  • The Chinese authorities have barred Tibetans coming from other parts of Tibet from attending the teaching because they are fearful of such huge gatherings and are being cautious of possible demonstrations against the Chinese government, said the Tibetan who, like others RFA interviewed for this report, spoke on condition of anonymity, citing fear of reprisal. (rfa.org)
  • Tibetans frequently complain of discrimination and human rights abuses by Chinese authorities and policies they say are aimed at eradicating their national and cultural identity. (rfa.org)
  • Another Tibetan source told RFA that authorities may have felt helpless in the face of devotees "pouring" into the region for the Kalachakra. (rfa.org)
  • Photos of the tents on the Dzoghe Toema meadow for the Kalachakra teachings of the 7th Gungthang Rinpoche from 15 to 17 September 2023, with the notice of the Chinese authorities. (thetibetpost.com)
  • Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao had earlier Thursday denied knowledge of the shootings, but said that if the news reports about it were true, Chinese authorities would investigate. (wadias.in)
  • Therefore, finding "serious corruption issues" will not be a surprise to the Tibetans, but they will now be waiting to see how the authorities will be following up on this. (savetibet.org)
  • But a belief among the Tibetan public is that the authorities will not be prosecuting any of these officials as they are also the ones who mouth slogans of loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. (savetibet.org)
  • Nevertheless, cases of fleeing Tibetans being arrested and deported back to Chinese authorities occasionally come to light. (tibetexpress.net)
  • Chinese authorities are limiting the use of the Tibetan language in educating Tibetan children. (visiontimes.com)
  • Chinese authorities have placed a ban on teaching Tibetan language to children in the province of Qinghai. (visiontimes.com)
  • In 2011, the forestry authorities consulted with the China Zoological Society and organised expert discussions. (lu.se)
  • Interestingly, Chinese state media said the Lhasa Traffic Police on March 2, 2023 announced restrictions on certain roads in the city on account of "upgrading and transformation of water supply network. (savetibet.org)
  • A posting by the Lhasa Tourism Development Bureau on Chinese social media on March 4, 2023 invited probable visitors to let them know how they would like to arrive in Tibet, whether by train or by plane, saying the bureau is ready. (savetibet.org)
  • For instance, Canada-based historian Tsering Shakya tweeted on March 5, 2023 that Tibet University in Lhasa will restart a Tibetan language program for international students in September 2023. (savetibet.org)
  • Tibet University in Lhasa will restart #Tibetan language Program for International students in September 2023. (savetibet.org)
  • In January 2023, China announced the quarantine-free policies for travel. (savetibet.org)
  • A comparison of satellite photos of Gansu province's Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture showing a vast gathering of tents between Sept. 3, 2023 [left] and Sept. 13, 2023. (rfa.org)
  • Tibetan activists protest against the Chinese government for its repressive policies towards Tibetans in Tibet, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, New York, on September 27, 2023. (thetibetpost.com)
  • Tibetan activists from SFT protested against the visit of Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng to New York for attending the United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2023. (thetibetpost.com)
  • The 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile convened its 6th session on September 19, 2023. (thetibetpost.com)
  • Tibetans, Hong Kongers, Uyghurs and Chinese in San Francisco protested against Chinese President Xi jinping on November 16, 2023. (thetibetpost.com)
  • Uprisings against Chinese rule have swept the Tibetan plateau since 2008 when protests spread from Lhasa to Sichuan and Qinghai. (globalsecurity.org)
  • On November 14, after five self-immolations in their area in a week, officials in Huangnan ( Malho in Tibetan) prefecture in Qinghai ordered the cancellation of all "benefits received by the households of self-immolators under public benefit policies" and announced that "all projects running on state funds in self-immolators' villages must be stopped. (hrw.org)
  • Four monks from Zilkar monastery in Chenduo ( Trindu in Tibetan) county, Yushu prefecture, Qinghai province, were detained on September 1 and later sentenced to up to two years in prison, apparently for involvement in a small protest on February 8. (hrw.org)
  • Separately, Chinese security forces cracked down Monday on a demonstration by thousands of Tibetan students in Qinghai, leaving some severely injured. (voanews.com)
  • One of the latest publications in the Tibetan language was compiled from the manuscripts collected by the Qinghai provincial protection and research center of the Epic of King Gesar. (news.cn)
  • More than 100,000 Tibetan devotees have gathered for this Kalachakra but, besides residents, Tibetans coming from Qinghai, Sichuan and other parts of the region are not allowed to attend. (rfa.org)
  • This is an attempt to wipe out Tibetan culture," a Tibetan source living in Qinghai told RFA . (visiontimes.com)
  • Monasteries in Qinghai are already banned from teaching language to younger Tibetans. (visiontimes.com)
  • As per the latest census, Qinghai Province, which historically was part of Tibet's Amdo region, has witnessed a steady growth in the number of Tibetans and a decline in the Han Chinese population. (visiontimes.com)
  • Wen Jiabao, then premier of China, said that such extreme actions hurt social harmony and that Tibet and the Tibetan areas of Sichuan are integral parts of Chinese territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wangyal, a Tibetan man in his 20s, self-immolated in Sichuan province. (voanews.com)
  • The two Tibetans were blamed for a bomb attack last April in Sichuan's capital Chengdu, which killed one person and injured another, as well as two explosions in the Ganzi area of the Kham Tibetan region under Sichuan provincial administration. (phayul.com)
  • TibetanReview.net, Apr27, 2014) - A Tibetan comedian in Lithang County of Karze (Chinese: Ganzi) Prefecture, Sichuan Province, jailed in 2012 on a false weapons charge after he planned to release a DVD that criticized Chinese rule in Tibet has been released nine months before the end of his three-year sentence but remains in fragile health, reported Radio Free Asia (Washington) Apr 25. (tibetanreview.net)
  • Nor were they shot at by Chinese patrols as they crossed the arid, mineral-rich landscape from their starting point in Kham, in the province of Sichuan. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on January 11, 2005, that police in Kangding, the capital of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP) in Sichuan province, have detained a former monk on suspicion of starting a fire in the building housing the prefectural people's congress. (cecc.gov)
  • Department of Health Behavior and Social Medicine, West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. (bvsalud.org)
  • RFA claims 96 ethnic Tibetans, many of them monks and nuns, have set themselves on fire in China since February 2009 to protest against Beijing's rule in Tibet. (straitstimes.com)
  • Screen shot of Al Jazeera report in 2008 when Tibetan monks unexpectedly gathered at the Jokhang Temple to speak to the international media. (savetibet.org)
  • The Tibetans who are recruited in the STAU are taken to Tibetan Monks after completion of their training for their blessings. (newsx.com)
  • It is reported that previously there was no such practice of taking Tibetan recruits to Tibetan Monks for their blessings. (newsx.com)
  • In a society where there is already a large proportion of monks and nuns who don't contribute towards population growth, forcing Tibetan women to 'one-child' norm has seriously affected the Tibetan society. (tibetanyouthcongress.org)
  • 2. The monks have been detained in a military camp that has been compared by the Tibetans to the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba started by the US post-9/11 for detaining Al Qaeda suspects. (c3sindia.org)
  • 4. Reports from Tibetan sources indicate that in recent days there have been two more instances of self-immolation and one instance of attempted self-immolationby young monks belonging to the monastery in protest against the camp and in support of His Holiness. (c3sindia.org)
  • 9.The Chinese police have started arresting and prosecuting on a charge of abetment to suicide friends and associates of monks committing self-immolation and by-standers who do not intervene to prevent incidents of self-immolation. (c3sindia.org)
  • Self-immolations by Tibetans protesting Chinese domination of Tibet have had a greater impact than earlier protests. (wikipedia.org)
  • Despite considerable loss of life during the Tibetan protests in 2008 on the part of both the Tibetan and Han population in Tibet, casualties were simply not reported by the Chinese government. (wikipedia.org)
  • Following a series of self-immolation protests, the U.S. Ambassador to China is speaking out on Beijing's policies toward Tibetans. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Tibetans have denied the immolations are planned by an outside force and say the protests are a response to repressive policies by the Chinese government that restrict their freedom of religion and human rights. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Increasingly pervasive and punitive security measures in response to protests have exacerbated the situation in Tibetan areas of China. (hrw.org)
  • Although the Chinese leadership in March said that the immolators were "innocents," officials this month described these protests as " ugly and evil acts intended to achieve the separatist goal of Tibetan independence," and as "used by the Dalai group to incite unrest in an attempt to split the nation. (hrw.org)
  • A think tank, later shuttered, traced the origins of the Tibetan protests to Party policies and Chinese lawyers volunteered to defend Tibetans arrested in the crackdown. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Chinese state media reports a Tibet man has died after setting himself on fire, raising the total of self-immolation protests to seven in a week. (voanews.com)
  • The Jokhang temple has been the site of protests by Tibetans against Chinese misrule in the past. (savetibet.org)
  • Readers may remember the Chinese human rights lawyers in April 2008 who offered legal aid services to Tibetans involved in the protests at the time. (highpeakspureearth.com)
  • Chinese armed police in Tibet's capital of Lhasa. (abc.net.au)
  • The Jokhang is considered the most sacred place for Tibetan Buddhists and lies in the center of Lhasa, Tibet's capital. (savetibet.org)
  • In her presentation about the situation of Tibetan women under the Chinese colonial rule, Tenzin Passang, a young Tibetan woman activist, gave chronological details of how Tibetan women have played active role in Tibet's fight for freedom since occupation of Tibet in 1951 and hence invited Chinese ire. (tibetanyouthcongress.org)
  • Lhasa [Tibet], June 7 (ANI): In yet another case of the Chinese government's bullying tactics, China has sought to block the head of Tibet's government-in-exile from participating in the planned event at National Press Club in Australia this month, undermining free speech in Canberra, according to The Age. (beijingnews.net)
  • China has been accused of obstructing Penpa Tsering, the leader of Tibet's government-in-exile, from delivering a speech at the National Press Club. (beijingnews.net)
  • According to the paper, the pilgrims were detained at checkpoints while returning overland via Nepal or while flying into Tibetan capital Lhasa. (newstrackindia.com)
  • In Nepal, for example, the PRC received permission to destroy Tibetan rebel bases in the early 1960s, and since then it has coopted Kathmandu in the effort to stop the flow of Tibetan refugees. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Tibetan refugees may be tolerated in neighboring Nepal, but they are forced to live isolated from society and in an uncertain legal situation. (dw.com)
  • Outside of the settlements some refugees have found a niche working in tourism or selling Tibetan souvenirs. (dw.com)
  • In the future it will be more difficult for Tibetan refugees in Nepal," says Baumann. (dw.com)
  • Tibetan refugees continue to brave harrowing journeys across the Himalayas to Nepal and beyond. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Once they made it across the Chinese border, the seven undocumented refugees were arrested in Humla by Nepalese police and escorted to the immigration office in Kathmandu. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Chinese diplomats in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu are tracking down and trying to silence hundreds of Western climbers and Sherpas who witnessed the killing of Tibetan refugees on the Nangpa La mountain pass last week. (wadias.in)
  • As the CCP's influence in Nepal gains strength, the situation of Tibetan refugees living in Nepal has deteriorated, particularly since the mid-2000s. (tibetexpress.net)
  • Instead of stepping up repression and driving people to believe there is no hope of change, Beijing needs to take steps to respond to Tibetans' grievances. (hrw.org)
  • Four Tibetans have set themselves on fire across western China in the last two days, while a Tibetan student protest against the Beijing government drew a security crackdown. (voanews.com)
  • The documentary, named "Chiru" by Beijing director Fu Jingsheng, shows how the animals are killed and how their wool are collected, and how China has cracked down on illegal poaching in recent years. (china.org.cn)
  • The author points out that the majority of Chinese people just follow what the Beijing government says on Tibet and don't know the truth on Tibet. (savetibet.org)
  • To which, the head of the Chinese delegation in yesterday's session of the CRC responded by saying only that he would pass on the request to the higher-ups in Beijing. (tibet.net)
  • Pressure is increasing on Tibetans living in Nepal as the influence of Beijing in the Himalayan region grows. (dw.com)
  • For Tibetans-in-exile, this means that the influence of Beijing will not diminish in the near future. (dw.com)
  • Alarmed by accounts of his failing health, family members in recent years had been petitioning Beijing to grant Tenzin Delek medical parole, a campaign that drew support from Tibetan exile groups, Western governments and thousands of his followers in China. (staradvertiser.com)
  • The "China Daily Tibet font" was created as a collaboration between China Daily and Founder Font, Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd at the end of 2015. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • The biggest issue facing China is not corruption but the nationalities [or ethnic minority] policy and religious policy," says Zhang Yihe, a well-connected writer in Beijing, whose books are banned in China. (time.com)
  • While a Nepali official in Beijing has expressed optimism, stating, "We have reached some positive understandings, and this visit has set the tone for advancing certain projects," a former Nepali Ambassador to China, Mahendra Bahadur Pandey, holds a contrasting view. (tibetexpress.net)
  • Pressure from Beijing led to the closure of the Dalai Lama's office in Nepal, and open and public commemorations of the March 10th Tibetan uprising and the celebration of the Dalai Lama's birthday in Nepal have become a thing of the past. (tibetexpress.net)
  • Last week, seven Tibetans set themselves on fire in as many days, bringing the total of self-immolations on the troubled high plateau to more than 60 people since March 2011. (time.com)
  • Human-caused global warming is disrupting the water balance at the Tibetan Plateau, also called the Third Pole because it is the largest global store of frozen water after the polar regions. (lu.se)
  • Back home Chinese repression has triggered a new wave of self-immolations. (worldcrunch.com)
  • The German foreign ministry on Monday expressed its "grave concern" at the execution of a Tibetan activist convicted after a string of bomb blasts in southwestern China, saying it contradicted assurances which China had given the European Union. (phayul.com)
  • An article by Chinese human rights activist Harry Wu dealt with the Chinese perspective of the Tibetan issue. (savetibet.org)
  • Just as Teng Biao, the human rights activist who lost his legal license because he had signed that document, said: "In terms of human rights, in terms of every aspect of the most basic rights, Tibetans suffer from more obvious and more severe oppression than Chinese… For Chinese, cases such as the ones of Xu Zhiyong and Liu Xiaobo are considered sensitive. (highpeakspureearth.com)
  • Lobsang Dhondup, a 28-year-old farmer, was executed on Sunday, a Chinese court official at Ganzi said. (phayul.com)
  • The Ganzi legislature had been meeting to discuss issues that included how to manage a crackdown on "separatists opposed to Chinese rule. (cecc.gov)
  • 7. The attempted self-immolation of October 3 came in the wake of another anti-Chinese protest during the week-end in the Kardze (in Chinese, Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the same province after a photo of His Holiness and a huge Tibetan flag were removed by the police from a building and thrown into the street. (c3sindia.org)
  • Last Wednesday, the Tibetan parliament in exile released its own statement, blaming the self-immolations on the Chinese government's destruction of Tibetan culture and describing the self-immolations as the Tibetans' "highest form of nonviolent protest against the Chinese government's systematic repression of their freedom of religion and human rights. (time.com)
  • Tibetan human rights campaigner Kyinzom Dhongdue, a former member of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile said, "This is yet another case of the Chinese government's bullying and its efforts to undermine Australian institutions and silence its critics, The Age reported. (beijingnews.net)
  • According to the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), "Chinese police have beaten, shot, isolated, and disappeared self-immolators who survived. (wikipedia.org)
  • But the International Campaign for Tibet, an advocacy group, said it is clear that Tibetans have not been dissuaded by the security buildup or other means of official intimidation. (voanews.com)
  • The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) has expressed concerns regarding the tenth point of the Nepal-China agreement, which involves a joint inspection of the China-Nepal boundary and the establishment of a Boundary Management System. (tibetexpress.net)
  • Officials from China 's Hoh Xil national nature reserve will travel to London to persuade Europeans to boycott shahtoosh shawls, which are made from the wool of the endangered Tibetan antelope , sources with the reserve said on Friday. (china.org.cn)
  • Chinese conservation officials launched a campaign to crack down on illegal poaching of Tibetan antelopes in 1997 in Hoh Xil, which is a reserve that encompasses China 's largest area of uninhabited land. (china.org.cn)
  • But the most politically significant provision is the assertion that the Dalai Lama's reincarnation process should be left solely to the Dalai Lama's and Tibetan Buddhist community's wishes, and that Chinese officials who interfere in the process will face Magnitsky sanctions. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • the argument, repeatedly made by Chinese officials, that only the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), cast as the legitimate successor of earlier dynasties, can determine the Dalai Lama's successor. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Chinese officials have since held political education sessions with the monastery and village residents, reportedly focusing on 'opposing separatism', according to the report. (abc.net.au)
  • It is unclear why Chinese officials allowed large numbers of Tibetan pilgrims to go abroad around the time of the Kalachakra, only to detain them upon their return. (newstrackindia.com)
  • Neither Chinese officials nor news media have made statements about the fire that indicate whether clear evidence exists to establish that arson was committed, or that Sonam Phuntsog was implicated. (cecc.gov)
  • She said that besides long imprisonment in Chinese jails, Tibetan women have to face severe physical violence, torture and other aggressions like rape by jail officials. (tibetanyouthcongress.org)
  • Referring to many testimonies of Tibetan women who could manage to escape from Tibet in the past, Passang said that it is common for Chinese officials and medical experts to use deceptive methods against Tibetan women to enforce their family planning plans. (tibetanyouthcongress.org)
  • But the lawyers who jointly signed this document were immediately confronted with a strict warning by the local officials, telling them that they were not allowed to intervene in any legal cases concerning Tibetans. (highpeakspureearth.com)
  • A Tibetan signs a document under the supervision of officials in Dingri county, southern Tibet. (thetibetpost.com)
  • Chinese embassy officials met with the press club's chief executive, Maurice Reilly, last week in Canberra to express their displeasure with Penpa Tsering's scheduled presence on June 20 and to request that his invitation be cancelled, the Australian based The Age reported. (beijingnews.net)
  • However, as Lodi Gyari, a former envoy to Sino-Tibetan talks explained, unlike the government of Taiwan "no Tibetan government has ever claimed to be the government of China so the application of the 'one china policy' to Tibet…simply does not arise. (the-american-interest.com)
  • China would keep Aksai Chin, a high-altitude desert in the west that is important to Beijing's control of Tibet. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Beijing's official Xinhua News Agency said that the Tibetans attacked the soldiers, forcing the latter to open fire in self-defense! (wadias.in)
  • Beijing's policy has compelled students to approach government-run schools where the medium of instruction will also be transitioning completely to Chinese. (visiontimes.com)
  • Ahead of the G20 Leaders' Summit in New Delhi, the Tibetan community in Delhi organized a protest on September 8 to voice their grievances against the Chinese government. (indiatimes.com)
  • The central government has authorized increasingly aggressive moves against both individual Tibetans and Tibetan communities where immolations have taken place, Human Rights Watch said. (hrw.org)
  • Many Tibetans in China accuse the government of enacting religious repression and eroding their culture, as the country's majority Han ethnic group increasingly moves into historically Tibetan areas. (straitstimes.com)
  • He is the only high lama who has publicly criticized His Holiness, and because of that the Chinese government is trying to promote him as the important Tibetan Buddhist leader,'' said Wangdi. (beliefnet.com)
  • And internationally everybody has seen him as a Chinese stooge, a Tibetan who is being used as a mouthpiece of the Chinese government. (beliefnet.com)
  • And the law is also a strategic move by the Chinese government to disconnect Tibetans inside Tibet with those in exile. (tibet.net)
  • Another signed article by Dolkar titled "A Look At the Tibetan Issue From the SARS Case" reviewed how the Chinese government paid attention to the development concerning the SARS crisis. (savetibet.org)
  • But for the Chinese government, he's a " wolf in monk's robes " and a " splittist . (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Sending funds abroad … is likely to be monitored [by the government] but is not illegal in China unless it includes a specific offence such as fraud, contact with an illegal organisation, encouraging separatism, or espionage, none of which appear to have been involved in this case. (abc.net.au)
  • The following month, CPJ sent a petition with almost 15,000 signatures to the Chinese government, calling for his release. (cpj.org)
  • Among the 30 Tibetans arrested were members of the Tibetan government-in-exile. (dw.com)
  • The Chinese government is being generous. (dw.com)
  • This week, the State Department and the European Union called on the Chinese government to release his body. (staradvertiser.com)
  • Soon after the declaration of China as a communist regime, on 2nd October 1949, the new government passed the resolution on the National day leading to October 1st of each year being celebrated as the country's National Day. (bignewsnetwork.com)
  • A totalitarian government riding on the repression of its own citizens and a hawkish nature with the world is what summarises the projection of China in front of the rest of the world. (bignewsnetwork.com)
  • The Central Tibetan Administration has consistently appealed to Tibetans to not to resort to drastic actions such as self-immolation," said a statement from the Tibetan government in exile. (time.com)
  • In her concluding remarks Passang said that all these actions of China in Tibet amount to cultural genocide and go against the UN Genocide Convention which the Chinese government has also signed. (tibetanyouthcongress.org)
  • Penpa told the US Congress in March that Tibet would "definitely die a slow death" unless the Chinese government was forced to change its current policies. (beijingnews.net)
  • The sooner the Chinese Government acknowledges these and positively addresses them, the better it is for China and Tibet. (savetibet.org)
  • The government ban on these informal Tibetan language classes violates the basic rights of Tibetans. (visiontimes.com)
  • Since 1989, Kathmandu has not issued official documents to Tibetans. (dw.com)
  • Earlier, Chinese diplomats in Kathmandu tracked down the foreign witnesses and made an attempt to silence them. (wadias.in)
  • In the same way as China claims that its territorial boundaries are defined by the furthest reach of the Manchu-ruled Qing Empire, it argues that it is the successor of the role that Qing emperors, looking to legitimize their own relationship with Buddhism, played in recognizing Tibetan leaders. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The Kalachakra ceremony, an important teaching ritual in Tibetan Buddhism, takes place in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, where the Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment. (newstrackindia.com)
  • Within Indian Buddhism, there are at least 600 Mahayana Buddhist literary compositions (sutras) that have survived in the languages of Sanskrit, Chinese or Tibetan. (lu.se)
  • The Chinese Embassy in the United States announced it was reopening its consular service as of Jan. 25, while the Chinese Embassy in Nepal announced that it will resume its consular service from March 6. (savetibet.org)
  • At the same time, these developments led Nepal to form closer relations with China. (dw.com)
  • In reality, China is cleverly using the situation in Nepal for its own interest," said Nadine Baumann, Executive Director of the Tibet Initiative Deutschland, an NGO. (dw.com)
  • In return, China is requiring stricter security from Nepal along their shared border that stretches 1236 kilometers (781 miles). (dw.com)
  • For the former Chinese ambassador in Nepal, Sun Heping, the exiled Tibetans are "illegal border-crossers and therefore criminals who conduct anti-Chinese activities in Nepal. (dw.com)
  • There is neither the possibility to integrate into everyday life in Nepal, nor to live with Tibetan identity," said Baumann. (dw.com)
  • But in Nepal too, "pressure from China is visible," says one Tibetan refugee. (worldcrunch.com)
  • They are among seven Tibetans who have just spent two months trekking across the Himalayas to reach Nepal. (worldcrunch.com)
  • For its cooperation, Nepal receives financial aid from China . (worldcrunch.com)
  • On September 30, Chinese border patrol fired at some 70 tired and starving Tibetans in Nangpa-la, in the Mount Everest region, as they were toiling toward Nepal to escape repression and exploitation in their homeland. (wadias.in)
  • The sixth point of the Nepal-China agreement reiterates Nepal's strong commitment to the "One-China principle," opposing "Taiwan independence. (tibetexpress.net)
  • Furthermore, Nepal reaffirms its stance on Tibet as an internal matter of China, pledging never to "permit any separatist activities against China on Nepali soil. (tibetexpress.net)
  • ICT fears that the implementation of this agreement not only endangers Tibetans attempting to flee through Nepal but also raises the possibility of deporting those who have already entered Nepal. (tibetexpress.net)
  • Protestors hold signs calling for the release of jailed Tibetan Buddhist teacher Tenzin Delek Rinpoche during a demonstration in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington 02 December 2004. (rfa.org)
  • In January 2003, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche made an audio tape that was smuggled out of prison to RFA's Tibetan service, in which he reiterated his innocence. (rfa.org)
  • Tibetan woman Tenzin Sharma selling Laphing at Majnu Ka Tilla in Delhi. (thetibetpost.com)
  • The webinar was organized late evening of 30th July, jointly by the Centre for Himalayan Asia Studies and Engagement (CHASE) of New Delhi and Tibetan Youth Congress from Dharamshala. (tibetanyouthcongress.org)
  • The only think tank based away from Delhi that carries out a focused study of China related dynamics. (c3sindia.org)
  • Many Tibetans have congregated for a key Buddhist event called a Kalachakra despite Chinese restrictions on non-locals attending. (rfa.org)
  • Seven Tibetans reportedly self-immolated last week, bringing the total number to nearly 60 since 2009. (globalsecurity.org)
  • In 2012, 76 Tibetans self-immolated, including 27 in November. (hrw.org)
  • Tibetan Youth Congress staged a protest in front of the Chinese Embassy for their various demand including stopping the mass collection of DNA from Tibetans. (bignewsnetwork.com)
  • We implore the Chinese to really meet with the representatives of the Tibetan people to address and re-examine some of the policies that have led to some of the restrictions and the violence and the self-immolations, and we are very concerned with the human rights condition here in China," said Ambassador Locke. (globalsecurity.org)
  • There have also been incidents of self-immolations by Tibetans in front of the temple. (savetibet.org)
  • Current Chinese efforts to offer financial incentives fail to constructively address the causes behind the self-immolations. (time.com)
  • The self-immolations have been all but ignored in the state-controlled Chinese press. (time.com)
  • In an online Town Hall Meeting with citizens in cities across the United States, Gary Locke also spoke about his trip last month to Tibetan monasteries. (globalsecurity.org)
  • In the first post, Woeser introduces Chinese human rights lawyers who have defended Tibetans and in the second post provides background information about the situation in Chamdo concerning Kagyu monasteries. (highpeakspureearth.com)
  • In May 2021 it was announced that foreigners residing in China could get permits to visit the TAR. (savetibet.org)
  • A young Tibetan writer and blogger, Druklo (pen-name Shokjang), was sentenced to three years imprisonment for "inciting separatism", without access to family and lawyer. (amnesty.org)
  • China called Sunday for an intensified crackdown on separatism in its Tibetan-inhabited regions. (voanews.com)
  • Article 11 of the law states that anyone seen to be posing a threat to national security and public interest, deemed to be anti-socialist, or seen as engaging in separatism by maintaining any association with Tibetan independence groups or individuals will face punishment. (tibet.net)
  • China has responded with a harsh crackdown and heavy security presence. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Tibetans inside Tibet are going to suffer even more so under the guise of this cyber security law," Gonpo Dhondup, President of Tibetan Youth Congress, said. (tibet.net)
  • In its 2003 report on human rights around the world, the U.S. State Department said the Chinese government's human rights record in Tibetan areas of China "remained poor, although some positive developments continued. (rfa.org)
  • The journal also introduced the case of the missing Panchen Lama to the Chinese-speaking readers. (savetibet.org)
  • Internet access has reached even remote areas in the parts of China where Tibetans live. (wikipedia.org)
  • The journal also highlighted an officially released news, which said there is an influx of Chinese workers into Tibetan areas to seek work. (savetibet.org)
  • A China Radio International report on March 17 said at an average between 2000 to 3000 Chinese workers have been recorded to have traveled on train from China to Gormo and then by road to the various Tibetan areas in search of employment. (savetibet.org)
  • For decades, China promoted a settlement based on an exchange of two large areas of disputed territory. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Even those who went to other open Tibetan areas faced restrictions. (savetibet.org)
  • A few of them are worried that China could increase pressure on these remaining areas of opportunity. (dw.com)
  • on a jointly signed document they wrote: "According to reports from within the country, hundreds have already been arrested for the "March 14" incident which occurred in Tibetan areas. (highpeakspureearth.com)
  • The seven who burned themselves from Oct. 20 to 25, for instance, all appear to be laypeople, including a pair of 20-something cousins, a young father and a 58-year-old farmer who set himself on fire in front of the Public Security Bureau in the Tibetan holy town of Labrang (or Xiahe in Mandarin) in the Chinese province of Gansu. (time.com)
  • These roads are not in the city center, and the stated reasons for restrictions might have a valid basis, but the timing of the work around the sensitive political anniversaries period-including the Tibetan National Uprising of 1959 and pan-Tibetan demonstrations in 2008-raises questions. (savetibet.org)
  • China has long accused Tibetan exiles of self-immolating as part of a separatist struggle, denouncing them as terrorists. (voanews.com)
  • In Tibet, the Chinese police impose restrictions on movement,' Tashi says. (worldcrunch.com)
  • 3. The Chinese have also imposed humiliating restrictions on the observance of religious practices in the Kirti monastery by those who have not been arrested and detained in the camp. (c3sindia.org)
  • WASHINGTON-A Chinese court has spared the life of a Tibetan monk sentenced to death in connection with a series of bombings in southwestern China blamed on supporters of Tibetan independence. (rfa.org)
  • The U.S. Senate passed a resolution in December urging China to release the jailed monk and other political prisoners, but China rejected the appeal. (rfa.org)
  • 5.The latest instance took place on October 3,2011, whenKalsangWangchuk, an 18-year-old monk from the Kirtimonastery in the mountainous Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) prefecture, set fire to himself near a vegetable market in the Ngaba town. (c3sindia.org)
  • First revealed by a Tibetan monk in the 14th century, Bardo Thodol ("Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Intermediate State") - known more commonly as The Tibetan Book of the Dead - describes the experience of human consciousness in the. (amberbooks.co.uk)
  • However, in its latest report, the Foreign Correspondents Club of China said that all three of its member journalists who applied to go to the TAR in 2022 were denied permits . (savetibet.org)
  • Introduced to their respective legislative bodies by Democratic Rep. James McGovern and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, the TPSA supplants the similarly bipartisan Tibetan Policy Act of 2002 . (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The number of burnings peaked last November in the run-up to the Chinese Communist Party's set-piece congress, at which Xi Jinping was named the party's new general secretary in a once-in-a-decade power handover. (straitstimes.com)
  • and acknowledging the role of the Central Tibetan Administration . (foreignpolicy.com)
  • www.tibet.net is the official website of the Central Tibetan Administration. (tibet.net)
  • He is a member of the Task Force set up by the Central Tibetan Administration to work on issues relating to the dialogue process with the Chinese leadership. (savetibet.org)
  • China is recruiting unemployed Tibetan youths into Chinese army. (newsx.com)
  • The MC consists of local Tibetan youths recruited and trained by the PLA. (newsx.com)
  • It tells the true story of a journalist who joined a Tibetan volunteer patrol chasing poachers trading in antelope wool in Hoh Xil, which is spelled Kekexili in Mandarin Chinese. (china.org.cn)
  • Around 1 million children of the Tibetan minority were being given a "compulsory education" curriculum in Mandarin Chinese without access to traditional or culturally relevant learning, the special rapporteurs found. (beijingnews.net)
  • The source stated how elementary schools in the region have already transitioned the language of instruction from Tibetan to Mandarin for core subjects like maths and science. (visiontimes.com)
  • Gradually, apart from the formal class for Tibetan language, all other subjects will use Mandarin as the medium of instruction. (visiontimes.com)
  • Tenzin Sangmo, a researcher with the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy, remarked how making Mandarin compulsory as a medium of instruction in schools for minorities would result in the increased influence and indoctrination of Chinese cultural values while distancing children from their traditional cultural values. (visiontimes.com)
  • Outside of academic research, the language I enjoy the most is Mandarin Chinese. (lu.se)
  • The Chinese Communist Party claims ultimate control over Tibetan souls. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The brutal massacre of protesters surely does not require any recounting, yet at the same time, it is an important reminder of what the Chinese Communist Party has come to be in these modern times. (bignewsnetwork.com)
  • China has always attempted to make the world believe that everything is fine in Tibet, and that the Tibetan people are happy under the Communist rule. (savetibet.org)
  • Local Tibetans living in the region see this policy as a method to suppress their culture and indoctrinate communist agenda into the minds of Tibetan youth. (visiontimes.com)
  • Tibetans are not the only group to be subjected to "Sincization" by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). (visiontimes.com)
  • Dhongdue noted that Chinese ambassador Xiao Qian spoke at the press club last year and said, "It is only fair that the leader of the Tibetan people gets the same opportunity. (beijingnews.net)
  • Though the law is meant to protect and honor the Tibetan human rights, culture, history, natural resources and environment, the ambiguity of these regulations will negatively impact Tibetans," Sangay Kyab, a researcher at the Tibetan Center for Human Rights, told RFA. (tibet.net)
  • The document also states that "China rewards Nepalese forces by providing financial incentives for handing over Tibetans who want to flee across the border. (dw.com)
  • In his short message, the Tibetan spiritual leader called for interreligious and international dialogue and harmony and asked religious leaders to address the issues of world poverty, injustice and environmental degradation. (beliefnet.com)
  • Their stories revealed the warmth and resilience of the Chinese people, making me feel more connected to the country. (chinatours.com)
  • Tibetans routinely communicate with people in other countries by phone or text message. (abc.net.au)
  • It tells how a Tibetan demigod king conquered his enemies and helped ordinary people in the 11th century. (news.cn)
  • Association of Tibetan Habitual Food and Metabolic Syndrome Among Tibetan People in China: A Cross-Sectional Study. (bvsalud.org)
  • New York, June 5, 2014-The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release today of Tibetan documentary filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen, who was jailed in China in 2008 for shooting the film, " Leaving Fear Behind ," which documents conditions faced by Tibetans under Chinese rule. (cpj.org)
  • But an increasing number are regular villagers - farmers, herdsmen and students, among others - motivated by their despair over China 's repressive rule over Tibetan regions. (time.com)
  • The experts were also appreciative of the courage of conviction, demonstrated by Tibetan women, especially those living inside occupied Tibet, in their on-going struggle for the freedom of Tibet from colonial Chinese rule. (tibetanyouthcongress.org)
  • But despite all this injustice, violence and suppression at the hands of colonial masters of Tibet, the Tibetan women have not lost hope for freedom and they will continue their struggle against Chinese colonial rule over their country," she declared. (tibetanyouthcongress.org)
  • Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (left) with his Chinese counterpart Li Qiang. (tibetexpress.net)
  • but the outside world might be equally unaware that there are a number of genuine Chinese lawyers who have for many years been going through the difficulties of helping Tibetans defend themselves and the truth. (highpeakspureearth.com)