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On Dalai Lama’s 90th Birthday, FIDH reaffirms support for the rights of the Tibetan people
On the occasion of the 90th birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the International Board of the International...
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ICT urges UNESCO to designate Potala Palace Ensemble as “World Heritage in Danger” amid cultural heritage violations in Tibet
The International Campaign for Tibet is calling on the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to designate the “Historic Ensemble of the...
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Monastic schools in Ngaba targeted amid crackdown on Tibetan-language education
In yet another assault on Tibetan language in eastern Tibet, Chinese authorities have forcibly removed younger monks from the Taktsang...
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Surveillance in Tibet: ICT delivers remarks at 6th International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance Ministerial Conference in Berlin
Kai Mueller, Executive Director of ICT Germany, addressed the 6th International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance Ministerial Conference in Berlin...
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China Misuses Law to demolish historic Atsok Monastery for dam construction
The Chinese government has demolished the 135-year-old Atsok Monastery in northern Tibet to make way for the construction of a...
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Chinese authorities force closure of popular Tibetan school
Amid an ongoing government campaign to close private Tibetan schools, the Jigme Gyaltsen Nationalities Vocational School in Golog (Chinese: Guoluo)...
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New report: Beijing uses Chinese Buddhist group to assimilate and transform Tibetan Buddhism
In a new report, the International Campaign for Tibet shows how the Buddhist Association of China (BAC), a supposedly non-political...
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Buddhist Association of China takes a leading role in China’s attempts to control and forcibly reshape Tibetan Buddhism
This report shows how the Buddhist Association of China (BAC), a supposedly non-political organization, is becoming a key instrument in...
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Tibetan Buddhism in spotlight at international religious freedom conference
Telo Tulku Rinpoche, the representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Mongolia, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States,...
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Order from Chinese authorities: No more Tibetan in eastern Tibet schools
According to a report by Radio Free Asia, Chinese authorities have banned Tibetan as the language of instruction for all...
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European Buddhist Union urges China to stop interfering in Tibetan Buddhism
In a statement adopted unanimously last month, the European Buddhist Union (EBU) has called on the Chinese government not to...
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Debate: Being deprived of ones culture and language – The Tibetan, Sapmi and Kurdish experiences
During a panel debate in Stockholm in November 2022, representatives from the Tibetan, Sapmi and Kurdish peoples discussed the similarities...
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China closes sacred temple around Tibetan National Uprising Day
In an apparent attempt to thwart any potential incidents during the sensitive period surrounding the anniversary of the Tibetan National...
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Tibetan Cultural Exhibition in Paris
The French Tibet Support Group Lhakar France is organising a Tibetan Cultural Exhibition in Paris from 18-26 June....
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Demolition of Buddha statues follows tightened control under “law-based governance”
The Chinese Communist Party ordered a series of demolitions of structures of religious significance and detentions of Tibetans resisting it...
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Containing the “eastward movement of Tibetan mysticism”: Targeting Chinese Buddhist practitioners at Larung Gar Academy
The CCP’s current strategy aims to curb the influence of the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism and the Tibetan religious teachers...
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China renews attacks on remaining Tibetan-language schools
In the eastern Tibetan areas of Amdo and Kham (incorporated into the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Qinghai and Gansu), where...
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China cancels major Tibetan cultural festival
Chinese authorities in the Tibetan capital have announced the cancellation of all activities connected to the annual “Shoton” festival, citing...
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China shuts down historic monastery, evicts monks and nuns
Disturbing footage has emerged from China’s Gansu province, where local authorities shut down a Tibetan Buddhist monastery and ordered the...
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Dalai Lama: Religious freedom is ‘freedom of our thought’
The Dalai Lama defended religious freedom as freedom of thought while calling for an end to religious conflict in a...
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Code of conduct forbids religiosity by Tibetan CCP members
A new code of conduct for members of the Chinese Communist Party in the Tibet Autonomous Region explicitly forbids party...
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World Heritage in Danger: ICT calls for Jokhang temple protection
In the latest World Heritage Watch Report, the International Campaign for Tibet calls for the first time for designating the...
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Tibetans in Lhasa told to restrict religious practice during holy month
The Lhasa City Buddhist Association has circulated a notice dated May 9, 2021 urging Tibetan Buddhists in the Tibetan capital...
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New ICT report shows growing CCP control of Tibetan Buddhism
A new report by the International Campaign for Tibet shows how new measures of surveillance and control are threatening to...
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Party Above Buddhism China’s Surveillance and Control of Tibetan Monasteries and Nunneries
This report shows how new measures of surveillance and control are threatening to turn the Tibetan Buddhist monastic community into...
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New clergy regulations hurt Tibetan Buddhists, Catholics
The Chinese government will soon have even more power to control religious clergy under new regulations that will undermine the...
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ICT addresses Tibet religious freedom at US Mission in Geneva event
Religious freedom and the succession of the Dalai Lama should be at the top of the human rights agenda in...
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Growing anti-slaughter movement against Chinese commercial slaughterhouses in Tibet
In recent decades, the Chinese government’s policy of establishing large commercial slaughterhouses in Tibet has faced increasing resistance by Tibetan...
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China imposes draconian restrictions on fifth anniversary of revered lama’s death
Five years after the renowned monk Tenzin Delek Rinpoche died in a Chinese prison, new restrictions have been imposed on...
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The EU must oppose China’s interference in the Dalai Lama’s succession
In this oped published on the occasion of the 85th birthday of the Dalai Lama, ICT's EU policy director Vincent...
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Tibetan prayer flags forced down by Chinese authorities
One of the most beautiful symbols of Tibetan culture and religion is forcibly coming down as part of China’s efforts...
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Concerns about construction at UNESCO-protected Jokhang Temple in Tibet
The International Campaign for Tibet is concerned about reports of construction at the UNESCO World Heritage-protected Jokhang Temple in Lhasa,...
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Ngaba highlights erosion of Tibetan language instruction
In recent weeks, even as the coronavirus outbreak in Ngaba area showed some signs of improving, Tibetans in the region...
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Official statement from the Tashi Lhunpo monastery on the 31st birthday of the 11th Panchen Lama
On the occasion of the 31st birthday of the Panchen Lama, the Abbot of Tashi Lhunpo monastery has sent a...
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Monasteries and temples around Lhasa reopen after coronavirus lockdown, but religious restrictions continue
Amid continued efforts to bolster its image internationally and indicate a sense of normalcy after the Coronavirus crisis, Chinese authorities...
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Chinese replacing Tibetan language as medium of instruction in Tibet, new Human Rights Watch report says
The Chinese government is forcing the erosion of Tibetan language as medium of instruction in schools in Tibet, contrary to...
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Tibetan students ordered not to take part in religious activities during winter break
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Larung Gar abbot’s international centers closed under suspected pressure from China
As one of the leading Tibetan Buddhist voices within China has made a surprising announcement about the closure of his...
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Dalai Lama should reincarnate following traditional Tibetan practices, Tibetan religious leaders say
Senior Tibetan religious leaders today adopted a resolution urging the Dalai Lama to reincarnate according to Tibetan traditions and declaring...
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Thousands in Tibet mourn passing of India-educated Buddhist teacher
Thousands of religious masters, monks and laypeople gathered in Tibet earlier this month to mourn the death of Geshe Jampel...
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New bill will sanction Chinese officials for interfering in Dalai Lama reincarnation, update Tibetan Policy Act
As China ramps up its repression in Tibet, US lawmakers are promoting a bill that will increase America’s support for...
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China steps up discredited attempts to control Dalai Lama’s succession
Chinese Communist Party authorities have stepped up efforts to control the succession of the Dalai Lama by hosting their first...
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New phase of expulsions at important Buddhist institute leads to rounding up of monks and nuns for “re-education”
A new phase of thousands of expulsions of nuns and monks has begun at the well-known religious institute of Yachen...
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Sinicization poses new threats to the survival of Tibetan Buddhist culture and values in Tibet
Ahead of the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom hosted by the US State Department in Washington, DC from July...
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Prayer festival cancelled amid tightening control at famous Tibetan Buddhist institute
Chinese officials have canceled the prayer festival of Dechen Shedrub at the famous Larung Gar institute in eastern Tibet, according...
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China tightens screws on Tibetan Buddhism
China has tightened the screws on Tibetan Buddhism, with one of China’s top leaders emphasizing increased Communist Party control over...
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European Parliament’s Intergroup on Religious Freedom reports “severe restrictions” against Tibetan Buddhists
In its fourth annual report released today in Brussels, the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Freedom of Religion or Belief and...
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Former home of Dalai Lama’s parents demolished in Lhasa
The former home of the parents of the Dalai Lama, one of the largest and most important of the few...
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China must immediately stop illegal ban on religious activities for Tibetan schoolchildren, ICT says
China’s ban on religious activities for schoolchildren in Tibet grossly violates international human rights law—as well as China’s own legal...
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China forces young Tibetan monks out of monastery into government-run schools as part of drive to replace monastic education with political propaganda
Young Tibetan monks were compelled to leave one of the biggest monasteries in the eastern Tibetan area of Kham, Sershul,...
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‘Destruction, commercialization, fake replicas’: new report on Lhasa as UNESCO World Heritage Committee meets
A new report by the International Campaign for Tibet reveals how Lhasa’s unique and precious remaining cultural heritage is at...
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Monks who studied in India banned from teaching in Tibet; new ruling bans schoolchildren from religious activity
In new alarming measures, the Chinese authorities have banned highly educated Tibetan monks who studied in India from teaching Buddhism...
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China’s revised religious regulations threaten survival of Tibetan Buddhism
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Demolitions begin at Larung Gar, ‘monastery for the world’, as religious teachers urge calm
Demolitions of monks’ and nuns’ dwellings began at the important Buddhist center of Larung Gar in eastern Tibet, one of...
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“An Urgent Call for the Protection and Preservation of Tibetan Language” – By Khenpo Tsultrim Lodoe
High Peaks Pure Earth has translated an article about the importance of the preservation of Tibetan language by one of...
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Chinese Crackdown on Tibetan Buddhism. A Report published for the PRC’s second Universal Periodic Review
In a joint report published today for the People’s Republic of China’s second Universal Periodic Review, FIDH and ICT urge...
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Chinese Security Forces Conducted Night Raid and Seal-off Drepung Monastery and Ramoche in Lhasa Capital of Tibet in 2008
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60 Years of Chinese Misrule Arguing Cultural Genocide in Tibet
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A Raging Storm: The Crackdown on Tibetan Writers and Artists after Tibet’s Spring 2008 Protests
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Like Gold that Fears no Fire: New Writing from Tibet
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Interpretating Tibet: A political Guide to Tibet
'Interpreting Tibet' gives a reality check on the sights of Lhasa, exploring how both China’s assertions of power and Tibetan...
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Dispatches: Undercover in Tibet
Tibetan exile Tash Despa returns to the homeland he risked his life escaping from to carry out secret filming with...
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The Communist Party as Living Buddha
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Religious Repression Continues
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