Tibet news
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Dalai Lama Graces An Audience to Shoton Festival Participating Troupe
On the second day of Shoton Festival, this morning at Tsuglagkhang, His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a special audience to the eight participating troupes of the 25th Shoton festival in Dharamshala, as well as members of the Middle Way Approach Conference.
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TIPA hosts 25th Tibetan Opera Festival Shoton
On Wednesday, TIPA initiated its 25th Tibetan Shoton Festival which celebrates Tibetan Opera from April 6 to 13 here at Dharamshala. Shoton translates to “yogurt banquet” in Tibetan. Tibetan artists perform traditional operas throughout the event, and prominent monasteries showcase enormous Thangkas – Buddha paintings.
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Tibetans observe candlelight vigil for 81-yrs man’s self-immolation.
Hundreds of Tibetans gathered in Dharamshala on Monday for a candlelight vigil in memory of a Tibetan man who self-immolated on March 27. On Monday evening, five major Tibetan NGOs joined together to hold a candlelight vigil in support of Taphun.
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Ukraine Invasion reawaken Memories of Tibet Invasion
According to one international law jurist, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has reawakened memories of China’s colonization of Tibet. According to The Singapore Post, Prof. Michael Van Walt Van Praag, a jurist specializing in international conflict resolution, remarked “an interesting outcome of the events in Ukraine today is that it has helped the world…
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Gyuto Monastery Gets 5-yr FCRA approval
Gyuto Tantric Monastery has been granted a five-year FCRA license by the Centre. The monastery served as the Karmapa’s temporary residence. The Himachal police raided the monastery in 2011 and claimed to have seized $7.05 crore in foreign currencies. Gyuto monastery abbot Lobsang Khedup verified the news according to ET(economic times), saying, “The FCRA license…
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Octogenarian Tibet man self-immolates at Kirti Monastery
RFA reported on 3rd April that an 81-year-old Tibetan man died after a self-immolation protest against Chinese control last week outside a police station in front of a major monastery in the western Chinese province of Sichuan. The report mentioned that the Kirti event occurred three days before the most recent documented self-immolation, which occurred…
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Drastic censorship and surveillance inside Tibet
Why is it that getting news from Tibet is becoming increasingly difficult? China boasts across the world that Tibet has been transformed “from serfdom to freedom,” yet the “freedom” appears to be merely cosmetic.
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Copenhagen illegally silenced anti-China demonstrators
A government-appointed commission slammed Denmark’s Foreign Ministry this week for caving into Chinese pressure and prohibiting anti-Beijing protests during state visits in 2012 and 2013. According to the Tibet Commission, Denmark’s intelligence and security services used coercion to persuade Copenhagen police to put an end to any anti-China protests, in contravention of the country’s constitution.
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Tibetan tries to commit self-immolation near monastery
A Tibetan man lit himself on fire at a police station in a Tibetan district of northwestern China’s Qinghai province on Wednesday, according to RFA, and was promptly carried away by officials with no news on his health. Tsering Samdup, self-immolated in front of a Chinese police station near a Buddhist monastery in Kyegudo (in…
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China removed Keanu Reeves movies after the actor’s support for Tibet.
Keanu Reeves films were abruptly removed from Chinese streaming services this week after the actor expressed support for Tibet and Tibetan independence. Since his appearance at a pro-Tibet gathering on March 3, Chinese streaming platforms iQiyi, Tencent Video, Bilibili, and Xigua Video have all pulled movies starring Reeves, according to The L.A. Times. Reeves has…