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Tibet is harder to visit than North Korea. But I got in and strea…
[WaPo] A month ago, I never would have imagined I would be standing in front of the Potala Palace in Tibet,...
Xi Jinping visit to Qinghai reveals strategic importance of Tibet…
[ICT] Xi Jinping visit to Qinghai reveals strategic importance of Tibet’s water, minerals; highlights CCP’s advanced plans The visit of China’s Party...
How good is Tibet's Beijing-backed search engine?
[BBC] A Tibetan search engine, backed by the Chinese authorities, has been launched. Yongzim claims to be better at handling complex...
U.N. rights envoy says Chinese authorities interfered with his wo…
[Reuters] A United Nations-appointed human rights envoy said on Tuesday that the Chinese government interfered with his work during a...
China issues new manual criminalizing self-immolation, solo prote…
[Phayul] The Chinese authorities have distributed a manual in Tibetan and Chinese in monasteries of Ngaba County as their latest...
Members of Congress Urge President Obama to formulate new, creati…
Seventy-two Members of Congress of the United States have urged President Barack Obama to formulate “new, creative strategies to encourage...
The Tibetan nomad traditions defying the modern world
[BBC] Despite decades of change and development, nomads still migrate to the Tibetan Plateau every summer, from where China Correspondent Stephen...
The West kowtows to China through self-censorship
Two years ago, I was invited by the American Bar Association to prepare a manuscript for a book to be...
Demolition begins at Larung Gar
Chinese work crews on Wednesday began to tear down large sections of a sprawling Tibetan Buddhist study center in southwestern...
'Fake' Panchen Lama initiates Kalachakra after 50 years
The Tashi Lhunpo monastery – the seat of the Panchen Lamas (second to the Dalai Lamas) in Shigatse, southwest China –...
Khenpo Kartse released from prison at end of sentence
[ICT] Khenpo Kartse, the popular and respected religious teacher whose detention in 2013 sparked peaceful protests and a silent prayer...
Chinese language newspapers in Australia: Beijing controls messag…
[SMH] One way or another, Beijing has extended its messaging control over almost all the Chinese language media in Australia, Australian...
The Dalai Lama’s birthday: quiet tributes in Tibet, celebration b…
[ICT] Tibetans across Tibet celebrated the Dalai Lama’s 81st birthday yesterday by burning incense and praying before his image placed on...
President Barack Obama meets with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
[ICT] President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama this morning (June 15, 2016), marking the fourth time the two Nobel Peace...
Demonstrations continue in Amchok as Tibetans seek an end to mini…
[ICT] Protests against an enormous open-air mining project in northern Tibet continued for a third consecutive day on Thursday (June 2)....
China: Repression Expands Under ‘Stability Maintenance’ in Tibeta…
Human Rights Watch have released a new report about the increased crackdown on dissent in Tibet. The report, Relentless: Detention and...
Tibetan writer sentenced to 7.5 years after more than a year of s…
Chinese authorities have sentenced yet another Tibetan writer to prison for seven years and six months after holding him incommunicado...
The 'poisonous fruit' of Tibet's religious policy as China publis…
As China publishes its online database of Communist Party approved Tibetan Buddhist reincarnations, with more than 400 names added last...
Tibetan Mother of Five Burns to Death to Protest Chinese Rule
[RFA] A Tibetan mother of five has burned herself to death in southwestern China’s Sichuan province in a challenge to Beijing’s...
Tibetans protest against Chinese mining in Minyak County, Tibet
[Tibet Post] More than 100 Tibetans have protested against Chinese mining operations at a site considered sacred by local Tibetan residents,...
The Dalai Lama's practical path to peace
When posed a policy question, the Dalai Lama is surprisingly (for a religious leader) un-prone to moralism. What, I asked...
Tibetans in exile re-elect political leader
The current political leader of Tibet's exiled government, Lobsang Sangay, won re-election by a decisive majority, the election commission announced Wednesday,...
China charges Tibetan education advocate with inciting separatism
[NYT] A detained Tibetan entrepreneur who advocated for bilingual education in schools across Tibetan regions of China has been charged with inciting...
Is China heading in the wrong direction? For once, the West calls…
[WP] Not since the suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has there been this much diplomatic concern about the...
International Parliamentarians Praise Competitive Tibetan Electio…
[ICT] The International Network of Parliamentarians on Tibet (INPAT) issued today the following statement in Dharamshala, India on the Tibetan Elections...
Plans for second railway across Tibet confirmed: likely to have e…
[ICT] The Chinese government has confirmed plans to accelerate construction of a new railway line to Tibet from Chengdu, running east...
‘Physically fit’ Dalai Lama arrives in Dharamsala
[Phayul] The Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in Dharamsala on Sunday after spending over a month in the...
Buddhist group leading global anti-Dalai Lama protests disbands
[Reuters] The Buddhist group leading a global campaign of harassment against the Dalai Lama has called off its demonstrations and disbanded,...
16-year old self-immolator dies in hospital in India
[ICT] A 16-year old Tibetan schoolboy, Dorjee Tsering, has died after setting himself on fire on Monday in India. In Tibet...
Popular Tibetan blogger sentenced to three years in prison
[ICT] The popular Tibetan blogger Druklo, known more widely by his pen name Shokjang, has been sentenced to three years in...
Tightening of an invisible net: new security measures in eastern Tibet heighten surveillance, control
[ICT] New systematic and long-term security measures are being rolled out in the eastern Tibetan areas of Kham and Amdo as part of an intensified control agenda set at the highest…
News of Dalai Lama’s medical treatment prompts long life prayers in Tibet
[ICT] In response to the news that the Dalai Lama is receiving medical treatment in the U.S., hundreds of Tibetans gathered today (January 25) in the eastern Tibetan area of Kham…
China publishes 'verified living buddha' list
[BBC] China has published its first list of "authentic living buddhas", saying that growing numbers of fraudulent buddhas are using their status to swindle money from believers. The spiritual cataloguing scheme has…
China: No End to Tibet Surveillance Program
[HRW] Chinese authorities have indefinitely extended an intensive surveillance program in villages across the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) that was due to end in 2014, Human Rights Watch said today. There…
Holding the fate of families in its hands, China controls refugees abroad
[Reuters] China’s suppression of political dissidents and restive minorities at home is well known. Less documented are Beijing’s extensive and growing efforts to stifle these same populations abroad, including Chinese-born citizens of…
New solo protest by young man in Ngaba is part of emerging trend
News has just emerged of the detention of Tashi Dhondup, a young Tibetan man, who walked along a road in Dzoege (Chinese: Ruo’ergai) county town on Saturday (December 19) wearing…
China co-opts a Buddhist sect in global effort to smear Dalai Lama
[Reuters] Thousands of Buddhists from all over Britain packed into the Aldershot football stadium southwest of London on June 29, quietly waiting under a hot sun to see the Dalai…
A showcase of Tibetan culture serves Chinese political goals
[NYT] Women came in finery, wearing bright silk dresses, silver belts and necklaces with turquoise and coral. Men sauntered across the field in boots and cowboy hats. Some nomads had ridden…
'I Am Telling The Story of The Invisible Tibet'
[RFA] Author Tsering Woeser has used her blog "Invisible Tibet," together with poetry, historical research, and social media platforms to give voice to millions of ethnic Tibetans who are prevented from…
Freedom for Tibet Raffle 2016 Results
The 2016 Freedom for Tibet Raffle has closed and was drawn on Tuesday, 30 August. Congratulations to the winners! Major prize winners have been notified by phone. ATC thanks everyone who assisted us by selling raffle tickets and all those who supported our work for Tibet by purchasing tickets. This year's raffle was another success, raising almost $20,000....
Tibetans elections 2016
It is an exciting time for exile Tibetans around the world as they go to the final round of polls on 20 March to elect their new Sikyong (Prime Minister) and Chitues (Members of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile). The two candidates for the post of the Sikyong are incumbent Lobsang Sangay and Penpa Tsering, currently Speaker of...
Ten memorable moments from our year for …
From the halls of power in Canberra, to the streets of our cities, to the United Nations, ATC's members and supporters have amplified the Tibetan people’s call for freedom and justice over the past year. Here are ten of the most memorable moments of our work for Tibet in 2015.
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The Shugden issue
THE SHUGDEN ISSUE In recent years, small groups of protesters from the International Shugden Community have organised demonstrations against the Dalai Lama during his visits to Australia and many western countries. ATC is concerned by these protests as they undermine the work of the Dalai Lama, who has dedicated his life to promoting human values and religious...
Panchen Lama Action
Thank you for taking action for Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama.Can you please help build more pressure by sharing the petition? Here's a link to the petition page that you can share by email or on Facebook: http://bit.ly/Panchen-Lama-missing If you would like to make a donation to support this campaign and our work for...
New Report: "Acts of Significant Ev…
[ICT] Since 2009 there have been 131 self-immolations of Tibetans in Tibet and China whose common call has been for the return of the Dalai Lama and for freedom in Tibet. The Chinese Communist Party has responded with an intensified wave of repression in Tibet, by punishing those allegedly “associated” with self-immolators, including friends, families and...
Report - China: End Involuntary Rehousin…
The Chinese government is subjecting millions of Tibetans to a policy of mass rehousing and relocation that radically changes their way of life, and about which they have no say, Human Rights Watch said in a new report published today. Since 2006, under plans to “Build a New Socialist Countryside” in Tibetan areas, over two million Tibetans have...
Amplifying Tibetan voice in the Parliame…
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Storm in the Grasslands: Self-immolation…
Since February 2009, 94 Tibetans have self-immolated in Tibet, with a dramatic acceleration in frequency since the once-in-a-decade leadership transition at the Chinese Communist Party Congress in November. Twenty-eight Tibetans self-immolated in November alone, marking a new phase in the political struggle in Tibet. Many acts of self-immolation – that have recently been clustered in...
Xi Jinping's Tibet Challenge
On 8 November, in one of the most important political events of the decade, the fifth generation of Chinese Communist Party leaders inherited both extraordinary power and a considerable number of major challenges. Not least among these is control of a restive Tibet. Australia Tibet Council, Students for a Free Tibet and International Tibet Network released...
