A delegation of Sri Lankan Buddhists on Thursday presented relics of the Buddha to the Dalai Lama at his home in Dharamsala, India, in a gesture that was celebrated by hundreds of Tibetans who lined the streets with silk scarves and flowers. The relics – fragments of the Buddha’s bones and teeth – have immense
A bridge being built by China across Pangong Lake in a disputed section of northwest India could further inflame tensions between the two countries, experts on the border dispute said. The bridge, which spans about 500 meters (1,640 feet), is situated south of a position occupied by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on the north
Authorities in China’s Qinghai province have freed a Tibetan schoolteacher after holding her in jail since last year, when her school for Tibetan students was closed for teaching classes in their own language, RFA has learned. Rinchen Kyi, 42, was released on Aug. 24 at about 8:00 p.m. local time and taken to her family
Forbiding cash transfers China has actually been tracking Tibetans in Tibet communicating with those in exile to shut down the circulation of information to the outside world, according to sources inside Tibet who provide details to neighborhoods abroad. The Chinese government also has actually started prohibiting the transfer of cash from Tibetans in the TAR
A leading Chinese official in Tibet checked out abbeys in and near the Tibetan capital Lhasa this week to caution monks against behavior thought about disloyal to the ruling Chinese Communist Party, state media sources said. Wang Junzheng, celebration secretary in the Tibet Autonomous Region, went on Thursday to the Ramoche temple in Lhasa and
A Chinese police surveillance unit is running, apparently for the very first time, inside a Buddhist monastery as part of a restored crackdown on Tibetan Buddhist spiritual organizations, a Tibetan with knowledge of the situation said. Officers were installed this year at the Palyul Thartang Gonchen Monastery in Qinghai provinces Golog (in Chinese, Guoluo) Tibetan
Eleven Tibetans beaten and jailed by Chinese authorities in January for spreading news of the damage of a 99-foot-tall Buddha statue and lots of prayer wheels in southwestern Chinas Sichuan province have actually been sent out to labor camps in the region, Tibetans with knowledge of the scenario said Friday. Monks Tashi Dorjee, Tsering Samdup,
Japans Parliament embraced a resolution on Tuesday revealing concern over the human rights circumstance in China, including the repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang and the crackdown in Hong Kong, calling on its federal government to take procedures to attend to the circumstance. In the unusual rights motion passed 2 days prior to the start of
2 ethnic Tibetans and a Uyghur are completing this year on Chinas nationwide Olympics group in Beijing, prompting sensations of both pride and concern from activists combating versus human rights abuses in the athletes home areas. Tibetans Yangchen Lhamo, a female, and Tsering Damdul, a man, will be contending in snowboarding and cross-country skiing respectively
” The Chinese federal government is utilizing the 2022 Winter Games as a display for its world leadership. He stated sponsors of the occasion need to also avoid Beijing. The Biden administration on Monday announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, saying U.S. professional athletes will complete, but no government authorities will go
