Dharamshala: On Monday, 17 May, Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Bylakuppe, South India, the exile seat of the Panchen Lama, marked the grim anniversary of China’s abduction of the Panchen Lama, Tibet’s second-highest spiritual figure, 26 years ago. In a solemn ceremony, monks of the Tashi Lhunpo (...)
Thérèse Obrecht Hodler Scroll.in 18 May 2021 One day the Chinese occupying forces announced: “Children are allowed to work!” It was no longer a matter of collecting firewood or cow dung, but of proper work organised by the Chinese authorities. Tendöl was assigned to the Jokhang, the most sacred (...)
By Jack Nicas, Raymond Zhong and Daisuke Wakabayashi NY Times 17 May 2021 GUIYANG, China — On the outskirts of this city in a poor, mountainous province in southwestern China, men in hard hats recently put the finishing touches on a white building a quarter-mile long with few windows and a tall (...)
Lithuania: On 17 May, members of the Lithuanian Tibet Support Group organised a rally next to the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Vilnius, Lithuania to mark the 26th anniversary of the involuntary disappearance of the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet and to raise public awareness and draw (...)
Dharamshala: The Department of Information and International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration organized a virtual book launch talk event on the evening of 17 May, marking the 26th year of the abduction of Tibet’s 11th Panchen Lama by the Chinese government. On this day in 1995, the (...)
Tokyo: Marking the 26th anniversary of the abduction of the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima by the Chinese government, Tibet House in Japan today released the Japanese edition of the book titled, “Tibet Stolen Child” as part of the persistent campaign of the Central Tibetan Administration (...)
London: On 16 May, Mr Sonam Tsering Frasi, the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London raised the Tibetan national flag at the Nipponsan Myohoji Buddhist Temple in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom along with the Mayor Cllr Andrew Geary and Mayoress Lisa of Milton Keynes. The flag (...)
Jewher Ilham and Sophie Richardson for The Guardian China’s president, Xi Jinping, declared back in 2014 in a series of speeches delivered in private to officials that he intended to crack down harshly in Xinjiang, the north-western region of China where about 13 million Uyghurs and other Turkic (...)