Tibetan advocacy group ICT urged US President Trump to seek the release of Panchen Lama and resume dialogue with Dalai Lama during Xi Jinping's visit, citing US laws.

By Khedroob Thondup When Tibet was engulfed by Chinese occupation in the 1950s, despair spread across the plateau. Villages were uprooted, monasteries destroyed, and a centuries-old way of life threatened with extinction. Out of this crisis rose the Chushi...

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The Himalayan disaster that tore through the China-Nepal border last month was a human calamity before it became a media story. A torrent of ice, rock, mud and debris swept through valleys, destroying key infrastructure, severing roads and communications,...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Sept. 17: A coalition of 30 human rights organisations has called on Chinese President Xi Jinping to take immediate and verifiable steps on human rights, including resuming dialogue with representatives of the Dalai Lama, releasing the...

Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Sept. 17: Members of the 18th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile on Thursday called for greater preparedness and contingency planning for Tibetans in Nepal following the devastating August flash flood that caused extensive destruction in Nepal’s Rasuwa bordering Tibet...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Sept. 17: Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun has claimed that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured Chinese President Xi Jinping that India would not allow its territory to be used for “anti-China activities,” following their...

New research links last month’s disaster to fossil fuel pollution. Supporting disaster-hit countries must be at the centre of climate politicsFollowing a familiar pattern, coverage of the glacier collapse on the Nepal-Tibet border three weeks ago has subsided with...

Beijing’s real vulnerability is not international action. It’s rising awareness within the Chinese population. 

(TibetanReview.net, Sep17’26) – China said the 6th Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche, Jamyang Choephel Jampa Gyaltsen, was formally enthroned at Gangchen Monastery in Sakya County, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), on Sep 15, 2026, in keeping with his predecessor’s wish that his...