By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 7 May: India has successfully stopped Sotheby’s auction of sacred Buddha relics, with the global giant auction house postponing the sale of the relics scheduled to be auctioned on Wednesday in Hong Kong. This last-minute decision came after India accused Sotheby’s on Monday of perpetuating colonial exploitation and demanded the return of the relics to their rightful owner.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 6 MAY: All religious heads of Tibetan Buddhism to meet for a conference from 2 to 4 July in Dharamsala, a few days ahead of the Tibetan spiritual leader’s much-awaited 90th birthday on 6 July. However, there is no confirmation on whether the Dalai Lama will attend the conference.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 1 May: Sikyong Penpa Tsering, elected head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) also known as the Tibetan government in exile, has met with both the former and current Chairs of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss U.S. policy on Tibet, continued financial assistance to the Tibetan community, and the appointment of a Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues during his ongoing official visit to the United States. This marks Sikyong’s first US visit post-USAID suspension under Trump’s new presidency.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 1 May: A month-long campaign of advocacy, protest, and appeals by the exiled Tibetan community and rights groups has now prompted formal attention from the European Parliament. In a significant development, key EU officials have called on China and Vietnam to “ensure a transparent, independent and impartial investigation” into the suspicious death of Tulku Hungkar Dorjee.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 29 April: The residents of Bhandara Tibetan settlement in Maharashtra’s collective effort to prevent their Settlement Officer(SO) from leaving the settlement after receiving his transfer order from the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) fails despite their appeals to the administration to allow the SO to remain in his position until the Rent Tenancy Certificate(RTC) for the settlement is secured.
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Universities bordering Tibet, set up to train new gen cadres to run Tibet for China, now ordered to escalate assimilation, promote Han Chinese racist chauvinism, cancel Tibetan identity, says Gabriel Lafitte, Gabriel Lafitte who is an environmental researcher, writer, and activist who has specialised in Tibet and China-Tibet relations
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 28 April: Tibetan film ‘Four River Six Ranges’ written and directed by Tibetan filmmaker, Shenpen Khymsar, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Julien Dubuque International Film Festival’s best soundtrack award in a feature film on 26th April (US standard Time).
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By Vijay Kranti
THE HISTORIC BUDDHIST SITE AT AKHNOOR NEAR JAMMU WHICH WON INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION DUE TO VISIT OF H.H. DALAI LAMA
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 25 April: As the exiled Tibetans commemorated the 36th birthday anniversary of the 11th Panchen Lama Gendun Choekyi Nyima in absentia, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), commonly known as the Tibetan government in exile, has asked China, “Where is Tibet’s Panchen Lama?” The Tibetan spiritual leader has been held incommunicado by Beijing for 30 years.
*Tibetans in Dharamsala mourn the fatalities of the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir. *In Solidarity: Dharamsala Tibetans Close Businesses
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