Trinley was released before the end of a five-year jail term, but is being kept under close surveillance and has not been allowed to return to his monastery.

Tendzin Choegyal, widely known as Ngari Rinpoche, is remembered for his integrity, dry wit, candour and generosity, as well as his deep, unwavering devotion to His Holiness.

Tibetans in exile are being tracked, intimidated, and silenced by the Chinese Communist Party – even thousands of miles away from the repression they escaped. They receive threatening phone calls in ...

Years of advocacy and human rights monitoring paid off at the United Nations today as a record number of countries confronted the Chinese government over its policies in Tibet. The setting was China’s ...

Zhang Yadi, from Changsha, Hunan, had been studying in France and was awarded a scholarship for a Master’s in Anthropology at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, ...

On 2 July 2025, a statement released by the Office of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama confirmed that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue into the future. It further reaffirmed that the ...

In further restrictions to the already shrinking space for religious communities in China and Tibet to freely practice their religion, the Chinese state on 20 December 2021 announced a new regulation: ...

China’s policy of constructing mega dams on Tibet’s rivers and extracting its resources risks social and environmental catastrophe in Tibet and throughout Asia. This is according to a new report ...

Tibet Watch has learned of the demolition of a third large Buddhist statue in Drago County. In November 2021, Chinese authorities of Drago County demolished a statue of eighth-century Indian Tantric ...

The 14th Dalai Lama has released a new book in which he addresses some of the key challenges facing his occupied country Tibet, including the matter of his succession. The book, Voice of the Voiceless ...

In October 2021, Chinese police authorities in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region arrested three Tibetan children from their boarding school in Markham County (སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།) under the pretext of ...

Tibet Watch has received updates on mass demolitions carried out late last year at the Tibetan Buddhist community of Larung Gar. More than 1,000 monks and nuns are reported to have been expelled from ...