Since March 2009, more than 150 people are known to have set themselves on fire inside Tibet to protest against the repressive Chinese occupation. Self-immolation protests peaked in 2012 when more ...

Spread among the hills in Serta County in Kardze, eastern Tibet, Larung Gar Buddhist Institute is the largest and one of the most significant sites in Tibetan Buddhism. It was established in 1980 and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Dalai Lama is one of the most significant and respected figures in Tibetan Buddhism. Despite no longer holding any political power within the Tibetan government in exile, he remains a figurehead ...

Over the weekend, Nanhai Buddhism Shenzhen Roundtable took place in Nepal. 220 Chinese Buddhist monks arrived on a chartered flight for the Chinese-organised Buddhist events in Kathmandu and Lumbini.

This week saw a well-attended event in parliament, co-organised by Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch and the organisation China Watch. Fiona Bruce, Conservative MP for Congleton, hosted the ...

[LONDON] A coalition of Tibet groups (1) in the UK strongly condemns Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang for his recent explosive firework display in Tibet, which comes days before his major London ...

For a second time, Tower Hamlets Council has unanimously voted against China’s plans for a super embassy in the London borough. After hearing from residents and the Metropolitan Police, and taking ...