Letter reaffirms that the Gaden Phodrang Trust has the sole authority to recognise the reincarnation of future Dalai Lamas.

The head of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery is in critical condition after his imprisonment following peaceful protests against the construction of a major hydropower dam in Derge (Dege), Tibet. Gonpo ...

As far as China is concerned there is no Tibet, only ‘Xizang’. The Chinese government has eliminated Tibet from foreign-language communications, and has instead replaced it with their own word ‘Xizang ...