Tibetan Review
Dalai Lama‘s annual mind & life dialogue focuses on Artificial Intelligence
(TibetanReview.net, Oct21’25) – More than 120 noted academics, scientists, Buddhist scholars, business leaders, and policymakers visited the Dalai Lama’s residence over Oct 14-16 to attend or take part in the 39th annual dialogue with the Mind & Life Institute,...
Navigating Contested Pasts: A Critical Engagement with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s Marginal History
BOOK REVIEW Dr. Nyima Tenzing* reviews Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s The Politics of Sorrow, praising its sensitive depiction of marginal Tibetan exile narratives while critiquing areas requiring deeper analytical rigour. Specifically, it argues for more explicit engagement with the Ockenden...
No place for ethnic particularity in Xi Jinping’s unified China identity?
(TibetanReview.net, Oct19’25) – There is no place for ethnic particularity under President Jinping’s drive towards political homogenisation of the People’s Republic of China and the recent removal and investigation of high-ranking officials from ethnic minority regions who held key...
China expels nine top generals from party, military in biggest post-Mao era purge
(TibetanReview.net, Oct18’25) – China has on Oct 17 announced that nine of the top generals of its People’s Liberation Army (PLA), including the person holding the number two rank and who is the third in command in it, had...
European parliament urges Panchen Lama whereabouts, release in resumed exchange with China
(TibetanReview.net, Oct17’25) – The European Parliament has on Oct 16 called for unconditional release of the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima who has continued to remain disappeared since being abducted by the Chinese government in Apr 1995 days...
Elections’26: The Case for Sikyong Penpa Tsering’s re-election
OPINION Mr Tenzin Norbu* presents his case for the re-election of Mr Penpa Tsering as the Sikyong in the 2026 Tibetan general elections, noting that if he wins over 60% of the votes in the preliminary round, he will...
China to punish entities, local officials behind the ‘rising dragon’ fireworks in Himalayan Tibet in rare environmental action
(TibetanReview.net, Oct15’25) – In a rare instance in Tibet of China taking action against perpetrators of serious environmental damage involving nationally prominent entities, as well as local party and government officials, an investigation report has on Oct 15 recommended...
Tibetan Sikyong lobbies for Tibet at Forum 2000 Conference in Prague
(TibetanReview.net, Oct15’25) – Sikyong Penpa Tsering, the executive head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), has over Oct 13-14 met with senior European parliamentarians, former government leaders, representatives of civil society organisations and others, said the CTA o its...
Amid environmental concerns, China looks to mine lithium near Mt Everest from its third largest reserve
(TibetanReview.net, Oct14’25) – China is actively exploring the potential for large-scale mining operations at a globally ranking lithium reserve it discovered recently in Tibet in the ecologically fragile Mt Everest region, raising serious concern among scientists, reported energy-reporters.com Oct...
‘Free Tibet’ bogeyman raised against naming Humla youth as Minister in Nepal’s interim government
(TibetanReview.net, Oct13’25) – As Nepal’s interim Prime Minister considers appointing a woman, apparently of Tibetan Buddhist heritage, from the country’s border with Tibet as a minister, the Gen Z leaders from her province have demanded that her citizenship be...













