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Bitter Winter

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Tibetan Buddhism

Geshe Pende Gyaltsen. From Twitter.

02/28/2023 Lopsang Gurung

Geshe Phende Gyaltsen: The Mysterious Death of a Tibetan Tantric Scholar

The 56-year-old monk was in excellent shape when he was arrested in March 2022. The authorities claim he died of “ill health” on January 22 in jail.

The Dalai Lama speaks in New Delhi on January 21, 2023. Source: Central Tibetan Administration.

02/02/2023 Ugyen Gyalpo

The Fate of Tibet After the Inevitable: A Tibetan Opinion

What will happen in Tibet and in the Tibetan diaspora when the Dalai Lama will die?

Zhao Erfeng (1845–1911). Credits.

12/22/2022 Lopsang Gurung

“Butcher of Tibetans” Zhao Erfeng Celebrated by the CCP

The early 20th-century Qing bureaucrat is mostly remembered for his crimes against humanity. In Xi Jinping’s China, he is hailed as a model.

Falun Gong practitioners protesting in New York. From Twitter.

12/13/2022 Massimo Introvigne

Butchers of Tibetan Buddhists and of Falun Gong Practitioners Sanctioned by the U.S.

Wu Yingjie, former CCP Secretary in Tibet, and Tang Yong, prison bureaucrat in Chongqing, are among those sanctioned.

“Health police” enters a Tibetan home. Sometimes showing a non-red code (meaning the last test was not positive) is not enough to escape the quarantine camps. From Instagram.

10/22/2022 Lopsang Gurung

Tibetans Detained and Submitted to “Cyber Security Reeducation”

A new form of mandatory intensive indoctrination for those who share non-official information on the COVID-19 lockdown.

Xi Jinping appears on the screen: time for the monks to wave their flags.

10/21/2022 Massimo Introvigne

Tibetan Monks Forced to Watch the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party

They should wave a Chinese flag and show their enthusiasm—or else.

Telo Tulku Rinpoche. Source: Central Tibetan Administration.

10/07/2022 Massimo Introvigne

Supreme Lama of Kalmyk Buddhists Condemns Putin’s Aggression Against Ukraine 

For the first time, a senior Russian religious leader states that “the Ukrainian side is right.”

Tibet, the Dalai Lama and the geopolitics of the reincarnation. Poster

10/06/2022 Marco Respinti

China’s Strategy for Installing a Dalai Lama of Its Own Revealed

Two confidential internal documents reveal how Beijing plans to control the reincarnation of the 14th Dalai Lama.

The 14th Dalai Lama visiting Venice, Italy.

09/30/2022 Marco Respinti

Will the Dalai Lama Reincarnate?

The father of Tibet, 87, reiterates he will live up to his 113th year. Then, he may announce he will not reincarnate, to save Tibetan Buddhism from the CCP’s attempt to control reincarnations.

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