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Dalai Lama’s life and work belies controverted video clip allegations

OPINION Ben Byrne*, "not a Dalai Lama sycophant", feels that "the idea that the Dalai Lama would dedicate his whole life to ascending from attachment to the five senses but not quite be able to relinquish a freakish sexual attachment...

Incongruity does not mean abuse: My response to the row over a video featuring His Holiness the Dalai Lama and a young Indian boy

OPINION Dhardon Sharling* argues that the controversy raised over the Dalai Lama’s embrace of a young boy during a recent public event ignores the context of the Tibetan spiritual leader’s often humorous – bordering sometimes on the impish – way...

Politics behind China’s education policy in Tibet

OPINION FEBRUARY 25, 2023 While finding the right balance between maintaining alive a minority culture through education in the minority language and the need for education in the national language is not easy to find as it is, in the case...

No Middle Way with Marxists

OPINION Ideologically, there can be no middle way between Tibetan nationalism and the Communist Party of China’s Marxism, as the latter’s sine qua non is to destroy the former, contends Ben Byrne* (TibetanReview.net, Feb02’23) In 1973 Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai told Canadian...

The Anti-tyranny movement: The significant impact of the 1959 Tibetan uprising to Chinese Statehood and foreign relations

Anthony Avice Du Buisson says the continued existence of Tibetans and their independence movement undermines the PRC’s narrative of an ethno-nationalist Chinese statehood – the creation of a homogenous Chinese Civilizational state encapsulated by President Xi Jinping's vision of...

The Middle Way Approach: A Highway for Resolving Tibet’s Pressing Contemporary Problems

Prof Nawang Phuntsog* observes that while the rhetorical gyrations in the autonomy versus independence debate over the past decades have only generated more heat than light, the middle way approach is innovative, visionary, inclusive, and revolutionary with a path...

FREEDOM FROM CHINA

DECEMBER 24, 2022 Phuntsog Wangyal* asks Tibetans not to be mesmerized by the subterfuge of false hopes held out by the United Front Work Department, Communist China’s “magic weapon” for hoodwinking others, which he sees as underlying the middle way...

GENUINE AUTONOMY or INDEPENDENCE?

John Billington* says he remains unconvinced of the viability of the exile Tibetans’ middle way approach for resolving the issue of Tibet, despite his best efforts to make a sense of it – including with a meeting with His...

From Tiananmen Square protest supporter to advocate for independence for Tibet, Basuria, etc

Luo Zongyu* retraces his life’s journey from the Tiananmen Squares protest of 1989 through travels to Tibet and contacts with Tibetans and Chinese democracy activists, which resulted in him becoming an advocate for independence for Tibet – which forced...

Is Chinese Rule in Tibet Colonial?

While China claims that Tibet has been part of China since ancient times and speaks of having only liberated it, peacefully, Dr Gyal Lo* finds, based on the yardstick of an internationally accepted academic discourse, that its rule there...
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China edgy as secretly filmed documentary threatened to expose skeletons in its Tibet cupboard

(TibetanReview.net, Feb17’25) – A reporter working for UK’s ITV spent a year secretly filming while avoiding police checkpoints to...
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