(TibetanReview.net, Jun23, 2018) – The first group of government organized Indian pilgrimage to western Tibet’s Kailash-Mansarovar sites entering through the recently opened border pass in Sikkim of Nathu-la had crossed into Tibet on Jun 20. The 38 pilgrims will travel to Mansarovar Lake and Mount Kailash in Ngari prefecture […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jun18, 2018) – The Buddhist community of the northeastern Indian border state of Sikkim has ended on Jun 16 a 707-day relay hunger strike following an assurance by Union Home Minister Mr Rajnath Singh that the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje would be allowed to visit and move […]

(TibetanReview.net, Mar31, 2018) – More than 18 years after his dramatic appearance in Dharamshala, India, following his escape from Chinese ruled Tibet, the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje is finally permitted to visit Sikkim, the northeastern border state which is home to his principal exile monastery of Rumtek. However, it […]

(TibetanReview.net, Mar22, 2018) – Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling of Sikkim has said Mar 20 that he had written to India’s External Affairs Minister Ms Sushma Swaraj, seeking permission for the 17th Karmapa’s Ogyen Trinley Dorje to visit the state whose capital Gangtok is home to his exile seat monastery […]

(TibetanReview.net, Feb04, 2018) – The planned visit of the Dalai Lama to India’s northeastern border state of Sikkim has been cancelled on Feb 1 on recommendation by doctors in New Delhi following a routine medical checkup. The exiled spiritual leader of Tibet was to visit the Himalayan state from Mar […]

(TibetanReview.net, Dec09, 2017) – China said Dec 7 that it had voiced dissatisfaction and lodged representations to India after an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) intruded into Tibet from across Sikkim. India said it had alerted China, notifying that it had lost contact with the drone it was otherwise flying on […]

(TibetanReview.net, May18, 2015) – Indian pilgrims to the Kailash-Manasarovar sites in the remote western Tibetan prefecture of Ngari (Chinese: Ali) will be able to travel through the more convenient Nathu La pass in Sikkim from Jun 2015. This is in addition to the existing route through the Lipulekh Pass in […]