On Friday, November 28, 2025, Tendor (Tenzin Dorjee) Tibet Action Institute’s Senior Researcher and Strategist, delivered powerful remarks at the United Nations in Geneva. **Scroll down for the full transcript** Despite both China and Iran interrupting multiple times and demanding he be stopped from speaking, Tendor was able to continue to rousing applause...
Tibet Action’s Institute Director Lhadon Tethong was interviewed on the BBC World Service’s programme Newshour on September 1, 2025 about the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the “Tibet Autonomous Region” and Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Lhasa. Listen to the show on the BBC website here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172zss7tbck5cv (Starting at minute 40:28 in the US/Canada...
September 1, 2025. Original article: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/beijings-dangerous-game-tibet In early July, thousands of Tibetans, Buddhists, and other well-wishers gathered in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, to mark the 90th birthday of Tenzin Gyatso—better known as the 14th Dalai Lama. The de facto pope of Tibetan Buddhism announced...
On The Guardian’s “Today in Focus” podcast, listen to Tibet Action Institute’s Lhadon Tethong and The Guardian’s South Asia correspondent, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, discuss the battle between Tibetan Buddhists and China over the successor to the Dalai Lama. Listen here: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/jul/28/the-hunt-for-the-next-dalai-lama-podcast Before long, Tibetan Buddhism will enter an unknown world – one without its current Dalai...
Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2025By Josh Chin and Niharika Mandhana Original link: https://www.wsj.com/world/china/tibet-dalai-lama-china-schools-4733d519?st=W4ZNAX&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink China has for at least two decades directed children in Tibet to state-run boarding schools at ever-younger ages, trying to gut Tibetan culture and blunt generations of opposition to Communist Party rule. It didn’t work as well as Chinese leaders hoped. Authorities frustrated...
Read Dr. Gyal Lo’s powerful remarks from a high-level UN side event in Geneva on June 27, where international experts warned of China’s growing interference in the Dalai Lama’s succession and the threat it poses to Tibetan religious freedom and identity. The event, hosted by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights during the 59th UN...
