Chinese authorities of Gade County declared the death of Rigzin Hungkar Dorje, a prominent Tibetan abbot of Lung Ngon Monastery in Golog,  who had been missing since August last year.

Video footage from Tibet circulating on Chinese social media in the second week of this month exposes rampant ecological damage caused by government-approved mining in Drongri village (གྲོང་རི་གྲོང་ཚོ།), in Tsonga Township (མཚོ་རྔ་ཤང་།), Markam County, Chamdo City. 

Around 1,000 monks and nuns were expelled from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy late last year.

Rachung was jailed for sending prayer money to Tibetan exile monasteries to pray his late uncle who died from self immolation