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Chinese authorities declare missing Tibetan Abbot dead

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.

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Video exposes ecological damage from mining in Tibet

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.

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Further details emerge of evictions at Larung Gar

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

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Tibetan monk released in poor health

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

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Leader of a Tibetan village dies after brutal torture

Villagers in anguish pray for release of a Buddhist abbot held in detention since May

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Tibetan whistleblower jailed for exposing illegal mining on social media

Sentenced to eight months after censoring his video, Tsowo Tsering’s community has now been intimidated into silence