Tibet Autonomous Region

Dalai Lama Challenges China with Succession Plan, Bolstering India’s Stance

By FRANK KRISHNER on July 4, 2025 ASIA

In two days, His Holiness the Dalai Lama celebrates his 90th Birthday, but he’s already lit a candle, and set a fuse for a geo-political powder keg. Frank Krishner elaborates: The Dalai Lama, spiritual head of the Tibetan and Vajrayana Buddhist sects, has ignited a fresh diplomatic and spiritual confrontation with China. He has declared […]

‘Awesome Power’ vs the Tengdro Monks

By NEWSNET DESK on July 11, 2021 ASIA

A lost cellphone led to a raid on a monastery, multiple arrests,a suicide and a secret trial of four Buddhist monks in 2020, says a recently released Human Watch Report. Chinese authorities in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) have prosecuted four monks who received up to 20 years in prison for dubious offenses, says Human […]