The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently banned Tibetan monasteries from offering Tibetan language classes, prompting international human rights organizations to request that Beijing lift the ...
Chinese authorities on Monday defended a ban on schoolchildren attending informal Tibetan language classes taught by Buddhist monks in western China, as religious and cultural freedoms in the country ...
Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was being prepared for traditional Tibetan funeral rites, marks were found ...
This intensive two-week seminar will immerse students in the Tibetan language by combining methods to develop skills in both written and spoken Tibetan. The course is designed to provide aspiring ...
(New York, March 5, 2020) – China’s “bilingual education” policy has accelerated the demise of Tibetan-medium instruction in primary schools in Tibetan areas, Human Rights Watch said in a report ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is eroding access to Tibetan language learning and resources in the Tibet Autonomous Region while carrying out so-called "bilingual education", according to a new report from ...
On a recent Sunday in Jackson Heights, Queens, Dorjee Gyaltsen stands in a pastel blue and yellow classroom in front of a large whiteboard at the Danang Cultural School. He’s using his modest artistic ...
The voices of a score of children and teens rose in songs of prayer. Barefoot or in stocking feet, they stood in rows of four or five before a shrine honoring the Dalai Lama, singing in the Tibetan ...