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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 07/10/2026

@savetibet.bsky.social has launched the Tibet #Journalism Lab, offering grants of up to $5,000 to #Tibetan journalists for independent, in-depth reporting on Tibet. It includes editorial mentorship, verification, digital security, & source protection. Applications close Nov. 15:

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ICT launches Tibet Journalism Lab to support independent reporting on Tibet

October 7, 2026 The International Campaign for Tibet is pleased

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

July 14, 2026 article by Yale Environment quotes #China Geological Survey warning about the risks of #hydropower dam construction on the #Yarlung Tsangpo. The #Nepal - #Tibet border landslide happened Aug 26, 2026, w/ rescue efforts filmed at hydro construction sites: e360.yale.edu/digest/yarlu...

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Risks Loom for Chinese Dam Project Being Built on Active Fault Line

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Bhuchung K. Tsering @bhuchung.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

By the way how #Chinese Premier #LiQiang has come to #Kyirong today, soon after Vice Premier #ZhangGuoqing who was there yesterday it seems the loss of life and damage on the #Tibetan side is far worse than what the Chinese state media reported initially. #Nepal #Flood

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m sick of headlines reducing this to “climate change.” To understand what happened, we need to examine all factors: dam & hydropower projects, altered rivers, land & infrastructure development, & extreme weather. What happens to rivers in #Tibet affects communities & ecosystems far beyond #China.

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

What does "Decolonizing Tibetan & Himalayan Studies" look like? This introduction asks what it would take to move beyond critiquing imperial origins & rethink the field’s frameworks, citations, and assumptions around Tibetan knowledge, history, & political agency. lhakardiaries.com/2026/08/22/d...

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Decolonizing “Tibetan” and “Himalayan” Studies: Empire, Ethnicity, and Rethinking Sovereignty, an Introduction

Who are Tibetans? How have they been framed as objects for study across time? For earlier Western academics and the audiences who read their work, Tibetans were a people largely defined by religiou…

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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 25/07/2026

Chinese authorities have reportedly tightened security and #surveillance in Lobga Rangzen’s hometown in eastern #Tibet following his self-immolation in New York. His family’s whereabouts remain unknown amid severe communication and travel restrictions. phayul.com/china-impose...

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China imposes heavy security, tightens surveillance in Lobga Rangzen’s hometown - Phayul

Phayul.com is one of the most popular & successful Tibetan news website in English. With daily readers touching over 12,500 and still growing. It features news and views on Tibet.

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"A #Tibetan activist lit himself on fire and outside of the #UnitedNations headquarters in #NewYork on Thursday to protest #China’s control over his homeland, declaring in a video...that #Beijing’s policies were 'destroying the #Tibetan people.' He later died." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/w...

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Tibetan Activist Sets Self on Fire Outside U.N. in Protest Against China

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

#China governed #TibetanStudies “seeks to reshape the humanities & social sciences [to] reflect the Party’s worldview” & “support the governance of the Tibet Autonomous Region [...] while also shaping international perceptions of #Tibet." bitterwinter.org/tibet-schola...

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Tibet Scholars Urged to Use Marxism to Promote Beijing’s Agenda

Beijing gathers Tibet experts to reaffirm that research must serve ideology and shape global narratives.

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Giving this lecture on #China's empire, #Tibetan #Refugee Schools, and Chosen belonging in exile this Friday 📅 May 22th, 13:00-16:00 (Bangkok time)

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Colonial era inspired laws in Hong Kong, Han settler colonialism in Xinjiang, anticolonial internationalism in China, & circumventing state oppression in acts of transnational solidarity

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This dialogue for a post-conflict future through an exploration of the Future of #Tibetan Refugees in #India will take place on May 25. To join the webinar, register here: www.kingselab.org/all-events/e...

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

What happens when children sent by parents in #Tibet to Tibetan #refugee schools in #India in the 1980s are forced to return to Tibet in the 1990s due to #Chinese gov orders? Tsering Dolkar tells us in this personal account in #Tibetan & English on Lhakar Diaries lhakardiaries.com/2026/04/05/o...

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Of Dispersal(s) — ཡུལ་གྱར་གྱི་སྐོར།

While a few individual Tibetans returned to Tibet in the 1970s and 1980s, it was in the 1990s that a noticeable group of returnees came to be formed. Many families in Tibet who had initially left t…

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Where is this article from? I can't seem to find it on google scholar

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Interesting paper connecting White Supremacy in the US and Han Supremacy in China. On the call for Tibetan scholars — we've been writing those chapters for years. The literature exists. Engage it.

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Joining @tibetcurator.bsky.social Emma Martin with activists Te Nam + Tsering Passang discussing #Tibet in the Museum for the "Dissent! #Museums & Political Disagreement" conference on March 26 at the Uni of Manchester, UK Admission free. Click link for more info: www.eventbrite.com/e/dissent-mu...

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Today: "Join us for a talk about Chinese colonialism in Tibet, challenging the Eurocentric assumption that colonialism ended with African and Asian decolonisation." www.iias.asia/events/chine...

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Chinese Colonialism in Tibet: Inventing Tibetan Inferiority & the Making of China's Empire | IIAS

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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 03/03/2026

Join the @iias.bsky.social screening of Amala: The Life and Struggle of the Dalai Lama’s Sister — a documentary about Jetsun Pema’s lifelong dedication to #Tibetan children, culture, & exile leadership. IIAS Fellow @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social will introduce the film www.iias.asia/events/amala...

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Amala: The Life and Struggle of the Dalai Lama’s Sister | IIAS

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This Thursday, on how #Chinese #colonialism in #Tibet persists through state-led discursive and ethnographic practices in the making of the Chinese #empire. QR to Register (Required). ⏰ March 19 | 4:15pm - 5:45pm 📍Wijnhaven, Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DP The Hague, Leiden University (Room 3.48)

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I will be screening of "Amala" tomorrow, March 17 at Leiden University. It traces Jetsun Pema's life in Tibet, escape in India, and four decades of leadership at Tibetan Children’s Village school for Tibetan refugee children in India. For info on Film & Location visit: www.iias.asia/events/amala...

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Folks in Vancouver, British Columbia, I will be in Canada as part of the "Entangled Territories: Conversations on Home + Diaspora" on March 11th at 5:30pm presented by Museum of Anthropology, UBC Himalaya Program, and UBC Asian Studies. Register to attend moa.ubc.ca/event/entang...

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Entangled Territories: Conversations on Home + Diasporas - Museum of Anthropology at UBC

Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images was developed in collaboration with Tibetan Canadian community members and artists, showcasing Tibet and Tibetans through their own voices and...

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Preservation or Dispossession? "These texts, hidden and preserved at great personal risk by Tibetan Lamas (Buddhist masters) from Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution and entrusted to BDRC to safeguard Tibetan heritage, are now slipping out of Tibetan control."

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The Buddhist Digital Resource Center Transfers Tibetan Buddhist Heritage to Harvard & Dismisses Tibetan Staff

BDRC, an organization run and governed by non-Tibetans but built on decades of Tibetan labor, scholarship, and interpretation, is quietly transferring its Tibetan-owned Buddhist archive to a Harvar…

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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

"How does colonialism shape Tibetan experiences of kinship? China's colonial occupation of Tibet forced Kalden to leave Tibet not ones but twice, fracturing and rupturing attachments to families and places of origin in the process." In the book: Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship & Care

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Kinship Under Colonial Duress: Anticolonial Nationalism Mends Ruptured Tibetan Attachments

“How does colonialism shape Tibetan experiences of kinship? China’s colonial occupation of Tibet forced Kalden to leave Tibet not ones but twice, fracturing and rupturing attachments to…

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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 12/09/2025

@dawalokyitsang.bsky.social showing how #Tibetans under Chinese #colonialism built chosen families in exile, using schools like TCV in India to create kinship beyond blood, grounded in shared history, loss, & resistance. 🌱 #Resilience bowdoinorient.com/2025/09/12/a...

Dr. Dawa Lokyitsang gives a talk. Lokyitsang, a Tibetan-American anthropologist, spoke on how Tibetans fleeing from Chinese colonialism found their chosen families among other refugees in India. Photo credit: Abigail Hebert

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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

How is language important? Media expert Sriparna Pathak discusses how China sponsors Indian journalists to visit Tibet, who return calling it "Xizang." The terminology normalizes not just China's sovereignty over Tibet but also Chinese territorial claims in dispute with India.

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China's Quiet Push in India - China Media Project

Indian scholar Sriparna Pathak examines how China seeks to influence India's diverse media landscape through academic infiltration and digital manipulation.

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