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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Join us on 5 October 2026 for a Q & A session with filmmaker Tenzin Tsetan Choklay in collaboration with the Tibet Film Festival.You can get access to the film and join the Q & A by signing up for our Screen Southasia newsletter: www.himalmag.com/newsletters
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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This month we’ll be streaming State of Statelessness, the first-ever Tibetan-language anthology feature film, comprising four short segments directed by Tibetan filmmakers living in exile in India, the USA and Vietnam. Subscribe to the Screen Southasia newsletter here: ow.ly/QwYn50ZSvaP
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Bhuchung K. Tsering @bhuchung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This book should be interesting. "Journey of an Exiled Tibetan: From Dreams of Return to a New Normal" by Dr. Yeshi Choedon of JNU "She lost her homeland—but found a voice that could not be silenced." སློབ་དཔོན་ཁོང་གི་རང་རྣམ། notionpress.com/in/read/jour...
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Manjushree Thapa @manjushreethapa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Friends in Berlin, I'll be giving the keynote speech at the Middle Ground: Nepal Literature festival this year. It's a really diverse and interesting line-up of writers at the program. Please share with those who'd be interested. www.hkw.de/en/programme...
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To Imagine a Just Future Again | HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Keynote, followed by a conversation with Rajeev Balasubramanyam at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), a pluri-disciplinary institution in Berlin whose work centers around the practices of visual arts, ...
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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
📰 Today in the ARB: Shyamarsi Maji reviews “The Forest of Snow” by Swami Ramananda Bharati, published by Speaking Tiger Books. buff.ly/iHJA41P
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
D. P. Snyder offers her Spanish translation of Tsering Woeser’s “Absent, not Absent,” based on Ian Boyden’s English-language version. September 7, 2026, was a national day of mourning in Nepal for victims of the recent landslide. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/poetry/...
A somewhat surreal landscape painting by Choenyi Jampel / From Invisible Tibet
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 10/08/2026
This Video traces the surprising history behind Europe's oldest surviving Buddhist temple, from its unique architecture to the local legends that might explain its resilience despite those who have tried to erase it
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The strange, circuitous history of Europe’s oldest Buddhist temple | Aeon Videos
The oldest Buddhist temple in Europe is an architectural anomaly, built in memory of the Kalmyk regiment that fought Napoleon
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Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Did you know, there is the world's most unlikely parody of the Bayeux Tapestry, drawn to portray the Younghusband Expedition to Lhasa in 1903-4?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/09/2026
Nearly two weeks have passed since a fierce deluge of ice, boulders and mud tore through a border complex in Tibet, but China has not released an official list of those missing. In the information void, people have found their own ways to seek help and vent their grief.
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Online Posts Show Families’ Grief for Flood Victims on Tibet’s Side of China-Nepal Border
The authorities have not released an official list of those missing in the Tibet flood, creating an information void that people have tried to fill.
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 07/09/2026
Netizen Voices, on Gyirong Floods: “Controlling Speech is One Area Where 'China Speed' is Actually Real.”
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Netizen Voices, on Gyirong Floods: “Controlling Speech is One Area Where 'China Speed' is Actually Real.”
Chinese cyberspace authorities announced that ten people from Tibet and several other provinces have been hit with unspecified administrative punishments
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 02/09/2026
Information Controls Follow Catastrophic Flooding in Gyirong on the China-Nepal Border
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Information Controls Follow Catastrophic Flooding in Gyirong on the China-Nepal Border
On the morning of August 26, a glacial collapse caused catastrophic flooding and mudslides on the China-Nepal border, destroying a port and border crossing in
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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New event! 📆25-27th Sept Tibet Film Festival comes to London for it's 6th iteration! Screenings of: “Encounters: Memories, Museums, Empire & Exile” "100 Sunset" "Far from Home" & short film screenings & competition Programme: www.tibetfilmfestival.org/london-progr...
Tibet Film Festival 2026

The 6th edition of Tibet Film Festival London takes place 25-27th September 2026 at various venues around the city.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/08/2026
At least 1,900 people are missing in Nepal after a flash flood, doubling previous estimates as rescue workers press forward with a search for survivors.
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Nepal Flood Death Toll Rises to Over 500 as New Flood Warning Clouds Search for Survivors: Live Updates
A spokeswoman for the disaster relief agency said the tally grew after some 900 people were reported missing from hydropower projects. Rescue efforts were complicated by fears of new possible flooding.
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NPR @npr.org · 27/08/2026
At least 1,500 people are missing, many of them foreign tourists, after deadly floods hit the Nepal-Tibet border, sweeping away entire villages n.pr/4zB2Y2V
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At least 1,500 missing after deadly Nepal-Tibet floods
At least 1,500 people are missing, many of them foreign tourists, after deadly floods hit the Nepal-Tibet border, sweeping away entire villages
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Manjushree Thapa @manjushreethapa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Nepal Floods Live Updates: Hundreds Missing as Deadly Floodwaters Sweep Away Villages (Gift Article)
A wall of water crashed through a Himalayan river valley between Nepal and the Chinese territory of Tibet, the Nepali authorities said. The missing included border officials, port workers and foreign ...
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 25/08/2026
@fernandapirie.bsky.social will lead an interdisciplinary team @ox.ac.uk to analyse the intriguing laws commissioned by the Fifth Dalai Lama in the seventeenth century, thus illuminating the nature of Tibet’s unique theocracy. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...
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Tibetan law: the exploration of a unique legal system
This project will illuminate the nature of Tibet’s unique theocracy.
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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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Mekong Review @mekongreview.com · 19/08/2026
Our second installment from our Writers' Room series is now up! Tune in for a candid conversation about the state of Tibetan literature with Kirsten Han and two of our contributing writers from May-July 2026 issue, Bhuchung D. Sonam and Jamyang Phuntsok. Full conversation on our Youtube channel!
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Emma Martin @tibetcurator.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So happy to see that #AmongTibetanMaterialities made it onto the list 🥳 Thanks for including us @hpeaks.bsky.social Highly recommended, of course!
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High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If you're wondering what to read we just published our Summer Tibet Reading List - over 30 titles ☀️ Enjoy browsing through it and let us know what you've enjoyed reading lately! #TibetReadingList highpeakspureearth.com/high-peaks-p...
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High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Nine life lessons from the happiest man in the world: from embracing tiny changes to not overthinking meditation
Stressed out, endlessly scrolling and never satisfied? Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, the Buddhist monk with off-the-charts levels of contentment, may have the answers …
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Bhuchung K. Tsering @bhuchung.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Tibetan studies conference will be online now. Conference organizers write to #Nepal Govt. on the negative impact on #Tibetan and #Himalayan studies of the cancellation www.iats.info/2026/08/anno...
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Announcement from the Board concerning the17th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 23-29 August 2026 | IATS
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Thömas K. @thomasker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Announcement from the Board concerning the17th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 23-29 August 2026 | IATS
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 09/08/2026
Tibet conference in Nepal pushed online 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/08/09/t...
An announcement on the Association for Tibetan Studies website. Photo International Association for Tibetan Studies.
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High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Opinion - President Xi nevers wastes a good crisis. As Iran, Ukraine and Palestine distract the world, he tightens his grip, Simon Tisdall @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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President Xi nevers wastes a good crisis. As Iran, Ukraine and Palestine distract the world, he tightens his grip | Simon Tisdall
Ever the strategist, the Chinese leader is taking the offensive, both abroad and at home. That’s bad news for global order, and minorities in his country, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Sim...
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Documented @documentedny.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Lobga Rangzen died in July 2026 during the first known Tibetan self-immolation on U.S. soil, protesting Chinese policies.
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Lobga Rangzen Dedicated His Life to Tibet. His Final Protest Made History.
Lobga Rangzen died in July 2026 during the first known Tibetan self-immolation on U.S. soil, protesting Chinese policies.
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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Writer Amish Raj Mulmi argues that the colonial imagining of the Himalayas as an empty exotic frontier unintentionally bleeds into postcolonial reimagining as well. Read: www.himalmag.com/deepa-anappara-him…
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David Crary @dcrary.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
apnews.com/article/nepa... A Tibetan studies conference is canceled in Nepal at the request of officials
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A Tibetan studies conference is canceled in Nepal at the request of officials
A conference on Tibetan studies in Nepal has been canceled at the request of government officials. Organizers announced Thursday that the International Association for Tibetan Studies seminar was set ...
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 07/08/2026
Anguish and hope: why a Tibetan set himself on fire in New York. No one knew what Lobga Rangzen was planning, not even the monk who was his friend of 30 years. But his fellow exiled Tibetans greeted his passing with anguish - and respect u.afp.com/SHNL
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 06/08/2026
Lobga Rangzen’s self-immolation in New York City has galvanized the global Tibetan-independence movement. Who was he?
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A Tibetan Activist Set Himself on Fire Outside the U.N.—and United His Cause
Lobga Rangzen’s self-immolation galvanized a global movement that had become fractured and discouraged.
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NPR @npr.org · 05/08/2026
A 73-year-old retired nurse's decision to learn to write Tibetan language offers a glimpse into how some embrace their language and cultural identity in Tibet. n.pr/459VQN1
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Under China's new 'unity' law, Tibetans fight to preserve language and culture
A 73-year-old retired nurse's decision to learn to write Tibetan language offers a glimpse into how some embrace their language and cultural identity in Tibet.
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High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The Nepal government cancelled a week-long international Tibetan studies conference that'd been 4 years in planning — overriding its own security agencies’ assessment that event posed no threat, reversing public assurance frm Home Min Sudan Gurung it'd go ahead: kathmandupost.com/national/202...
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Nepal overruled its own security agencies to cancel Tibetan studies conference under Chinese pressure, officials say
Days after the Home Minister said the seminar would proceed with security vetting, the government’s Chief Secretary personally ordered Kathmandu University to shut it down.
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 05/08/2026
🇨🇳 #China last month implemented a new Ethnic Unity Law aiming to strengthen patriotism across all regions of the country, including #Tibet. 🗣️ #Beijing says the law will improve national integration, but Tibetan activists see it as another attempt to erode local identity. Here's the story ⤵️
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High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Lobga Rangzen’s unthinkable act — the first known self-immolation by a Tibetan in the United States — may have achieved one of his greatest goals, however briefly: He made the world pay attention to Tibet. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/w...
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Lobga Rangzen, the Tibetan Activist Who Set Himself on Fire in Manhattan (Gift Article)
No one doubted the intensity of Lobga Rangzen’s commitment to a Tibet free of Chinese control. But they were not prepared for what he did next.
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High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
AP joined a government-organized trip to Tibet where authorities arranged visits to palaces, Buddhist temples, tourist sites, local businesses... Officials accompanied the foreign journalists, AP journalists were not free to move around or conduct reporting independently. apnews.com/article/chin...
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In Tibet, some embrace their native language even under China's sweeping new 'ethnic unity' law
A 73-year-old retired nurse spoke her native Tibetan all her life but never learned to write it — until now.
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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Deepa Anappara’s ‘The Last of Earth’ revisits the romance of the Great Game and the pundit explorers, but fails to see beyond enduring notions of Tibet and the Himalaya as empty imperial frontiers. Read Amish Raj Mulmi's review essay on our website: ow.ly/kRku50ZuX8n
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James Leibold @jleibold.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New in @ForeignAffairs: @tendor and I argue that China’s new ethnic-unity law does not abolish minority autonomy on paper. It does something more insidious: it gives statutory force to assimilation while hollowing autonomy out in practice. www.foreignaffairs.com/china/next-p...?
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The Next Phase of China’s Minority Crackdown
Forced assimilation is now the law.
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Dawa Lokyitsang @dawalokyitsang.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Decolonizing “Tibetan” and “Himalayan” Studies: Empire, Ethnicity, and Rethinking Sovereignty in *The Oxford Handbook of the Himalayas by Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa (ed.) academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Decolonizing “Tibetan” and “Himalayan” Studies: Empire, Ethnicity, and Rethinking Sovereignty
Abstract. 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
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Bhuchung K. Tsering @bhuchung.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Tenzing, a film on Tenzing Norgay of #Everest fame will be at #Toronto International Film Festival. Genden Phuntok from Tibet stars as Tenzing Norgay along with Lhamo Thinley (#Nepal based) Tenzin Dralha (India based). Willem Dafoe plays Ed Hillary. www.tiff.net/films/tenzing
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High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
China Is Already Trying to Control Who the Next Dalai Lama Will Be by Charlie Campbell time.com/article/2026...
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China Is Already Trying to Control Who the Next Dalai Lama Will Be
The fight over the 91-year-old’s reincarnation is becoming a test of China’s power over Tibet—and whether his spiritual legacy can outlast him.
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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Happy #pubday to "The Bodhisattva’s Body in a Pill: The Material and Spiritual History of a Buddhist Relic Tradition" by James Duncan Gentry! "Hands-down the best book on Tibetan Buddhism in a decade." —Jacob Dalton, University of California, Berkeley upress.virginia.edu/title/10185/
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Buddhistdoor Global (BDG) @buddhistdoor.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
BDG News: Dalai Lama Shares a Message of Compassion as 25,000 Gather in Ladakh to Mark His 91st Birthday 🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/yw7wu3ch #Buddhism #Buddha #Dharma #DalaiLama #TibetanBuddhism #Vajrayana #Ladakh #Leh #Peace #Compassion #Nonviolence
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Dalai Lama Shares a Message of Compassion as 25,000 Gather in Ladakh to Mark His 91st Birthday - Buddhistdoor Global
His Holiness the Dalai Lama attended celebrations in Leh, Ladakh, today to mark the occasion of his 91st birthday..
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 06/07/2026
I am devastated by the death of Tibetan freedom activist Lobga Rangzen. As we mourn his loss, we continue to fight for human rights in Tibet and across the globe. My heart is with his loved ones and our entire Tibetan community in NY-14.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 06/07/2026
As the Dalai Lama turns 91 today, his associates in India say he remains in good health and insist his successor will be chosen according to centuries-old Tibetan Buddhist tradition – not by China.
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China Is Using Buddhism to Challenge India's Influence in Asia
China is investing millions in Buddhism to expand its influence in Asia, challenging India's claim to the faith and alarming US officials as the Dalai Lama succession nears
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 05/07/2026
China is investing millions in Buddhism to expand its influence in Asia, challenging India's claim to the faith and alarming US officials as the Dalai Lama succession nears. Read more: bloom.bg/4oZ06Ii 📷: Uma Bista & Kanishka Sonthalia
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/07/2026
Black text on white page that reads the following: I am heartbroken by the death of Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen outside the United Nations. No one should feel that such a desperate act is the only way to make the world listen.

New York stands for the dignity and human rights of all people. We mourn this tragic loss and extend our deepest condolences to his loved ones and the Tibetan community across our City.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/07/2026
A Tibetan activist lit himself on fire and outside of the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday to protest China’s control over his homeland, declaring in a video before his self-immolation that Beijing’s policies were “destroying the Tibetan people.” He later died.
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Tibetan Activist Sets Self on Fire Outside U.N. in Protest Against China
Lobga Rangzen, a 52-year-old resident of Queens, died after the self-immolation. He said Beijing’s policies were “destroying the Tibetan people.”
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High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Tibetan man dies after setting himself on fire outside UN in New York, activists say
Exiled Tibetans say the man’s self-immolation was an appeal for Tibetan independence from China
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/07/2026
A man holding a Tibetan flag has died after setting himself on fire outside the United Nations headquarters in New York in a highly rare self-immolation on US soil. cnn.it/4eR6gpb
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Ed Douglas @calmandfearless.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A fascinating article for those interested in the Simla Convention and how the British government sold Tibet down the river while ignoring the rich contribution of its culture.
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