Reposted by Tibet WatchBhuchung K. Tsering @bhuchung.bsky.social · 13hSince #AI is in the news, this upcoming International Conference on AI and Consciousness would be of interest to many as it brings together scholars on #Buddhism and science on the same stage. www.scienceformonksandnuns.org/event/two-da... 032
Reposted by Tibet WatchTurquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 11hTibet’s repression doesn’t stop at Tibet’s borders. Meeting the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, US House Foreign Affairs chair Brian Mast highlighted Beijing’s #transnationalrepression. The Tibet issue increasingly extends to how Beijing targets #Tibetans & their supporters abroad.openthemagazine.com‘People of Tibet Seek Freedom’: US Delegation Meets Dalai Lama, Criticises ChinaHouse Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast raised concerns over Chinese repression after meeting the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala. He also said the spiritual leader supported a meeting between D... 032
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11hCongresswoman Haley Stevens said the delegation wants to highlight the plight of #Tibetans and support their freedom: 'We will not forget the story of the Tibetans. We will not forget the power of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.' 3/3 110
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11hRep Mast warned 'There’s no measure that China wouldn’t go to reach their aim of suppressing the people of Tibet. And if that means abducting somebody...abducting a whole family, they will do it. If that means naming their own lama, they will do it.' 2/3 110
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11hU.S. Congressional Rep Brian Mast leads delegation of American lawmakers to meet the #DalaiLama , affirms U.S. support for #Tibet + says he will 'never forget' his meeting with the Tibetan leader www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chand... 1/3hindustantimes.com 100
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11h#British police fly the same brand; most UK police drones are also #Chinese-made #DJI too. But when the government removed Chinese surveillance cameras from sensitive sites in 2022, it left drones untouched. tibetwatch.org/download/eye...tibetwatch.org 010
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11hThe same playbook for #Tibet + #Xinjiang - state control over the skies as well as the ground + with a particular focus on border security; Nyingtri bordering #India is the only city-level drone control body in the record with military participation 6/7 101
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11hThe state is closing the sky to everyone else; 1 of the largest single purchases is not for drones but against them – detection and jamming equipment for Lhasa police + warnings that unauthorised drones will be shot down 5/7 100
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11hWhile 15 months after peaceful protests in Derge against a dam that will submerge villages and ancient monasteries, county police bought a network of automated drone docks 4/7 100
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11hFor instance Driru - where Tibetans were shot, tortured and imprisoned in a violent crackdown following peaceful protests in 2013, has the largest county police fleet on record: 18 aircraft flying daily patrols 3/7 100
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11hWith research support from @c4ads.org the report reveals how police buy drones for areas where tough crackdowns have been imposed for resistance to China's anti -Dalai Lama and land use policies 2/7 111
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11hUsing #China's own documents, our new report shows the security state buying drones for the places where #Tibetans have protested, gathered to pray and tried to escape persecution, while the state closes the sky to almost everyone else tibetwatch.org/press-releas... 1/7tibetwatch.orgPress Release: ‘Eyes Above the Plateau: Drones, DJI, and the Aerial Architecture of Control in Tibet’Policing the skies on the roof of the world: how China took control of the air over Tibet 121
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 25/09/2026Resource extraction means a shrinking and polluted habitat + forced displacement. Separated from their homes + landscape, Tibetans are often relocated 100s of km away nos.nl/artikel/2630...nos.nlGrondstofwinning in Tibet: 'Het is slecht voor onze gezondheid, maar ze luisteren niet'China delft mineralen in Tibetaans gebied en bouwt er bijna 200 waterkrachtcentrales, maar de Tibetanen zelf hebben er niets over te zeggen. 030
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 25/09/2026Rare reporting from inside Tibet by @lauravanmegen.bsky.social for Dutch NOS News; stories and landscape that are too little seen - lithium mining polluting valleys, mass relocation, children banned from monasteries, devastating hydro projects www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j-C...youtube.comReizen door Tibetaans gebied: onderdrukking en China's honger naar grondstoffenYouTube video by NOS 133
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 25/09/2026To Beijing, Kyirong is a 'strategic corridor' essential to national security, a framing that erases Tibetan religious and cultural history. The valley that China rebuilt as a frontier asset is one of Tibet’s oldest routes - spiritual master Milarepa famously spent years in meditation there 4/4tibetwatch.orgA Damocles sword over the deep valleys of the Roof of the WorldBuilding in a seismic zone, silencing the aftermath: China’s choices in a climate emergency 000
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 25/09/2026Beijing points to Nepal + 'the climate'. But China is the world's largest emitter, and the choices that made Kyirong such a catastrophe were its own: much of China–Nepal trade funnelled through one hazardous valley, lack of monitoring and silence since 3/4 100
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 25/09/2026Police have detained, fined or 'educated' people whose figures differed from the official line, including one for writing "826 missing, so heartbreaking". Published cases give Chinese names; Tibetans face a harsher regime that leaves no public record 2/4 100
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 25/09/20264 weeks after the Kyirong mudslide on the Tibet–Nepal border, China has frozen its count of the dead and missing at 562, published no names, and penalised people for posting other figures. Our briefing: tibetwatch.org/a-damocles-s... 1/4tibetwatch.orgA Damocles sword over the deep valleys of the Roof of the WorldBuilding in a seismic zone, silencing the aftermath: China’s choices in a climate emergency 134
Reposted by Tibet WatchTurquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 24/09/2026New @tibetwatch.org report on the #Kyirong disaster: a casualty count fixed at 562 with no names, people punished for posting other figures, a risk documented a year earlier, glacier data withheld from Nepal, and a "strategic corridor" built over #Tibetan history. tibetwatch.org/a-damocles-s...tibetwatch.orgA Damocles sword over the deep valleys of the Roof of the WorldBuilding in a seismic zone, silencing the aftermath: China’s choices in a climate emergency 095
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 22/09/2026China announces new Tibet Party chief Hu Changsheng www.reuters.com/world/china/... ; with a background as a geologist, will he take fellow Chinese scientists seriously on risks of infrastructure construction + hydro projects in seismically unstable Tibet, an epicentre of global climate change?reuters.comChina names new top official for Tibet in regional reshuffleChina has appointed Hu Changsheng as the new Communist Party secretary of Tibet, making him the southwestern region's top official, replacing Wang Junzheng, state-run Xinhua said on Tuesday. 012
Reposted by Tibet WatchTibetan Review @tibetanreview.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit, U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna and Jim McGovern hosted a shadow hearing on human rights in U.S.-China policy. Witnesses included Palden Gyal, Tahir Imin, Yaqiu Wang, and Jonathan Stivers. www.tibetanreview.net/tibetan-test...tibetanreview.netTibetan testifies at ranking US Congressional Committee members’ hearing ahead of President Xi Jinping’s arrival - Tibetan Review(TibetanReview.net, Sep16’26) – Ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit later this month, and as Tibetan groups and others prepare protest receptions for him, Ranking Member Ro Khanna of the US ... 035
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 17/09/2026China's new exit rules let officials bar anyone from leaving China on undefined 'national security' grounds. Tibetans have lived under this system for years: passports seized, travel denied. Beijing is now writing it into national rules. New @hrw.org report www.hrw.org/news/2026/09...hrw.orgChina: New Border Decree Curtails Right to LeaveA new Chinese government decree expands the discretion of administrative authorities to arbitrarily bar people from leaving China, violating the internationally protected right to leave a country. 010
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 17/09/2026'When warming destabilises the roof of the world, no amount of local adaptation can fully shield vulnerable people downstream...Without much faster action to transition to zero fossil fuel emissions we will inevitably see more disasters of this scale' Dr Friederike Otto 3/3 000
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 17/09/2026'Rock avalanches of this size are rare, with annual frequency estimates of approximately one event this size every 1,000–10,000 years,' the study said. 'This event shows that limits to adaptation are already being reached.' worldweatherattribution.org/rapid-warmin... 2/3worldweatherattribution.orgRapid Warming in the Himalaya Exacerbates Geohazard Cascades Beyond Adaptation Limits – World Weather AttributionFigure 1: Climate-sensitive processes potentially contributing to failure. Conceptual representation of the main mechanisms through which climate variability and climate change may have influenced the stability of the Rasuwa rock wall. 100
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 17/09/2026Climate breakdown probably weakened the glacier that collapsed causing catastrophic floods and killing hundreds of people in Nepal and Tibet: first scientific study: www.theguardian.com/science/2026... 1/3theguardian.comClimate crisis probably weakened glacier that caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, first study findsScientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August 111
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 17/09/2026Why Tibet, Asia's water tower, cannot remain an ecological black box - by @dhardonsharling.bsky.social www.theweek.in/news/world/2...theweek.inWhy Tibet, Asia’s water tower, cannot remain an ecological black boxThe Nepal-Tibet floods show why environmental information from the Third Pole is a matter of water, climate and regional security for India, South Asia and beyond 032
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 17/09/2026Chinese AI tools are being used to advance the Chinese government’s political narrative on Tibet with the deep integration of AI models into the work of the PRC security mechanisms for oppression + TNR: new report by @anthropic.com www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...anthropic.comCountering misuse of AI: September 2026 / AnthropicCase studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse. 032
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 16/09/2026...and lent useful support to the CCP through his endorsement of Gyaltsen Norbu, thus sanctioning the Chinese Panchen, and the Party’s, involvement in the choice of incarnate lamas. www.ecns.cn/cns-wire/202...ecns.cnThe 6th Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche enthroned at Gangchen Monastery in Xizang Autonomous RegionThe 6th Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche, Jamyang Choephel Jampa Gyaltsen, was formally enthroned at Gangchen Monastery in Sakya County, Xizang Autonomous Region, on Tuesday. 011
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 16/09/2026The CCP, which promotes 'unyielding Marxist atheism', installed a child as the 6th Gangchen Rinpoche at ceremony presided over by China's official Panchen Lama. The boy's predecessor the 5th Gangchen lama was known for his loyalty to the anti-Dalai Lama Shugden cult 114
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 15/09/2026Analyzing Kyirong: vivid graphics point to chain of risks in Tibet: warming accelerates glacial melting, causes ice bodies to thin; glacial lakes expand and ice avalanches, outburst floods, debris flows + flash floods can result even 100s of kilometers away datanews.caixin.com/interactive/...datanews.caixin.com财新|失稳的“亚洲水塔” 011
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 14/09/2026@npr.org cites a voice from inside China on the dangers of speaking to press: 'You might live in constant fear and anxiety, never really knowing when you've made an inadvertent remark, which could get you in trouble...nor can we predict if and when our turn might come' www.npr.org/2026/09/12/n...npr.orgHow China tried to control the narrative on the devastating floods in Nepal and TibetReporting over so-called "the Great Firewall," a journalist details how to report for a global audience from Beijing despite tight obstacles imposed by the government. 053
Reposted by Tibet WatchChina Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 11/09/2026CDT Quote of the Week: chinadigitaltimes.net/2026/09/gyir... 034
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11/09/2026Important analysis by @jamyang.net on PRC ops using Claude to monitor Tibetan targets: 011
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11/09/2026Post Kyirong glacial collapse and floods, China says Tibetan evacuees are back home - but nothing about deaths and destruction in villages in the area, according to state media reports monitored by Tibet Watch, including english.xzxw.com/xwzx/2026-09...english.xzxw.comEvacuated residents returning home after mudslide hits border port in China's XizangTibet, Tibet news, China Tibet News, Tibet politics, Tibet tourism, vision weekly, Tibetan, Lhasa, Nyingchi, Shannan, Shigatse, Nagqu, Ngari, Chamdo. Serve people, Tibet Daily, Tibet’s first provincia... 012
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 09/09/2026Tibet Film Festival returns to London 25-27 Sept, offering unmissable reflections on Tibetan identity, heritage and memory through the moving image asianmoviepulse.com/2026/09/tibe...asianmoviepulse.comTibet Film Festival London 2026 Announces Programme Exploring Memories of TibetTibet Film Festival London returns for its sixth edition with a programme exploring the theme of Memories of Tibet. Tibet Film Festival London 2026 Announces Programme Exploring Memories of Tibet 022
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 09/09/2026'If only the flood victims had spread rumors right before they died, they might have been tracked down and rescued in time' - Chinese netizen comment after 10 people punished for speaking about death toll of the floods at the border chinadigitaltimes.net/2026/09/gyir...chinadigitaltimes.netNetizen 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 001
Reposted by Tibet WatchTurquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 08/09/2026The Quiet State @robbiebarnett.bsky.social reconstructs the #surveillance of #Tibetan Buddhist nuns entirely from official Chinese media: coercion repackaged as "care" studied under structured opacity. Remote research on Tibet at its most rigorous link.springer.com/book/9789819... #osint #openaccesslink.springer.comThe Quiet StateThis open access book uses open-source analysis to reveal hidden state surveillance of Tibetan nuns, offering new methods for post-ethnographic research. 087
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 07/09/2026China has organised a carefully choreographed visit by some overseas journalists to Kyirong in Tibet after the horrific mudslides and floods, but maintains an info blackout, suppressing facial recognition footage + failing to provide list of names of those at the port at the timetibetanreview.netChina suppressing information, silencing victims, even as it takes a foreign media group to flood-ravaged Kyirong - Tibetan Review(TibetanReview.net, Sep06’26) – As families of pilgrims visiting Tibet from abroad who went missing after the devastating flash floods of ice, rock, and mud on Aug 26 morning demand answers on what wa... 032
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 26/08/2026#Tibetan musician Loten Namling sings the #Tibetan blues, talks about music as the soul of the people, his friend Lobga Rangzen + how he is reviving the ancient storytelling tradition of 'lama mani' from his home in Switzerland podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...podcasts.apple.comBlues Zeppelin, 16. August 2026Podcast Episode · The Blueszeppelin - Hosted by Mark Stenzler has been part of the Swiss radio landscape since 1989 · 16 August · 1hr 60min 022
Reposted by Tibet WatchTurquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 26/08/2026Devastating news from the Nepal–Tibet border, where flash floods & mudslides have killed at least 17 people. As climate change accelerates snow & ice melt across the #Himalayas, the need for early warning systems & climate-resilient infrastructure grows ever more urgent www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNepal flash floods: Heavy casualties fearedThe flood in Rasuwa - an area north of Kathmandu bordering Tibet - is feared to have swept away villages. 187
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 26/08/2026Ginger Yuan writes about how her time teaching in #Tibet changed her, and her friend Tara, Zhang Yadi, 'a a deeply thoughtful Buddhist' who remains in detention, incommunicado, one year on @lhashspring.bsky.social 011
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 26/08/2026Traditional Tibetan literary and cultural works are being removed from revised textbooks, and little or no Tibetan cultural content in new ones, reports @tchrd_ tchrd.org/2026/08/25/c...tchrd.orgChina’s New Ethnic Unity Law Reshapes Tibetan Education, Removes Traditional Literary and Cultural Works from Textbooks | TCHRD 011
Reposted by Tibet WatchTurquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 19/08/2026New #LarungGar demolitions, per RFA/ @planet.com satellite analysis: 1,000+ monastic residences targeted, work carried out at night, visitors capped at 90 minutes and required to rent a tracking device. Religious repression and #surveillance arriving together. www.rfa.org/english/tibe...rfa.orgBeijing resumes demolition of major Tibetan Buddhist academy, satellite imagery showsAdvocates say China razes monks’ homes to restrict religious freedom and further ethnic unity law’s reach in Tibet. 073
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 20/08/2026Ahead of crucial 21st Party Congress, China is cultivating a more repressive 7th generation leadership in Tibet: new @savetibet.bsky.social report savetibet.org/ahead-of-cru...savetibet.orgAhead of crucial 21st Party Congress, China cultivating a more repressive leadership in TibetAugust 18, 2026 Seventh-generation leadership in Tibet will be shaped 021
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 20/08/2026The visit of one of the 17th Karmapa's senior teachers Tai Situ Rinpoche to eastern #Tibet carries significant religious, political and geopolitical implications, writes Lobsang Dakpa www.firstpost.com/opinion/karm...firstpost.com 130
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 14/08/2026#Tibet's essential 'deconstructive gaze that challenges endless growth as the abiding source of human happiness': revealing new blog on #Tibetan civilisation + insights into rapid AI devt, by Gabriel Lafitte rukor.org/on-a-i-degen...rukor.orgON A.I DEGENERATE TIMES – Rukor 011
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 12/08/2026Wangden Kyab, researcher for @tibetwatch, writes about the sacrifice of his friend Lobga Rangzen and his final message in #India's Open magazine: openthemagazine.com/world/why-a-...openthemagazine.comWhy A Tibetan Activist Set Himself On FireThe self-immolation by Lobga Rangzen outside the UN headquarters in New York last month has reinvigorated the Free Tibet movement. A friend gives an insight into the activist's life and his final mess... 164
Reposted by Tibet WatchTurquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 11/08/2026Tibet Watch reports a new wave of demolitions at Larung Gar, threatening around 1,060 monks’ & nuns’ homes. #Tibetan Buddhist life is again being targeted through demolition, expulsion, #surveillance, & political indoctrination: 0106
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11/08/2026་‘Like a hunter preparing to kill an animal’: new wave of demolitions at Larung Gar #Buddhist institute in eastern #Tibet: tibetwatch.org/like-a-hunte...tibetwatch.orgNew Wave of Demolitions at Larung GarChinese authorities are implementing a new wave of demolitions at one of the world’s largest Buddhist institutes, Larung Gar in eastern Tibet 021
Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 10/08/2026#China has deployed facial recognition on #Tibet's Yarlung Tsangpo. Not on people this time — on fish. Every individual identified and counted at the Zangmu dam, 24/7, 95% accurate. No such precision applied to what its dams cost Tibetans. interestingengineering.com/innovation/f...interestingengineering.comChina deploys 'fish facial recognition' at Tibet hydropower stationChina has deployed an AI-based "fish facial recognition" system using sonar, optical tech, and historical footage at the Zangmu Hydropower Station on Tibet's Yarlung Tsangpo River. 010