Golog Prefecture's Daozha Welfare School is also rumored to have closed during the recently passed summer vacation. The school now has no students enrolling. Daozha School is a private orphanage boarding school that once had nearly 300 students, all orphans or from single-parent families. The school has nine classes: one for each grade from 1 to 8, plus one Thangka sewing class. There are 20 full-time teachers.

Breaking: Ragya Girls’ Middle School in Ragya Town, Golog Prefecture, Qinghai Province, was quietly shut down last month. The school was originally established in 2005 by Jigme Gyaltsen, a senior monk of Ragya Monastery, under the name Grassland Girls’ Middle School. It was later forcibly taken over by the authorities and converted into what they called a “privately run, publicly funded” school. Although the school buildings and playground were beautifully renovated, the curriculum had become virtually indistinguishable from that of an ordinary public school. And now, just this past summer, the school was permanently shut down!

Tibetan-Chinese Face-to-Face | Screening of "No Longer Afraid" | Dialogue with Tenzin Wangqing Tenzin Wangqing picked up the camera, allowing some Tibetans whose voices have long been hard to hear to speak their hearts. On the eve of the Olympics, his wife Ramzho braved immense pressure to release the film! It created a huge international impact! Tenzin Wangqing can speak Chinese, so this event will be conducted in Mandarin! This Sunday evening, in the South Bay, Star Wiping invites you to meet and exchange with Tibetan documentary director Tenzin Wangqing, to learn about the untold voices of the Tibetan heart! Join a rare Tibetan-Chinese dialogue!

In China, Battle Is Raging for the Soul of Tibet—On edge of Himalayas, tourist boomtown sells Chinese visitors sanitized version of Tibetan culture @GillSabrie @ZyuelingSH

Interview with Hu Sheng: Whether we are talking about the Middle Way or independence, neither matters more than exiled Tibetans being able to return to their homeland. I have a very naïve dream: if President Trump could help arrange for His Holiness the Dalai Lama to take some people back to China—even for just seven or ten days—to return to Tibet itself, with each person taking a handful of soil or filling a bottle with water, I think that would answer the deepest longing in the heart of every Tibetan in exile.

Tara Freesoul | To Have Seen His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Person - I Have No Regrets in This Life | The Heartfelt Words of a Post-2000 Han Chinese Buddhist Born in Mainland China Today is His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s birthday, and tomorrow is Tara Zhang Yadi’s birthday. Everyone at Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet extends our warmest birthday wishes to both of them! To mark the occasion, we are republishing a deeply moving essay that Tara wrote two years ago after meeting His Holiness. We hope it offers our readers a glimpse into Tara’s spiritual world. We also dedicate this essay as a birthday tribute to His Holiness, praying for his good health and wishing him a long life for the benefit of all beings! This article was originally published on (Chinese) two years ago.