སྐལ་ཚེ།格桑次仁

Born in Tibet. Brought up & educated in India. Worked at the Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala, lives in Canberra, Australia 🇦🇺

[TibetanReview @TibetanReview]

Australian Senator Dean Smith has raised concerns about #China’s new Ethnic Unity and Progress Law and its potential impact on Tibetans living in #Australia, urging targeted sanctions on Chinese leaders responsible for enforcing the law transnationally.
https://t.co/PvoW6c2vV2

[claudio tecchio @DossierTibet]

Xi has transformed #Tibet into one of the most monitored societies on earth. DNA collection, facial recognition, and AI‑driven tracking systems blanket the plateau. Every monastery, school, and village is wired into Beijing’s panopticon.

[International Campaign for Tibet @SaveTibetOrg]

ICT’s 2026 Tibet Leadership Report makes one thing clear: #Beijing is cultivating a more repressive leadership governing Tibet.

Two forces - "Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building” and the #CCP’s “Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress Law” - are shaping this next generation of leadership in Tibet.

ICT Research and Monitoring Head Bhuchung Tsering outlines the two and what this could mean for the very survival of #Tibetan identity, amid a continued lack of any meaningful Tibetan representation in senior leadership positions.

Read the full ICT report: https://t.co/kHpEXQmJ1B

[སྐལ་ཚེ།格桑次仁 @kalsangt]

The World's Largest Fun Run - The Voltaren City2Surf - in Sydney on Sunday 9 August 2026. Bringing 90,000+ people together from all walks of life to run, jog, walk or stroll the iconic 14km course from Sydney CBD to Bondi Beach. https://t.co/7wxkBhaRJ7

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

What Really Makes Friends - Forget wealth. Forget power. His Holiness the Dalai Lama cuts straight to the heart of human connection — and reveals why compassion is the only thing that creates true, lasting friendship. Video originally recorded on November 20, 2014.

[TibetanReview @TibetanReview]

China offers visa‑free entry to 77 nationalities to boost its slowing economy, but #Tibet remains a rare exception. Travel there still requires special permits, underscoring Beijing’s tight restrictions as Xi’s renewed #Sinicization campaign intensifies.
https://t.co/73mI4mn4Lc

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

Why does His Holiness the Dalai Lama often begin by addressing audiences as “brothers and sisters”? In this short clip, His Holiness explains that many of the problems we face arise from divisions of religion, nationality, and political systems. He reminds us of a deeper truth—the oneness of humanity and our shared wish to live a happy life. This excerpt comes from our archives and was recorded on January 15, 2014.

[TibetanReview @TibetanReview]

Ngari Rinpoche the youngest brother of the Dalai Lama, passed away at his Kashmir Cottage residence in Dharamshala, India, on Feb 17 afternoon, aged 80. The religious ceremony of his cremation was carried out on Feb 19.
https://t.co/xrVFGtYYVe

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

His Holiness the Dalai Lama meeting with Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient recognized for her non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building, at his residence at Drepung Gomang Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on January 23, 2026.

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Receives Grammy Recognition Highlighting Universal Responsibility and Compassion

Grammy Award Best Audiobook Narration - Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

I receive this recognition with gratitude and humility. I don’t see it as something personal, but as a recognition of our shared universal responsibility. I truly believe that peace, compassion, care for our environment, and an understanding of the oneness of humanity are essential for the collective well-being of all eight billion human beings. I’m grateful that this Grammy recognition can help spread these messages more widely.

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

Press Statement

Some recent media reports and social media posts concerning the “Epstein files” are attempting to link His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Jeffrey Epstein.

We can unequivocally confirm that His Holiness has never met Jeffrey Epstein or authorised any meeting or interaction with him by anyone on His Holiness’s behalf.

8 February 2026

[བུ་ཆུང་ཀེ་ཚེ་རིང་། @bhuchungtsering]

My latest blog! The #DalaiLama and the #EpsteinFiles: Much Ado About Nothing སྤྱི་ཚོགས་དྲ་རྒྱའི་སྟེང་༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་ལ་འབྲེལ་མད་འགྲེལ་བརྗོད་བྱེད་པའི་ཐོག་གུས་པའི་ཟིན་བྲིས། https://t.co/5xbFw3k9GH

[TibetanReview @TibetanReview]

Dr Tashi Phuntsok presents his case for the election of Mr Kalsang Tsering as the member of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile from the Australasia constituency in the upcoming, 2026 Tibetan elections.
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#TibetElect26
https://t.co/EWYSMrBQ5l

[སྐལ་ཚེ།格桑次仁 @kalsangt]

Elections’26: The story of Kalsang Tsering, a leader of integrity and experience https://t.co/BPPB6uLhpP via @Tibetan Review

[བུ་ཆུང་ཀེ་ཚེ་རིང་། @bhuchungtsering]

This! #Tibetan #Buddhist nuns are getting advanced degrees − and the #DalaiLama played a major role in that shift by Naomi Schalit ༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་དང་བཙུན་མ་ཚོར་ནང་ཆོས་སློབ་གསོའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་ཐོག https://t.co/Lnh1Y8Nr8C

[སྐལ་ཚེ།格桑次仁 @kalsangt]

On 14 May 1995, the Dalai Lama officially recognized six-year-old Gedun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet. Just three days later, on 17 May 1995, Chinese authorities abducted the young boy and his family. Since then, their whereabouts and wellbeing remain unknown.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

I am troubled to learn of the mysterious death of Tibetan religious leader Tulku Hungkar Dorjee in Vietnam. He had been harassed by authorities in China for running his monastery and schools. @StateDept must urge Vietnam to do a full and transparent independent investigation.

[སྐལ་ཚེ།格桑次仁 @kalsangt]

བསྟན་དང་དེ་འཛིན་ཆབ་སྲིད་རང་རིགས་སླད།། གཅེས་པའི་ལུས་སྲོག་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་ཡོངས་བཏང་སྟེ།། དཀའ་བ་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་བསྒྲུབ་པའི་སྐྱེ་བོ་རྣམས།། གྲུ་འཛིན་མགོན་དེས་ཐུགས་རྗེས་སྐྱོང་བར་མཛོད།།

[Tashi Wangdi བཀྲིས་དབང་འདུད་ @TWangdi_exCTA]

Saddened to hear the passing of Kungo Gyalo Thondup.
I had a chance knowing him during my brief time with him in the Kashag.
He will be remembered for his life long service to the Tibetan cause and views he held.

[བུ་ཆུང་ཀེ་ཚེ་རིང་། @bhuchungtsering]

My new blog! With Secretary #MarcoRubio now in office, why the US Special Coordinator for #Tibet matters for #Tibetans and #China ཨ་རིའི་བོད་དོན་དམིགས་བསལ་འབྲེལ་མཐུད་སྐུ་ཚབ་ཀྱི་གནད་འགག ། https://t.co/Undf2PGxil https://t.co/ZDHjwKZ8rF

[Sikyong Penpa Tsering @SikyongPTsering]

A heartfelt thank you to Under Secretary Uzra Zeya for your contribution for the cause of the Tibetan people in your responsibility as Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues in the past and your commitment into the future. Your consistent engagement with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the CTA leadership, and Tibetan civil society—including significant visit to Dharamshala—has strengthened hopes for a peaceful resolution to the Sino-Tibet dispute. We are grateful for your leadership and persistence against all odds. The Tibetan people, both inside and outside Tibet, deeply value the steadfast support of the US government and look forward to your continued support and guidance.