His Holiness the @DalaiLama’s Guru-Dakshina to #India at the @IHCDelhi today. Visuals from @SikyongPTsering first offical talk in #NewDelhi since being relected as the #Sikyong of @CTA_TibetdotNet for his 2nd term. #IndiaTibet

As part of the International Year of Compassion, the India Habitat Centre today hosted a special lecture by Sikyong Penpa Tsering on “His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s Guru-Dakshina to Bharat” at Gulmohar Hall, New Delhi. In his address, Sikyong Penpa Tsering highlighted the centuries-old civilizational ties between Tibet and India, underscoring the shared religious, linguistic, cultural, and intellectual heritage. Sikyong spoke about the profound contributions of ancient Indian scholars and masters whose teachings were preserved and carried forward through the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The lecture was moderated by Vijay Kranti, Tibetologist and Chairman of CHASE, and chaired by Prof. (Dr.) K. G. Suresh, Director of the India Habitat Centre. Photo Courtesy: Palden Choedon | Central Tibetan Administration

Medical Bulletin — New Delhi, 8 June 2026 — His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s personal physicians—Dr. Tsetan D. Sadutshang, Dr. Tamdin Tsewang, Dr. Tsering Lhadon, and Dr. Tenzin Tsundue—together with Mr. Tenzin N. Taklha, Secretary to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, provided a brief update on His Holiness’s condition following his successful left knee replacement surgery earlier today at Apollo Hospital, New Delhi. In June 2024, His Holiness underwent a successful right knee replacement surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City and made an excellent recovery. Following today’s procedure, His Holiness returned to his hospital room in stable condition. His recovery is progressing well, and he remains in good spirits. The medical, nursing, and administrative teams at Apollo Hospital have been providing exceptional care, support, and attention. We are deeply grateful for their professionalism, dedication, and kindness.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama was formally presented the Grammy Award at his residence in Dharamsala on June 3, 2026. by Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, accompanied by Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash and Kabir Gill Sehgal. The award was received in the category of Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording for the album Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a unique collaboration blending His Holiness’ reflections on compassion, peace and the oneness of humanity with Indian classical music. Photo by Tenzin Choejor

Penpa Tsering Sworn In for Second Term as Sikyong of the Central Tibetan Administration tibet.net/penpa-tsering-swor…

We are delighted to share our research associate @RinzinNamgyal11 received an award of highest recognition in NASC fellowship 2025-26 batch. We heartily congratulate our research associate Rinzin Namgyal la.

Restless Tibet recalls decades of exile Read: hindustantimes.com/india-new… @Dar_Ovais18 ✍🏻 More in today's epaper 🗞️ epaper.hindustantimes.com

On the occasion of Lhakar, the FNVA team, including its Trustees and researchers, extends heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Tenzin Taklha (Secretary of HHDL office) on being honoured with the Thiksey Medal in recognition of his decades of dedicated service to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and the wider Tibetan community. 📷 Thiksey Monastery Page

The Himalaya Pariwar formally invites you to the film screening of '4 Rivers and 6 Ranges' directed by @Shenpenn This is the 1st official public screening in New Delhi🇮🇳 and is organised by Himalaya Pariwar's General Secretary Shri Bhupendra Kansil. Do not miss the opportunity and join us on: 📅 25th May, 2026 ⏳ 3:00 PM 📍 Film Division Auditorium, Mahadev Road, New Delhi

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama met with civil servants of the Central Tibetan Administration in the courtyard of Thekchen Choeling Tsuglakhang in Dharamshala on 12 May 2026. Photo Courtesy: Tenzin Choejor | Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Registrations for MEA-organized Kailash Manasarovar Yatra (KMY) 2026 closing soon !! Interested candidates are encouraged to apply before 19 May 2026. For further details, please visit kmy.gov.in

April Monthly Tibet Digest is now out on our website! Stay abreast of all the latest updates and developments. Prepared by: Team FNVA Click on the link below to access the complete digest. fnvaworld.org/tibet-digest-a… #tibetdigest

Tibet Atrocities Determination Act put forward in US congress. I hope it will likely to get enacted soon. Marking Tibet’s suffering as a ‘crime against humanity’ is absolutely acceptable and should be considered way earlier but glad to see this now. rickscott.senate.gov/service…

༄༅། །གཏམ་གླེང་གི་ལེ་ཚན་འདི་ནི། ཨོ་རི་ས་ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གཞིས་ཆགས་སུ་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་པའི་སྔ་འགྱུར་བདུད་འདུལ་རབ་བརྟན་གླིང་དགོན་གྱི་དབུ་འཛིན་བླ་མ་བསོད་ནམས་བཀྲ་ཤིས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ལྷན་དུ་ཡིན་ཞིང་། ནང་དོན་གྱི་གཙོ་གྲས་སུ། ཟངས་མདོག་དཔལ་རི་གསར་བཞེངས་སྐོར་གྱི་རྒྱབ་ལྗོངས་དགོས་དམིགས་ཀྱི་མཚོན་པའི་བྱུང་རིམ་ཧྲག་བསྡུས་དང་། ཁྲོས་མའི་ཉམས་བཞེས། དེ་མིན་གནད་དོན་གཞན་ཁག་ཅིག་བཅས་ཀྱི་སྙིང་དོན་དུ། ། Featured Conversations Episode 2 with Lama Sonam Tashi la is out. In this episode, we engaged with Lama Sonam Tashi la, the esteemed abbot of Dundul Raptenling Monastery, who also oversees the principal efforts behind the construction of the Zangdok Palri. The discussion centres upon the historical and spiritual foundations of the Zangdok Palri project, delves into the intricacies of Troma practices, and reflects upon Lama Sonam’s own dedicated contributions to the preservation and propagation of the Buddha Dharma particularly within the Dudjom Tersar lineage. The Episode is hosted by Rinzin Namgyal la. This is a teaser from the episode, the entire conversation can be viewed from the following link: youtu.be/PyKOmRkXWsg?si=erOB… The conversation can also be tuned in from our FNVA YouTube channel - FNVA and podcast channel - Insights from the Roof of the World: Conversations on Tibet. One can access the following link to know more about the Zangdok Pari at Odisha: zangdokpalriodisha.com/ FNVA sincerely thank Lopon Tenpa Dhakpo as videographer, Yeshi Jinsel as editor and the entire Dundul Rabptenling Monastery team for supporting this interview. #dudjomrinpoche #gururinpoche #Buddhism #featuredconversations

Our senior researcher @dundadul writes on “More Than a Ceremony: Why India’s Historic Tenshug is a Geopolitical Signal.” This op-ed highlights the recent Tenshug offered by India to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, expounding upon how it was more than a ceremony. It further engages on the Indian Tibet Support Groups and the 8th All India Tibet Support Groups Conference which took place after the Tenshug. You can read and download this writing from our website using the following link: fnvaworld.org/more-than-a-ce… #india #tibet #tenshug #dalailama

March Monthly Tibet Digest is now out on our website! Stay abreast of all the latest updates and developments. Prepared by: Team FNVA Click on the link below to access the complete digest. fnvaworld.org/tibet-digest-m… Do not forget to check out the 2026, January and February Tibet Digest as well. #TibetDigest

གཏམ་གླེང་གི་ལེ་ཚན་འདི་ནི། སྨོན་ལམ་བརྡ་འཕྲིན་ཞིབ་འཇུག་ཁང་གི་འགན་འཛིན་འབུམ་རམས་པ་དགེ་བཤེས་བློ་བཟང་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་ལྷན་དུ་མིས་བཟོས་རིག་ནུས་དང་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཡིག། སྒོས་སུ། སྨོན་ལམ་རིག་ནུས་ཀྱི་སྔ་ཕྱི་བར་གྱི་བརྒྱུད་རིམ་སོགས་ཀྱིས་སྙིང་དོན་བྱས་པའི་གླེང་མོལ་ཞིག་ཡིན། ། Featured Conversations Episode 1 with Geshe Lobsang Monlam la is out. In this episode, we engage with Geshe @MonlamBodyig. He is the founder and CEO of @Monlam_AI and a recipient of the 2025 Snow Lion Human Rights Award. The conversations focus on artificial intelligence and the Tibetan language, specifically the history and development of Monlam AI. Furthermore, Beijing's reaction to it, including the recent announcement of DeepZang, is also discussed. This episode is hosted by @SonamTopgyal777 la. This is a teaser from the episode, the entire conversation can be viewed from the following link: youtu.be/8aChA8uVT2g The conversation can also be tuned in from our FNVA YouTube channel - FNVA and podcast channel - Insights from the Roof of the World: Conversations on Tibet. #monlamai #tibetanlanguage #deepzang #artificialintelligence

ICT has learned with great sadness that Professor Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling, former German Federal Minister and Parliamentarian, passed away on April 6, 2026, at the age of 95. Professor Dr. Schwarz-Schilling was known for his international mediation and conflict prevention work through his Schwarz-Schilling Foundation, and for his support of Tibetan-Chinese dialogue. Read more: savetibet.org/ict-and-global…

Recently during a research visit to Sichuan, Li Hongzhong, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and a Politburo member, emphasised the need for thorough study, effective publicity, and diligent implementation of the Law on the Promotion of National Unity and Progress across all levels.