Leh, Indian-administered #Kashmir
A young man with his face painted in the colours of the Tibetan flag takes part in a demonstration to mark Tibetan Women’s Uprising Day, commemorating the 1959 revolt against Chinese occupation.
Photograph: Mohd Arhaan Archer/AFP/Getty Images
@andrewstroehlein The ☭
Chinese colonizer regime closing access to Tibet is *only part of the reason* the plight of the Tibetan people has been all but forgotten in the Free World.
The forgetting fully correlates — over the years and decades — with the volume of democracies' business entanglement with the CCP dictatorship.
Foreign business missions queueing up for audition at CCP's Beijing headquarters *only months* after the Tiananmen massacre of June 4th 1989.
US bi-partisan decision to grant the Chinese dictatorship the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) trading priviledges in 1994 against all ethical considerations.
The entire Free World agreeing to grant the Chinese dictatorship full membership rights (to manipulate at will) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001... and what predictably happened to world trade thereafter...
Mirroring this appeasement and empowering of the CCP regime, critical media coverage of CCP's domestic and colonial repression and exploitation began vanishing from the coverage of media organizations owned by foreign billionaires and state broadcasters alike.
Notice how trump and maga has been *normalized* in much of media? Same principle. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Perhaps one day after Ukraine is secure and free we might consider offering at least *moral* support for the nation that was entirely overrun and enslaved by an unrepentingly imperialist neighbour, back in 1950.
It is worth noting that one key reason putin felt emboldened to attack Ukraine in 2014 and again in 2022 was that the Chinese dictatorship was allowed to avoid any real consequences for its own genocidal expansionism for all these decades.
Maybe we should try *NOT REWARDING* repressive and military-expansionst regimes and see if that works out better for humanity?
#Tibet #Ukraine #CCP #china #PRC #colonialism #imperialism #appeasement
10 March 1959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Uprising_Day
You don’t hear much about #Tibet in international news these days. In large part, this is by design – that is, by design of the ruling Chinese Communist Party. It’s a consequence of China’s increasing efforts to seal off information from the region, through intense surveillance & censorship. It’s the part of China’s repression in Tibet that keeps the outside world from seeing all the other parts of China’s repression in Tibet.
Read: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2025/03/10?story=paragraph-10371
Listen: https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/audio/2025/03/10/tibet-today-daily-brief-march-10-2025
On this day in 1959, thousands of Tibetans, fearing an abduction attempt by China, surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
The Cup, written and directed by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, a Tibetan/Bhutanese lama, is a wonderfully joyful film that students love. It's a great way to introduce students to Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan refugees. Our free curriculum guide for The Cup includes lessons for grades 6-8 and 9-12.
https://journeysinfilm.org/product/the-cup/
#OTD #TibetanUprising #Tibet #TibetanBuddhim #Buddhism #Refuees #Education #Homeschooling @education @edutooters
Today is the 66th anniversary of the Tibetan people’s uprising in Lhasa. Tibetans around the world will be holding protests against the Chinese government's ongoing human rights abuses in Tibet
Australia needs to need advocate more consistently and clearly for human rights in Tibet, write Kyinzom Dhongdue and Daniela Gavshon
Conch Shell (#Dungdkar) with Two Dancing #Citipati 20th century. #Tibet. The surface is richly engraved with a scene including two dancing citipati. Modern work but with interesting iconography and good quality.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism
#Prajnaparamita Manuscript Page, #Tibet, Circa 13th- 14th century.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism
Mountain climbers often succumb to altitude sickness — the body's reaction to a significant drop in atmospheric pressure, which means less oxygen is taken in with each breath. Yet, in high altitudes on the Tibetan Plateau, where oxygen levels in the air people breathe are notably lower than lower altitudes, human communities thrive. @ScienceAlert tells us how:
#China has discovered more than 20 million tons of copper in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Massive mining operations would likely be very damaging to #Tibet's sensitive ecology https://www.ecoticias.com/en/china-20-million-tons-copper-tibet/10950/
#RubinMuseum #Tibet #Nepal #BuddhistArt
"Gateway to Himalayan Art is a traveling exhibition for colleges, universities, and art museums that introduces the main forms, concepts, meanings, and living traditions of Himalayan art. 15 Feb — 27 Jul 2025"
Gateway to Himalayan art
"15 Feb — 27 Jul 2025 at The Rubin Museum of Art in New York, United States"
https://www.meer.com/en/87306-gateway-to-himalayan-art
Effects of fine terrain complexity on cloud and precipitation changes over the Tibetan Plateau: a modeling study
Inaccurate characterization of complex topography leads to the wet bias in climate models, particularly affecting terrain effects in regions like the Tibetan Plateau
@VOANews Important piece, but really needs at least a single contour *map* (preferably ethically correct one showing Tibet) that demonstrates the extreme audacity of the Chinese colonizers using Tibetan territory to hold the entire South Asia hostage.
This should be front page news in the civilized world, but instead we get psychopathic rantings of musk and trump...
For @thewirechina I wrote about how #China was able to make the self-immolation of singer Tsewang Norbu disappear, despite it taking place in front of #Tibet's most famous site, the #PotolaPalace
https://www.thewirechina.com/2024/09/15/remember-tibet-surveillance-china-censorship/
#Shigatse #Tibet
#ShigatseEarthquake #ShigatseEarthquakes
Photo via The Land of Snows online
