We urge media to foreground Tibet, Tibetan and Tibetans when reporting on #Tibet. This isn't "south-west China", it's Tibet. The bridge's name "Hongqi" translates as Red Flag, political propaganda asserting CCP control over Tibet. Our decolonial reporting guide: tibetaction.net/resource-gui...

publication day for my *Documents géographiques de Dunhuang*, a social and cultural history of geographical knowledge, and probably one of the only medieval history books published in France during the ephemeral Lecornu government, which you can freely download here: books.openedition.org/cdf/20307

DAY 2 - Anti-corruption uprising in Nepal Protesters defied curfew around Kathmandu Ring Road. Residences of key political leaders have been entered and set on fire.

"Nepal’s prime minister has resigned after more than a dozen people were killed and hundreds injured during youth-led protests sparked by a government ban on social media platforms, widespread corruption, and poor economic opportunities." www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/a...

I'm planning a trip to a remote canyon in Sichuan but the changes I'm seeing on satellite images are profound. What was a rural #Tibetan village in 2017 now looks like a modern town. This is the Yalong river valley in Jiulong county, Garze #China

The "Prosopography of the Tibetan Empire" blog seems to have resumed some activity lately tibetanempire.blogspot.com #tibetanhistory #tibetanempire #innerasia

📚 Publication of Vol. 4.1 of the Journal of Tibetan Literature. The JTL is an open-access academic journal dedicated to publishing research, translations, and criticism on all aspects of Tibetan-language texts. More details here www.journaloftibetanliterature.org/index.php/jtl #tibet #tibetanstudies

La nouvelle loi Immigration change pas mal de choses, notamment sur un aspect dont on a peu entendu parler : les tests de langue. Pourtant, ceux-ci ne sont pas demandés à tous et, paradoxalement, le sont surtout à ceux qui en auraient le moins besoin. On en parle ici. youtu.be/nomFWC97qRI

The lotuses in this 9th or 10th-century Tibetan manuscript from Dunhuang mark the end of a section and represent a relatively early example of Tibetan illuminated manuscripts. Most lotuses are in black ink, but at least one is in color. #ManuscriptMonday gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

On the 30th anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Tibet’s Panchen Lama, TCHRD reiterates its calls to the Chinese government to immediately disclose the whereabouts and well-being of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and his family tchrd.org/30th-anniver...

Dans le cadre du projet Leadership and Reincarnation of the Dalai Lamas, l’@efeo-paris.bsky.social et la Aarhus University annoncent la tenue d'un colloque sur le thème 'Succession in Times of Change in the Tibetan World', les 12 et 13 juin à Paris Détails ici ➡️ www.sfemt.fr/colloque-suc...

[1/8] Le géographe @mehebubsahana.bsky.social (Univ Manchester) analyse la suspension par l’Inde du traité de l’Indus signé en 1960. Ce geste inédit illustre une nouvelle géopolitique de l’eau en Asie du Sud, marquée par la défiance, la rivalité stratégique et la pression climatique. #geography

#innerasia #bioarchaeology

📜 Le n° 76 de la Revue d'études tibétaines est paru ! A lire ici en libre accès sur internet : ➡️ www.sfemt.fr/parution-de-... #tibet #tibetanstudies

#Loire #Birdsky

If Tibetans are truly happy under Chinese occupation, why the staged propaganda tours, heavy security, and billboards reminding Tibetans of Party loyalty? Genuine happiness & freedom typically don’t require this level of choreography, unless your hiding something? english.elpais.com/internationa...

CP @sftparis.bsky.social Étudiants pour un #Tibet Libre. La #Chine risque d'effacer préalablement toutes traces de traitements dégradants sur le corps de Tulku Hungkar Dorje avant même qu'une enquête soit ouverte.

#Communiqué 🗞️ Des chercheurs établissent une nouvelle chronologie des débuts de l’agriculture dans la vallée de l’Indus au Pakistan, offrant un nouvel éclairage sur sa diffusion en Asie du Sud. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/de...

Colloque "Le fait religieux à l’épreuve de l’archéologie Religions – Cultures - Identités" 26 au 28 novembre 2025 - Appel à communications. archeozoo-archeobota.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite...

Le gouvernement chinois arrête des personnes au Tibet pour des infractions liées à l’utilisation de leur téléphone et d’Internet à des fins politiques. Même le droit fondamental des Tibétains de rester en contact avec leurs proches leur est retiré. Dans le #BriefDuJour⤵ www.hrw.org/fr/news/2025...

Comment un musée parisien s'est retrouvé au cœur du conflit entre le Tibet et la Chine ? Les tibétains en France est en colère contre le musée Guimet. L'établissement aurait cédé à la pression de la Chine pour effacer le mot "Tibet" de ses expositions @sftparis.bsky.social www.tf1.fr/tf1/top-info...

"Steppe Sisters [...] is an international networking group dedicated to connecting women and underrepresented groups in academia, who conduct research in Central Asia [...] and neighboring regions" #innerasia

Random pictures of Dharamsala

Call for papers-International conference SEECHAC & Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Animals as Guides and Messengers in the Art and Literature of Central Asian & Himalayan Societies, 24–26 November 2025 Please refer to: seechac.org/call-for-pap... Proposal submission deadline: 30-04-2025

#China has launched its first “School-stationed Teaching Army Officers” program in #Tibet’s Ser-nye district of Nagchu City, where army veterans will provide “patriotic education” and prepare Tibetan students for future military service. www.tibetanreview.net/china-says-m...

Phyang monastery in #Ladakh

Random pictures from Leh #Ladakh

In Argentina, the current government under far-right president Javier Milei is trying to end Indigenous rights. Even the Minister of National Security Patricia Bullrich has made her stance clear, using anti-Indigenous rhetoric and calling certain Indigenous activists ‘terrorists.'

#Tibet #བོད

Leh palace, #Ladakh (re-posting due to a mistake in the previous attempt)

#Tibet #བོད

nice blog about our research in #Ladakh #Himalaya led by Thinles Chondol from @ibotcz.bsky.social

This video from the Derge Printing House conveys the scale of work involved in carving woodblocks of Buddhist texts. Jigme Wangdrak Rinpoche sponsored the recarving of these woodblocks of the Nyingma Gyubum. Read the story at www.bdrc.io/.../its-a-mi... and view digital scans on BDRC's archive.

#tibetanarchitecture in pop culture

DNA evidence of Tang dynasty cats www.livescience.com/animals/dome...

Indus river #Ladakh

Reuters reports China will not allow #Thailand to see 35 out of the 40 deported #Uyghur refugees. That's despite Thailand sending a high-level delegation including the defence minister, senior military officials as well as the justice minister.

#Tibet #བོད

Lithang in Kham, Tibet, and its statue of Ling Gesar (2007) #Tibet #TibetanArchitecture #བོད

Door talisman in Jomsom #Mustang #tibetanstudies

Door talisman in Leh #Ladakh #Tibetology

A new post by Robert Mayer #tibetanstudies #བོད

Shey gompa in #Ladakh #TibetanBuddhism #TibetanArchitecture