On 10th November 2021, Tibetan Youth Congress President and Organizational Secretary extended our hearty congratulations to former TYC Centrex, Kalon Gyari Dolma la, Department of Security, Kalon Tharlam Dolma la, Department of Education, and Kalon Norzin Dolma la, Department of Information and International Relations who took their oath as Kalon of the 16th Kashag.
A tentative program of Major General Dr. Bhakshi’s talk on India, Tibet, and China – New Perspective 2021, jointly organized by the civil societies in Dharamshala at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, Dharamshala on 8th November 2021. TYC General Secretary, Mr. Sonam Tsering chaired the program.
TYC President Mr. Gonpo Dhundup and TYC Joint Secretary Mr. Tsewang Rabgyal and RTYC Shimla President Mr. Pema Dorjee met Hon. Shri Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, Governor of Himachal Pradesh at Raj Niwas, Shimla. TYC President handed over the invitation letter for the upcoming Golden Jubilee Ceremony.
TYC President Mr. Gonpo Dhundup and TYC Joint Secretary Mr. Tsewang Rabgyal and RTYC Shimla President Mr. Pema Dorjee met Hon. Jai Ram Thaku, Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh at his residence in Shimla on 22nd September 2021. TYC President thanked government and the people of Himachal Pradesh on TYC’s 50th Founding Anniversary.
On 17th May 2022, TYC President participated in a protest campaign to mark the 27 years of enforced disappearance of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima in front of the Chinese Consulate Office, New York.
Tibetans, the Buddhists and Tibet supporters around the world mark 17th May as the 27th anniversary of the Chinese government’s enforced disappearance of Tibet’s 11th Panchen Lama. Along with the Panchen Lama, his entire family as well as Chadrel Rinpoche, head of the search committee to find the reincarnated Panchen Lama, were also abducted and have disappeared. Since then, he has remained unheard of and unseen by the world.
23 May is the day the 17 Point Agreement was signed between Tibet and China. Tibetans do not accept this agreement as it was signed under duress.
17 May is the day Panchen Lama was arrested on arbitrary charges.
29 April is the death Anniversary of Pawo Thupten Ngodup who sacrificed his life self immolating for Tibet.
Name: Lobsang Phuntsok
His slogans: “Long Live His Holiness the Dalai Lama” and “Allow His Holiness to Return to Tibet”
Age: 20
Sex: Male
Profession: Monk at Kirti Monastery
Date of Self-Immolation: 16 March 2011, at around 4 pm (local time)
Location: Ngaba County Town, Amdo, Eastern Tibet
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased 17 March 2011, 3 am, at his monastery
Lobsang Phuntsok set himself ablaze on 16 March 2011 at around 4pm. It is widely believed that this action was to commemorate the March 2008 uprisings, which swept across Tibet, protesting against China’s illegal and detested occupation since 1950. At the same time as extinguishing the flames, the armed police assaulted Lobsang. Lay Tibetans intervened and rushed him to Kirti Monastery. When the rescuers tried to transfer him to hospital, Phuntsok was still alive. But the hospital refused to admit and treat him without prior government permission. Phuntsok passed away at Kirti Monastery the next day in the early hours.
His slogans: Unreported.
His actions; held aloft the banned Tibetan national flag and a photograph of the Dalai Lama
Age: 20
Sex: Male
Profession: Monk at Kirti Monastery, Ngaba County, Ngaba, Amdo, Eastern Tibet
Date of Self-Immolation: 27 February 2009, early afternoon
Location: Ngaba County Town, Ngaba County, Amdo
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Alive but whereabouts unknown
In 2008, when spontaneous protests against Chinese rule erupted across Tibet, Ngaba Prefecture suffered bloody and fatal crackdowns by the local authorities and PLA (People’s Liberation Army) paramilitary forces. A year later, on 2 February 2009 — the third day of the Tibetan New Year — after prayer ceremonies were cancelled at his monastery, Tapey ran into the town’s streets and lit his already gasoline-soaked robes. From within the flames he raised a Tibetan flag and a portrait of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Both the flag of Independent Tibet and images of the Dalai Lama are illegal under Chinese law). He was immediately shot and felled by the military police. Eyewitnesses report that paramilitary People’s Armed Police personnel extinguished the flames and instantly removed his body.
Tapey shot while in flame
apey was first transported to Ngaba County People’s Hospital and then to Chengdu’s West China Hospital of the West China Medical School. Bullets had incapacitated his legs and penetrated his right arm, which he was unable to lift. Extensive burns on his face and right arm left deep scars. It is reported that the hospital in Chengdu intended to amputate the injured limbs to destroy any evidence of military firing, but Tapey’s mother intervened and saved his limbs . In 2011, he was back in the military hospital of Ngaba Prefecture’s capital city, Barkham, unable to leave nor receive relatives — except his maternal uncle — or fellow monks. With Ngaba region under lockdown, in early 2013 his condition and whereabouts were unknown. Apart from his 45-year-old mother, Tapey has an older brother, Tsebo, and a younger sister, Tsering Kyi.