Join us on Monday, March 10th, 2025 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm PST in-person at Windows on the Bay, the corner of Del Monte and El Estero (703 Del Monte Ave, Monterey, CA 93940) as we join a day of international protests known as Tibetan Uprising Day.

Please note: Protesters cannot step into the street or hand out leaflets to cars, as per a city safety mandate. Signs will be provided, or you may bring your own. We will be there rain or shine.

The annual protest on Tibetan Uprising Day is very special to Rinpoche, an event that he has organized with the MDC annually for many years. 2024 marks 66 years of oppression and resistance. Rinpoche will be traveling on that day, but his students and supporters in Monterey will continue to make our community aware of the ongoing human rights abuses in Tibet, in solidarity with such protests around the world.

Since the Chinese occupation in 1959, more than one million Tibetans have been killed. To fly a Tibetan flag, even mention His Holiness the Dalai Lama, send an email abroad, or say the phrase “human rights,” is cause for imprisonment and torture. 99% of all Tibetan monasteries have been closed. These horrors and atrocities continue today throughout Tibet. The situation is desperate and worsening; the Tibetan people and their culture are being systematically attacked.

Around one million Tibetan children are forced to attend government boarding schools. Children as young as four are educated with CCP-approved lesson plans and taught almost entirely in Chinese. In some parts of Tibet, parents must attend language classes to make sure that Chinese is spoken at home.  Buddhist monasteries are told to shut down their free language classes. Tibetan educators are threatened or detained for offering language instruction to children. Even the name “Tibet” is under threat.

Xizang Tibet

In an act of colonial violence, the CCP is pushing for English-language references around Tibet to be changed to “Xizang”, the Chinese name for Tibet imposed by the Chinese government.

Yet, Tibetans continue to stand up against this repression in a non-violent way, as they have each year for over 66 years. We cannot let the world forget. Please lend your voice to peace, justice, and freedom:  Support Tibet!

Tibet is the least free country on earth. Tibet must be free

Learn the latest and how you can help at the UK-based Free-Tibet website or the US-based Students For A Free Tibet.  

PBS Frontline:  Battle for Tibet

May all cultures and peoples live together in harmony and peace.