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SUMMARY:Tibetan Uprising Day 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, March 10th\, 2026 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. \n\nPlease 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.\n\nThe annual protest on Tibetan Uprising Day is very special to Rinpoche\, an event that he has organized with the MDC annually for many years. 2026 marks 67 years of oppression and resistance. Rinpoche\, 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. \nSince 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. \nAround 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. \n Xizang Tibet\nIn 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. \nYet\, 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! \nTibet is the least free country on earth. Tibet must be free\nLearn the latest and how you can help: \n\nUK-based Free-Tibet\nUS-based Students For A Free Tibet.  \n\nLearn about the historical context and current views with the resources below: \n\nMarch 10 Commemoration:  Rinpoche and his friend Pema wrote about why we commemorate March 10th–when more than 100\,000 Tibetans surrounded the Norbulinka palace in Lhasa\, putting their lives between the Chinese army and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.\n\n\nPBS Frontline:  Battle for Tibet\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPBS Frontline:  Battle for Tibet Aired on Tuesday\, February 18\, 2025 \nCan be viewed on PBS app for free \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOpinion | Dalai Lama:\nMy hope for the Tibetan people –\nThe Washington Post\n\n\nTibetans have spent nearly 75 years fighting for freedom. Their struggle should continue beyond my lifetime. \nPublished in the Washington Post on March 6\, 2025.  Shared by email from Khenpo Karten Rinpoche on March 10\, 2025. \nLink to read article in Washington Post (requires subscription\, which can be canceled anytime)  Need help accessing?   Contact manjushridharmacenter831.org. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRinpoche shared this video\, which is on Facebook\, posted by Lobsang Tsering Taying Tsang on March 10\, 2025.   \n\n\n\nགསུམ་བཅུའི་དུས་དྲན་ཐེངས་༦༦ པ།\nཁྱེད་ཚོའི་ལས་འགུལ་དེ་ཅི་འདྲ་རླབས་ཆེ་ལ། མིས་ལྟས་ན་ཡིད་དུ་འོང་བ་འདུག ད་དུང་སོག་པོ་དང་ཐེ་ཝན་གྱི་དར་ཆ་མཉམ་དུ་ཡོད་ན་ཅི་མ་རུང་། མི་རབས་གསར་པ་ཁྱེད་ཚོས་རྣམ་དཔྱོད་དང་བློ་གྲོས་ཀྱིས་དེ་རིང་འཛམ་གླིང་ཚན་རྩལ་གྱི་ཁྲོད་དུ་གོམ་པ་མཉམ་དུ་སྤོ་ཐུབ་པའི་ངེས་པ་རྙེད་སོང་། ད་ལྟའི་ང་ཚོས་ཆབ་སྲིད་ཀྱི་ལང་ཕྱོགས་ནི་ཁྱིས་ཆུ་བཅད་པ་ལྟ་བུའམ། མདོར་ན་དགྲ་གཉེན་གོ་ལྡོག་པའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་སུ་གྱུར་ཟིན། ང་ཚོའི་མ་འོངས་པའི་ལས་དབང་དེ་མགོ་འབུལ་ལས་འབུལ་གྱི་མི་རིགས་ཆེན་པོ་ནང་དུ་བྲན་གཡོག་མི་བྱེད་པར་རང་དབང་སླར་གསོ་ཐུབ་པའི་རེ་བ་ཁྱེད་ཅག་ལ་བསྐྱང་ཡོད། བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ། བོད་རྒྱལ་ལོ།\n\n\n\n\n  \nMay all cultures and peoples live together in harmony and peace.\n 
URL:https://manjushridharmacenter.org/event/tibetan-uprising-day-2026/
LOCATION:Windows on the Bay\, Corner of Del Monte and Camino El Estero\, Monterey\, 93940\, United States
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