The jailed Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen was released this morning after serving a six-year imprisonment sentence, said Gyaljong Tsetrin, Dhondup’s cousin who lives in Switzerland.

Here are statements by Tashi Lhunpo Monastery on the the occasion of the Panchen Lama's 25th birthday in English and Tibet. OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY THE TASHI LHUNPO MONASTERY ON THE 25TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS HOLINESS THE 11TH PANCHEN LAMA 25 April 2014, Bylakuppe: Today, we are gathered here to observe the auspicious 25th birthday of His Holiness the 11th Panchen Lama in an event organized by the Central Tibetan Administration's (CTA) Regional Organising Committee of the 25