Mandarin over Tibetan: China shuts school that spent 17 years preserving language and culture
- Posted on July 2, 2026
- By The Times of India
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Mandarin over Tibetan: China shuts school that spent 17 years preserving language and culture
China has permanently shut the Hungkar Dorje Vocational High School, a well-known Tibetan educational institution in Qinghai Province that was founded by the late Buddhist leader Tulku Hungkar Dorje. According to the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), the closure ends nearly two decades of efforts to preserve Tibetan language, culture and traditional knowledge through education.