| Name | Date of first Issue (y-m-d) | Date of first issue seen myelf (y-m-d) | Frequency | Cessation or last known issue (y-m) | Published in | Published by | Where to be found? | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ladakh Newspaper (ལ་དྭགས་ཀྱི་ཨག་བར་, La dwags kyi ag bar), from March 1908: Ladakh Messenger (ལ་དྭགས་ཕོ་ཉ་, La dwags pho nya) | 1904-1 | 1904-1 | monthly | 1910-9 | Leh (Ladakh) | German Moravian Mission (Herrhuter): August H. Francke | Herrnhut Archives (Herrnhut, Germany), Walravens 2010 | |
| 2 | News in the Colloquial Language of Tibet (བོད་ཀྱི་ཕལ་སྐད་གསར་འགྱུར་, Bod kyi phal skad gsar 'gyur) | 1907-4-5 | 1907-7, No.21 | every ten days | unknown | Lhasa | Chinese Ambans Lian Yu and Zhang Yitang | Tibet Museum (Lhasa), Zheng 2000 | |
| 3 | Newspaper in Colloquial Tibetan Newspaper in Colloquial Tibetan (བོད་ཡིག་ཕལ་སྐད་ཀྱི་གསར་འགྱུར་, Bod yig phal skad kyi gsar 'gyur), from April 1915: Tibetan Language Newspaper (བོད་ཡིག་གསར་འགྱུར་, Bod yig gsar ‘gyur) | 1913-1 | 1913-1 | monthly, bi-weekly | unknown | Beijing | Kuomintang | Zhou 2010:165, Bavarian State Library | |
| 4 | Mirror of News from Various Regions (ཡུལ་ཕྱོགས་སོ་སོའི་གསར་འགྱུར་མེ་ལོང་, Yul phyogs so so'i gsar 'gyur me long) | 1925-10-1 | 1925-10-1 | monthly, weekly | 1963-11 | Kalimpong | Scottish Mission, TMP: Babu Tharchin | various | For further titles see Sawerthal 2011:17-19 |
| 5 | Tibetan A-lan News (?) (བོད་ལྗོངས་ཨ་ལན་གསར་འགྱུར་, Bod ljongs a lan gsar ‘gyur) | 1925 | no original or copy seen | monthly | unknown | Dartsedo/Kangding | Paris Foreign Mission | Rtse dbang et al. 1990:131 | Language not specified |
| 6 | Kyelang Newspaper (ཀྱེ་ལང་ཨག་བར་, Kye lang ag bar) | 1926-9 | 1927-5, No.7 | monthly | 1935 | Kyelang (Ladakh) | Moravian Missionaries: Walter Asboe and Joseph Gergan | Berlin State Library | |
| 7 | New Qinghai (མཚོ་སྔོན་གསར་པ་, Mtsho sngon gsar pa) | 1929-2-10 | no original or copy seen | 1931-4 | Xining (?) | Kuomintang | Zhou 2010:36 | Bilingual (Chinese and Tibetan) | |
| 8 | Mongolian Tibetan Weekly Newsletter (གཟའ་འཁོར་རེའི་བོད་སོག་གསར་གནས་, Gza' 'khor re'i bod sog gsar gnas), from April 1934: Mongolian Tibetan Monthly Newsletter (བོད་སོག་ཟླ་རེའི་གསར་གནས་, Bod sog zla re’i gsar gnas) | 1929-9 | 1929-12-7, No.8 | weekly, monthly | 1947 or 1948 | Nanjing; Chongqing | Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission, Kuomintang: Skal bzang tshe ring et al. | LTWA | Bilingual (Tibetan and Chinese), later quadrilingual (Tibetan, Mongolian, Arabic, Chinese) |
| 9 | New Xikang Monthly (Xin xi kang yue kan, ཤིས་ཁང་གསར་པའི་ཟླ་དུས་ཚགས་པར་, Shis khang gsar pa’i zla dus tshags par) | 1930-5 | no original or copy seen | monthly | unknown | Dartsedo/Kangding (?) | Kuomintang | Zhou 2010:36, Zla ba tshe ring 2009b:43 | Chinese, including Tibetan articles |
| 10 | Journal of Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute of Roerich Museum | 1931 | 1931 | yearly | 1933 | Kullu Naggar (India) | Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute of Roerich Museum: George Roerich | Waldenfels 2011:402-408 | English |
| 11 | Monthly Review of the Emissary for the Propagation of Values on the Western Frontier (Xi chui xian hua shi gong shu yue kan) | 1935 | no original or copy seen | monthly | 1937 | Nanjing; Xining, Xiangride; or Inner Mongolia (?) | Panchen Lama’s Office: Liu Jiaju | Jagou 2002:98-99, Jagou 2004:14, Jagou 1996:19, Enders 1936:296, Zhou 2010:36-37, Sgrol ma 2009:62 | Trilingual (Tibetan, Mongolian, Chinese) |
| 12 | Shusheng Weekly (Shu sheng zhou bao) | 1936-1 | no original or copy seen | weekly | 1940 | Dingxiang (Xikang) | KMT-army | Zhou 2010:37 | Chinese, including Tibetan articles |
| 13 | Journal of the Lamas (བླ་མ་ནར་འུང་སིད་ཁུལ་, Bla ma nar ‘ung sid khul, Lam a nar ung sedkül) | 1936-6 | 1936-6 | monthly | unknown | Ulaanbaatar | Monks of Gandan monastery | Grivelet 2001 | In Mongolian language, but in Tibetan script; one article also in Tibetan language |
| 14 | Daily Newspaper of the People of Kham (ཁམས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་དམངས་ཉིན་རེའི་གསར་འགྱུར་, Khams kyi rgyal dmangs nyin re’i gsar ‘gyur) | 1936 | no original or copy seen | daily | unknown | Dartsedo/Kangding | Kuomintang | Rtse dbang et al. 1990:132 | Language not specified |
| 15 | Ladakh Messenger (ལ་དྭགས་ཕོ་ཉ་, La dwags pho nya) | 1937-1 | 1937-5, No.5 | monthly | late 1950s | Leh, Ladakh, India | Moravian Mission: Walter Asboe, Pierre Vittoz, Eliyah Phuntsog | Moravian Church House, London | |
| 16 | Xikang News (ཤིས་ཁང་གསར་འགྱུར་, Shis khang gsar ‘gyur) | 1939-4-24 | no original or copy seen | weekly | 1949-12 | Dartsedo/Kangding | Kuomintang | Zla ba tshe ring 2009b:44, Zhou 2010:37 | Bilingual (Tibetan, Chinese) |
| 17 | Kuomintang Daily Newspaper (ཀོ་མིང་ཉིན་རེའི་ཚགས་པར་, Ko ming nyin re’i tshags par) | 1939-7 | no original or copy seen | Tibetan version: weekly | 1949, with breaks | Hongkong | Kuomintang: Tao Pai-chuan | Zla ba tshe ring 2009b:44, Zhou 2010:37 | Bilingual (Tibetan, Chinese): Chinese version daily, Tibetan version weekly |
| 18 | Daily Newspaper of the Kuomintang in Xikang (ཤིས་ཁང་གོ་མིང་ཉིན་རེའི་ཚགས་པ་, Shis khang go ming nyin re’i tshags par | 1941-10-10 | no original or copy seen | Tibetan version: weekly | 1945 | Dartsedo/Kangding | Kuomintang | Zla ba tshe ring 2009b:44, D'Ester/Heide 1942:239 | Bilingual (Tibetan, Chinese), Chinese version daily, Tibetan version weekly |
| 19 | Tshung-kren News (?) (ཚུང་ཀྲེན་གསར་འགྱུར་, Tshung kren gsar ‘gyur) | 1944 | no original or copy seen | monthly | 1948 | Kangding/Dartsedo | Paris Foreign Mission | Rtse dbang et al. 1990:132 | Language not specified |
| 20 | The Amdo Tibetan-Language News (མཚོ་སྔོན་བོད་ཡིག་གསར་འགྱུར་, Mtsho sngon bod yig gsar ‘gyur) | 1951-1-10 | 1951-9-16, No.26 | every ten days, daily | still running | Xining | Chinese Communist Government | VIESAK | |
| 21 | People Pictorial (མི་སེར་བརྙན་དཔར་, Mi ser brnyan dpar; later མི་དམངས་བརྙན་པར་, Mi dmangs brnyan par) | 1951 | 1951-2, No.2 | monthly | unknown | Beijing | Chinese Communist government | VIESAK | Published in six languages (Chinese, Russion, English, Monoglian, Tibetan and Uighur) |
| 22 | Condensed News (གསར་འགྱུར་མདོར་བསྡུས་, Gsar ‘gyur mdor bsdus) | 1953-12-1 | 1953-12-1 | every five days | 1956 | Lhasa | Chinese Communist Government | LTWA, CU | Precursor to Bod ljongs nyin re’i gsar ‘gyur (no.32) |
| 23 | Gyantse News (རྒྱལ་རྩེ་གསར་འགྱུར་, Rgyal rtse gsar ‘gyur) | 1953 (?) | 1954-2-10, No. 38 | still running | Gyantse | Chinese Communist government | LTWA | ||
| 24 | Min River Newspaper (མིང་ཀྱང་ཚགས་པར་, Ming kyang tshags pa), or མིང་ཀྱང་གསར་འགྱུར, Ming kyang gsar ‘gyur); by 1981: Ngaba Newspaper (རྔ་པ་ཚགས་པར་, Rnga pa tshags par) | 1953 | no original or copy seen | daily | still running | Ngaba | Chinese Communist government | Kolmaš 1978:104, Hartley 2005:247, Zla ba tshe ring 2009b:44 | |
| 25 | South Kardze Newspaper (དཀར་མཛེས་ལྷོ་རྒྱུད་ཚགས་པར་, Dkar mdzes lho rgyud tshags par), from 1954: Kardze Newspaper (དཀར་མཛེས་ཚགས་པར, Dkar mdzes tshags par), from ca. 1957: Daily Kardze Newspaper (དཀར་མཛེས་ཉིན་རེའི་ཚགས་པར་, Dkar mdzes nyin re’i tshags par) | 1953 | 1959-10-30, No.697 | still running | Dartsedo/Kangding | Chinese Communist government | Zla ba tshe ring 2009.2:44, private: Robbie Barnett | ||
| 26 | Gannan News (ཀན་ལྷོའི་གསར་འགྱུར་, Kan lho’i gsar ‘gyur) | 1954 | no original or copy seen | every five days, weekly | still running | Tashikyil/Xiahe | Chinese Communist government | Schubert 1957-58:11, Zhou 2010:174 | Bilingual (Tibetan, Chinese) until 1954; on January 1, 1955, first Tibetan-only issue |
| 27 | Nationalities Pictorial (མི་རིགས་བརྙན་པར་, Mi rigs brnyan par) | 1955 | no original or copy seen | monthly | unknown | Beijing | Chinese Communist government | Hartley 2005:233 | |
| 28 | Tibet Daily (བོད་ལྗོངས་ཉིན་རེའི་གསར་འགྱུར་, Bod ljongs nyin re’i gsar ‘gyur, from 1965: བོད་ལྗོངས་ཉིན་རེའི་ཚགས་པར་, Bod ljongs nyin re’i tshags par) | 1956-4-22 | 1958-3-1, No. 565 | daily | still running | Lhasa | Chinese Communist government | VIESAK, etc. | Emerged out of Gsar ‘gyur mdor bsdus |
| 29 | Sikkim Herald, འབྲས་ལྗོངས་བྱ་མ་རྟ་ (‘Bras ljongs bya ma rta) | 1956 or 1957 | 1970s | 2001 | Gangtok (Sikkim) | Information and Public Relations Department of the Government of Sikkim | private: Tshul khrims rgya mtsho (NIT) | At first only in English; Tibetan version from ca. 1965 | |
| 30 | Qinghai Pictorial (མཚོ་སྔོན་བརྙན་པར་, Mtsho sngon brnyan par) | 1958-7 | 1958-7 | unknown | Xining | Chinese Communist government | CU | ||
| 31 | Tibetology, བོད་ཀྱི་ཤེས་རིག་ (Bod kyi shes rig) | 1959-11 | 1959-11 | unknown | Gangtok (Sikkim) | Namgyal Institute of Tibetology | VIESAK, NIT, etc. | At first bilingual (Tibetan, English); from May 1964 the “Bulletin of Tibetology” published in English only | |
| 32 | Freedom, རང་དབང་གསར་ཤོག་ (Rang dbang gsar shog) | 1960-3-10 | 1961-2-16, No.38 | weekly | 1965 | Darjeeling | Tibet Freedom Press: Rgyal lo don ‘grub, Lha dbang dpal ‘byor, Bhag ‘gro Lama et al. | VIESAK, LTWA, etc. | |
| 33 | Progress (ཡར་རྒྱས་གོང་འཕེལ་, Yar rgyas gong ‘phel) | 1961 | 1971-7, Vol.10, No.3 | monthly | unknown | Gangtok (Sikkim) | Information Service of India | Amnye Machen | |
| 34 | Central Weekly News, ཀྲུང་དབྱང་གསར་འགྱུར་ (Krung dbyang gsar ‘gyur) | 1963-1 | 1963-7-21, No.22 | weekly | unknown | Kolkata | KMT: Bstan pa lhun ‘grub | University of Washington, Vienna SAK | |
| 35 | Defend Tibet’s Freedom, རང་དབང་སྲུང་སྐྱོབས་གསར་ཤོག་ (Rang dbang srung skyobs gsar shog) | 1963-7-31 | 1963-7-31 | every ten days | 1965 | Darjeeling | Rang dbang srung skyobs par khang: Lha mo tshe ring, A mdo ‘jigs med, ‘Ba’ chung mthu stobs dgon po | VIESAK | |
| 36 | Tibetan Freedom, བོད་མིའི་རང་དབང་ (Bod mi’i rang dbang) | 1965-3-9 | 1965-3-9 | daily, weekly | still running | Darjeeling; Dharamsala (India) | Bhag ‘gro Lama, ‘Ba’ pa phyag mdzod bkra shis | VIESAK, LTWA, CU etc. | Emerged out of Rang dbang gsar shog (no. 36) and Rang dbang srung skyobs gsar shog (no.39) |
| 37 | Object of Knowledge (ཤེས་བྱ་, Shes bya) | 1968-10 | 1969-1, Vol.1 No.12 | monthly | still running | Dharamsala | The Editorial Board of Sheja: Tenzin Geyche, Sonam Tobgyal, Tenzin Tethong | LTWA, SOAS etc. | |
| 38 | Understanding (འགོ་རྟོགས་, ‘Go rtogs) | Early 1970s (?) | illegible | unknown | Mustang (Nepal) | CIA-sponsered Guerilla fighters in Mustang: Lha mo tshe ring et al. | Norbu 1999, Tshong kha Lha mo tshe ring 2008:76-78 |