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Qinghai: Well-known Tibetan monk sentenced to five years in jail for promoting prayers for the Dalai Lama bitterwinter.org/former-ragy…

Former Ragya Abbot Sentenced to Five Years

Lobsang Tenpa had already spent months in custody in 2025. He was accused of encouraging devotees to pray for the Dalai Lama.

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Introducing in Bitter Winter the new book “Dangerous Justice” edited by María Vardé and me on the case of Konstantin Rudnev and the systemic problems of Argentina’s criminal law bitterwinter.org/dangerous-j…

“Dangerous Justice”: A New Book on the Rudnev Case and Argentina’s Criminal System

Scholars, lawyers, a journalist, and the alleged “victim” examine how prejudice and structural flaws kept a seriously ill man in jail.

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Yiguandao devotees believed for a while their once persecuted religion would be tolerated in China. Not with Xi Jinping bitterwinter.org/repression-…

Repression Without Borders: China Detains Taiwanese Yiguandao Followers

A rising tally of detentions exposes escalating risks for cross‑strait believers.

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The new axis of evil: the Chinese Communist Party, Korean heresy hunters, and Japanese leftist anti-cult lawyers—all one big happy family. My speech at CESNUR 2026 Click link not picture bitterwinter.org/the-triple-…
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A new book edited by María Vardé and me on Konstantin Rudnev’s case as a mirror of problems of criminal justice in Argentina with articles by scholars, a prosecutor, and lawyers is in free download at cesnur.org/2026/dangerous_ju…. Click link not image
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In China popular protests against mandatory cremation are now reaching an unprecedented magnitude bitterwinter.org/yunnan-1000…

Yunnan: 100,000 Farmers Guard Their Dead Against Forced Cremation

For two weeks in September, crowds in Zhenxiong County protected funerals and graves, defending ancestral rites the CCP has tried to erase since the 1950s.

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Susan Palmer paper on her interview with Konstantin Rudnev on shamanism and Castaneda at CESNUR 2026 bitterwinter.org/konstantin-…

Konstantin Rudnev, the Altai Kam, and Don Juan

The Russian spiritual teacher compared Siberian shamanism with the Toltec path described by Carlos Castaneda.

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At CESNUR 2026 in Taiwan a session examined in depth the implications of the dissolution of the Unification Church in Japan and the real victims: the believers now discriminated and persecuted bitterwinter.org/cesnur-2026…

CESNUR 2026 Examines the Unification Church Case in Japan

Speakers from Tokyo and Kanazawa told how pastors, parents, and leftist lawyers joined forces, and what believers now face after the dissolution order.

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We are preparing a collective study of Konstantin Rudnev’s esoteric thought. From our work in progress, a look at a key book on shamanism bitterwinter.org/reading-kon…

Reading Konstantin Rudnev’s “Siberian Shamanism”

Written early in his career for committed students, the book builds an internally consistent cosmology of four gods and five souls.

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Amsterdam’s Lonely Uyghur Abdurehim Gheni Uyghur meets the Mayor of The Hague—and explains why this matters bitterwinter.org/a-moral-sig…

A Moral Signal in The Hague Against China’s Transnational Repression

The mayor’s reception of the “lonely Uyghur” exposes the political meaning of Chinese violence inside a city of international justice.

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The Rudnev case and the bizarre prosecutor Fernando Arrigo: from the blog of popular journalist Alejandro Agostinelli From the popular blog of Alejandro Agostinelli factorelblog.com/2026/10/20/…

El fiscal sordo: Rudnev, grave, preso pese al dictamen que lo declara no apto para prisión

Konstantin Rudnev, el maestro espiritual ruso, sigue preso en Rawson pese a que los forenses del Poder Judicial dictaminaron que no puede estarlo, y la mujer señalada como su víctima declaró que no...

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On October 15 after the CESNUR conference in Taichung some 30 scholars visited Tai Ji Men facilities in Taipei bitterwinter.org/cesnur-visi…

CESNUR Visits Tai Ji Men: Seven Years of Friendship, Thirty of Injustice

After CESNUR 2026, some thirty academics toured a ruined villa near Taipei and met disciples in a forum on a case that refuses to close.

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A detailed study of Konstantin Rudnev’s esoteric ideas in the book”The Dawn of Inliranga” by María Vardé and me, presented at the CESNUR 2026 conference bitterwinter.org/konstantin-…

Konstantin Rudnev’s “The Dawn of Inliranga”: Energy, Memory, and the True Self

A novel by the Russian dissident and spiritual teacher turns a heterogeneous esoteric theme into a story of awakening, in which characters learn to perceive the forces that shape them.

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Our hero of the week is the President of one of the world’s smallest countries, Palau, who was threatened by the Chinese over Taiwan and sent them packing bitterwinter.org/bitter-wint…

“Bitter Winter” Hero of the Week: Palau’s President Sends China Packing

The leader of an island nation of 18,000 people answered Chinese threats over Taiwan with a courage many larger governments seem to have misplaced.

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Karolina Maria Kotkowska's paper on Konstantin Rudnev's "Secrets of the Dead," from last week's CESNUR 2026 conference in Taiwan bitterwinter.org/secrets-of-…

“Secrets of the Dead”: Channeling, Ghosts, and Souls in Konstantin Rudnev’s Afterlife Novel

The story of a young man who took his own life and keeps learning beyond death works as an accessible introduction to a complex esoteric system and as a practical training manual.

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China hails its salmon industry but is it based on Uyghur slave labor? Another article for Bitter Winter by Asiye Uyghur, the journalist Beijing loves to hate bitterwinter.org/salmons-and…

Salmons and Uyghur Labor: Traceable Fish, Unanswered Questions

An article defending the Uyghur region’s salmon industry cites higher incomes and modern technology. Official documents raise a different question: can workers refuse the jobs—or leave them?

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The eradication of Tibetan culture continues as a historical Tibetan-language girls school for the daughters of Amdo nomads is shut down by the Chinese bitterwinter.org/golog-tibet…

Golog: Tibetan Girls’ School Shut Down by Authorities

Daughters of Amdo nomads learned their language, Buddhism, and modern subjects there for twenty-one years. Today the institution bears a different name and is under government control.

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As the trial of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (October 22) approaches, the second part of Marco Respinti field report and some questions about religious liberty in the UK bitterwinter.org/aropl-in-th…

AROPL in the UK, Impressions from the Field: 2. Questions for the UK

One of the tenets of democracy is respect for religious liberty, which is the most important political and human right. Where does the UK stand in this regard?

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Some updates on the Rudnev case in Argentina bitterwinter.org/konstantin-…

Konstantin Rudnev: A Judge Orders a Gravely Ill Prisoner Moved Against Medical Advice

Acting on a request from Fernando Arrigo’s office, magistrate Leandro Gómez Constenla ruled without hearing the defense.

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Rudnev case in Argentina: a leading American academic political scientist explains why his organization filed a formal complaint calling for disciplinary measures against Prosecutor Arrigo bitterwinter.org/the-rudnev-…

The Rudnev Case: Why the ACJR Filed a Complaint

A Russian spiritual teacher, a young mother who rejects the label of victim, a bizarre prosecutor, and a gravely ill defendant prompted us to act.

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