Chinese authorities in Machu made a surprise arrest of a Tibetan language teacher of a Tibetan elementary school last month Topdhen, a Tibetan teacher at Machu Tibetan Nationality Primary School, was arrested on March 28 by Chinese officials from the so-called “Public Security Bureau".Information on his whereabouts and well-being, and the exact reasons for his arrest are unknown at the moment.Born in 1971, Topdhen was ordained as a monk and joined Nyul-ra Ngenthok Monastery after completing his primary schooling. In 1999 he defied the Communist China’s “Patriotic re-education" campaign being conducted in his monastery by refusing to denounce His Holiness the Dalai Lama. A year later, unable to bear the religious repression, he came to exile in India and enrolled at a Tibetan school in Dharamsala.
He returned to Tibet in 2006 after the completion of his studies.