A county in southwest China’s Sichuan province has banned Tibetan monks “wrongly educated” in India from teaching Buddhism to prevent the spread of separatist ideas.
Litang county officials from Sichuan issued the ban recently.
“As some monks received education overseas from the 14th Dalai Lama clique . It is necessary to tighten supervision so as to prevent the clique from using local Buddhists to conduct separatist activities, ” Zhu Weiqun, former head of the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, was quoted as saying.
Beijing considers the Dalai Lama a secessionist engaged in anti - China activities to secure Tibetan independence, a charge he denies. The spiritual leader says he only seeks autonomy for Tibet.
Source: Hindustan Times
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