CHINA-TIBET: RELIGIOUS CONTROLS

 Reuters on December 29, 2016, reported the TAR Party Secretary Wu Yingjie, who was appointed in August 2016, as saying that the CCP control over religion in Tibet can only increase and efforts would be intensified to expose the "sinister intentions" of the Dalai Lama. Tibet Daily, which publicised excerpts of the speech, quoted Wu Yingjie as saying that 'Tibetan Buddhism had a fine tradition of patriotism and had made important contributions to maintaining national unity. But Tibetan Buddhism needs to march with the times. He said that while teaching its traditional precepts it needs to put more focus on teachings that "benefit social harmony and move with the times." He added "The party's leadership work over religion can only strengthen and not weaken" and exhorted the need to "Continue to deepen the exposure and criticism of the Dalai clique's reactionaryness on politics, its falseness on religion, its deceptive methods" and "Educate and guide the broad mass of monks, nuns and believers to clearly recognise the reactionary nature and sinister intentions of the Dalai clique to split the motherland." He emphasised that "Believers need to draw a clear line in the sand between them and the Dalai Lama and understand that unity and stability are good and separatism and chaos bad".

 






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