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May
Since last year, all monasteries have had to set up management committees to ‘better regulate Buddhist activities’. ‘We are now continuously administering patriotic education,’ one monk at Kumbum said in an interview. Asked if the move was popular, he said: ‘I cannot reply to that question.’
Chinese Characters contributor Ananth Krishnan reports on relative stability at one monastery that is especially significant for Tibetans: China crafts a carrot-and-stick response to immolations in The Hindu
