description: This report documents the following trends in - From the mid-1990s onwards, China’s position towards the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s leader in exile, has become more hostile. - A wide-ranging patriotic education campaign has been carried out in monasteries and nunneries throughout Tibetan areas with the aim of undermining the Dalai Lama’s influence, on indoctrinating monks and nuns in Party policy and ideology and identifying defiant monks and nuns. - Democratic Management Committees established in large monasteries are now being strengthened, and set up in all monasteries, in order to assert greater state control and surveillance over the daily life of monks and nuns. - Limitations imposed on the numbers of monks and nuns in each religious institution remain in place and are selectively being enforced more than they were a decade ago. - Beijing is more aggressively asserting control over the search and identification of Tibetan reincarnate lamas. - The demolitions of homes and expulsion of monks and nuns in the religious institutes of Larung Gar and Yachen Gar show a new determination to enforce state-specified limitations on monastic life and control the activity of influential and charismatic spiritual leaders like the late Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, the founder of Larung Gar. - Obtaining a complete religious education remains extremely difficult or impossible in Tibet. - Imprisonment for terms of 5-10 years or more, and brutal torture continues to be a likely consequence of dissent for monks and nuns in Tibet.
language: English
title: When the Sky Fell to Earth: The New Crackdown on Buddhism in Tibet
titlecomplete: When the Sky Fell to Earth: The New Crackdown on Buddhism in Tibet
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publisher: International Campaign for Tibet