Government appointed monks and nuns form Democratic Management Committees that oversee the implementation of the governments religious and political policies, and operate as the monastic eyes and ears of the security police. The Chinese choose who will teach and what will be taught. Political education sessions are lengthy and constitute a major intrusion on the nuns and monks study of Buddhist texts. Furthermore, the traditional practice of monks and nuns reading scriptures in Tibetan homes has been abolished and permission must be sought before certain teachings may be given. Thus government and CCP policy and infrastructure forms an intrivate apparatus of control and serves as a crippling constraint on Tibetans freedom of religious expression.
China claims to have oput significant funds into rebuilding insititions that it destroyed.
However figures remain unsubstantiated and excessively high, as are their estimates of practicing monks and nuns. This site is maintained and updated by The Office of Tibet, the official agency of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London. This Web page may be linked to any other Web sites. Contents may not be altered.