Anurag Roushan for The Republic World
LLing Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and teacher, chastised China for undermining Buddhism to destroy Tibetan identity. Addressing a press conference in Sri Lanka, he claimed that China has been perpetrating inhumane and bestial atrocities against Tibetans for decades. He further lambasted China for destroying Tibetan literature, Buddhist identity, including the Dalai Lama’s palace, a large number of historical and religiously significant monasteries and Buddha statues. In addition, Rinpoche also rebuked China for systematically reducing Tibetans to a state of starvation in its own nation.
Rinpoche went on to say that out of 5,000 monasteries, only five are currently in existence, and the rest have been demolished by the Chinese Army. “Hundreds of thousands of Tibetan peasants, farmers, and other civilians have been killed by gunfire as well as starvation in prisons, concentration camps, factories, and their homes,” he said, as per ANI. The Buddhist scholar remarked that Tibetan identity and culture are both based on Buddhism, and the Chinese are attacking Buddhism in order to eliminate Tibetan identity.
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