-Radio Free Asia
Police inside keep an eye on monks day and night, says a source.
A Chinese police surveillance unit is operating, apparently for the first time, inside a Buddhist monastery as part of a renewed crackdown on Tibetan Buddhist religious institutions, a Tibetan with knowledge of the situation said.
Officers were installed this year at the Palyul Thartang Gonchen Monastery in Qinghai province’s Golog (in Chinese, Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, said the source, who lives in exile but knows what is happening there.
“Though there was already a surveillance police unit put up by authorities outside the premises of the Palyul Tharthang Gonchen Monastery in Golog, this year they have added another one inside the premises of the monastery near its community hall,” the Tibetan told RFA.
“A surveillance team member has also been posted by the Chinese government in this unit to scrutinize monks and their daily activities,” he said. Click here to read more.