Kirti Monastery
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Octogenarian Tibet man self-immolates at Kirti Monastery
RFA reported on 3rd April that an 81-year-old Tibetan man died after a self-immolation protest against Chinese control last week outside a police station in front of a major monastery in the western Chinese province of Sichuan. The report mentioned that the Kirti event occurred three days before the most recent documented self-immolation, which occurred…
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In a secret trial, a Tibetan writer was sentenced to ten years in prison.
According to RFA, a Tibetan writer and educator known for expressing loyalty to exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was sentenced to ten years in prison by a Chinese court in Tibet in a secret trial. On Oct. 26, 2020, State Security officers in Chengdu arrested Go Sherab Gyatso, a 46-year-old monk from Kirti monastery…
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China Issues Handbook Of Warning Tibetan Monks Against All Protests
The local Chinese authorities in Ngaba county in the South Western Chinese province Sichuan has issued a handbook in a red cover to the local Tibetan monks of the Kirti monastery whose title was targeted as a book of law for monastery according to Central Tibetan Administraion. The book primarily declares any form of peaceful…