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China expels over 1,000 Tibetan monks, nuns from Buddhist academy
This action is the most recent in a long line of actions by China to dismantle and reduce the size of the academy, which housed roughly 40,000 Buddhist monastics by the early 2000s. Also read ...
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Remembering China’s Empress Dowager Ling, a Buddhist who paved the way for future female rulers
(THE CONVERSATION) In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as ... both Taghbah and Chinese cultures had become deeply familiar with Buddhism, a religion that they had inherited from ...
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Buddhist monks among 100 held in China's Sichuan province over dam protests
Chinese security officials have arrested more than 100 Tibetan Buddhist monks and local people ... upper reaches of the Yangtze River, one of China's most important waterways, Radio Free Asia ...