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Article: Schisms, murder, and hungry ghosts in Shangra-La.(internal conflicts in Tibetan Buddhist sect)
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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Millions of Buddhist monks have been killed, imprisoned, tortured, or driven into exile by the Communist Chinese since the 1950s in a deliberate, systematic destruction of a culture and a religion. The pacifist Buddhist monks are about as innocent and noble as victims can be; the Nobel Prize-winning Dalai Lama is perceived to be equally wonderful, kind, and heroic. Few are unfamiliar with the boy-king's narrow escape in 1959 from the Chinese into India, where he still governs in exile and continues to preach nonviolence. He is one of the most universally respected religious figures in the second half of the twentieth century.
This peace-loving image of Tibetan ...