Tibetan Temples Forced to Display Communist Leader Portraits
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2012-01-28
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The Communist regime keeps Tibet under heavy control. At the end of 2011, local authorities declared a new policy of requiring Buddhist temples to display portraits and flags of Chinese communist leaders. On Sunday they renewed their commitment to this policy. They have reportedly sent out over one million of these items to villages, homes, and temples across the region.
January 22nd, 2012, the eve of Chinese New Year. Chinese officials in the Tibet Autonomous Region held a ceremony to unveil a portrait of four Communist leaders: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. They go on to state that they will send these portraits, as well as Communist flags, to villages, homes, and temples in the region.
It's estimated that one million of these items have already been sent.
Chair of the Chinese Social Democratic Party, Liu Yinquan, believes the Chinese Communist Party is trying to use its symbols to replace those of traditional Tibetan Buddhism.
[Liu Yinquan, Chair of Chinese Social Democratic Party]:
"The Communist regime uses its single party rule and its party culture and symbols to slowly eliminate the Buddhist faith. This is in accordance with the religious policy that the Communist Party has always had. The Chinese Communist Party, on the surface, its constitution allows religious freedom, but it is actually changing religion, using religion to strengthen its single party rule, turning religion into a tool for its united front."
In December 2011, authorities in Tibet introduced the "Nine Must-Haves" policy. It dictates nine items that all temples must display or carry portraits of Communist leaders, the Communist flag and a copy of the state-run People's Daily.
Ben Hedges
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The Communist regime keeps Tibet under heavy control. At the end of 2011, local authorities declared a new policy of requiring Buddhist temples to display portraits and flags of Chinese communist leaders. On Sunday they renewed their commitment to this policy. They have reportedly sent out over one million of these items to villages, homes, and temples across the region.
January 22nd, 2012, the eve of Chinese New Year. Chinese officials in the Tibet Autonomous Region held a ceremony to unveil a portrait of four Communist leaders: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. They go on to state that they will send these portraits, as well as Communist flags, to villages, homes, and temples in the region.
It's estimated that one million of these items have already been sent.
Chair of the Chinese Social Democratic Party, Liu Yinquan, believes the Chinese Communist Party is trying to use its symbols to replace those of traditional Tibetan Buddhism.
[Liu Yinquan, Chair of Chinese Social Democratic Party]:
"The Communist regime uses its single party rule and its party culture and symbols to slowly eliminate the Buddhist faith. This is in accordance with the religious policy that the Communist Party has always had. The Chinese Communist Party, on the surface, its constitution allows religious freedom, but it is actually changing religion, using religion to strengthen its single party rule, turning religion into a tool for its united front."
In December 2011, authorities in Tibet introduced the "Nine Must-Haves" policy. It dictates nine items that all temples must display or carry portraits of Communist leaders, the Communist flag and a copy of the state-run People's Daily.
Ben Hedges
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