Schisms, murder, and hungry ghosts in Shangra-La.(internal conflicts in Tibetan Buddhist sect)

From: Cross Currents | Date: March 22, 1999| Author: Wilson, Mike | Copyright information

The communist Chinese have imprisoned, tortured, killed or driven to exile millions of Buddhist monks since the 1950s in a systematic eradication of a culture and religion. The peace-loving, pacifist image of Tibetan Buddhism is sometimes belied by real world events, however. Some observers believe that the assassination of Tibetan leaders in India by Buddhists espousing a different viewpoint were due to internal conflicts, the understanding of which requires a knowledge of some history of Ti...

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