{"id":12257,"date":"2019-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/tibetans-imprisoned-for-panchen-lama-prayers-and-protest-high-level-focus-on-sinicization-in-kardze\/"},"modified":"2019-06-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T22:00:00","slug":"tibetans-imprisoned-for-panchen-lama-prayers-and-protest-high-level-focus-on-sinicization-in-kardze","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/tibetans-imprisoned-for-panchen-lama-prayers-and-protest-high-level-focus-on-sinicization-in-kardze\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibetans imprisoned for Panchen Lama prayers and protest; High-level focus on \u2018Sinicization\u2019 in Kardze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"text-box wp-block-list\"><li>A Tibetan man and his aunt were imprisoned in Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, after he recited prayers and called for the release of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. The Panchen Lama was \u201cdisappeared\u201d by Chinese authorities in 1995 at the age of six and has not been seen in public since then.<\/li><li>The arrests of the man and his aunt occurred four days after the Panchen Lama\u2019s 30th birthday on April 25. Compounding his disappearance from public view, Chinese authorities have also sought to erase any mention of him or expression of loyalty to him, given the importance and symbolism of his role.<\/li><li>The demonstration for the Panchen Lama by 20-year-old Wangchen\u2014now sentenced to four and a half years in prison\u2014coincided with a high-level political focus on Kardze, where there have been numerous peaceful protests and resistance to Chinese rule since 2008 and a cluster of self-immolations by Tibetan monks, nuns and laypeople since 2011. The demonstration was also linked to the increasing prominence China has given to its officially selected Panchen Lama, Gyaltsen Norbu.<\/li><li>On May 25 to 27, 2019, top political advisor and Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Yang went to Kardze. Wang had met the Chinese-selected Panchen Lama in Beijing earlier last month. The state media cited Wang aggressively warning that Norbu \u201cwill take a firm political stand and lead the religious figures and believers in fighting against all separatist elements.\u201d (Xinhua, May 6, 2019).<sup>[1]<\/sup> Meanwhile Chinese state media announced that Norbu had made his first foreign trip saying he visited Thailand in mid-May.<\/li><li>Wang also spoke about the need for Tibetans to defend against \u201cinfiltration of foreign hostile forces.\u201d a reference to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan exile diaspora. In the Serthar (Chinese: Seda) area of Kardze Prefecture, a county-level delegation to rural homes in April warned against having Dalai Lama pictures in local people\u2019s shrines and instructed families to remove them immediately.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prayers and protest for the absent Panchen Lama<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/wangchen-061319-1200-890x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9317\" width=\"668\" height=\"350\"\/><figcaption>Wangchen and his aunt Dolkar in an undated photo. (Photo: RFA)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia (RFA), a 20-year-old Tibetan man named Wangchen was detained on April 29 after reciting prayers and shouting slogans calling for the release of the Panchen Lama, who disappeared into Chinese custody as a child in 1995 shortly after he was recognized by the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama are regarded as the \u201csun and moon\u201d in Tibetan Buddhism; Panchen Lamas have traditionally played a role in the recognizing and educating Dalai Lamas, and vice versa, which is why management of the Panchen Lama is considered so politically crucial to Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Tibetan source in India told RFA that Wangchen was accused of making \u201ca conspicuous protest in public\u201d and sentenced by the Sershul County People\u2019s Court in Kardze to a prison term of four years and six months. There are fears that Wangchen has been tortured, as he was observed walking unsteadily when taken to court on May 7, 2019.<span style=\"color: #c0311a;\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same source said that Wangchen\u2019s aunt Acha Dolkar was handed a prison term of one year and three months for her role in sharing news of Wangchen\u2019s protest with contacts outside the region, and two other Tibetans, identified only as Lobsang and Yonten, were each fined 15,000 yuan (around U.S. $2,211) and ordered to attend political re-education classes on \u201cissues of national security\u201d for six months. The latter appears to be a new form of punishment and consistent with other reports from Tibet about the existence of facilities used especially for re-education.<span style=\"color: #c0311a;\"><sup>[3]<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The source told RFA: \u201cDuring an offering ceremony and the hanging of prayer flags on the hill behind Sershul monastery, [Wangchen] shouted slogans calling for the release of the Panchen Lama and for the reunion of the Panchen Lama and the Dalai Lama in Tibet.\u201d While, according to reports, only Wangchen recited the prayers and shouted the slogans, three others\u2014Lobsang, Yonten, and another person who was physically disabled\u2014were detained, with the disabled man eventually set free. Police called Wangchen\u2019s aunt in for questioning on May 3 and then summoned her and other family members again four days later, according to RFA. There is now no information on the whereabouts of Wangchen and his aunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sershul, where the protest occurred, is one of the biggest monasteries in the eastern Tibetan area and restrictions have tightened there linked to the political emphasis on the region promoted by Chinese official Wang Yang during his visit to Kardze. In July 2018, young Tibetan monks were compelled to leave Sershul as part of a drive by the Chinese government to replace monastic education with secular schooling that emphasizes Communist Party propaganda. According to reports from Tibetan sources, young monks in smaller monasteries in the area have been targeted as part of the same push for the \u2018Sinicization\u2019 of Tibetan Buddhism and political education in schools.<span style=\"color: #c0311a;\"><sup>[4]<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Harsher approach demonstrates destructive campaign against Tibetan Buddhism<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There has been a campaign to \u201cSinicize\u201d Tibetan Buddhism, ongoing since January. As part of the political campaign, Chinese authorities seek to eradicate all mention of the Panchen Lama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wang Yang, the fourth highest ranking official in the Politburo hierarchy and head of the Chinese People\u2019s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), visited Kardze at the end of May. Just as Wang\u2019s emphasis on intensified Party control over religion coincided with a higher public profile of the Chinese-selected Panchen Lama last year, his visit to Kardze last week was immediately preceded by a meeting with Gyaltsen Norbu in Beijing on May 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the meeting in Beijing, Wang underlined only the political importance of Norbu\u2019s role and the key importance to the Party state of \u201cinterpreting religious doctrines to adapt them to China\u2019s socialism.\u201d According to Chinese state media outlet Global Times, the Chinese-selected \u201cPanchen Lama said he will make his contributions to safeguarding the unification of the motherland, ethnic solidarity, social stability, and religious harmony,\u201d all of which are political imperatives that refer to crushing any views that differ from those of the ruling Communist Party and enforcing compliance with the dictates of the Beijing leadership. According to the same article, Norbu said he \u201cwill always remember the instructions given by [Communist Party] leaders and devote himself to religious studies and practices to serve his believers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interestingly, the official China News Service said in a report June 10 that Norbu had gone to Thailand in the middle of May, the first time he had ever left China. The report said that he gave a speech at a Buddhist university in Bangkok and attended other Buddhist events and religious exchanges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wang has broad responsibility for religion in his role as head of the CPPCC, and has particularly emphasized the importance of \u201cSinicization\u201d\u2014a term meaning to make something Chinese\u2014of the Tibetan Buddhist religion, an important element of the Chinese government\u2019s new and far-reaching powers over people\u2019s lives and beliefs that represent a deepening threat to the continued survival of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet. Sinicization involves more systematic efforts than before to mold and shape Tibetan Buddhism to the dictates of the Party, compounding increased regulations that have already expanded religious oppression over the last decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have also been 16 self-immolations in Kardze since 2011, with the first by Nyitso monk Tsewang Norbu, who set fire to himself after distributing leaflets outside a county government building. On May 21, 2015, Tenzin Gyatso, a Tibetan father of four set fire to himself in Tawu (Chinese: Daofu), Kardze, apparently in response to tightened security in the buildup to the Dalai Lama\u2019s 80th birthday.<span style=\"color: #c0311a;\"><sup>[5]<\/sup><\/span> The most recent self-immolation in Kardze was a popular Tibetan monk in his 60s, Tenga, who had worked as a voluntary teacher; he set fire to himself and died in Kardze on Nov. 26, 2017, calling for freedom for Tibet as he burned.<span style=\"color: #c0311a;\"><sup>[6]<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The intensification of restrictions on religious expression, and the requirement for Tibetans to denounce the Dalai Lama, have compounded frustration in the region and appear to have increased the likelihood of Tibetans taking risks to express their discontent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April 2008, at least eight Tibetans were killed in Kardze after armed police fired on a crowd of several hundred monks and laypeople after an incident in which monks were detained after they objected to a \u201cpatriotic education\u201d campaign that included photographs of the Dalai Lama being thrown to the ground.<span style=\"color: #c0311a;\"><sup>[7]<\/sup><\/span> A month later, more than 80 nuns were detained during a second phase of unrest in response to a severe \u201canti-separatist\u201d and anti-Dalai Lama crackdown that followed the protests of March 2008.<span style=\"color: #c0311a;\"><sup>[8]<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his visit on May 25-27 of this year, Wang emphasized the need for religious practitioners and institutes to follow the lead of the Chinese Communist Party and devote themselves to \u201cSinicizing\u201d Tibetan Buddhism and adhering to party policy. Using the metaphor in Chinese of \u201cfirmly holding the \u2018bull nose\u2019 of the temple [religious] management,\u201d Wang said it is also necessary to \u201cresolutely defend the defense against the infiltration of foreign hostile forces,\u201d a reference to the influence of the Dalai Lama and Tibetans outside Tibet.<span style=\"color: #c0311a;\"><sup>[9]<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year Rinzin Wangmo, daughter of the 10th Panchen Lama, visited Lhasa and was warmly received by the people. The 10th Panchen Lama was widely respected in Tibet as someone who defended and protected Tibetan religion and culture. This presented a stark contrast with the relatively lukewarm response to the visit of the Chinese-selected Panchen Lama.<span style=\"color: #c0311a;\"><sup>[10]<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tibetans ordered to remove Dalai Lama images<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just prior to Wang\u2019s arrival in Kardze, on around April 24, 2019, a county-level delegation including officials from cultural and religious departments visited townships and villages in Serthar county in Kardze prefecture. During their inspection tour, they visited local households and found a number of images of the Dalai Lama on household shrines, according to information received by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) from Tibetan sources. They later held meetings in which they instructed local Tibetans to remove the images immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent years, \u201cclean up\u201d efforts seeking to eradicate Dalai Lama images have been enforced at various levels in different areas outside the TAR including Kardze, linked to the political drive to enforce \u201cstability,\u201d meaning compliance to Communist Party policies. In an article in Kardze People\u2019s Daily on Nov. 5, 2014 entitled \u201cVigorously implementing Ten Actions to create good rule of law in Kardze,\u201d one of the actions mentioned was to seize \u201csuspicious photos and portraits\u201d of the Dalai Lama. The article stated that the pictures were \u201cseriously disturbing the religious masses.\u201d<span style=\"color: #c0311a;\"><sup>[11]<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"footnote wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Footnotes:<\/strong><br><strong>[1]<\/strong>Featured in Global Times at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1148646.shtml\">http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1148646.shtml<\/a><br><strong>[2]<\/strong>Radio Free Asia, \u2018Tibetan man, aunt, sentenced for Panchen Lama protest in Sichuan\u2019, May 8, 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/tibet\/sentenced-05082019143525.html\">https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/tibet\/sentenced-05082019143525.html<\/a><br><strong>[3]<\/strong>Further details of these institutions and systematic approach towards cultural and political \u201ctransformation\u201d will feature in a forthcoming International Campaign for Tibet report. <br><strong>[4]<\/strong>International Campaign for Tibet report, \u2018China forces young Tibetan monks out of monastery into government-run schools\u2019, July 12, 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/china-forces-young-tibetan-monks-out-of-monastery-into-government-run-schools-as-part-of-drive-to-replace-monastic-education-with-political-propaganda\/\">https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/china-forces-young-tibetan-monks-out-of-monastery-into-government-run-schools-as-part-of-drive-to-replace-monastic-education-with-political-propaganda\/<\/a><br><strong>[5]<\/strong>International Campaign for Tibet report, \u2018Tibetan father of four self-immolates after oppressive measures to prevent Dalai Lama birthday celebrations\u2019, May 21, 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/tibetan-father-of-four-self-immolates-after-oppressive-measures-to-prevent-dalai-lama-birthday-celebrations\/\">https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/tibetan-father-of-four-self-immolates-after-oppressive-measures-to-prevent-dalai-lama-birthday-celebrations\/<\/a><br><strong>[6]<\/strong>International Campaign for Tibet report, \u2018Respected Tibetan monk sets fire to himself in eastern Tibet\u2019, November 30, 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/respected-tibetan-monk-sets-fire-to-himself-in-eastern-tibet\/\">https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/respected-tibetan-monk-sets-fire-to-himself-in-eastern-tibet\/<\/a><br><strong>[7]<\/strong>International Campaign for Tibet report, \u2018Eighty Tibetans killed in Kardze; new phase in protests in Tibet\u2019, April 4, 2008, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/eight-tibetans-killed-in-kardze-new-phase-in-protests-in-tibet\/\">https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/eight-tibetans-killed-in-kardze-new-phase-in-protests-in-tibet\/<\/a><br><strong>[8]<\/strong>International Campaign for Tibet report, \u2018More than 80 nuns detained after peaceful protests in Kham\u2019, May 30, 2008, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/more-than-80-nuns-detained-after-peaceful-protests-continue-in-kham\/\">https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/more-than-80-nuns-detained-after-peaceful-protests-continue-in-kham\/<\/a><br><strong>[9]<\/strong>Xinhua, \u2018Wang Yang Conducts Inspection Tour of Garz\u00ea Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture\u2019, May 27, 2019, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/politics\/2019-05\/27\/c_1124548409.htm\">http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/politics\/2019-05\/27\/c_1124548409.htm<\/a>. Translations cited are from the Party Watch Initiative, Center for Advanced China Research: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccpwatch.org\/single-post\/2019\/05\/31\/Weekly-Report-5252019-5312019\">https:\/\/www.ccpwatch.org\/single-post\/2019\/05\/31\/Weekly-Report-5252019-5312019<\/a><br><strong>[10]<\/strong>International Campaign for Tibet report, \u2018China tightens screws on Tibetan Buddhism\u2019, September 11, 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/china-tightens-screws-on-tibetan-buddhism\/\">https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/china-tightens-screws-on-tibetan-buddhism\/<\/a><br><strong>[11]<\/strong>November 5, 2014, <a href=\"http:\/\/paper.kbcmw.com\/html\/2014-11\/05\/content_55287.htm\">http:\/\/paper.kbcmw.com\/html\/2014-11\/05\/content_55287.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tibetan man and his aunt were imprisoned in Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, after he recited prayers and called for the release of the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie":[45,691],"news_tag":[673],"class_list":["post-12257","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","hentry","categorie-inside-tibet","categorie-news","news_tag-repression"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tibetans imprisoned for Panchen Lama prayers and protest; 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