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Monastery Closed

August 4, 2021;

A Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Linxia in Gansu Province in north central China has been closed by the authorities and its monks expelled. The Red City Temple, or Royal Order of Pagoda Temple, is a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery of the Sakya School. The monastery raised funds to help victims of the Covid-19 pandemic last year but the authorities became suspicious that they were accumulating wealth and closed it down.

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