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Chantleader Sentenced

April 1, 2014;

Thardoe Gyaltsen, chantleader and administrator at Drongna monastery in Driru County has been sentenced to eighteen years in prison on charges of “inciting separatism”. He was allegedly found to be in possession of pictures of the Dalai Lama and recordings of his speeches and teachings. Thardoe studied Tibetan Buddhism at the Ganden monastic university near Lhasa, and joined the Drongna Monastery in 1998. The situation in Driru remains very tense.

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