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Monasteries Closed on HH’s Birthday

July 11, 2020;

Reports from Tibet have emerged describing how Chinese officials obstructed attempts to mark His Holiness (HH) the Dalai Lama’s recent 85th birthday. Chinese officials and police visited monasteries and instructed that they must not host “outside visitors”. According one RFA source, “while introducing Chinese policy and relevant laws to the monasteries, the officials emphasised that no outside visitors would be permitted to stay there”.

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