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Prayer Wheels Destroyed

April 9, 2014;

Chinese authorities in a Tibetan county in Qinghai province have ordered the Central Heart Health Clinic in Dzora town in Golog to destroy their prayer wheels. “These wheels were installed with…funds raised from the clinic’s patients” a local source told Radio Free Asia, speaking on condition of anonymity. “They said that their installation had ‘political implications’.” There is concern that the nearby sacred mountain Rishor will be seized for mining exploration.

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