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Prayers Wiped Out

By Contact Staff /  March 20, 2013;

Chinese authorities have wiped out a traditional Tibetan prayer for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, written on a rock face near the Nyitso Zilkar Monastery in Tridu region of Kyegudo, eastern Tibet. “As soon as the local Chinese authorities came to know about the inscriptions, they termed the incident as ‘political’ and dispatched security personnel to erase the prayer” said a local source.

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