China Detains Tibetan Abbot in Sichuan
DHARAMSALA—Authorities in the Tibetan region of Karze in southwestern
"Chinese security officials arrested Khenpo Jinpa of Choktsang Taklung Monastery based in Choktsang village, Serda county, Karze prefecture, on Aug. 23," a caller from the region told RFA's reporter in Dharamsala. Karze is known in Chinese as Ganzi.
"His room was raided and searched without any kind of advance notice," the caller added.
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Monastery surrounded
"[They] surrounded the monastery and did not allow anybody to leave or enter the area. Some members of team went inside the monastery and arrested Khenpo Jinpa," said the listener, who was calling from Serda (in Chinese, Seda) county.
"The security officials searched his room too but found no incriminating materials of any kind. They never explained reasons for his arrest," the source said.
His room was raided and searched without any kind of advance notice,
Caller to RFA's Tibetan service
An officer who answered the phone at the public security bureau in Dartsedo didn't deny the arrest had occurred and suggested speaking to his superior. Calls to his superior during office hours went unanswered.
An independent source in the northern Indian town of
The source, from Serda county, said local officials had been overruled in the arrest by a special team dispatched from Dartsedo.
The caller said local Tibetan monks suspected the arrest could be related to pro-independence posters displayed a year ago at the monastery, although no arrests were made at the time.
Taklung Monastery is one of the oldest in the Serda area, and is currently home to around 300 monks.
Abbot Khenpo Jinpa, 37, was taught by Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, who died after authorities demolished parts of his
Karze, a traditionally Tibetan area administered by
The Dalai Lama fled
Images, writings, and video of the Dalai Lama, who is universally revered by Tibetans, are banned in
Original reporting by RFA's Tibetan service. Translated by Karma Dorjee. RFA Tibetan service director: Jigme Ngapo. Written in English by Luisetta Mudie and edited by Sarah Jackson-Han.
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