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Chinese Lie of So Called Multicultural "Harmony" -- Military Ransack
Tibetan Temple in Sichuan Province, China

Military Ransack Tibetan Temple in Sichuan Province, China
By Feng Changle
The Epoch Times
Apr 05, 2008

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Mr. Sonam Dorje, Secretary General of the Tibet Religious Foundation of
the Dalai Lama. (The Epoch Times)

On 29 March 2008, the Chinese Communist Party's military police
surrounded Kyidi Temple, the largest temple in the Aba autonomous region
in Sichuan Province.

According to Mr. Sonam Dorje, Secretary General of the Tibet Religious
Foundation of the Dalai Lama, the police broke into the temple in the
early morning of 30 March and confiscated knives, swords, and arrows.

Mr. Sonam Dorje said, "In the morning on March 30, military police broke
into the Temple and searched every monk's room. Afterwards, the police
went to the Guardian Temple and confiscated exquisite divine instruments
such as Tibetan knives, swords and arrows. These objects had been
donated by the followers, but were taken as 'evidence.'"

Desecration of Guardian Temple

"The Guardian Temple is an important part of the Tibetan Buddhist
Temple. That's where every temple enshrines and worships its guardians.
Normally people are not allowed to enter this secret holy place. In this
place lay the finest guardian instruments donated by the followers, such
as Tibetan knives, swords, and arrows," continued Mr. Sonam Dorje,
"These divine instruments in the guardian's hands are used to protect
their beliefs and you can see them in all guardian temples. The
followers painstakingly made these instruments and brought them to the
guardians. The CCP's soldiers had not the slightest idea about this and
neither did they respect the Tibetans' religious customs. They took
these sacred objects away, meaning to turn them into evidence of Tibetan
monks fighting for the [Tibetan] Liberation Army!"

Sonam Dorje added, "Many of the monks the soldiers arrested on March 25
and 26 were forcibly put on trains and will be detained in other locations."


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