Beijing, 25 ene (EFE).- The organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced today that the Chinese authorities are imposing new controls in Larung Gar, the largest independent academy of Buddhism on the Tibetan plateau, que "atentan contra la libertad religiosa", according to an official brochure of the institution to which you have had access.
Since August, This institution - which was founded in 1980 by the monk Jigmen Puntsok- It is managed by a committee of the Communist Party (CCP), and has the deputy chief of police of the Garze district as its director (in Sichuan Province).
The NGO claimed today to have accessed an official brochure designed by this new committee, in which various changes are announced in the organization of the institute and the Larung Gar monastery.
Specifically, desde ahora "alrededor de 200 CCP members and lay officials are taking care of the management, finance, security, admisiones e incluso de la elección de los libros de texto del centro", explains the NGO, que lamenta que el año pasado se produjeron "demoliciones y expulsiones".
This document is a four-page booklet printed in color., written in both Chinese and Tibetan, redactado por el nuevo comité de dirección y diseñado "aparentemente para ser distribuido públicamente", add.
Residents and visitors will be subject to identification searches and a tag system will be implemented: the monks will wear a red one, The nuns will wear a yellow one and the devotees will wear a green one..
She further , The venue will be divided into two parts, separated by a wall, of which one will be dedicated to the academy and will have a maximum of 1.500 residents (mostly monks), and the other will be the monastery and will have a maximum of 3.500 residents, especially nuns.
The document shows that Party members will not only make up the steering committee but will participate at all levels of organization., occupying half of command positions.
"El 40 % of teaching at Larung Gar Buddhist Institute should now consist of classes on politics and other non-religious matters. El primer criterio para aceptar a un estudiante será si tiene firmes convicciones políticas", says the brochure cited by the NGO.
Agrega también que se enseñará "el honor y apoyo al PCCh y el sistema socialista" y se entrenará a los monjes para que "defiendan la unificación de la patria, mantengan la unidad nacional y la religión patriótica y cumplan sus votos".
Only residents of Sichuan province will be able to apply for a place. (center) and monks and nuns from other Tibetan areas will not be allowed access.
According to monastery sources cited by HRW, A large building has already been built to house Party officials..
"El sistema parece haber sido diseñado para gestionar instituciones religiosas en vez de cerrarlas y para producir una nueva generación de profesores de budismo entrenados tanto en la doctrina religiosa como en la ideología del Estado, para adaptar el budismo tibetano a la sociedad socialista", the organization stressed. EFE
