Petition updateSTAND WITH LARUNG GAR NOW!China Offers Cash Rewards For Departures From Larung Gar
Safeguarding Buddhism
Oct 15, 2016 — RFA: Chinese officials seeking to reduce the population of the large Larung Gar Buddhist Institute in Sichuan have begun offering cash inducements to some monks and nuns to leave amid the forced removals of thousands of others, sources in the region say. At the same time, many monks and nuns native to the Institute’s Serthar (in Chinese, Seda) county, and who were formerly thought safe from eviction, are being told to leave, sources say. “Chinese workers going from door to door have been seen handing out flyers written in Chinese and Tibetan, encouraging monks to leave the complex by offering 20,000 yuan (U.S. $2,975) for voluntary departure,” one local source told RFA’s Tibetan Service. “A further 30,000 yuan (U.S. $4,463) is being offered if they give up their homes to be destroyed,” RFA’s source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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