Chinese officials have evicted more than a thousand Tibetan monks and nuns from a 45-year-old Buddhist academy, ostensibly because they lacked the necessary residency documentation.
In truth, China seems determined to strangle the life out of the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, which is now down to about 5,000 clergy from its peak of 40,000 a quarter-century ago.
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