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Post by James on Feb 9, 2015 23:25:50 GMT
Interesting how times change. Hopefully the harbinger of good things to come for Tibetans. China's super-rich communist BuddhistsCould China be bringing Tibetan Buddhism in from the cold? There are new signs that while a crackdown on Tibetan nationalism continues, the atheist state may be softening its position towards the religion - and even the Dalai Lama. That a former senior Communist Party official would invite the BBC into his home might, to most foreign journalists in China, seem an unlikely prospect. Especially if that official was rumoured to have close links to the Chinese leadership and to have worked closely with the country's security services. But the idea that such an official would then invite the BBC to witness him praying in front of a portrait of the Dalai Lama, would seem a preposterous one. Laughable - insane even. That, though, is exactly what Xiao Wunan did. [..]
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