After abbot’s mysterious death in its custody, China cracks down on his monastery, locals

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(TibetanReview.net, Apr16’25) – China has launched a crackdown on Lung-ngon Monastery and surrounding Tibetan villages in Gade (Chinese: Gande) County of Golok (Guoluo) prefecture, Qinghai Province, even as it remains tight-lipped about the circumstance of the death of its abbot Hungkar Dorje in the custody of its visiting police in Vietnam late last month, reported the Tibetan service of rfa.org Apr 15.

Officials have placed the monastery under round-the-clock police surveillance, conducting random inspections of locals’ mobile phones to curb information sharing about his death, the report cited local sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, as saying....

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