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by Tashi Dhargey
When the head of the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department travels to Tibetan regions, the official press releases always sound the same: long sentences, heavy slogans, and the obligatory invocation of “Xi Jinping Thought.” Yet behind the bureaucratic fog, Li Ganjie’s April tour of Gansu’s Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Sichuan’s Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture was anything but routine. It was a carefully choreographed inspection of how far the “Sinicization” of Tibetan Buddhism has progressed—not in the sense of adapting to Chinese culture, but to the CCP’s political demands.
Li visited monasteries, Buddhist academies, and T...
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