Tibetan Buddhist leader with provincial-level senior positions reported held, disappeared

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(TibetanReview.net, Jan24’26) – China removed the head-lama of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Yushu prefecture of Qinghai province from his provincial level political advisory and religious bodies in Dec 2024 and arrested him for having allegedly helped a fugitive monk, since deceased, to get a teaching position in his monastery, said Dharamshala-based Tibetan Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (tchrd.org) Jan 24.

The centre said the whereabouts of Lobsang Lungrig, 51, the head-lama of Ba Gön Monastery, a Gelug monastery located in Chumarleb (Chinese: Qumalai) County, had remained unknown ever since he was taken away by Chinese authorities in Dec 2024.

The centre said the provincial...

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