CHINA-INTERNAL: LEADERSHIP-TIBET

 


 Jambey Gyatso, a veteran Tibetan scholar in China working within the CCP system published two articles to criticize two Chinese officials, Ye Xiaowen, the former Director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA), and Zhu Weiqun, Director of the Ethnic and Religious Commission of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee. In the article Jambey Gyatso observed that, over the past decade, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) religious management group, of which both Ye  Xiaowen and Zhu Weiqun are key members, adopted the wrong policies to govern Tibet. Instead of separating religion from governance, Ye Xiaowen tried to replace Tibetan Buddhism with a new orthodox religion: the will of the Party’s religious office. Ye Xiaowen’s new policy of “certifying” Living Buddhas led to corruption in the Buddhist temples. Zhu Weiqun tried to escalate this simple event to the level of the political, linking it to “Tibetan separation.” It is rare to see a scholar, who has worked for several decades under the CCP’s system, be so open in criticizing the CCP’s religious policy and leaders.

The Paper, a media with close ties to Xi Jinping and Wang Qishan, reported on February 22, 2016, that Ye Xiaowen was removed from his latest official positions as the Party Secretary and Deputy Director of the Central Institute of Socialism.
 






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