Talk:Reting Monastery

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Destruction[edit]

I read that the Reting Monastery was actually not destroyed by the Chinese but by the Tibetian Government, after an unsuccesful revolt of Jamphel Yeshe Gyaltsen (the Monastery's abbot and former tutor of the current Dalai Lama). Does someone have more information about that? Gugganij (talk) 14:14, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The following quote from Tibet, 6th Edition, (2005), p. 142, by Bradley Mayhew and Michael Kohn. Lonely Planet Publications. ISBN 1-74059-523-8, makes it very explicit that the destruction was caused by the Chinese:

"Pre-1950 photographs show Reting Monastery (admission Y20) sprawled gracefully across the flank of a juniper-clad hill in the Rong-chu Valley. Like Ganden Monastery, it was devastated by Red Guards and its present remains hammer home the tragic waste caused by the ideological zeal of the Cultural Revolution." John Hill (talk) 01:02, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In the Wiki-Article you can read: "In fact his Shugdenpa accusers who were in power are generally held responsible for his murder were colluding with the Chinese Ambon. They also destroyed the Gelug Reting Monastery and killed many in Lhasa."

Does this "They" refers to the Chinese or to the Shugdenpa accusers? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.187.87.10 (talk) 13:06, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Colluding with the Chinese Amban[edit]

No idea with whome they where colluding, but in 1947 there certainly was no Chinese Amban in Tibet. Gugganij (talk) 17:02, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]