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China-appointed Panchen promoted ‘Three Consciousnesses’ Sinicization of Tibet drive during Nagchu visit

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(TibetanReview.net, Aug28’24) – Although China’s mainstream media gave little information on its 11th Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu’s recent visit to the prefecture-level city of Nagchu (Chinese: Nagqu), Tibet Autonomous Region, it has now been reported that in one event, he presided over a symposium on China’s so-called “Three Consciousnesses” campaign. The campaign is a tool for re-educating the Tibetan people, especially monks and nuns, to think and act like a party-loyal mainland Chinese.

The campaign, launched in Tibet in 2022, seeks to promotenational consciousness, citizen consciousness, and legal consciousness. In Tibet, these are used as euphemisms for supporting the Chinese rule, condemning “separatism,” and laws designed to implement them under the rubric of the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), its Central Committee, and General Secretary Xi Jinping.

Gyaincain Norbu toured Nagchu from Jul 31 to Aug 10, even as the fate of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the Dalai Lama-recognized 11th Panchen Lama abducted by Beijing and whom he replaced in 1995, continues to remain unknown to this day.

In his keynote speech, Gyaincain Norbu has stressed that Tibetan Buddhists should study and implement the documents of the 20th National Congress of the CPC. This meant that the Tibetan monastics should “align their religious beliefs with political beliefs,” “study Buddhism to match contemporary responsibilities,” accept the “strict governance of religion” programme (ie, the United Front supervision of their activities), and play a supportive role in the CPC campaigns, bitterwinter.org, the website of a magazine on religious liberty and human rights, Aug 28 cited Gyaincain Norbu as having explained.

What is more, the Chinese appointed Panchen was stated to have stressed that the “three consciousnesses” education should be linked with all daily religious activities at the monasteries.

And he has called on the Buddhist monks and nuns in Tibet to distance themselves from the Dalai Lama and oppose “separatist thoughts,” promote “national unity,” and “adapt Tibetan Buddhism to a socialist society.”

Also, while visiting the “Rural Revitalization Nagqu Progress” exhibition, he was stated to have congratulated “the swift progress due to the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the active efforts of people from all ethnic backgrounds who have chosen to support, appreciate, and follow the Party’s direction.”

He has “urged the various ethnic groups to unite even more closely around the Party’s Central Committee, led by Comrade Xi Jinping.”

The report, written under a pseudonym, did not cite a source for these information.

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