Gasping and wheezing we toured the Norbulingka Temple, including the top apartments, reserved for the Dalai Lamas who visit there. The air is filled with the scent of burning candles made of yak butter and scents of incense. Walls are covered with shelves of the ancient books of the Bhuddist faith. Sadly, the Chinese government has placed limitations on the number of men who can become Bhuddist monks. Where there were once over 7000 monks, there are now only 1000 residing in this monestary.
3 comments:
You seem not to enjoy your trip too much:-).
Did you publish these blogs in China or when you went back to US, you did it.
I'm a Chinese.
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Stay tuned:)
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To postak:
Your question is not offensive at all. And I'd like to answer but I don't know whether you can see my reply.
What you know from news report of your country or from internet about China is not exactly true. I wanna tell you the fact about media control and some related issues in China.
First our government never did crackdown on cyber cafe's. The administrators just published new regulations to regulate that cyber cafe's must colse at midnight, must't allow young people under 18 to use the service and so on. That's because more and more parents complained that their children were addicted to surfing on the web or on-line games, which has become a severe social problem discussed by public media.
And another thing you mentioned. That's partly true. In China, people's basic privacy is protected by law and the new released constitution. So no emails would be scanned. But our government will scan and accept report from third party the sites containing sensitive(to CPC, but most educated people actually don't think it's sensitive) and then maybe block the IP address so that people from mainland can't visit those sites. And blogspot is a previously blocked site. But things are changing to good. The new administrative team are more and more open-minded. But it needs time to let changes happen, right?
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