‘High Learning’: Scriptures and Football in Tibet College
Tibetan Buddhist College, one of the highest study places on the planet, has more than 900 students who learn Mandarin, English and political studies under the benign gaze of President XI Jinping.
Maroon turned Tibet’s nun with vigorously debating Buddhism, while monks ran across artificial grass pitch on the roof of the world to kick football.
Tibetan Buddhist College, one of the highest study places on the planet, has more than 900 students who studied Mandarin, English and political studies.
Everything happened under a benign gaze from President Xi Jinping, who was a college festoons portrait, which was tucked away on the hillside at least 3,600 meters (11,800 feet) above sea level.
Beijing said it was “peacefully released” Tibetan mountains in 1951 and confirmed that since it brought infrastructure and education to areas that have not been underdeveloped.
Flag of China and saying XI land pepper.
But there were no signs of the Tibetan Spiritual Leader of the Dalai Lama, who escaped from the region in 1959 and established a government in India.
The AFP news agency joined a media tour presented by the government this week to a politically sensitive area.
Since 2008, it is almost impossible for journalists to visit except on organized trips.
Sporadic protests have broken in Tibet in the past few decades, including some of the former monks in the heart of Lhasa and a large protest against the Chinese government in 2008, which left many dead people.
Rights groups say that now expressing any anti-government views is very dangerous, while boiling riots are quickly labeled.
During the media tour, the students shone in praising their education.
Bhikkhu, nuns and novices practice religious texts, show off their English and show traditional Buddhist debates, with speakers providing retorical tubers that are firmly on the pinky pages.
“I have been here for more than two years,” said 32-year-old XieKwang monk. “We learned from 6am to around 9pm. I like to study here and don’t feel tired … Life is very good.”
But China has been accused of deliberately disbursing Tibetan culture, including by directing its education system.
Critics said the freedom of movement and strictly controlled expression amid the sustainable “synicization” of the region.
Academics also said it had become very difficult to conduct regional studies, making it more difficult to assess the quality of life on the ground.
“The level of oppression needed to keep the closed on the things in Tibet … told me that things continue to be tense there,” said Gray Tuttle, a modern Tibet study professor at Columbia University.
The students all smiled for foreign media on a well-funded Lhasa campus offering a new artificial soccer field and running lane.
Vice President of the University, Gerah Wangdui, told Media Success of College descend to China.
“I’m a party member. I’m not a Buddha, I’m a communist.”
Potala Palace – classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1994 – in the regional capital, Lhasa. Beijing said it was “peacefully released” Tibetan mountains in 1951 and confirmed that since it brought infrastructure and education to areas that have not been underdeveloped. [Hector Retamal / AFP]
