Notes on church-state affairs: China

by David W. Hendon

Journal of Church & State

Vol. 39 No. 1 Winter.1997

p.182

Copyright by JM Dawson Inst of Church State Studies


The Chinese government is concerned with the revival of Tibetan-style Buddhism in Mongolia after seventy years of suppression under communism. The rebirth of Buddhism is still in its early stage, but it worries Beijing because the Mongolian Buddhists look to the Dalai Lama, the exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhists, as their leader. China has been waging a campaign against the Dalai Lama and Tibetan desires for independence.