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19 August, 2004
19 August 2004Jim Yardley of The New York Times reports on the latest incident of religious persecution in the Chinese countryside. Last week, he writes, an American Buddhist group that spent $3 million renovating an 800-year-old temple said that soldiers and police officers took control of the temple, arresting its spiritual leader Yu Tianjian, also known as Living Buddha Dechan Jueren, and forcibly removing 70 Chinese and a small group of Americans. An embassy spokesman said American officials plan to meet with China's Foreign Ministry about the matter.
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