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Michael Parenti | RedSails | 26th December 2020 Many Buddhists maintain that, before China’s crackdown in 1959, Old Tibet was a “Shangri-La” of peace. History suggests otherwise. Buddhist sects in Old Tibet clashed violently; five Dalai Lamas were murdered by their high priests. Peasant children were drafted into lifelong servitude; sexual abuse was common. “This grim history remains unvisited by present-day followers of Tibetan Buddhism in the West” (8,400 words)
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