Talk:Reting Monastery

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[edit] Destruction

I read that the Reting Monastery was actually not destroyed by the Chinese but by the Tibetian Government, after an unsuccesful revolt of Jamphel Yeshe Gyaltsen (the Monastery's abbot and former tutor of the current Dalai Lama). Does someone have more information about that? Gugganij (talk) 14:14, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

The following quote from Tibet, 6th Edition, (2005), p. 142, by Bradley Mayhew and Michael Kohn. Lonely Planet Publications. ISBN 1-74059-523-8, makes it very explicit that the destruction was caused by the Chinese:

"Pre-1950 photographs show Reting Monastery (admission Y20) sprawled gracefully across the flank of a juniper-clad hill in the Rong-chu Valley. Like Ganden Monastery, it was devastated by Red Guards and its present remains hammer home the tragic waste caused by the ideological zeal of the Cultural Revolution." John Hill (talk) 01:02, 22 November 2007 (UTC)