A small handful of conspirators staged violent riots in the name of separatism or so-called "Tibet independence." Their aim is to split Tibet from China. The riots killed 18 innocent civilians.
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Buddhists in Tibet
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In English we would call them Tibetan monks. In Tibet they are called chodak or or choden.
Throughout the past one hundred years there have been a number of Buddhist monks who have set themselves on fire. What they have in common is that they were all either in Vietnam or Tibet, and they were all protesting oppression by the government of their country of Buddhists, especially of the monks and nuns.
Because of their human rights record and Tibet
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Southeast Asia, including China, India, Tibet, Nepal, and Japan
Some are and some are not. There is no rule saying you have to be vegetarian.
China has taken over it illegally and might use genocide.
Like Christianity, their is a problem of sexual abuse by monks.In Tibet, the Buddhists are oppressed by the Chinese.
In Asia: India, China (Tibet : a kind of Buddhism - Lamaism), Indonesia. There are, however, Buddhists in almost every country in the world. Most major cities in the west have Buddhist temples or monestaries.