"In short, [the Communist Party of] China is devoting considerable resources to hijack international Buddhism and marginalize Tibetan Buddhists loyal to the Dalai Lama and other Buddhists who look at the government-controlled China Buddhist Association and see what it is: a tool of the [ Chinese Communist Party ] to promote, organize, and justify repression of religious liberty and of any expression of Buddhism in China that refuses to be a mere tool of the regime and the Party."
January 1, 1970
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