On a recent afternoon, workers in hard hats were dismantling cells that monks and nuns had built along a ridge. As they tossed aside wooden beams and plastic sheeting, nuns looked for their belongings in the rubble. “I don’t know whether I’ll be allowed to stay.”Tensions between Tibetans and the Chinese government have been high ever since a widespread uprising across the Tibetan plateau in 2008. China still denounces the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, and bans his image throughout the region. Buddhist practitioners who are Han, the dominant ethnicity in China, live alongside Tibetans in the settlement, which is a winding 16-hour drive from the provincial capital, Chengdu.

Source: New York Times November 28, 2016 21:14 UTC