International Campaign for Tibet, “China shuts down historic monastery, evicts monks and nuns,” 4 August 2021, https://savetibet.org/china-shut-downs-historic-monastery-evicts-monks-and-nuns/. The Red City Temple (Chinese: Hongcheng, 宏城) also known as the Royal Order of Pagoda Temple is a Tibetan Buddhist Sakya School Monastery in Yongjing county of Gansu province in China. The Red City temple has a rich history. It was initially destroyed in 1958 during the Cultural Revolution. The reconstruction was started in 2006 and completed in three years and has more than 3,000 monks. Pranoti Abhyankar, “China closes a Tibetan monastery and forces the monks to return to lay life, The Tibet Post (02 August 2021), https://www.thetibetpost.com/en/news/tibet/7076-china-closes-a-tibetan-monastery-and-forces-the-monks-to-return-to-lay-life.

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