Norm Dixon, The Dalai Lama's hidden past, sur le site Green Left Weekly, september 25, 1996 : « Chris Mullen, writing in the Far Eastern Economic Review in 1975, described Lithang's monks as "not monks in the Western sense... many were involved in private trade ; some carried guns and spent much of their time violently feuding with rival monasteries". (...) The Lithang Monastery in eastern Tibet was where a major rebellion against Chinese rule erupted in 1956. Beijing tried to levy taxes on its trade and wealth. The monastery housed 5000 monks and operated 113 "satellite" monasteries, all supported by the labour of the peasants. »
