TO GO WITH: CHINA-UNREST-TIBET-RIGHTS-RE

TO GO WITH: CHINA-UNREST-TIBET-RIGHTS-RELIGION by Robert Saiget A Tibetan Buddhist monk stands on a mountain road outside the Ganden Dhondrupling Monastery north of Benzilan on March 22, 2008 in the Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Yunnan province. Tibetan monks have expressed fears that a stepped-up political campaign following violent anti-Chinese riots in Lhasa would be targetting future Buddhists leaders as China has long held a vice-like grip over Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in an effort to curb an independence drive that it blames on the exiled Dalai Lama, Tibet's most revered spiritual leader. Belonging to the Yellow-Hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dhondrupling Monastery was once renowned for its printing of Buddhist scriptures but completely destroyed during the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, but later rebuilt at a nerby location from the original monastery. AFP PHOTO/Frederic J. BROWN (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)