European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Religious revival in continued irom Page 13 goals Graze by villages of dried mud huts adorned with multicoloured wind  or prayer hags. Brick like dried animal manure which is used Lor fuel is slacked in rows. Hello  shout ragged but Friendly children in quickly Learned English their faces caked with mucus and mud from never bathing. Once banned irom doing business vendors clog Lhasa s smelly packed Earth alleys and the Park Hor a circular Road outside the seventh Century Jorkhang. Tibet s holiest shrine. They offer bound Suras. Incense prayer wheels scarves bracelets boots bootlegged tapes of taiwanese pop Star Teresa Teng bottles of Barley liquor and makeup imported irom Nepal. State stores Are stocked with to sets stereo tape players and japanese video systems for up to $7.700 dollars equivalent to the combined annual income of 70 tibetans. Asked who can afford such luxuries a clerk at one store said with a smile some of us Pool our  there Are at least two Public video Parlours among Lhasa s ancient facades. One Chalk marquee advertised a chinese Romance from Hong Kong. Next to its shelves of political works the official Xinhua Bookstore has a trinkets counter featuring framed photographs of american teen Star Brooke Shields in a scanty outfit from the movie Blue Lagoon. Stray dogs Are everywhere from monastery doorways to the Gate of the communist party compound. Notices posted in tibetan and chinese warn people against defecating in the Street a common practice reviled As an extremely uncivilized habit left Over from the old  there Are few Public toilets. Tough looking Hampas historically ferocious tribesmen from Eastern Tibet lounge a found Street bazaars their Long sheathed knives dangling under colourful capes. Fights among tibetans Are common and police rarely intervene. One Brawl shattered the Sanctity of the Jorkhang courtyard when a Street Hawker was cracked Over the head with a Beer bottle. Dozens of pilgrims prostrate on the ground nearby where oblivious to the fracas. A Noodle shop. To repair store and Sze Chwan a Siau rant Are situated at the base of the pot Ala the foreboding 13-Story. 1.000-windov/, Maroon and White former Palace of the Dalai Lama. Perched on a Central Lhasa Hill it dominates the City. Tha reopened shrine Are crowded with Grimy pilgrims clutching thermos bottles of rancid yellow Yak butter to fuel massive prayer lamps of Gold Bronze and Silver. The lamps illuminate Smoky incense filled Halls. At the Sera and Dre Phung monasteries Young apprentices guided by wrinkled masters memorize scriptures and reconstruct statues of Buddha wrecked by red guards in tie 1966-76 cultural revolution when Mao banned religion As one of the four  Dre Phung once the world s largest monastery with More than 10,000 monks was a Center of resistance. Nestled on a Hill at Lhasa s Western Edge Many of its exquisite frescoes silk brocades and jewel studded statues were smashed or burned. Dre Phung s hero is a Monk who hid some priceless icons during a chinese crackdown after the widespread revolt of 1959. He was discovered tortured and imprisoned for 20 years. It s a lot better now than  said Rishi Chunpei. One of Dre Phung s 400 remaining  said the chinese imprisoned him for two years during the cultural revolution and then forced him to become a Farmer. He was allowed to return to the monastery a few months ago. The chinese claim Tibet always was part of China and describe pre-1950. Tibetan society As a brutal disease Ridden Feudal tyranny in which landowners and religion enslaved the poor. The Dalai Lama says not a single tibetan record states that Tibet has at any Lime been a part of  almost All Tibet s 2.700 temples and monasteries were razed or pillaged after China look Over. Of the 110.000 monks who once inhabited them Only 3.000 remain. Tibet was once one of the world s most aloof societies ruled by the Dalai Lama and a religious nobility. Every family donated at least one son to become a Monk criminals were blinded or drowned and everyone changed to summer clothes when the Dalai Lama did. No matter How cold it was. China s Effort to improve tibetan life today stems partly irom the 20th anniversary on sept. 1 of the founding of the Tibet autonomous Region a title that theoretically gave tibetans self Rule. The state run press lavishes Praise on what it Calls communist achievements in Tibet including appointments f non chinese officials and construction of new schools roads hospitals and even a $6.3 million gymnasium that hashes scores in digital tibetan characters. But exiles say that is a farce because peking determines he policy and assigns chinese the most powerful posts. The Dalai Lama contends there Are 250,000 chinese troops and 1.7 million chinese civilian personnel in the Tibet autonomous Region which does not include tha Kokonos Region of northeastern Tibet where he says 2.5 million chinese and Only 700.000 tibetans now live. Officials denied reporters requests to interview a military commander and would not disclose How Many chinese troops Are stationed in Tibet. But uniformed soldiers of the people s liberation army which invaded Tibet in 1950, Are seen almost everywhere. Chinese guards with Bayonet tipped rifles Man Bridges construction Sites and unidentified compounds around Lhasa. Possibly to avoid any pre anniversary embarrassments there also has been a crackdown on dissidents. By one tibetan s account which could not be confirmed Public Security squads have detained 20,000 tibetans. A stale run tibetan radio broadcast recently warned against what it called poisonous elements who May attempt to steal weapons and explosives. Wrenched by Mao into ill fated communes and eventual widespread famine most tibetans have returned to traditional private herding and Barley planting under the pragmatic reforms of Mao s successor Deng Xiaoping. The government has exempted tibetans from taxation and is even granting private property rights to Farmers and leases of up to 50 years to herdsmen. That Chim be1. Tibet Alec than Span from Hirom devel neat Hersl to three expel an a Crin Aandy Tibet Fri App holc Oca to tap Tibet coff of the bum dried 8k last porn Una to last th8 of pane m re pfc into my a to of Banket Buddhist supplicant prostrate them Elvei before the Jorkhang monastery in lha