IHT Rendezvous: In an Occupied Tibetan Monastery, a Reason for So Many Fiery Deaths
 

The 2,000 or so Tibetan Buddhist monks of Kirti Monastery in China's Sichuan Province are at the center of one of the biggest waves of self-immolations in modern history. The acts evoke the self-immolations in the early 1960s by Buddhist monks in South Vietnam.

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