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Authorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have leased a mosque in Ghulja (in Chinese, Yining) city to a Han Chinese businessman from the capital Beijing, who turned the place of worship into a tourist hotel, according to sources.
Recently, video and photos depicting Han Chinese tourists drinking tea in the courtyard of a mosque decorated in the Uyghur style and dancing Uyghur-style folk dances along with ethnic Uyghur dancers in the mosque’s prayer hall spread among Uyghur diaspora users of Facebook and Twitter, where they caused an uproar.
Zumrat Dawut, a former detainee in one of the XUAR’s vast network of internment camps, where authorities are believed to have held up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities since early 2017, told RFA’s Uyghur Service that she had posted a video of the situation to Facebook after receiving it from a China-based source and confirming that the lo
Fanjing Mountain Pure, Sacred Land
ByFan Wenjun December 16, 2020
Fanjing Mountain [Tuchong]
Fanjing Mountain is one of China s five famous Buddhist mountains. The name, Fanjing, is an abbreviation of
fantian jingtu, which literally means Brahma s pure land in Chinese. The mountain was added to the World Natural Heritage List in July 2018.
Fanjing Mountain is located where three counties Jiangkou, Yinjiang and Songtao converge in Tongren, in Southwest China s Guizhou Province. It has the highest peak at an elevation of 2,572 meters of the Wuling Mountain Range. The mountain covers more than 700 square kilometers.
In 1986, the mountain was listed as one of the first national natural reserves in China, and it was placed under the protection of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) s Man and Biosphere Program.