Buddhism: Buddhist Master Threatened after Performing Rituals for Victims of Tiananmen Square Massacre

Human Rights in China (www.hrichina.org), Aug 28, 2006



Beijing, China -- A Buddhist master, who had participated in the pro-democracy movement in 1989, was threatened by local authorities that he would be expelled from his temple for performing a releasing from suffering ritual for the souls of the victims who died in the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
His name is Shengguan. He now resides in Huacheng Temple of Yichun City in the Jiangxi Province. His original name was Xu Zhiqiang and he was one of the student leaders in Xian City in 1989[...]