{"id":41143,"date":"2013-10-10T16:59:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T12:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=41143"},"modified":"2013-10-10T16:59:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T12:59:55","slug":"tibetan-monk-who-helped-bring-buddhism-to-west-murdered-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=41143","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan monk who helped bring Buddhism to West murdered in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tibet-monastery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41141\" alt=\"tibet-monastery\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tibet-monastery.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tibet-monastery.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tibet-monastery-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tibet-monastery-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A high-profile monk who played a key role in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West has been murdered in southwest China, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Tarap Shetrup Akong, who has British citizenship , was killed along with his nephew and another man in Sichuan province on Tuesday, police in the provincial capital Chengdu said on their <a href=\"http:\/\/e.weibo.com\/2206820037\/Ad6iQlCI2\" target=\"_blank\">official account on the microblogging site Weibo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that three suspects have been captured, and that the victims were stabbed in a financial dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Akong was born in Tibet in 1940 and left for exile in 1959. He founded a monastery called Samye Ling in a secluded part of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Robbie Barnett, a Tibet expert at Columbia University in New York, said that he was known for his social as much as spiritual work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bulk of his life&#8217;s work was on providing social welfare to villagers, rural communities, townspeople, nomads and monasteries in Tibet and other countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barnett said that he had great diplomatic skill and was able to maintain relationships with high-level Chinese officials without compromising his work with Tibetans on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A high-profile monk who played a key role in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1306],"class_list":["post-41143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-china-2","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}