A chinese monk has been expelled from temple by authority

Submitted by jeffery_jeffery on Fri, 2006-09-01 08:23. ::
 

In Jianxi province, a monk whose name is Xuzhiqian was expelled from his temple by Religion Bereau Of Jianxi province.
It was believed that the reasons of his expelling are: first, Mr.Xuzhiqian had taken a lot of actions in transparentizing his temple's accouts. These hurted the corrupt officials who sees his temple as an ATM(automatically Teller Machine); Second, Mr. Xuzhiqian was a former organizer of the protest in Xi An in 1989's movement. Mr. Xuzhiqian is a graduate from a well-known university--University of Science and Technology of China. After that movement, he felt disappointing to china's political development so became a monk. In 2005 he was elected to the head of his temple.
Mr.Xu told the VOA reporters that the chinese have no religion-freedom and the the concept of religion was distorted by the Religion Bereau--the agent of goverment.