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RELIGION: 6,259 monasteries with 592,000 monks and nuns before the Chinese takeover; 1,700 and 130,000 today.

SOURCES: GOV'T OF TIBET IN EXILE, CHINESE GOV'T

TONY CLIFTON in Dharmsala and MELINDA LIU in Washington

© 1997

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