{"id":29111,"date":"2011-11-03T21:26:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T21:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_china_tensions_rising_over_buddhisms_quiet_resurgence\/"},"modified":"2011-11-03T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T21:26:12","slug":"in_china_tensions_rising_over_buddhisms_quiet_resurgence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29111","title":{"rendered":"In China, tensions rising over Buddhism&#39;s quiet resurgence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breathless but beaming, Sheng Zisu sounds confident after five months in a maze-like Buddhist encampment high on the eastern Tibetan plateau, nearly 400 miles of bad road from the nearest city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look around. They could never find me here,&#8221; Sheng, 27, says of parents so anxious about their only child&#8217;s turn to Tibetan Buddhism that they have threatened to kidnap her.<\/p>\n<p>Sheng is far from her home \u201d\u201d and from the bars where she used to drink and the ex-boyfriends she says cheated on her. She is here with 2,000 other Han Chinese at the Larung Gar Buddhist Institute in Serthar, Sichuan province, the rain-soaked mountainous region of southwest China.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/story\/2011-11-01\/tibetan-buddhism-china-communist-tension\/51034604\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breathless but beaming, Sheng Zisu sounds confident after five months in a maze-like Buddhist encampment high on the eastern Tibetan plateau, nearly 400 miles of bad road from the nearest city. &#8220;Look around. They could never find me here,&#8221; Sheng,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29111\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,201,430,502,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-buddhism","category-china","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}