[JimSEA]

You are right of course but I am given heart by 1) the strength of Buddhism among both the tibetian refugees and their neighbors and 2) the possible mistake the Communists make (remember Falungong) in the following quote from the story: Kashgar's only official bookstore has plenty of Uighur-language texts -- on Buddhism and Confucianism, but not on Islam. On the city streets, when a visitor notices her reading, an old woman quickly hides her a book on Islam. "It's just a storybook," she mumbles.

[blam]

"It's just a storybook," she mumbles."

It would be nice and to their benefit to convert back to Buddhism