DHARAMSHALA, April 6: A Tibetan monk has been released from Meinyang Prison in Sichuan on Saturday, Tibetan sources said, after completing his prison sentence of seven years.
Trinlay Gyatso, a monk of Togden monastery in Ngaba, which saw one of the fiercest protests in 2008, was held at Meinyang prison near Chengdu, Sichuan.
Monks of the monastery and local Tibetan population welcomed Trinlay on Sunday at a reception ceremony held in his honor. People threw paper prayer flags into the air as they rejoiced Trinley’s homecoming after seven years.
Tibetans held a huge banner that read, “mi kar kar, thrim nak nak” in Tibetan language (white white man, black black law).
Trinley is known popularly for excellence in studies at Togden monastery, a learning centre for the Bon Tradition. People of the locality were certain that he could not have committed any crime as projected by the Chinese police.
Trinley was jailed in 2008 for allegedly disseminating information of Tibetan protests in Ngaba in 2008 to the outside world.
Chinese Police arrived at the Togden Monastery on April 4, 2008, and took the 30 year old Trinley Gyatso away from a prayer session which was underway at that time.
Trinley’s parents, Nepey and Kunrik, are natives of Chuktsang Village, Ngaba County. He is the eldest of five children.
