[Buddha-l] Plundered Art

[Bernie Simon]

I thought some list members might be interested in this:

US to investigate Chinese looting of Tibet

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=57

As the US considers China’s request for restrictions on the import of 
archaeological material, the question of China’s alleged organised 
plunder of Tibetan artefacts is about to come under US congressional 
scrutiny. The move is likely to be seized upon by dealers in the US who 
oppose restrictions on the trade in Chinese artefacts.

Dana Rohrabacher, a conservative Republican representative in the 
United States Congress and a long-standing critic of China’s human 
rights record, has announced he will lead an investigation into what he 
suspects was the systematic looting of Tibetan art and objects by 
Chinese authorities since the 1949 Communist revolution. The inquiry 
has coincided with a high profile auction in Beijing of artefacts that 
previously belonged to Tibetan monasteries, and which seeped out into 
international markets sometime last century before being bought by the 
leading Taiwan-based collector Wang Du.

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So who is rich and who is poor
I cannot say