E/CN.4/1993/62 page 11 The Constitution and laws also stipulate that ’no one may use religion to promote activities detrimental to the social order, injurious to citizens’ health or liable to hamper the State educational system. Religious groups and activities may not be controlled by foreign powers’. A small number of people, using religion as a pretext, embezzle money, seduce women, endanger people’s health and disrupt the normal social order - even engaging in antiGovernment activities; these are subject to criminal or administrative penalties. But this has nothing to do with religion or religious belief: anyone who breaks the law must be dealt with as the law dictates. 2. Upon inquiry, the circumstances of the clergy you refer to in your letter prove to be as follows: Pei Ronggui, from Luancheng County, Hebei, a Catholic. Was sentenced to five years’s imprisonment in May 1989 for severe disruption of the social order and violation of the Chinese Penal Code. Li Side, from Tianjin, formerly a Catholic priest. He was committed for three years’ re-education through labour in November 1989 for conduct violating the Chinese Constitution and the regulations governing the registration of public associations. We are looking into the other cases at the moment." 21. On 6 February 1992 an additional reply from the Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China was transmitted to the Special Rapporteur with regard to the allegation contained in his communication of 31 October 1991 (E/CN.4/1992/52, para. 22): "1. Identification and approval of the reincarnation (’Soul Boy’) of a living Buddha The reincarnation of living Buddhas is a feature peculiar to Tibetan Buddhism which began in the thirteenth century A.D. and thus dates back over 700 years. Over the centuries a basic tradition and religious ritual for the identification of the Soul Boy has evolved in Tibetan Buddhism; successive central Governments have devised an entire procedure for dealing with the matter, which has become a convention. Taking the reincarnation of major living Buddhas, such as the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama, as an example, the procedure basically runs as follows: (1) upon the passing to another world of a living Buddha, the site where his Soul Boy will be born is determined by reference to prophesies made before the deceased Buddha’s birth and omens and oracles at the time of his death; (2) members of the monastery where he lived are dispatched to that area to make secret inquiries and select children who are likely candidates for the Soul Boy; (3) the children selected are asked to identify objects that belonged to the deceased in his former life, or are examined by his acolytes; (4) the children identified by this screening are notified to the central Government and, with its approval, proceed to draw lots from the golden bottle (Penba); (5) the Soul Boy identified by the drawing of lots may, with the approval of the central Government, assume the title of Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama or other living Buddha and undergo the enthronement ceremony. The fourteenth Dalai Lama (1935) and the tenth Panchen Lama (1939-1989) were both approved by the central Government in