E/CN.4/1989/44 paqe 10 "Paragraph 45 of the report states that in Tibet ... Buddhist monasteries could not use freely the donations they have received. That is not true. In Tibet ...» Buddhist monasteries practise a democratic manaqement system. The monasteries are qoverned and manaqed by lamas residing in them. In accordance with the reliqious customs, ... donations and contributions to temples from believers are manaqed and used entirely by the temples themselves, mainly for the purposes of maintaininq the temples and subsidizinq the livinq expenses of the monks. Government departments in charqe of reliqious affairs never intervene in these matters. "In paraqraph 46, the report says that, in China, Buddhist monks in Tibet are desiqnated by a Government Committee and bishops of the Catholic Church are appointed by the Chinese authorities who do not recoqnize the Vatican hierarchy. This is totally contradictory to the facts. "The Constitution ••• stipulates in explicit terms that citizens have the freedom of reliqious belief. In Tibet ... requests to become lamas, purely internal affairs of the reliqious circles, are considered and decided upon by the temple in accordance with reliqious requlations. There is no such thinq as desiqnatinq lamas by a qovernment committee. The appointment of bishops of the Catholic Church of my country is, in exactly the same way, decided by the Church itself and the qovernment authorities never intervene in it. "As for the non-recoqnition of the Vatican hierarchy, this is the choice of the Church ... out of its own wish to administer the Church independently. The Catholic and Christian Churches of China pursue the principle of 'self-administration, self-support and self-propaqation', free from domination by foreiqn forces. This in no way contravenes the principle of freedom of reliqious belief. "Paraqraph 51 of the report mentions that the Chinese authorities do not authorize reliqious instruction. In my country, the principle of separation between education and reliqion is applied. Schools for general education do not have a reliqious curriculum. If the parents desire, however, they are fully entitled to impart reliqious knowledqe to their children in the family. The Government does not prohibit such reliqious instruction." 35. In a communication of 21 July 1988 addressed to the Government concerned, the followinq information was transmitted by the Special Rapporteur: "It has been reported that, althouqh some measure of freedom of worship has been qranted in Tibet durinq the past few years and Tibetans have been allowed to reconstruct a few monasteries, such freedom chiefly embraces an area of ritualistic practices. The real practices of Buddhism, like studyinq and propaqatinq the teachinq of Buddha, are reportedly subject to various restrictions. A few examples of such restrictions reportedly include the confiscation of belonqinqs of the abbot of a conqreqation in Konqpo Bonri, the refusal to authorize the monks of Drayab Bo-qhon in east Tibet to establish a Buddhist school o£