Clarifying the Facts of the Persecution to Tibetan Monks in the Swiss Alps

At the end of the weeklong activities in Geneva, a few Dafa practitioners visited one of the Tibetan temples in the Swiss Alps. Practitioners hoped to inform people about the facts of the persecution against Falun Gong.

After some inquiries, practitioners reached a temple which was located on the slope of a mountain that overlooked a beautiful lake and town about 1000 feet below. It so happened that a Swedish Dafa practitioner and her daughter were living in a nearby town. When practitioners telephoned her, she came out to meet them and said that they knew the monks personally and that they could eat lunch with them.

Practitioners were sitting in the garden outside the dinning hall and kitchen while the monks were having their prayer session. At noon the door of the temple opened and a stream of monks and a few nuns in dark red and orange robes came out, passing by as they went to the dinning hall. Some of the monks and nuns were westerners.

Soon word was passed around that there were Falun Gong practitioners in the garden and that Falun Gong was persecuted in China. For a short while the practitioners became the centre of attention.

This seemed to be a special day for all. Practitioners talked with the monks in the kitchen, by the lunch table, in the yard and in front of their temple. The languages used were sometimes Chinese, sometimes English and sometimes German, they all seemed very happy to talk. Practitioners told them about Zhen-Shan-Ren [Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance] and they listened with a smile. Among the visitors, was a man from China and practitioners told him the true facts about Falun Gong. He said that he knew about the cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China and he admired that practitioners came to the UN Human Rights Convention to make their voice heard.

After lunch, practitioners visited the temple. Later, two elderly monks came to talk. They were very friendly and gave special permission to take pictures and a short video recording. Before departing, practitioners handed them some information about Falun Dafa, which they took with pleasure. They invited us to visit them again.