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A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to make the religion more Chinese.

The monk, believed to be a member of the Chinese Meditation School, may have practiced self-mummification, considered by certain Buddhists to be the highest form of religious enlightenment.