May 23 marked the 70th anniversary of the Seventeen Point Agreement, signed under duress on March 23, 1951 by the delegates of the Dalai Lama after the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950. For the May 23 anniversary, China has published yet another White Paper on Tibet. It uses the Seventeen Point Agreement to claim that the Tibetan […]
Author Archives: Massimo Introvigne
Massimo Introvigne is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, established by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.
