India, July 23 -- The Chinese authorities have razed down 300 Buddhist stupas and a revered Guru statue in the Drakgo (Ch: Luhuo) County, Karze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the traditional Tibet's province of Kham last month, media reports said.

Activists have described the move as an attempt by China to hit the Tibetan religious heritage.

The destruction took place in late May or June 2025 at Lungrab Zang-ri near Janggang Monastery, where Chinese forces razed hundreds of medium-sized stupas of Tibetan Buddhism and three larger Buddhist stupas, as per the Central Tibetan Administration website.

As an act of cultural vandalism, Chinese authorities also destroyed a newly constructed statue of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, the late f...