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[...] The MMR includes a provision that could empower authorities to eliminate, over time, all reincarnated teachers located in certain city areas, perhaps even Lhasa, which has the highest urban concentration of Tibetan Buddhist monks and reincarnated teachers anywhere in China. Article 4 disallows the recognition and seating of reincarnations within urban districts established by governments at the municipal level or higher if that government issues a local decree banning further reincarnations. (See the Web site of China Internet Information Center for a discussion of Chinese administrative divisions.) The Chengguan district under Lhasa municipality is the only urban district within the Tibetan autonomous areas of China. Two of the largest and most influential Tibetan monasteries, Drepung and Sera, are within Chengguan, as well as the two oldest Tibetan Buddhist temples, Jokhang and Ramoche, both of which maintain a resident monastic community. The CECC is not aware of a local government decree banning reincarnations in Chengguan, but the appearance of such language in the MMR may encourage such a ban in Lhasa, or in urban districts that are established in the future. [...]