Following the removal, the 70 nuns were forced back to their native Jomda County, nearly 300 kilometers away. Furthermore, they were detained for two to three months and forced to undergo patriotic re-education. Patriotic re-education is a strategy enforced by the CCP that involves detainees being compelled to praise the People’s Republic of China and denounce Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
