Previously ; in January 2011 ; police “abducted” Gedun Gyatso in Xiahe as he returned from Lanzhou city ; the Gansu capital ; where he had seen off a friend who came from the United States to visit him. (The reports provided no details about the friend.) Police allegedly hooded him ; took him to a hotel ; and beat ; tortured ; and interrogated him during a 20 day period. Upon releasing him ; police hooded him until they placed him on a chartered vehicle that returned him to his area of residence. He reportedly had no idea where he had been. Security officials also detained him in 1992 when he returned to China after a 3-year stay in India where he studied Tibetan Buddhism at the rebuilt Drepung Monastery; police released him after “a few days.” At Dragkar he served as a manager ; “overseeing various educational and development projects.”