BEIJING, Nov 19 (AFP) - The Chinese Communist Party has vowed to eradicate the Dalai Lama's influence from every level of Tibetan society, suppressing some religious festivals and closing religious shrines.

"Separatists are challenging us for supremacy on all fronts among the masses, among the youth and in the monasteries," the Tibetan party central committee said in an article carried by the Tibet Daily and seen here Tuesday.

The anti-splittist campaign launched in the region's monastaries this year must therefore be broadened to include business circles, schools and officials considered too "receptive" to the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the article said.

The central committee report followed a weeklong extraordinary meeting of the party leadership in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa.

The struggle against the Dalai Lama must be fought on all grounds, without sparing certain customs and traditions, the committee said, highlighting religious festivals that "affect production."

As a result, the committee signalled the adoption of "administrative measures to resolve the uncontrolled proliferation of religious festivals and shrines."

Last week, the party chief of Tibet, Chen Kuiyuan, denounced the "excessive" number of shrines in the region, as well as the growing ranks of monks and nuns "which surpass the number of high school students."

He also attacked a revival of "feudal" practices, including polygamy, which challenged birth control policies in the region.

According to the committee's final report, the strengthening of controls over daily life in Tibet must also involve close supervision of literature and the arts to ensure they fulfill the socialist role of "serving the people," rather than propagating "spiritual garbage."

Even the party's own cadres must submit to scrutiny, it added. "Party officials and the masses must understand that in the struggle against the Dalai Lama, the basic question is not one of belief or autonomy, but of the unity of the country," the committee said.

It also reiterated that no members of the party or of the Communist Youth League were permitted to hold religious beliefs or take part in religious ceremonies.

The committee vowed to deal severely with "any monks or nuns whose religious activities or superstitions affect industrial production or daily life."

Such activities must be "vigorously stamped out," it said. The committee identified the key battleground as being among Tibetan youth and called on every school in the region "to push socialist teachings and focus on political and ideological education."

The Dalai Lama, the committee said, was the chief representative of "foreign forces that promote westernisation and the division of China."

The committee's report was the latest in a series of official articles in the Tibet Daily, that observers here say heralded a religious crackdown in the Himalayan region.