The Dalai Lama is more complex than he appears

[无业游民]

旧事重提,见
http://bbs.comefromchina.com/forum5/thread232022.html

达赖的复杂程度远远超出大多数只有一般人生经验的普通人的理解.他说的许多话实际上都是对的,但是从他的互相矛盾的行为来看,他那些很动听的话更重要的功能在于作秀和伪装。他的伪装技巧甚至能够骗过相当成熟的人。这也是为什么这么多善良的西方人很相信他的缘故,并且会以为不信他的中国人是中了中共的毒。

不过，他的谎话也可以作为一种武器,反对藏独。比如：
达赖声称西藏应该留在中国,这对西藏的发展有利。另外，达赖也无数次声明他支持中国主办奥运（先不深究他是否又在作秀）
因此，如果有同情藏独的傻帽声称西藏应该独立，或者要反对奥运，可以对傻帽说：you are against Dalai Lama





The Dalai Lama is more complex than he appears

The current visit of the Dalai Lama to Canada is well underway. At the grandiose spiritual meetings with Hollywood style fan-fare, he spreads his message of peace and freedom. But now his political agenda has become clear. We should have seen this coming. This, after all, is what he always does ? no, I am just a monk, he insists. Yes, I will talk about politics if you want to.

The truth about Tibet history and reality has never been as simple as the Dalai Lama and his followers try to project to the global audience. For instance, “Tibet independence” and “increasing Tibet autonomy” are vague ideas that most Canadians are ill informed of. What is their vision for Tibet society? Democracy? Theocracy? Or Dictatorship by the elites from Dharamsala? Very few people in Canada realize the sufferings "bestowed" by the Tibetan feudal theocracy upon the Tibetan people before the so-called Chinese invasion. Very few people know that under the feudal theocracy of the old Tibet, there was institutionalized serfdom. A sizable number of Tibetans were in fact serfs owned by serf owners. How many Tibetan serfs were mutilated and tortured? Of the brutalities of the Tibet feudal serfdom, the theocratic establishment was an integral part.

The Dalai Lama has little hesitation in using the phrase "cultural genocide" to describe the current situation in Tibet, even though he has little first hand knowledge of the reality in Tibet. According to the year 2000 census, the population in Tibet has increased from 996,300 in 1950 to 2,616,300 in 2000; 92.2% (2,411,100) of the population is Tibetan in ethnic origin, 5.9% (155,300) Han Chinese, and 1.9% (49,000) other ethnic groups. The life expectancy for Tibetans is now 65, as compared with 36 in 1950 ("China's Tibet" By ZHONG, Zhang-wei, 2001). By spreading the myth of the “cultural genocide,” he is ignoring the history of the last two hundred year of the Americas. He must be in the belief that the presence of the Tibet exile population has little impact on the population and cultural make-up of Dharamsala and the surrounding areas. Since the 1950s, the Tibetan exile population in that mountainous city has steadily increased to more than 100,000 today. The presence of such a large foreign population has changed completely the local social and political landscape.

Nowadays the Dalai Lama claims that he has abandoned his Tibet separatist past. In the past, his extensive dealings with many organizations hostile to the new Chinese government were far from noble. Under the fuzzy pretence of fighting for "Tibet freedom." The purpose of those co-operations on the surface took the guise of freedom fighting, but the real design behind the co-operations was to fit the Tibet independence movement into the strategic blockade of China, which lasted for more than two decades. Those blockades caused tremendous economical hardship and aimed to deprive basic necessities for a nation and its citizens to survive. Combined with the internal disasters in China, those blockades caused untold sufferings of the Chinese people. Was the Dalai Lama thinking about peace and human rights when he supported and indirectly contributed to those blockades?

It is issues like these, and many others, that clearly demonstrate the dubious nature of the phrases of “cultural genocide” and “human right for Tibet”. For the Dalai Lama, we should not only hear what he preaches, but also examine what he did and does.

Fuhu Wang

 

[wuwei]

M.A.Jones : "As for the Dalai Lama himself, he seems to spend more time moving around the planet with the skilled opportunism of a political chameleon, preaching mysticism to Western New Agers rather than participating in traditional Tibetan religious rituals."

 

[heureux]

达赖老调重弹了： 看 今天的 CNN：
Dalai Lama: No one can tell protesters to 'shut up' - CNN.com



NARITA, Japan (AP) -- The Dalai Lama said he supports China's hosting of the Summer Olympics on Thursday, but insisted that nobody had the right to tell protesters demanding freedom for Tibet "to shut up."


The Dalai Lama has called for calm amid worldwide protests in support of Tibet.

"We are not anti-Chinese. Right from the beginning, we supported the Olympic games," he told reporters outside Tokyo on a stopover on a trip to Seattle. "I really feel very sad the government demonizes me. I am just a human, I am not a demon."
Protests have been held in cities around the world in a show of sympathy for Tibet, where anti-government riots erupted last month. Parades of the passing of the Olympic torch have faced massive demonstrations, most recently in San Francisco.
The Dalai Lama said the demonstrators had the right to their opinions, though he called for nonviolence.
"The expression of their feelings is up to them," he said. "Nobody has the right to tell them to shut up. One of the problems in Tibet is that there is no freedom of speech."
Chinese authorities have tightly restricted access to Tibet and Tibetan areas of western China, where protests also broke out. The sometimes violent anti-government demonstrations were the largest among Tibetans in almost two decades.
"Autonomy (in Tibet) is just in name, it is not sincerely implemented. The crisis is the expression of their (Tibetans') deep regret," he said.
Japan's government has been relatively quiet about the violence in Tibet and, out of deference to Beijing, does not deal officially with the Dalai Lama.
Tokyo does, however, grant visas to the spiritual leader, who has visited Japan fairly frequently. Buddhism is one of Japan's main religions, along with the indigenous Shinto faith.
No meetings were planned between the Dalai Lama and government officials although Japanese media said the wife of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would meet with him. Neither Abe's office nor the Dalai Lama's liaison office in Tokyo could confirm the reports.
More than a dozen Buddhist monks protested Wednesday in front of visiting journalists at a monastery in western China to call for the return of the exiled Tibetan leader.
The monks, whose numbers grew to about two dozen during the 10-minute incident, shouted slogans in Tibetan in an outer courtyard as journalists entered a prayer hall at the Labrang monastery in western Gansu province bordering Tibet.
The incident followed a similar interruption during a closely scripted government media tour of Tibet's capital of Lhasa two weeks ago to view damage from anti-government riots that erupted there last month.


Other protests have been held in Paris, London and San Francisco along the route of the Olympic torch relay, prompting concerns that it could be shortened or possibly canceled in some areas to avoid violence.
The Dalai Lama has been living in exile in India since 1959. E-mail to a friend