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« on: May 04, 2008, 10:55:26 AM » |
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Among the 14 generations of Dalai lamas,several of them died untimely ,the reasons were very simple , the struggles for interests and assassination of poisoning .that's why the imperial court of the Qing dynasty finally set up a "golden bottle system" as emperor Qianlong couldn't stand their strifles anymore .
Here you can see the hypocrisy of these theocratic rulers , claiming as "Living Buddha",they used the despicable means like poisoning. I have been to Tibet as a tourist and met with Lama, as well as the civilians.
if You want to know why there are collisions in Tibet ,then I will tell you why from what I have seen
Before Chinese Communist Party entered the Tibet, 95 percent of the Tibetan population are serfs and the rest are Chieftain (their masters) and the clergy class. At that time, each of the temples had large lands, and thousands of serfs. Serfs were slaves for generations, at the ritual time ,the masters cut off the arms of the slaves and pulled out their skin to use it as a tribute. On The birthday of the Dalai Lama, he would order the monks to pull out two children's skin as a sacrifice .if you are to the Tibet Museum, you can see the paper order written by the the 14th Dalai Lama in person before he left Tibet .
However, Tibet's illiterate serfs were devout believers for living Buddha. They know nothing about medicine and people were competing to collect the feces of the living Buddha for medical treatment. When their masters were receiving guests, the courteous way was to gang-rape a female slave with the guests , it is easy to understand, they thought this was a manifestation of hospitality, because it was "sharing a woman."
The CPC adopted the "land reform policy"in Tibet, but the means was very tough, those masters must hand over the lands and release the slaves and waive the debts. Land reform was started in 1957, and then the armed uprising outbroke , then was the crackdown of the CPC, followed by the Dalai Lama fled, but the Panchen Lama did not escape, he chose to stay, Because he was in favour of land reform. This is also the cause of a special "ethnic separatism" in Tbet : the civilians and the monks of the fragmented clans.
those Tibetan people in the bottom of the society , were farmers and herdsmen for generations , they put Mao Zedong's portrait in their houses and worshipped him as a Buddha, because their ancestors were serfs, but Mao gave them land and freedom.Now the Tibetan people received the CPC government's subsidies in housing, medical and education, this is the reason why the general civilians in Tibet are not supportive to Tibet independence . However, the monks and former Chieftains and their offspring's do not think so, in their eyes, Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communists deprived of their lands and properties, not only that, in the crackdown by CPC in the past,their ancestors and relatives were detained or executed. Their hatred is deep-rooted.
So if you walk on the street of Lhasa, you will find that the most active advocacy are the former aristocrats and their clans . These people are making trouble, but the Chinese Communists can not punish them, because in Tibet, education is lagging behind and the Tibetan culture is backward, and this is why they have such a devout belief in Buddha , can you imagine a physics Master holder will koutou 100,000 times to a mud Buddha ?
The Tibetan people will send their most intelligent children to become lamas, because in their traditional social status, Lama is the most noble one , and this is divine right of the typical characteristics of the community. The CPC is a headache for the lamas. You probably do not know, each of the temples for Tibet's Living Buddha, enjoys the special subsidies from the CPC, in other words, the Chinese Communists raised Lama, you can see the temples are so splendid. But the Lamas are still making the trouble. Very simple reason, no matter how much the subsidies they received, they can't get the lands and their high social status were deprived off.
You may want to know who is the one that wants to develop Tibetan culture most ? it Is the CPC. Because the most obedient and easily manipulated group are the the uneducated low class people. Therefore, the Chinese Communists in Tibet built up the schools. the Mainland university graduates who volunteered to teach in Tibet for several years can take MA, Ph.D. studies for free when they came back , the Tibetan students usually can get the admission of the mainland Universities on extremely low scores
However, in an area with an elevation above sea level 5,000 meters, in particular, covered by snow six months a year , to build up schools and hospitals is not so easy. Tibet is 30 times of Taiwan's size , but its population is less than half of Taiwan . How to let the scattered nomadic people receive education ? This requires high investments. The idea is to let the Tibetan people go to the hospital to get treatment when they get sick, rather than go to the temple to eat the feces of the Living Buddha, therefore the lamas are not so easy to abet the Tibetan people and Tibet is easier to be governed . Of course, the lamas are currently facing the "crisis of survival."
Therefore, the schools and hospitals built by the Chinese Communists become the main targets in the turmoil in Tibet. Tibetan lamas can not tolerate a culture of education, can you imagine a biology major student will eat feces of Lama ? Lamas are not only the group on the planet that hinder the spread of science.Still remember the dark Middle Ages in Europe? Remember the religious courts? When science and knowledge spread ,theocratic rulers got tremble, when the Tibetan people know that the earth is round, they will no longer believe the story about the 18 tiers of hell .
Tibet, is now in the collision of a modern civilization spirit and an old theocratic culture .
like the religious courts were not tolerant of Copernicus and Galileo. you will see that the collisons will not come to a halt .
If we really want the CPC to govern the Tibet well and let the Tibetan people live a prosperous modern life, we should build more schools and prisons, schools are given to the Tibetan people, the prisons are given to the Lamas. I suggest you have a trip to Tibet, not with the tour group,not only to the temples but to the villages, to the grasslands, to see the original ecology of Tibet, to visit those farmers and herdsmen's home to see their attitude to the CPC and Mao Zedong, to have look at their handicapped grandfathers and grandmothers and their plain and simple characters ,and also have a look at the lamas's leisurely and comfortable life and listen to their discontent to the Government
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