WHY are there collisions in Tibet ?

[shan]

Human rights is a relatively thing

To protect a small group of exiled Tibetans will certainly damage  the human rights of other Tibetans

Do you think that the majority of Tibetans in the new Tibet  want to go back to the old age that under the control of DL ?

At present human rights is DL' s last card for the gambling

he is using the excuse of  human rights to win the sympathy of Western countries

So he had to appear weak and helpless...

[shan]

After all the years watching the Dalai Lama in the West he doesn't strike me as a foolish man.

yes, not foolish =cunning

[shan]

The Dalai Lama has long been renowned as an optimistic and beaming figure, one who regularly breaks into infectious laughter in his encounters with the international media. But when he greets the Financial Times on the latest stage of a European tour to drum up support for the Tibetan cause, we find the 72-year old Nobel laureate in a subdued, almost black, mood, about the plight of his 6m people.

As our 45-minute interview progresses – in a hotel next to Nottingham racecourse that must seem a world away from his home in exile in northern India – he reveals an increasing sense of resignation and frustration. He says his commitment to pursuing autonomy for Tibet by peaceful means is losing the support of the younger generation of Tibetans. He says at one stage: “I no longer care whether I'm losing influence or not.”

There then follows a shrug of the shoulders under his crimson robe as we ask him how he feels about the prospects for a homeland he has not seen since 1959. “I really feel helplessness that's all. I have done my best. For half a century I have remained a homeless man with one goal. Has my moral response to help the Tibetan people failed? OK, so it's failed. But then I am a Buddhist. Compared to ordinary politicians, my thinking is a little bit different.”


This sense of helplessness is understandable in these difficult days, and yet 2008 ought to have provided him with a golden opportunity to extract real commitments from China on greater autonomy for Tibet. Beijing is determined to hold a successful Olympics this summer – and many Tibetans had thought this would put pressure on the Chinese authorities to make concessions.

Yet the Chinese earthquake, which has claimed at least 60,000 victims, turned China from villain to victim overnight, drying up the international well of sympathy for Tibet. China had attracted a wave of criticism, after riots erupted in Lhasa in March.

The Dalai Lama acknowledges the point. “Of course, initially, people are showing more concern over the victims of this large-scale earthquake.”

But he insists that one of the reasons Tibet is now being eclipsed is that China refuses to allow the outside world into witness the crackdown on human rights.

“The re-education [of monks] is going on. That is quite clear. There are arrests in some areas. That's why I have always said to the international community and to the Chinese government ‘Please let more people go there and see for themselves what is happening'.”

The Dalai Lama clutches at one strand of hope. In its determination to keep Tibet calm in the run-up to the Olympics, Beijing has agreed to hold talks next month with his representatives about the region's future. The Dalai Lama is suspicions of Beijing's motives, of course. “Is this only being done for the Olympics or is to deal with the real situation of Tibet?” he asks. “I do not know.”

Still, he has a range of requests, starting with fair trials for demonstrators arrested in the Lhasa riots. As far as a political settlement is concerned, he insists he is not seeking full independence for Tibet, just “realistic autonomy”. He also implies he is not demanding autonomy for a far larger swath of territory of what was called “historic Tibet”, other than the current “Tibet autonomous region”.

[The Smoking Man]

The Buddha was a homeless man.

This old cunt lives in a comparative palace compared to the people that surround him in India.

You don't see many homeless men going on world tours.