Gunslinger08
Lifer
- Nov 18, 2001
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Yep. China kidnapped the last Panchen Lama soon after he was chosen by the Dalai Lama. They've named their own in an attempt to take over the Gelugpas, but he will never be officially recognized by true followers of the faith. The Panchen Lama is responsible for selecting the next Dalai Lama, which can't happen without him.
Yes, it's a very big deal to Tibetans, who aren't allowed by the Chinese to even have a picture of him inside Tibet.
I saw him in Santa Barbara. Unusual for this area, the audience overflowed the UCSB Thunderdome.
Chinese have done everything they can think of to destroy Tibet.
Chinese cut most of the trees,
dumped nuclear waste there,
destroyed many Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, in attempting to stamp out the culture, and
forcibly surgically sterilize young Tibetan girls
to exterminate the race.
(Knock! Knock! "Who?s there?" "It's us, the red Chinese. Give us your teen daughter; we're going to cut out her ovaries & uterus !. Or else your whole family dies right now !")
The little old Dalai Lama, Nobel peace prize winner, Yoda-like, is trying to recover his peoples' country and culture peacefully in the face of all that.
And despite the Chinese evil crimes, aggression and determined genocide against the Tibetans, the USA shamefully looks the other way and is cozy with China for the $$$.
If your local public library has this DVD available for free checkout, like mine does, I suggesst you watch it before you see the Dalai Lama! You'll get a LOT more out of his talk with this up-to-date background. The Yogis of Tibet
Summary of the DVD: "An overview of the history and traditional practices of Tibetan yogi masters. Includes interview with . . . the 14th Dalai Lama."
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I saw him in Santa Barbara. Unusual for this area, the audience overflowed the UCSB Thunderdome.
Chinese have done everything they can think of to destroy Tibet.
Chinese cut most of the trees,
dumped nuclear waste there,
destroyed many Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, in attempting to stamp out the culture, and
forcibly surgically sterilize young Tibetan girls
to exterminate the race.
(Knock! Knock! "Who?s there?" "It's us, the red Chinese. Give us your teen daughter; we're going to cut out her ovaries & uterus !. Or else your whole family dies right now !")
The little old Dalai Lama, Nobel peace prize winner, Yoda-like, is trying to recover his peoples' country and culture peacefully in the face of all that.
And despite the Chinese evil crimes, aggression and determined genocide against the Tibetans, the USA shamefully looks the other way and is cozy with China for the $$$.
If your local public library has this DVD available for free checkout, like mine does, I suggesst you watch it before you see the Dalai Lama! You'll get a LOT more out of his talk with this up-to-date background. The Yogis of Tibet
Summary of the DVD: "An overview of the history and traditional practices of Tibetan yogi masters. Includes interview with . . . the 14th Dalai Lama."
edited to fix typos
I often find that when someone goes on a rant about how everyone on AT is just a loser without a girlfriend, it's because they are so bitter about their own life that they must make fun of others for being the same way.
That being said, what makes you so certain that your bad attitude wouldn't make a man known worldwide for his peaceful doings roll over dead at you merely opening your rude, mean-spirited mouth?
:disgust:
The Dalai Lama is a really cool guy, i remember reading an interview where someone asked him if he thought that having multiple religions is the reason for the world's problem, and if were just better off having one religion,
he replied that religion is like food while you can eat rice everyday and it will serve the purpose just fine, unless you have variety and choice it becomes monotonous.. or something on those lines anyway which really shows how tolerant and sensible he is.
Oh c'mon, they have a different faith in the first place...how can they be compared to each other?? Trying to do so will only cause a hella religious debate....
What is sad is that most people from China have never heard of this stuff and they are so indoctrinated that they can't accept that this stuff is atrocious and that most other countries don't do this crap.
I wish I could be there, I would like to ask him; how come he and the other wise men of Tibet did not predict the Chinese takeover.
But in all seriousness, the Dalai Lama is an amazing guy. Someone that can make you really believe in the supernatural. His ability to converse on a deep level with anyone is second to noone. You should watch some vids of him speaking...
OREOSpeedwagon
Diamond Member
- May 30, 2001
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the dalai lama's brother actually taught at my school for a while (Indiana University-Bloomington), but I don't think he does any more (though I'm pretty sure he still lives here). Anyway, I'd love to hear the Dalai Lama, I hope he speaks at my school sometime in the next 4 years.
A year ago the Dalai Lama attracted an audience of 13'000 persons every evening for a week in my town. He must be a very interesting person. (Switzerland is host to the biggest Tibetian refugee group in Europe). It's a shame under which circumstances this religion will cease to exist but regrettably some users of this forum are blind to the crimes of the Chinese government. Good for us that they know that there is no need for Tibetian Buddhism, Falun Gong, Christianity, democracy and other movements that are oppressed in China...
ViviTheMage
Lifer
The appalling ignorance isn't your fault...you're not to be blamed for thunderously uninformed opinions. You're victims, really.
I blame the dumbed-down, socially-engineered US public education system for turning the citizenry into provincials.
I also blame the terrible, seemingly managed, international news coverage of depriving most Americans of a sound situational awareness of what's what in the world.
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