About "Tibetan religion and culture reaching a point of annihilation",
please read on.
In article <5233293.rBE5kxJUHo@Dharma>,
Peter Terpstra <
peter.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Breaking: Tibet burns with another self-immolation, Toll reaches 118
>Phayul [Wednesday, May 29, 2013 08:46]
>
>DHARAMSHALA, May 29: In reports coming just in, a Tibetan man set
>himself on fire in Adril region of eastern Tibet protesting China's
>occupation and hard-line policies in Tibet.
The so-called hard-line policies in Tibet is nothing but the whines of
being closely watched by the security.
These monks who encourage or practice self-immolations are entirely
irresponsible citizens. And they need to be closely watched.
>Tenzin Sherab, 31, carried out his self-immolation protest on May
>27. He succumbed to his injuries at the site of his fiery protest.
This 31-yo was "playing with fire"! Do you remember that you accused
China of "playing with fire" concerning these self-immolations and
using the name of Neljor Terpstra?
China has not been doing that. It is Da Lama, the TGIE, the FT crowds
in London and in "Tibet Houses" elsewhere, as well as their western
sponsors, who are playing with fire by encouraging these ignorant
young men to destroy the lives their mothers worked so hard to give
them.
>According to Jampa Younten, a monk living in south India, Tenzin
>Sherab's family members and friends came to know about his
>self-immolation protest only after he had passed away.
The alleged self-immolator should have consulted with his mother
before destroying the life his mother worked so hard to give him.
>"Soon after the protest, Chinese security personnel from Chumar
>arrived at the site and confiscated Tenzin Sherab's body," Younten
>said. "However, the next day, on May 28, his body was handed over to
>his family members."
When sombody committed extreme violence to the body, the society has a
responsibility to conduct an investigation.
>In the days preceding his self-immolation protest, Tenzin Sherab had
>spoken to his friends about the evil policies of the Chinese
>government and expressed his concern about Tibetan religion and culture
>reaching a point of annihilation.
The Tibetan religion and culture is corrupt and decadent. They preach
one thing but practice another.
Heinrich Harrer ("Seven Years in Tibet" p.144) on Da Lama's royal
household:
"Their humble orgin expressed itself in an attractive simplicity,
but their bearing and domeanor were aristocratic. It was a big step
from a small peasant's house in a distant province to a dukedom in
the capital. They now owned the palace they lived in and large
properties in the country...."
And p.158, ibid:
"An English teacher had been asked by the government to start a
European type of school in Lhasa and had been offered a long
contract. AFter sid months he packed up his traps and went away.
The reactionary monks had made his task impossible."
There you see what the "culture and religion" of Tibet under the monks
were like would look like, if allowed to return!
On the nepotism and corruption of Da Lama and his theocratic society:
http://www.agreatdeception.com/news
The Dalai Lama Cables: An Instrument of US Foreign Policy
. . .
In the over fifty years since the Chinese invasion, the plight of
the Tibetans rarely leaves media attention for long. It has become
without doubt one of the most successful on-going fund-raising
campaigns ever, drawing millions and millions of dollars in
donations, merchandise and event-tickets each year.
Where has all the money gone? What has it been used for? When
Australian journalist Michael Backman tried to discover the answer
to these fundamental questions he found:
"Details of the government-in-exile's funding today are far from
clear."
"It is not clear" how donations enter its budgeting. These are
likely to run to many millions annually, but the Dalai Lama's
Department of Finance provided no explicit acknowledgment of them
or of their "sources".
Certainly, there are plenty of rumours among expatriate Tibetans of
endemic corruption and misuse of monies collected in the name of the
Dalai Lama.
In part one of this series of articles we quoted from Tashi Tsering's
autobiography, before helping Gyalo Thondup transport
the Dalai Lama's treasure from Sikkim to Calcutta, whilst back in
Lhasa before the Chinese invasion, he had worked in the treasury of
the Tibetan government. He recounted his experiences there (p63 of
the autobiography):
"I was still disillusioned and angry about what I had seen going on
in the treasury office in Lhasa. The ordinary people sent their
taxes and tribute in the form of money and goods, and both monk and
lay officials just took what they wanted. There were ledgers filled
with accounts of tea bricks, butter, cloth, gold, and silver. I saw
the records that showed that the more powerful monks, especially
those from aristocratic families and the Dalai Lama's household,
"borrowed" any of these things they wished and never returned
them. There was no overall record, no auditing. The officials and
their friends and family could come in and take anything they
fancied. I saw them doing so with my own eyes."
Tashi Tsering was offered a position in the newly formed
Tibetan-Government-in-Exile, but turned it down:
"I felt that going to work for the exiled aristocrats and monks
would have meant going to work to restore the same old system."
Could this be the answer to Michael Backman's questions? Could this
be where the money went? In his pursuit of answers, Backman,
uncovered some more inconvenient truths:
"Like many Asian politicians, the Dalai Lama has been remarkably
nepotistic, appointing members of his family to many positions of
prominence. In recent years, three of the six members of the Kashag,
or cabinet, the highest executive branch of the Tibetan
government-in-exile, have been close relatives of the Dalai Lama."
"An older brother served as chairman of the Kashag and as the
minister of security. He also headed the CIA-backed Tibetan contra
movement in the 1960s."
"A sister-in-law served as head of the government-in-exile's
planning council and its Department of Health."
"A younger sister served as health and education minister and her
husband served as head of the government-in-exile's Department of
Information and International Relations."
"Their daughter was made a member of the Tibetan parliament in
exile. A younger brother has served as a senior member of the private
office of the Dalai Lama and his wife has served as education
minister."
"The second wife of a brother-in-law serves as the representative of
the Tibetan government-in-exile for northern Europe and head of
international relations for the government-in-exile. All these
positions give the Dalai Lama's family access to millions of dollars
collected on behalf of the government-in-exile."
* See Also: Part 1 | Part 2 (below)
The Dalai Lama Cables: Follow the Money - Part 2
February 22, 2011
In part one, we showed how despite having tens of millions of
dollars worth of gold stored in banks in Calcutta, the Dalai Lama
successfully pleaded poverty to the United States government and
secured a tax-free hand out of $180,000 per annum from 1959 onwards.
. . .
Such a corrupt and hypocritical class of people have been for
generations behind the shaping of the Tibetan religion and culture.
So, what is the value of keeping it or dying for it?
>
>"We can no longer bear to live under China's constant torture and
>repression," Tenzin Sherab had told his friends.
>
These monks should get an education and see what it means to be unable
to "bear to live". Read Anne Frank's Diary or see how the Syrians
live today? What constant torture was this whiner talking about? If
he was under "China's constant torture", he would not have been free
to self-immolate, to kill himself - which might have been a better
thing for him and his mother who worked so hard to have given birth to
him and raised him!
He had so much freedom, good food and clean air, and a healthy body
and he complained about an inability to "bear to live".