Tuesday, March 18, 2008

The Death of a 2000 year old culture?

The Death of a 2000 year old culture. For those of us from European based cultures like the United States where I live. It is important to note that Buddhism was going to Tibet to King Trisong detsen 755-797 Ad through Padmasambhava who came from Afghanistan after studying places like Nalanda University which was then a famous Buddhist University in India.(I visited the ruins in 1985)while I was staying at Bodhgaya, India.

Five hundred years before Guatama Buddha was born a man named Lord Shenrab Miwo in 1063 BC. He reformed the animists in Tibet and founded the Tibetan Bon religion which then blended with Buddhism during the reign of King Trisong Detsen which was from 755 to 797 AD. Since then there have been first the Ningma sect of Tibetan Buddhism and then the Kaygu sect and then the Sakya sect and finally the Gelugpa sect in the 1600s and 1700s of which the Dalai Lama is the head. He is also considered as the "jewel of compassion" as the spiritual leader of all Tibetan Buddhists throughout the world just like the Pope is the leader of all Catholics on earth.

So I guess what is being exterminated by the Chinese in Tibet since about 1949 is the slow through brainwashing and intimidation end of this 2000+ year old culture. I equate it in some ways to what happened to American Indian cultures through the manifest destiny of white settlers into North American Indian regions. However, this isn't happening 100 or 200 years ago. It is happening the last 50 years.

As further evidence of the hidden genocidal agenda, all chinese military vehicles have their license plates hidden to further muddle the minds of anyone watching as to who these military vehicles are and where they come from and where they are going. This, to me, is further evidence of planned hidden genocide and/or permanent incarceration of Tibetan nationals.

Also, something has changed since China has built a high speed railway into Tibet from China during the last few years. Now, the Chinese outnumber the native Tibetans. And finally the Tibetans understand fully that China's manifest destiny is the permanent end of their 3000 year old culture and many now will fight until they die or are imprisoned for the rest of their lives by China.

The real question is:"What is the rest of the world going to do?" If the answer is nothing then that will be a message to China that "Well. I guess the world is so scared of us that we will slowly do to the rest of the world what we have done to Tibet's now 3000 year old culture." Well. I'm sorry people. This is what the leadership of China will actually think.

If you want to understand this in Mao Tse-Tung's terms he would say something like this: "If you push forward and there is resistance then pull back, but if there is no resistance keep pushing until we win!" Though that is paraphrased that is how Chinese not only see Tibet but the whole world. If you are not in China or Tibet, one by one your countries will be next if there is no resistance by the outside world to what China is now doing in Tibet!

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