TIBET - A Very Serious
Global Issue.
The
Tibetan situation Is CRITICAL - Genocide,
Torture, Forced Sterilization and Self
Immolation continue. IF
environmental destruction is not stopped, IF
Tibetan culture is extinguished,
IF China does not leave Tibet,
any hope for mankind
and future world peace, is over.
The future of the world is at stake
because Chinese atrocities have NO
limits and NO-ONE will stop them.
By controlling Tibet, systematically
eliminating the Tibetan people, raping and
destroying the fragile Tibetan Plateau eco
system, and by damning and thereby
controlling all the rivers which are the
life blood to nine other countries, China
has the power to decide who lives and who
dies.
Invasion and Present Occupation:
Tibet, the size of Western Europe, is an
independent country within it's own right. Tibet has a
flag, a currency, and its own language and alphabet.
Tibetans have traditional and distinctive clothing and
jewelry. They have a very unique, specific culture and
a spiritual philosophy by which they have lived for
centuries.
Since October 1950 when China invaded Tibet, over
1.2 million Tibetans have lost their lives including
tens of thousands of monks, and over 6,000 ancient
monasteries have been destroyed. Over 60yrs later, the
suppression and brutal torture of Tibetans continues
including electric cattle prods placed in their mouths
and applied to their genitalia, and electric batons
producing up to 250,000 volts. Tibetan language and
traditional clothing is prohibited in schools. Owning
an image of the Dalai Lama means imprisonment.
If a Tibetan speaks
to a foreign tourist in public, they will be
arrested, interrogated and brutally beaten. It is
common for protesters, lama or civilian, to
disappear and not be heard of again. Legal council
is unheard of.
Tibetans, now the minority 2-1, are trapped
under an extremely cruel and evil government, forced
to beg to survive, their farmland and homes taken
away. Over one million nomads have been forcefully
relocated and their land given up to mining, new
roads, the military, and even their animals have been
taken and destroyed.
Tibet has three provinces called U-Tsang, Kham and
Amdo which have been divided and renamed by the
Chinese - now known as Tibetan Autonomous Region
(TAR), with four Chinese sectors, Qinghai, Sichuan,
Gansu and Yunnan.
A common occurrence in Tibet (also seen in
Nepal). Their offence? Being Tibetan.
Tibetan women are violated by rape, forced to have
abortions, and forcibly sterilized.
The Escape
Option:
The six million remaining
Tibetans live in fear and constant humiliation 24/7.
Their only hope is to escape thru the Himalayas to
Nepal and India and risk being shot, or caught,
imprisoned and tortured, or dying of cold in the snow,
or surviving the perilous journey but loosing limbs
and toes to frostbite, as well as never being able to
see their families or their country ever again.
Each year, less and less Tibetans manage to escape
into exile due to military and plain clothes officials
scouting mountain passes into Nepal. On
September 30th, 2006, over 100 international climbers
and Sherpas in the Himalayan Nangpa La Pass near Mt.
Everest, witnessed and video taped Chinese snipers
shooting at escaping, unarmed Tibetan refugees,
including little children ages 6-10yrs old.
A 17 yr old nun was shot in the back and died,
just 400 meters from freedom.
This story, photos and video footage can be seen on
the internet, now a movie/documentary:
"Tibet: Murder In The Snow" -
http://www.tibetmurderinthesnow.com/story.html
Tibetan
culture is being aggressively erased and their
sacred environment destroyed. Unemotional, cold and robotic,
the Chinese send everything they steal from
the Tibetan people and the Tibetan plateau, back to Chinese
cities to benefit China and
to create further political and financial
power.
Systematic, Calculated Destruction of the
Environment:
The Tibetan plateau is an extremely fragile
environment that is being raped and pillaged. Tibetan
forests and tablelands, farmland, nomadic pastures and
trails, medicinal plants, precious stones and animal
species are being decimated and destroyed, much of the
damage is irreparable. The once rich and untapped
resources of oil, natural gas, gold,
copper, lithium (used for making batteries for
computers, cellphones and general gadgets), and
uranium (used for Chinese nuclear weapons), are being
mined. The land is scarred and the water is polluted.
The ramifications for Asia and the rest of the world
are immense.
China controls Tibet
which is the source of water to Asia, about half
the world's population.
Asia’s 10 major river systems including the
Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween
and Mekong originate here. These rivers are the
lifeline for billions of people.
This is an incredibly dangerous situation both
geopolitically and environmentally.
Extremely disturbing is that Asia’s 10 major rivers
originate on the Tibetan plateau - the world's largest
water reservoir - which supply 85% of the population
of Asia with water - approximately 47% of the world’s
population. The Chinese now control this. The
implications are frighteningly dramatic and a
serious global issue. Asia is at the
mercy of the malevolent Chinese as long as Tibet
remains in their control. Not so distant future wars
will be fought over water, not oil.
Massive mega-dams have already been
built (more are on the way), and rivers are in the
process of actually being diverted, the magnitude
of which has never before been attempted in
recorded history, the consequences of which, are
devastating not only to Tibet's environment, and
to Southern and South Eastern Asia, but to the
world climate, of which there is scientific data.
Despite all the evidence ... world governments
turn a blind eye, and fresh water has become one
of China's most powerful political tools.
Namtso Lake is one of the
four most sacred lakes in Tibet and the highest
and largest salt water
lake in the world. More then 93%
of tourists in Tibet are Chinese, who flock in
disrespectful, disgusting,
loud and rude tour groups, to photograph and
trample on Tibet's sacred land.
Smoking, spitting and urinating anywhere are
common Chinese traits.
Most tragically, the Chinese government has abused the
pristine Tibetan environment by using it as a site for
nuclear testing as well as for nuclear dumping.
Tibetan nomads, already displaced by Chinese
construction, mining extraction, pipelines, roads,
damns and monumental environmental destruction of
their land - forced to slaughter their yaks who have
provided clothing, shelter, food and transportation
for centuries - now also suffer from radiation
sickness, miscarriages and death. The Tibetan nomadic
way of life for hundreds of generations is being torn
apart and destroyed.
FYI: The number of nuclear warheads in China's
arsenal is a state secret, declared but unknown.
It must be noted that all the rivers, mountains,
valleys, lakes and plateaus are considered
extremely sacred to the Tibetans who have watched
over, revered and respected their land for
centuries. Tibetans are supreme, master protectors
of the environment and what the Chinese have done
is beyond heart breaking, beyond words, beyond
understanding.
Chinese Police State:
1) The Chinese proudly encourage prostitution,
throughout the once mystical and majestic capital city
of Lhasa.
2) They pay citizens to be spies, with hundreds of
surveillance cameras, snipers and military everywhere.
3) Foreign tourists are watched and followed and often
have a 'handler' accompany them, directing them to
only see what the Chinese authorities will allow,
hiding the truth in plain sight.
Journalists are severely restricted, censored, and
banned from covering protests, uprisings or
immolation. They are harassed, threatened, and often
locked up earning China to be amongst the top 3
countries in the world for imprisoning journalists.
Indeed China is ranked in the top five violators of
the right to freedom of information and expression,
particularly freedom of press. The International
organization, 'Reporters Without Borders', were
condemned by the Chinese government and their
publication was banned as soon as they announced these
facts.
Beautiful Tibetan Khampa
girl at Litang horse festival, wearing
traditional jewelry of
turquoise, coral, amber and 24kt gold, all found
naturally in the Himalayas.
These precious resources are being mined and
stolen by the Chinese.
The Chinese goal is to erase Tibetan culture, re-write
their history, wipe out the Tibetan people, and use
whatever and whoever is left, as a tourist attraction.
They work to achieve this daily through violence,
aggression, humiliation, discrimination, starvation,
torture, imprisonment, slavery, forced sterilization,
degradation, the removal of Tibetan schools, heavy
censorship of culture and art, and minimal lamas in a
handful of monasteries with restrictions on Buddhist
practice.
Tibetans are master equestrians and archers,
skilled artisans of murals, thankas, sculptures, wood carving, metal,
construction and architecture. Great emphasis
was placed on education and
exploration of the mind before the Chinese
destroyed their monasteries, burnt ancient texts
and shut down Tibetan schools.
The Chinese government allow Chinese tourists to
wander about the Tibetan monasteries so they can
photograph and video the 'monks' as if they were
visiting a zoo. There is no respect in any way
from the Chinese people or the Chinese government
towards Tibetans, only disdain, extreme abuse and
frequent violence.
The Chinese are waiting for the older generations to
die and forcing the new generations to assimilate into
Chinese culture so that traditional Tibetan lifestyle
and skills will be no more, all but forgotten and
erased.
Escape By Fire:
Since 1998, and as of December 23rd 2014, a reported
136 Tibetans have set themselves on fire (self
immolation), to protest the extreme brutality and
suppression of the Tibetan people under Chinese
occupation for 64 years, with no end in sight.
The first immolation was a 60 year old former
monk in Tibet and former soldier in the Indian army.
He lived quietly in a small hut, working as a
cow-herder and cook at a monastery in Dharamsala,
India,
participating in local Tibetan independence
protests. One day he snapped.
The Chinese are furious every-time an
immolation happens and have declared this a criminal
act, seeking to erase this personal sacrifice and cry
for freedom. If the Tibetan immolator
lives or dies regardless, their families, monasteries,
monks and communities are punished. Those that live
have had their limbs amputated and their burnt flesh
left unattended for months on end. And NO, this is not
reported on CNN and barely ever mentioned by the BBC,
because China would be infuriated and retaliate.
China's standard answer to the world is 'It's none of
your business!'.
Tibetan immolation, an
excruciating painful way to die, a last
desperate cry for help,
for freedom, for human rights, for peace and
justice. The latest
sacrifices were December
16th, 22nd and 23nd, 2014 ... a father of
two, a 20yr old girl named
Tsepe Kyi and a 38yr old revered monk named
Kalsang Yeshi.
SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP? ANYBODY?
2015: China has massive wealth and global
political power.
1) China gives $$$ to Chinese who move to Tibet - one
thousand migrants arrive everyday.
2) China gives $$$ and contracts to countries that
ignore both Tibet and the Dalai Lama.
3) The corrupt Nepalese government bows down to the
Chinese $$$. Tibetans in Nepal have no rights, no
status and are being treated worse every year as the
Chinese dictate.
Nepal is a classic example of bribery and
corruption who now refuse to help or give legal
papers to arriving refugees because China has
promised them monetary rewards and massive
contracts. The military is also bribed to return
escaping refugees, and there are Chinese spies all
over Katmandu. Many Tibetans in Nepal live in
refugee camps with ever increasing restrictions
due to Chinese pressure. Tibetans are now
forbidden to celebrate the Dalia Lamas birthday, i
they do, they are beaten and arrested.
The World is Doomed ...
In 2014, Xi Jingping, the leader of
the Communist Party, was named the third most
powerful man in the world by Forbes. He is also
chief of the world’s largest economy, valued at $17.6
trillion. Having total control of South East Asia's
water source, a massive amount of uranium for nuclear
warfare, and plenty of gold, oil and natural gas - all
stolen from the Tibetan plateau - Jingping has the
world at his fingertips.
Christmas 2014, Chinese investors in Nicaragua began
work on building the longest, deepest and widest canal
in the world which will destroy the environment,
displace farmers, plow though local homes and villages
and destroy an important fresh water lake. Costing $50
billion, the environmental and geopolitical
implications are huge.
China is also playing a sophisticated, strategic chess
game in Afghanistan. Poised to exploit the $1 trillion
of untapped mineral deposits and Afghanistan's natural
oil and gas resources, China does not care about the
country's instability, or the Taliban whom they will
pay off. Afghanistan also provides an important
corridor to Pakistan, one of China's important
political ally's, strategically located next door to
India.
China has become an
unstoppable unhuman evil force of darkness and
destruction.
Pope John Paul II and the Dalia Lama became
close friends.
Both loved by millions, unswayed by evil or
political dictates.
1) Norway:
When the Dalai Lama visited Norway in May 2014,
government officials allowed him to enter the country
but refused to meet with him. Norway, a country
beloved for its openness, tolerance, and social
welfare, has disgraced itself. Norway did this as they
had previously upset China and is wanting imposed
Chinese trade restrictions lifted.
2) The USA:
Despite having met the Dali Lama THREE times, in
Beijing, China, on November 12th 2014, Obama publicly
declared to China that "We recognize Tibet as part of
the People's Republic of China. We are not in favor of
independence".
3) South Africa:
The Dalai Lama was supposed to attend a summit of
Nobel peace laureates in South Africa, but
was refused a visa so as not to upset the Chinese. The
summit was then moved to Rome, Italy instead.
4) The Vatican:
In December 2014, the
Dalai Lama was in Rome for the 3 day summit
and the Vatican, afraid of
infuriating China, declined to meet him. Then, on
Christmas Day, Pope Francis denounced
the "brutal persecution" of religious and
ethnic minorities, calling for
peaceful resolution in Africa and mentioning
Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and the Palestinians, with
NO mention of Tibet.
Pope Francis has forgotten that Pope John Paul II,
a deeply beloved man, met with the Dalai Lama
SEVERAL times and formed a strong friendship. They
had huge respect and understanding for one
another, sharing the same concerns about Tibet and
the state of the world.
Most of our world leaders and governments
currently bow down to China. Obviously these men are
not leaders but cowards. They are selling their souls
to the devil.
Apparently diplomatic ties to a malicious, vindictive
and vengeful communist regime are far more important
than human life, the environment, peace, compassion
and spirituality.
His Holiness the Dalai
Lama, beloved by millions worldwide,
resides in Dharamsala, India, firmly believing
compassion and altruism
naturally equate non-violence, qualities inate
to Tibetan Buddhism. However, the price for
non-violence is the extinction of Tibet and it's
people.
China's Two Fears:
Who does China fear? One man .. the Dalai Lama, and
the love, loyalty and respect the world's people have
for him.
The other fear of the Chinese, is Tibetan
communication. Tibetan writers, musicians, filmmakers
and teachers have all been jailed or disappeared, with
China attempting to control the spread of information.
Indeed most Tibetans do not have TV's, computers or
cell phones, and they are not even allowed to have
passports!
Giving Tibetans information from the outside world, is
an act of great bravery and courage and must be done
in secret so that the Tibetans are not violently
punished. Foreign trekkers are feared because they
bring news and hope to villagers, farmers and nomads.
Trekkers are witness to the truth of what is going on.
Tibetans protest
peacefully, but protests usually end in their
bloodshed, imprisonment and torture.
Tibetan inner strength and defiance remains
indestructible and matched by no other. They
have been oppressed and pushed beyond their
limits mentally and physically but
refuse to bow down, or to denounce the Dalai
Lama. They refuse to let their culture die.
Tibet had a long feudal history full of battles with
neighboring countries of warring tribes, prior to 'the
Land Of Snows' embracing Buddhism 2,500 years ago. It
all began under the rule of the 32nd King of Tibet
Songtsen Gampo who united the people of Tibet, and
took two Buddhist wives, a princess from Nepal and a
princess from China. Buddhism interested the Tibetan
King and he eventually began studying in depth,
translating teachings, and he built two great temples.
The Tibetan people however, remained skeptical and
opposed.
Eventually, Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche), a great
tantric mystic in India, was invited to visit Tibet
with Shantarakshita, a famous Buddhist scholar.
Together they established the philosophy of Buddhism
amongst the people merging it with the existing
national, deeply mystical religion of Bon. The
first monks were ordained and monastic schools of
study were built.
Over the course of several centuries, many
outstanding Indian masters visited Tibet, and many
Tibetans made the perilous journey over the Himalayas
to study in India. They returned to Tibet with the
Buddhist philosophy and texts from India, and also the
knowledge of music, art, medicine, logic and
meditation. Buddhism does not worship a deity, there
is no theology.
Buddhism is a philosophy that encourages
healthy debate, exploration of the mind, personal
verification by observation of life, the way things
really are beyond the presented illusion - fleeting
events and relationships, everything is marked by
impermanence. We are defined by our humility, which we
realize when we let go of expectation and cease
manipulation.
There was a short lived period of persecution and
severe repression due to the ancient Bon religion
regaining status under the 42nd Emperor, resulting in
Buddhism having to be re-sparked. Two individuals that
helped accomplish this were a famous Indian scholar,
Atisha, and the great Tibetan poet and master of
meditation, Milarepa.
From 1244, invited to Mongolia by Godan
Khaan, Lama Sakya Pandita
stayed and devoted his life to
teaching Buddhism to the Mongols.
Within a relatively short period of history, Tibetan
society was dramatically transformed. Of important
note, the famous Mongolian rulers Chinggis Khaan and
Kublai Khaan established close relations with Tibet
resulting in the Mongolians becoming Buddhists. It was
also a Mongol ruler that first conferred the title of
Dalia Lama to a Tibetan monk, meaning 'master whose
wisdom is vast like the ocean'.
In the 18th Century, the Manchus stepped in to end a
long period of political turmoil in Tibet by declaring
that the current Dalai Lama would become henceforth
both political and spiritual leader. Fast forward to
the 1920's, the 13th Dalai Lama wanted to improve and
expand the Tibetan army but it meant money that would
have automatically gone to the monasteries, would be
redirected to the army instead, a move the monastic
political establishment adamantly opposed. The Tibetan
Buddhist government did not fully understanding the
importance of being able to defend themselves against
forceful intruders because a) Buddhism advocates
non-violence and b) no-one imagined the Chinese would
seriously attack and occupy their remote and cocooned
terrain. Consequently, 25yrs later,
Tibet was unable to defend itself against tens of
thousands of Chinese invaders ... but it didn't stop
them from trying ...
The Tibetan resistance
army were fearless, courageous and brave.
Surviving warriors say they have no regrets in
choosing to give up their
lives in order to defend their religion, their
land, their people. Many
wept the day they finally had to lay down their
arms.
In the 1950's after the invasion and occupation of
Tibet, Chinese reforms became increasingly oppressive.
February 1956 the Chinese bombed the ancient
monasteries of Chatreng and Litang killing thousands
of monks and civilians. A revolt ensued.
At this time, there was a guerrilla resistance army
composed of Khampa tribesmen from Eastern Tibet who
had suffered brutal treatment from the invading
Chinese army. The
Chushi Gangdruk (Four Rivers Six Mountains)
resistance group, was
led by a 51-year-old trader named Gompo Tashi
Andrugtsang. They were poorly armed and
uncoordinated but somehow accomplished successful
raids and attacks. Obviously needing help, the
Dali Lama's brother in India, Gyalo Thondup,
turned to the USA. The CIA had already contacted
him and were interested in helping Tibet as part
of their anti-communist agenda. America had
absolutely no interest in Tibetan independence but
saw an opportunity to covertly upset the Chinese.
One night in 1957, the CIA airlifted six
Khampa tribesmen from the Chushi Gangdruk to the
island of Saipan for six months training in radio
operation, codes, weapons and guerrilla warfare.
In the fall of 1957, by light of a full moon, the
six man task force was airdropped back into Tibet.
The men included Athar Norbu and Gyato
Wangdu (who would later become the last
commander of the Chushi Gandrug). The
code name the CIA gave their Tibetan operation was
ST Circus (Shadow Tibet Circus).
June 16th 1958, the resistance army, now
thousands strong, set up a new base in Triguthang,
southern Tibet, and renamed themselves Tensung
Dhanglang Magar (Voluntary Force for the Defense
of Buddhism), dominated
by the brave Khampa warriors.
Thrilled by the success of their guerrilla
task force, the CIA began secretly flying Tibetan
resistance fighters to Colorado, to be trained in
warfare at Camp Hale, from 1958 until 1964. Eight
teams of 259 CIA trained soldiers were parachuted into
Tibet between 1958 to 1961.
The Dalai Lama sitting
with the Khampa guerrillas
who escorted him on his
escape thru the Himalayas into exile.
Both the Chinese and the
CIA were completely unaware until a few days
after his departure.
March 17th 1959, The 23yr old Dalai Lama,
escaped from Lhasa by dead of night. The CIA had no
idea until 3 days later when some members of the CIA
task force found out and aided his two week epic
escape across the Himalayas to India. 80,000 Tibetans
then fled into exile to join him. The
Chinese, who had planned to kill the Dalai Lama, had
no idea of his escape until March 20th. Totally
enraged, a mass slaughter of the Tibetan people
ensued, with bodies reported being stacked in the
streets like fire wood.
In September 1959, 200 miles or so
northeast of Lhasa, at Chagra Pembar and Nira
Tsogeng, 40,000 resistance fighters set up tent
cities with their families and livestock, ready to
fight. The Chinese discovered the locations and bombed
them for several days straight, killing tens of
thousands of men, women and children. It was a
horrific massacre.
In the summer of 1960, the remaining resistance
fighters and their heroic guerrilla army, meagerly
armed, funded and trained by the CIA, had to finally
retreat to four camps they set up in Mustang, a remote
Tibetan kingdom deep within the Himalayan mountains of
northern Nepal. The original 200
Mustang fighters, grew quickly to 2,100.
Ultimately, the Tibetan troops were naive pawns
for the USA against communist China, began under
Eisenhower, thru Kennedy and Johnson, then ultimately
betrayed in 1969 by Nixon who decided they were
no longer of use to him geopolitically or otherwise,
and the relationship was terminated.
The actual resistance movement struggled on at one
base camp in Mustang until it ended by request of
the Dali Lama in 1974. The surviving Mustang
warriors wept. Some threw themselves into the river in
despair. Their fight had been epic, fearless, long and
hard.
These freedom fighters must not be forgotten
but given due respect and to all the thousands of
courageous Tibetans, who chose to defend their
land, their people, and their spiritual beliefs
intrinsic to their culture, against an
outnumbered, cruel Chinese regime hellbent on
genocide and destruction of everything Tibetan ...
which they continue to this day, even as you sit
reading this.
Tibetan children and
teens are forced to assimilate and to speak
Mandarin. Lucky to be
alive as many women are forcefully sterilized,
and unborns are aborted at anytime from one
month to nine months. The foetus are sucked out,
pulled out, or if born alive they are injected
in the forehead and murdered at their first cry.
Traveling teams move around Tibet aborting and
sterilizing women in every town and village.
The Future - Tibetan Children and Youth:
1) Tibetan language is banned in schools.
2)Children living in Tibet cannot read or
write Tibetan. 44% are illiterate.
Many do not attend school or drop out.
3) Their national anthem and their flag is
banned.
4) If they attempt to escape and are caught,
they are shot or imprisoned, beaten and tortured,
but many are prepared to take that risk.
Thousands of Tibetan refugee children are
orphaned, living in exile in India, in communities
such as Dharamsala or Ladakh. They retain their
special identity, are hungry for education, learn
to speak English, remain devout Buddhists and long
for the day Tibet will be free so they can return
and create a new Tibet.
Tibetan youth are extremely frustrated and
angry. Many elders agree with them. They say that
after all these years, the Middle Path of peace
has NOT worked, and now it is time for massive
physical action which may of course include
violence. At present they continue to restrain
themselves out of loyalty and deep respect for the
Dali Lama who adamantly opposes violence.
Prostration, a common
daily practice to purify negativity and to
build merit. Also done
when entering a temple, a monastery, before
a shrine or a teacher.
Pilgrims do this for hundreds of miles,
sometimes taking 2-7 years to travel to
a sacred
destination.
Tibetan daily life before the Chinese invaded in
1950, was not exactly the romantic Shangri-La
imagined by the West. Monastic
power governed daily life. Physical mutilations
and floggings were common forms of punishment as
were stocks and iron fetters. Peasant 'slavery'
and indentured farmers were part of the societal
structure which also included nomads, musicians,
dancer, artists, warlords, petty criminals,
non-indentured farmers, herders, monks and nuns.
Tibet was far less evolved than the outside world
due to the remote location, high altitude,
unforgiving vast terrain and Tibetan choice to
remain secluded.
In March 1905 there was a violent revolt by the
monks who felt threatened by the intrusion of
foreign missionaries who built stations and
churches and bought land. To secure their
religious, financial, and political interests the
Christian churches were burnt to the ground, all
property destroyed and the missionaries were
killed, wounded or expelled (a very wise choice
considering the historical destruction of global
indigenous cultures by Christians and Jesuits).
Yes, Tibet was living a medieval lifestyle, cut
off from the rest of the world with no idea
regarding human rights abuse, that their
punishments were barbaric by modern standards,
that the monasteries had too much political power,
that the gap between the aristocracy, the
landlords and the peasants was extreme, and that
evolution and reform was needed. Yes
poverty and public punishment were all part of the
Tibetan social hierarchy with a very distinctive
class system, BUT ... absolutely no different
to the medieval periods in Europe.
Yes they were way less advanced compared to the
rest of the world regarding material objects,
technology and modern comforts. However,
no-one went hungry, life was simple and nowhere
near as repressive as life is today under the
Chinese forces, where Chinese slavery is now
enforced on all Tibetans in varying degrees,
complete with extreme methods of torture,
concentration camps and forced labor.
Over time, Tibet would have evolved at their
own pace and they would have incorporated whatever
they needed from the outside world, but of their
OWN FREE WILL, which the Chinese have since
erased.
The Chinese had NO
moral authority to brutally catapult, enforce
and change Tibetan society, NONE! There is NO
natural reform for the greatest good of
Tibetan society, just an ongoing agenda of
genocide, theft and exploitation of Tibetan
resources, and forced
assimilation of Tibetan youth into the
expansion of the Chinese population across
Tibet. For the past 65
years of forced Chinese occupation, any
Tibetan man, woman or child that objects, is
arrested, beaten, tortured, imprisoned or
murdered.
No matter what they have endured, all Tibetans
worldwide, both inside Tibet and in exile, retain
a fierce patriotism, deep spirituality, unique
ethnic and cultural identity, and remain immensely
humble. Tibetans worldwide
unanimously and rightfully, want their homeland
given back.
The Kalachakra Mandala
- Ladakh, India, July 8th, 2014.
A sacred Tibetan mandala is usually created
out of colored sand and after completion,
swept away, reflecting the impermanence of
life. They are
incredibly detailed and beautiful.
Tibetans are helpless against the Chinese,
but we as individuals are NOT.
We have money. We have internet access. We have
cell phones and cameras. We have a voice. We can
help Tibetan refugees, Tibetan culture and Tibet,
by taking actions, by donations, by speaking out
and refusing to remain silent.
Since world governments will not intervene or
impose sanction against the Chinese, or refuse to
do business with them, It is up to us to monitor
them, to gather information, to communicate, and
to give hope to the Tibetans, to make
documentaries and films, to take photograph and
videos, and document anything and everything we
can - to protest
loudly and be heard.
A beautiful Tibetan
Thanka, a complicated artwork, created
within specific guidelines.
They usually depict a Buddhist deity, scene,
or mandala and are painted or embroidered.
Taking months and sometimes years to
complete, Thang Ka
means 'recorded message'.
China is a threat to ALL of us. WE the people HAVE to
take a stand against this cruel, vile and wicked
Chinese government that uses money and political power
to silence those who wish to help, those who speak
out, and those who they allege pose a threat.
VISITING TIBET:
If you visit, do not speak in public to Tibetans as
they will be arrested and severely punished after you
leave. In private, tell the Tibetans how much support
and compassion the world's people has for them. That
they are not forgotten and that people worldwide are
working to make a difference. Tell them the Dalai Lama
is in good health and doing his best in any way he can
to help. Do not buy from the Chinese. Make
sure anything you buy is not made in China but made by
Tibetans in Tibet.
Tibetans outside of Tibet do not want anyone to visit
Tibet and thus financially support China, but if
no-one from the West visits, how can the world know of
the atrocities, the darkness, the violence, the
wickedness of the Chinese. There are events to be
witnessed, stories to be documented and shown to the
outside world.
Tibetans just want to be
free, to live in peace, to retain their
identity, their culture,
and their spirituality. Their entire way of
life, simple as it may appear, is ancient
and wise, modest, humble, spiritually and
intellectually advanced.
Truth Cannot Be Hidden:
The Chinese lied to their own people about the
horrific student massacre in Tienanmen Square,
Beijing, June 1989. To this day, only the Chinese
that leave China discover what really happened.
The courageous young people in Hong Kong 2014
protested against Chinese rule for months,
refusing to give in, even though their aging
parents are afraid and tell them to be silent, to
remember Tienanmen Square. Yet it is because of
Tienanmen Square they refuse to be silent and cave
in!
Today, the Chinese government continues to lie
to their own people and to the world, spewing
propaganda regarding their invasion and occupation of
Tibet, twisting everything the Dalai Lama says, and
continuing to cover-up or trying to hide their ongoing
torture and genocide of the Tibetans, their culture
and their land.
WE KNOW THE TRUTH. WE MUST
NOT BE SILENT!
China, Nazis of the 21st Century, mentally focused and
without emotion, wield massive power, have a huge
military, excessive amounts of money, access to oil,
gold, uranium and water from the Tibetan Himalayas,
and have the biggest population on earth. The Chinese
government believes Buddhism, a philosophy of peace,
non-violence and compassion, is poison. They believe
all religion and spirituality is poison. The #1 threat
to the world today is not Russia, not Iran, not the
Muslims. IT IS CHINA.
PLEASE HELP. THE TIBETAN SITUATION IS CRITICAL.
THIS IS ABOUT US, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US.
IF CHINA GETS AWAY WITH THIS, WHAT ELSE DO THEY PLAN?
WHO WILL STOP THEM?
WHO IS NEXT?
Nepal and perhaps one day Bhutan. Infiltration is well
underway in Nepal. Roads have already been built,
military camps set up, bribes and gifts already given
and more promised. The rest of Asia is also fair game,
especially the poor and corrupt.
Natural pristine beauty, peace and spirituality
will become a distant
memory, unless we, the people of the
world, speak up and take action.
Tibet
and the Tibetan people are worth
fighting for. They
represent the very best qualities a human
being can achieve ... gentle, infectiously
happy, soft spoken, peace loving,
compassionate, devoted, loyal,
non-violent, respectful to all living
things, hard working, humble,
intellectually sophisticated and advanced,
and spiritually evolved.
If Tibetan Buddhists represent the best of
mankind, China represents the worst. Good
versus evil - the classic battle. This is
a story familiar to the human race - the
Australian aborigines and the American
Indians suffered the same fate but not in
such an extreme brutal, vicious and cruel
manner in an ongoing, consistent daily
basis lasting decades. This is nearly
2015. Turning a blind eye is an option
that will end badly for all of us
because of what the Tibetans represent
spiritually and because of the location of
their country environmentally and
geopolitically.
If these people are erased, there is NO
hope for any of us, for the future or for
this planet. All that is pure and good
will be gone. When the Dalai Lama dies,
what will happen? All that will remain is
evil men, corrupt governments, and their
battle for control over us.
What Is The Solution?
The Dalai Lama and the Buddhist philosophy
prohibit violence, so what is the answer or is
it too late? The most profoundly spiritual,
humble, and peace loving people on earth, are
ironically being controlled by evil forces
that have zero belief in altruism,
spirituality or peace. Does this mean that
evil triumphs over all that is pure and good?
If these
people and their way of
life is allowed to be
wiped out, what does it
say about us, our
spirituality, our
humanity, and the future
of mankind?
Do
YOU have a
solution, other
than WWIII with
China? The
sleeping dragon
that is China, has
woken up and is
well underway
towards world
dominance through
control of Tibetan
resources in the
Himalayas and the
vast location they
now control.
Peaceful dialogue and
actions of peace have proven to change
nothing. Are human beings DOOMED by
their own greed, fear and ignorance, to be
violent, and to fight and kill each other
for power and control?
Must the 'good guys' violently fight back
in order to protect what they believe in
and love, and to keep what is rightfully
theirs? Should we conclude that FREEDOM
must always and forever be violently
fought for, otherwise the 'bad guys' will
take it from us, keeping those
that survive as their slaves?
Should we conclude that as
Planet Earth is a world of
duality all this therefore
cannot be changed, unless the
pervading energies of dualism,
Yin and Yang, transform to a
higher level of consciousness?
Is this possible? Yes, certain
individuals have attained
this, a few cultures have come
close, but only the Tibetans
have excelled.
Those who are not spiritually
evolved, such as the Chinese,
and all others who arrogantly
believe they are superior,
believing that war, murder,
theft and force are acceptable
... what can be done about
them? History shows the truth.
Human beings in general are
unevolved, barbaric cavemen,
now dressed in better clothing
with more sophisticated
weapons. Planet earth has many
tribes and the peaceful,
gentle tribes usually end up
suffering the most pain, the
greatest loss.
The magnificent Peak
Potala in Lhasa, Tibet, before Chinese
Invasion. A quarter of
a mile in length, over 1,0000 rooms, the
home of the Dalai Lama before exile.
There used to be over 1,000,000 volumes of
ancient scriptures, historical documents
and priceless works of art. The Chinese have
destroyed, damaged and stolen most of them.
Future Tibetan and Buddhist Leadership:
Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa is
being groomed to continue the Dalai Lama's
leadership when he departs this world. Dorjee, the
3rd most important person in Tibetan Buddhism
after the Dali Lama and the Panchen Lama (murdered
by the Chinese and replaced with a fake), speaks
fluent Chinese and is learning English so he may
communicate with the world.
The Dalai Lama has repeatedly stated that he will
never reincarnate inside territory where he could
not be a free spokesman for the Tibetan people.
The atheist Chinese government ridiculously claims
they will not allow this to happen and that they
will decide where he reincarnates! In other words
they will choose their own Dalai Lama, which is an
absolute impossibility.
MARCH
10TH - Tibetan Uprising Day:
On March 10th in 1959,
tens of thousands of Tibetans took to the
streets of Lhasa, rising up against China’s
illegal invasion and occupation of their
country. Tens of thousands of Tibetans died
and were imprisoned. Each year on March 10th, people
around the world gather to demonstrate the
global strength of the Tibetan movement and to
show solidarity with Tibetans inside Tibet.
Next year, every year, please join with them.
Tibetans have the courage
to stand up to overwhelming evil forces. After
64yrs of extreme cruelty and brutality, they are
still willing to risk torture and death
by protesting, and even to end their lives in
flames to be heard.
VIDEOS - YouTube:
1) Tibet Situation:
Critical. - Documentary by Jason Lansdell.
An extensive, shocking look at the current situation
in Tibet. It covers the history of Tibet, before and
after the Chinese invasion. The clips in this film are
from a wide range of documentaries and news
organizations, as well as never before seen footage.
The brutality of the Chinese Government against the
Tibetan people is clearly shown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqdQtwFjeMY
2) What Remains Of Us. - 2004
This moving documentary follows a young Tibetan
refugee from Quebec, Canada, as she returns to her
native land carrying a personal video message by the
Dalai Lama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=322SFh6d3iA
3) The New Tibet - by New Atlantis
Full documentaries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qzp7Rhy7O8
4) Tibet
Conflict -
modern BBC documentary explaining
the situation in a nutshell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC6w-R987rg
5) Bringing Tibet Home.
A documentary by Tenzin Tsetan Choklay, about Tenzing
Rigdol, a Tibetan artist who smuggled 20 tonnes of
native Tibetan soil from Tibet to Dharamsala, India
for an art project to bring Tibet closer to its
people. His art installation opened for 3 days on
October 26th 2011 - "Our Land, Our People".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxOJQusz4xQ
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2983140/
6) Leaving Fear Behind - 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANZZa5IabJ4
Tibetans were denied entrance to the Olympic Games in
Beijing. Protests were immense. From October 2007
until March 2008, a brave Tibetan named Dhondup
Wangchen and his assistant Golog Jigme a senior
Tibetan monk, filmed 40 hours of footage of 108
interviews from ordinary Tibetan people in Eastern
Tibet. The filmmakers travelled thousands of miles to
document what Tibetans feel about the Dalai Lama,
Chinese occupation of Tibet, and the Olympic Games, a
symbol of world peace. The answers are frank, powerful
and moving.
The film footage was smuggled out of Tibet to
Switzerland on March 10th 2008 under extraordinary
circumstances. Shortly thereafter, the filmmakers were
imprisoned, tortured and denied medical treatment.
Six years later, on June 5th 2014, Dhondup Wangchen
was released from prison. He is in critical health. As
of December 2014, he remains in China and is unable to
leave. His wife and children live in San Francisco,
working tirelessly for his release.
Golog Jigme Gyastso who was released after months
of torture, was forced into hiding in 2012, and
recently escaped to India where he met with the Dalai
Lama in Dharamsala May 2014.
Dhondup's film and his imprisonment has gathered a
huge international following of supporters and
activists, including Reporters Without
Borders, Amnesty International, the US State Dept and
the UN.
For more on this international story, latest updates,
and news about a new documentary on Dhondup and his
wife:
http://www.filmingfortibet.org/
Tsaparang, Guge, Tibet - White Temple.
Statue of Chenrezig, before
and after Chinese destruction.
China enjoys both rewriting history and
destroying it.
1) LATEST NEWS:
Tibetan Center
For Human Rights and Democracy - Protecting
Tibetan Rights and Freedoms
All the latest news on abuse, immolation, deaths,
imprisonments and events in Tibet.
http://www.tchrd.org
http://www.savetibet.org
http://www.tibetnature.net/en/
https://tibettruth.com
2) SELF IMMOLATION:
"Beyond The
Numbers - A Human Perspective On Tibet's
Self-Immolations" - by
Katie Lin
http://vimeo.com/55292170
http://www.savetibet.org/resources/fact-sheets/self-immolations-by-tibetans/
3) FORCED ABORTIONS and
STERILIZATION - Documentary.
"TIBET'S
END? Sterilization In The Land Of Snows" -
Blake Kerr.
https://vimeo.com/154655086
Documented,
proven, ongoing deliberate genocide. A lawsuit
filed in Spain was overturned after China
pressure.
4) EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS
FROM INSIDE TIBET:
http://www.savetibet.org/newsroom/eyewitness-insights-from-tibet/
5) SURVIVOR STORIES
- WARNING! VERY DISTURBING:
http://www.korubo.com/TIBETDOC/tibet.htm
6) FACTS & DETAILS:
Lighthearted look at the Dalai Lama, daily activities,
views, and his Hollywood friends.
http://factsanddetails.com/china/cat6/sub33/item225.html#chapter-1
7) TIBETS COVERT FREEDOM
FIGHTERS:
"Shadow Tibet Circus" - documentary about the
CIA operation in Tibet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU9FKVd-rv0
8) BOOKS:
Buddhas Warriors by Mikel
Dunham
Tears of the Lotus by Roger E. McCarthy
The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet by Kenneth Conboy
and James Morrison
Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories
of a Forgotten War by Carole McGranahan
NOTE:
This webpage was written in December 2014. Apologies
for emotional rhetoric but civilities and compassion
have NO meaning to China. Tibetans and world leaders
alike placate the Chinese with carefully chosen words
so as not to upset them. Enough is enough! The plain
truth has to be spoken. A country, a culture, a tribe,
is being erased. Ecocide and genocide are daily
routine. Immolation in the name of freedom has to end.
FREEDOM, the most precious state of all for every
human being, has to be fought for and taken back. Will
the psychopathic Chinese ever leave Tibet? No. Do they
need to give Tibet autonomy? YES! Independence is a
but a dream but a dream that will NEVER die.
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