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From: Hilary A. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] HH The Dalai Lam's 3-10 Statement
> -Caveat Lector-
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>James,
>
>Thanks for this article. I have to think about this for a bit. If there
>truly is an issue of brutality than this is unacceptable under any
>circumstances and especially from a man of peace. The issue of a strict
>religious order I have no problem with. That is the structure of the
>belief system and it is inappropriate for me to comment on that IMHO. In
>the same way, that it isn't my place to comment or direct the Pope. I can
>either choose to follow that belief system or not.
>
>Hilary
>
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>> From: James Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: [CTRL] HH The Dalai Lam's 3-10 Statement
>> Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 4:36 PM
>>
>> -Caveat Lector-
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>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hilary A.
>> Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>> >His Holiness the Dalai Lama's March 10th 1999 Statement
>>
>> The Human Rights campaign of the Dalai Lama has not changed much
>> since the CIA devised it for him in the 1960's. Unfortunately he seems
>> to be a spent political force and the people with power know it. The
>> Tibetan Diaspora is fragmented and dispirited under his leadership.
>> Despite the large amount of money raised in the West for native
>> Tibetans, little seems to be being done by HHDL for them.
>>
>> For another view of what is happening in Tibet and the Exiled
>> community read the following:-
>>
>> Dark side of the Dalai Lama
>>
>> By Iain S Bruce
>>
>> Scotsman Newspaper 10th March 1999
>>
>> Is Tibet's spiritual leader fooling the West?
>>
>> To much of the Western world he is the very embodiment of kindness
>> and peace, a gentle robed figure of great wisdom and limitless virtue.
>> Feted by politicians, pop stars and Hollywood stars, the seemingly
>> undisputed spiritual and political leader of the movement to free Tibet
>> has always seemed like a pretty safe bet in a diplomatic arena
>> populated by rogues and charlatans.
>>
>> The cracks in the Dalai Lama's impeccable image however, are beginning
>> to show and accusations are being levelled with increasing frequency
>> which link the 1989 Nobel laureate to religious repression despotism and
>> murder.
>>
>> "The Dalai Lama has two faces. In the West he enthusiastically creates
>> an atmosphere of liberalism and open dialogue; in the East he treats
>> people as a monarch does his subjects," says Lama Kundeling, the abbot
>> of the Atisha monastery in Bangalore and respected member of the
>> exiled Tibetan community. "There is no freedom for us - he has total
>> monopoly over all spiritual and secular matters and spreads confusion
>> and distress among the Tibetan people."
>>
>> China invaded Tibet in 1951 and declared the region a semi-autonomous
>> state of the People Republic, with the 15-year-old Dalai Lama at its
>> head. In reality the set-up existed to rubber stamp Beijing's
>> commands.
>>
>> Forty years ago today, responding to rumours that the Chinese were
>> about to kidnap the Dalai Lama, 300,000 Tibetans formed a human
>> barrier around his palace and clashed with the Chinese army. As
>> Chinese heavy artlllery moved into range, the Dalai Lama escaped on
>> foot to India, and began orchestrating a global, campaign to gain his
>> country's indepen-dence, though he modified this demand to self-
>> government in 1988. The Chinese subsequently pursued a regime of
>> brutal oppression; while native Tibetans patiently wait for their leader
>> to return and free them.
>>
>> Some 120,000 Tibetans fled to form exile communities across the
>> globe, mostly in In-dia, where Dharamsala - site of the Lama's
>> government in exile - is situated. The region has, since become the
>> focal point of a modern pilgrimage undertaken by Westerners seduced
>> by the image of a harmonious, contented society united under a 'single
>> benign leader. Actors such as Richard Gere, Tim Rob-bins and Susan
>> Sarandon have paid their devotions, while directors Oliver Stone and
>> Martin Scorsese made idolatry movies and bands such as Kula Shaker,
>> the Beastie Boys and Radiohead queued to appear in concerts raising
>> funds for a free Tibet
>>
>> If these freedom-loving hipsters who wear their causes like a fashion
>> accessory had heard some of the whispers escaping the heavenly state
>> as it approaches its 40th anniversary, however, they might already
>> have considered moving on to next year's fad.
>>
>> After the Dalai Lama issued a 1996 ban on the Worship of Dorje
>> Shugden, a protector deity with many devotees among Buddhism's
>> Gelugpa sect, Lama Kundeling's home in the Tibetan settlement of
>> Mancoate, south-ern India, was attacked by masked monks who broke
>> all the windows.
>>
>> The abbot attracted such at-tention by becoming the first Tibetan
>> monk to arrange a for-mal protest against the Dalai Lama. In April
>> 1996, he sought permission for a protest march involving Tibetan
>> Buddhists, local Hindus and Catholics. He received visits from the local
>> women's organisation, youth groups and the Dalai Lama's niece trying to
>> dissuade him before a crowd of 75 Tibetans finally gathered at his
>> house and handed him a letter stating that he should refrain from
>> criticising the Dalai Lama. If not, it promised, he would "face dire
>> consequences". He fled to Bangalore after an arrest warrant was issued,
>> and alleges that since then, posters have been displayed in his
>> former monastery declaring that if he returns he will be killed.
>>
>> Others are keen to debunk the Dalai Lama's pacifist image. Austrian
>> Buddhist monk Helmut Gassner, who served as the Dalai Lama's
>> interpreter for 17 years, claims he has evidence of threats against the
>> life of rival lamas, torture, mutilation and murder. PK Dey, a human
>> rights lawyer in Delhi, also claims to have over 300 sworn affidavits of
>> abuse while Dr Ursula Bernis, an American academic who lived among
>> the Tibetan population in India to research her book, Exiled From Exile,
>> reports witnessing widescale intimidation and violence.
>>
>> Although the Dalai Lama has repeatedly asserted his com-mitment to
>> democracy, of the Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies' 46 assembly
>> mem-bers, only 30 are elected, the rest are appointed by the Lama,
>> and his family frequently enjoy high positions. The official re-sponse to
>> such criticisms of the Lama is that they are simply not true, that the
>> Lama is indeed a man of universal tolerance.
>>
>> Lama Kundeling, however, argues that it is ignorance and myth that has
>> kept the image untarnished. The real tragedy of Tibet, he believes, is
>> that it is caught between a rock and a hard place. On one hand the
>> brutally oppressive Chinese regime, on the other an ancient tradition
>> of feudal and spiritual dominance that brooks no questioning, no
>> opposition. "That is the terrible irony. For all his squabbling, it is
>the
>> or-dinary people who suffer. In Tibet itself they still believe that he
>is
>> a superman who will one day free them, while in India he sits and does
>> nothing real to help. What is to become of them, the poor and the
>> ignorant?"
>>
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