Several months ago I saw the film "Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion" which is about the Dalai Lama, Tibet, and the forceful occupation and rape of Tibet by the Communist Chinese.
There is heavy emphasis in the movie on the principle of non- violence and how it is at the cornerstone of the Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and the Dalai Lama's teachings, etc. But one line struck me as odd: at one point during the onslaught by the Chinese into Tibet when it was becoming blatantly obvious the horrors that the Chinese had in store for Tibet that the voice-over of the Documentary observed (I'm paraphrasing): And the Tibetans attempted to get the Americans on their side to get their support but the Americans weren't interested. Well, I had just sat through about an hour of a movie in which the ENTIRE emphasis was on non-violence and then to have them say: we tried to get the support of the Americans but they weren't interested in helping us...that doesn't make sense. What possible reason would there have been to obtain the "support" of the Americans other than their military help...or the threat thereof? What else of value could the Americans have been to the Tibetans other than that and why else would they have wanted the Americans' help? So how does this jibe with the principle of non-violence? Where's the non-violence if the threat and fear of the American A- Bomb is invoked in order to save your people? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
