--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- shempmcgurk wrote: > > > > The DL's "turn the other cheek" philosophy of non-violence > > led to a horrible bit of "ultra-violence", as Little Alex > > would say, didn't it? > > It's as if the Dalai Lama recognized that his people > could not really be killed. That life cannot really be > taken. Like what some spiritual masters would have > us believe. > > Or, speaking practically, as if Tibet didn't have > a chance standing up against China, so why embrace > the karma of killing?
Both, I think. Plus, he knew that Tibet had almost no army with which to defend itself from one of the largest armies on the planet, and no resources with which to develop, arm, and train one. He *asked* for help -- very vocally -- from almost all the nations he thought might be interested in helping his nation stand up to the Chinese. All of them, including America, ignored his pleas completely. China had been trying to take over Tibet for many years. The Dalai Lama we are speaking about is the Fourteenth, but the Chinese tried to invade Tibet back in the reign of the Sixth Dalai Lama, and actually assassinated him. It was an inevitability that if China really wanted Tibet, they could have it at any time they wanted. Another factor to consider at that time was the importance placed in Tibetan society on prophecy and the ability of the State Oracle to "see" the future accurately. The Oracle in this case "saw" the end of Tibet as its people had known it, and no possibility of stopping it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
