On Dec 11, 2006, at 2:40 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:
I wouldn't fall for it so easily B. The current situation was
predicted not only centuries ago, but also decades before the
current
invasion. The on-coming invasion was reiterated in the early
1900's,
but the Tibetans, realizing it would raise their taxes, refused
to
amass and/or train armies to protect against the on-coming
invasion.
And so, the fulfillment of a prophecy came to pass in our
generation:
"When the iron bird flies, and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan
people will be scattered like ants across the world, and the
Dharma
will come to the land of the red faced people"
A failure? LOL, I'd say it's been a great success<snip>
You've seen the film "Kundun" I take it? Great success? Hmmm... I'm
sticking with my opinion that it is, and has been, a colossal
failure, and I am sure many former Tibetans would agree with me.
Perhaps the failure was prophesied, but that doesn't change it from
being a failure.
I'd say it was a failure for the Chinese since they accumulated a
huge amount of negative karma. I can't say the same for the Tibetans
(which of course is not to say that Tibetans are this wonderfully,
karmicly pure people--they're just people after all).
Applying your same reasoning say to Nazi Germany, the Jews were a
great failure and the Germans a great success. Similarly the Native
American tribes of North America were a great failure.
I'm sorry Jim, but I don't know that I could ever see genocide as a
success and the victims as "failures".
