Heather > From listening to the Dali Lama speak, he > professes that he is an ordinary monk. It is the > people of Tibet that look up to him as a spiritual and > political leader due to their spiritual ties and the > Dali Lama's practice. The Tibetan people pleaded with > him to leave Tibet, over and over again, but he wanted > to be with the people and not leave them, yet, they > continued to plead for him to leave so he will not die > to the hands of Chinese. Notice how the Chinese have > tried to twist who the Panchen Lama is, and corrupt an > ancient spiritual practice. The Dali Lama is very > open to western science and technology, he loves it! > He's just not for a complete destruction of a > spiritual practice he adores for stale Chinese > "Religion is poison" campaign. Chris, I really don't > know what your talking about. It would be far fetched > to find anybody on this earth that is a saint. > Thus... why we practice. The Dali Lama professes > democracy and wants Tibet to be a democratic state. > I've known this for years, but found a biography to > show some dates: > > "In 1963, His Holiness promulgated a democratic > constitution, based on Buddhist principles and the > Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a model for a > future free Tibet. Today, members of the Tibetan > parliament are elected directly by the people. The > members of the Tibetan Cabinet are elected by the > parliament, making the Cabinet answerable to the > Parliament. His Holiness has continuously emphasized > the need to further democratise the Tibetan > administration and has publicly declared that once > Tibet regains her independence he will not hold > political office." > > http://www.tibet.com/DL/biography.html
> SA continues: It has been the people of Tibet that > keep appointing him leader, and he keeps saying to > them that he's a simple monk. He is in a position to > help his culture, and thus, a man of compassion - he > does. > > > you sound so angry? maybe not. The title of Dalai Lama is closely resembling that of God-King, at least historically it has been so, the current Dalai Lama is surely a very nice man (or God if you are Lamaist) But you might want to check up his views on homosexuality, equality between men and women etc. If Tibet ever gains independence again, which I doubt will be in the near future, I think that what will happen is that it will return to it's old, Theoretical and Patriarchal form, and since I see that as having very low Value it makes me, not angry but irritated, that in the public debate Tibet is painted out to be some kind of perfect paradise when many of the things that is deeply rooted in their culture is things that we would never stand for here. Not that I'm saying anyone should force their culture on others, I just hate unbalanced and polarised debates. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
