| @Peter Duong, My posts are not about the comparison of Marxism and Tibetan Buddhism. It is not an issue about who is more oppressive than the other, or which has more value than the other. Cults are everywhere. Does one need to be a _______ devotee to understand ______? If so, then, nobody has the right to critique anything to that is not personally produced or experienced. Having a first hand experience is important. But facts do not make up the truth. Doesn’t detachment brings about certain objectivity? I am very happy that your friend Pema is living a normal live, presumably in the USA? Perhaps it is a blessing in disguise for the Tibetans in exile to be out of old Tibet, because, the bondage of absolute tyranny is being broken. Perhaps Tibetan Buddhism can be practiced untainted by the abuse of the elites. It will be interesting to hear the points of view of Tibetans who have lived a certain period prior to 1950, instead of the usual born and bred in Dharamsala, or in the West. Cruelty and hardships suffered under past Marxist China (which has undoubtedly happened) should not be a veil for the historical reality of the years under old Tibetan buddhocracy. Let the Tibetans be informed. They have a right to know. Let the Tibetans in exile be informed of the bad AND the good that is currently in Chinese Tibet and not dismiss it as hell on earth as a conditioned reflex and dream on of ShangriLa. Do not whitewash away the past and the past past. Then if they wish to be subservient to the Dalai Lama, I have nothing else to say. Peace. |
Grace Wang Called a Traitor