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Tibet Truth: Desperately needed - part 2
Tibet Truth:
Dalai Lama is a nice guy. Wrong... after you read following article, you will start wondering how and when the Dalai Lama turned into a peacing loving guy promoting human rights around the world :-)
The truth is: Dalai Lama seldom mentioned his past. He would never bring that up himself. I didn't even hear the Nobel prize for peace award celemony mentioned his past! Something fishy here :-)
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In an article titled "Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth" by Michael Parenti, it notes that Tibet was " … a despotic retrograde theocracy of serfdom and poverty, so damaging to the human spirit, where vast wealth was accumulated by a favored few who lived high and mighty off the blood, sweat, and tears of the many."
'Until 1959, when the Dalai Lama last presided over Tibet, most of the arable land was still organized into manorial estates worked by serfs. These estates were owned by two social groups: the rich secular landlords and the rich theocratic lamas. Even a writer sympathetic to the old order allows that “a great deal of real estate belonged to the monasteries, and most of them amassed great riches.” Much of the wealth was accumulated “through active participation in trade, commerce, and money lending.” '
'The Tibetan serfs were something more than superstitious victims, blind to their own oppression. As we have seen, some ran away; others openly resisted, sometimes suffering dire consequences. In feudal Tibet, torture and mutilation--including eye gouging, the pulling out of tongues, hamstringing, and amputation--were favored punishments inflicted upon thieves, and runaway or resistant serfs. ' |
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