He is not a liar?
Dalai Liar claimed that ‘more than 1.2 million Tibetans are dead as a result of the Chinese occupation.’
But the official 1953 census - six years before the Chinese crackdown -recorded the entire population residing in Tibet at 1,274,000.33 Other census counts put the all ethnic Tibetan population within China at about two million. If the Chinese killed 1.2 million in the early 1960s then whole cities and huge portions of the countryside, indeed almost all of Tibet, would have been depopulated, transformed into a killing field dotted with death camps and mass graves - of which we have not seen evidence. The thinly distributed Chinese military force in Tibet was not big enough to round up, hunt down, and exterminate that many people even if it had spent all its time doing nothing else.—-From Michael Parenti “Friendly Feudalism: the Tibet Myth”
Dalai Liar claimed ‘cultural genocide’ “
92-94% of ethnic Tibetans speak Tibetan, Instruction in primary school is pretty universally in Tibetan. Chinese is bilingual from secondary school onward. All middle schools in the TAR also teach Tibetan. In Lhasa there are about equal time given to Chinese, Tibetan, and English.”
There is also an upsurge of the performing arts, poetry and painting by Tibetans, which many visitors to Tibet today cannot fail to notice, all of which are encouraged and funded by Beijing, though of course the growing tourist market also plays an important role in encouraging Tibetans to continue practicing their traditional arts and crafts, albeit, in a commodified form. Importantly, Sautman, has observed surprisingly “few aspects of Chinese culture in Tibet, but there are many aspects of Western culture, such as jeans, disco music, etc.”
—- Barry Sautman, Associate Professor of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology“the processes of cultural change in religion, the arts, language, migration and various other aspects” which are rightly attributed “mainly to Westernised modernity.”
—- Tony. Colin Mackerras, Professor Emeritus of International Business and Asian Studies at Griffith University, Australia“Rather than finding Tibetan tradition being destroyed by Chinese rule and the influx of people, goods and ideas from the modern world, …I witnessed firsthand the importance of Kawa Karpo and the ritual cosmos in the lives of the Tibetans of Deqin county: it has not been diminished. Tibetans’ enduring perception of the landscape as a ritual cosmos cannot be termed a static reality of tradition, but more a dynamic cultural process, as they are continually renegotiating and redefining their beliefs in light of new social and economic realities.”
—- Tyler Denison’s conclusions in his study, Reaffirmation of ‘Ritual Cosmos’: Tibetan Perceptions of Landscape and Socio-Economic Development in Southwest Chinaby the way, most Tibetans, if you ever get a chance to visit Tibet and to converse with the Tibetan locals, will tell you that they are not “forced” to learn Chinese, but rather, do so keenly, and on the expectation that being fluent in both Chinese and English will help to empower themselves by broadening their future employment opportunities.
Dalai Liar claimed: China Sinocize Tibet by increasing the ethnic ratio of Han to Tibetan
We all know chinese “one child policy”, why are all Tibetan families permitted to have up to three children, and are only fined small amounts of money if they exceed this number? Tibetan families in Tibet average 3.8 children, larger than Tibetan families in India. In fact, the population of Tibet in 1959 was only about 1.19 million. Today however, the population of Greater Tibet is 7.3 million, of which, according to the 2000 census, 6 million are ethnic Tibetans. If we consider the Tibet Autonomous Region only, then according to the census conducted in 2000, as referred to in Wikipedia, “there were 2,616,300 people in Tibet, with Tibetans totalling 2,411,100 or 92.2% of the current regional population. The census also revealed that the Tibetan’s average lifespan has increased to 68 due to the improving standard of living and access to medical services.” In 1950 the average lifespan was only 35, and “infant mortality has dropped from 43% in 1950 to 0.661% in 2000.”And, Tibet has the most harsh natural condition in the world, do u think people really want move in?
“the PRC organized only a few thousand people to go to Tibet as cadres. Most serve only 3 years and then return to China. Those who move on their own to the Tibet Autonomous Region usually return to China in a few years. They come for a while, find the cities of Tibet too expensive, and then return to China. Some of the 72,000 Chinese who maintain their in Tibet don’t really live there. Pensions are higher if your household is registered in Tibet.”
He does abhor violence. Back to 1950, The Tibetan society under Dalai Lama is a theocracy, was in slavery. they can dig out serfs eye, chop their hand, kill slave for punishment, Dalai’s entertainment is watching dog and slave fighting…..human sacrifice, drums made by human skin, Dalai’s Skull ring……. he left all those things in The Potala Palace and now lives in the lap of luxury doesnt mean he abhors violence now.http://newschecker.blogspot.com/2007/10/dalai-lama-hero-in-western-world.html
He stopped asking for complete independence decades ago, and now insists on genuine autonomy.
Dalai liar not a monk, he is a politician, politician lies. he abhors violence? he must be he abhors himself as well. He was life long separatist , he only pronounce against Tibetan independence after 1988. and I have to say, he is a very clever politician, he know how and when to change his political tactic. Nice try, unfortunately, not working.
President George W Bush has urged China to “begin a dialogue” with Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a motion condemning China’s “extreme” response to protests in Tibet. “begin a dialogue” with the Dalai Liar? after this olympic farce, dialogue will never happen, how old Dalai? 72 ? China now bides its time, waiting for this old Dalai Lama to die, then it will select a new Dalai Lama, one educated within and loyal to China.
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