Forty five years ago I came in direct contact with Tibetan culture for the first time. Prior to that I had seen Tibetan caravans traveling through Tansen, Palpa, Nepal. I was well aware of the situation on the other side of the Himalayan mountains and I had even been in the audience when the Dalai [...]
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Forty five years
Posted in China, Tibet, spirituality, tagged China, Dalai Lama, Kham, Nepal, Tibet on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Folly of Force
Posted in Buddhism, Tibet, spirituality, tagged Asia Times Online, China, Dalai Lama, defining issue, folly, force, Kham, Mt Yarla, Sichuan, society, The Great Wall, Tibet, Tibetan on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Its not working. Never has, never will.
No amount of preaching and moralizing will force things to happen. Nor will the use of force when your preaching and “you shouldings” or even “let’s all” (Confucianism/communism) fails.
People, especially the rugged, open-air Tibetan nomads, don’t respond to the group-mind of the hypnotized.
Societies like the Chinese have functioned for [...]
Reflecting on what’s happening in Tibet
Posted in Buddhism, Tibet, spirituality on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I recently returned from another trip to Kham, the eastern Tibetan plateau – now Gansi Prefecture in Sichuan Province, China. I’ve been taking groups of high school students up there each March since 2004. Our trip this year was 2 weeks earlier than usual and we were back in Hong Kong on March 8, 2 days before [...]
