tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post7786071959993397526..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: The Dalai LamaBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-17694405639126139832008-03-19T16:16:00.000+00:002008-03-19T16:16:00.000+00:00The Chinese usually talk at, rather than to, you.....The Chinese usually talk at, rather than to, you...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-33408438933966824972008-03-18T21:16:00.000+00:002008-03-18T21:16:00.000+00:00Apologies for a second post, but the occasion dema...Apologies for a second post, but the occasion demands it.<BR/><BR/>I went to what I thought was my weekly meditation class tonight at my local Tibetan Buddhist centre, only to find that a special "service" (a puja) had been called. Every oil lamp in the building had been lit and set in a blaze on a table. I lost count at more than one hundred. And then the chanting began, in Tibetan, which I Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-52231422189412562952008-03-18T18:14:00.000+00:002008-03-18T18:14:00.000+00:00"Power comes from the barrel of a gun" still seems..."Power comes from the barrel of a gun" still seems default mode for the Chinese leadership. That and lying, like Wen Jiabao's accusation that the Dalai Lama had masterminded the violence. Anything less likely is hard to imagine, but it serves as a reminder that China is still run by communist-gangster types, though they are a lot more sophisticated in the front they put up than their cousins in Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-91884649262142913842008-03-18T16:30:00.000+00:002008-03-18T16:30:00.000+00:00but are the chinese the sort to do something for a...but are the chinese the sort to do something for a laugh?<BR/><BR/>I think if your thing is non-violence, chuckling keeps your mind focussed on the job. I don't have any explanation for wearing big brown shoes - I guess he is from out of town. Hey, how big exactly were the shoes?Ian russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106519805045337505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-58020168490801131002008-03-18T15:48:00.000+00:002008-03-18T15:48:00.000+00:00Has anybody else been watching an amazing series o...Has anybody else been watching an amazing series on BBC4 called 'A Year in Tibet'? The first programme showed some remarkable colour cine film shot in the early 1940s, I think by a Brit. I hadn't realised that Tibetan society up until that point had been utterly feudal, with a few ruling families who enjoyed unrivalled power and the rest of the population either in monasteries or grubbing Sophie Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05212037697701712380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-56159265171635641902008-03-18T15:29:00.000+00:002008-03-18T15:29:00.000+00:00Just in case you aren't aware Bryan A C Grayling h...Just in case you aren't aware Bryan A C Grayling has posted an article savaging Gray in the Guardian comment is free section.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-46742964974939239852008-03-18T15:24:00.000+00:002008-03-18T15:24:00.000+00:00"Han Chinese will continue to be encouraged to mig..."Han Chinese will continue to be encouraged to migrate there and it won't matter all that much in the end."<BR/><BR/>I'm sure it will matter to the Tibetans and their ancestors as their whole culture will be virtually destroyed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-50385687181934211212008-03-18T14:27:00.001+00:002008-03-18T14:27:00.001+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071928294799081845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-65846674650559336362008-03-18T14:27:00.000+00:002008-03-18T14:27:00.000+00:00Now that transportation and communication have imp...Now that transportation and communication have improved to the point that they have, the Han migration will continue apace and they will in a short time (historically) predominate in Tibet. The same thing happened in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang. <BR/><BR/>The Chinese government doesn't <I>have</I> to talk to the current Dalai Lama. Time, and demographics, are on their side. He's 73 Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071928294799081845noreply@blogger.com