The liberation of Tibetan serfs !

refer to:
http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/index.php
a site of Oxford University with 6,000 old photographs of Tibet!
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Play List
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DCD04906E7B4F597
*
The True Face Of The Dalai Lama
by Kalovski at 4-2-8
http://www.rense.com/general81/faeeof.htm
[Part.3]
Born Female­Proof of Past Sins?




The Dalai Lama writes, "In Tibet there was no special discrimination against women." The Dalai
Lama's authorized biographer Robert Hicks argues that Tibetan women were content with their
status and "influenced their husbands." But in Tibet, being born a woman was considered a
punishment for "impious" (sinful) behavior in a previous life. The word for "woman" in old
Tibet, kiemen, meant "inferior birth." Women were told to pray, "May I reject a feminine body
and be reborn a male one."
Lamaist superstition associated women with evil and sin. It was said "among ten women you'll
find nine devils." Anything women touched was considered tainted­so all kinds of taboos were
placed on women. Women were forbidden to handle medicine. Han Suyin reports, "No woman was
allowed to touch a lama's belongings, nor could she raise a wall, or 'the wall will fall.' A
widow was a despicable being, already a devil. No woman was allowed to use iron instruments or
touch iron. Religion forbade her to lift her eyes above the knee of a man, as serfs and slaves
were not allowed to life the eyes upon the face of the nobles or great lamas."
Monks of the major sects of Tibetan Buddhism rejected sexual intimacy (or even contact) with
women, as part of their plan to be holy. Before the revolution, no woman had ever set foot in
most monasteries or the palaces of the Dalai Lama.
There are reports of women being burned for giving birth to twins and for practicing the pre-
Buddhist traditional religion (called Bon). Twins were considered proof that a woman had mated
with an evil spirit. The rituals and folk medicine of Bon were considered "witchcraft." Like in
other feudal societies, upperclass women were sold into arranged marriages. Custom allowed a
husband to cut off the tip of his wife's nose if he discovered she had slept with someone else.
The patriarchal practices included polygyny, where a wealthy man could have many wives; and
polyandry, where in land-poor noble families one woman was forced to be wife to several
brothers.
Among the lower classes, family life was similar to slavery in the U.S. South. (See The Life of
a Tibetan Slave.) Serfs could not marry or leave the estate without the master's permission.
Masters transferred serfs from one estate to another at will, breaking up serf families forever.
Rape of women serfs was common­under the ulag system, a lord could demand "temporary wives."
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Originally from http://www.bestcyrano.org/cyrano/?p=507

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[CYBERCCPROBERT]

thats all lies, if tibet is such happy nation open tibet for westerner like me.. only one country  thats move back to hell in 20th century is TIBET. FREE TIBET

[gbmkhm01]

Stop lying, corrupted descendents of brutal serfowners!

[chinarausaustibet]

fake

Made in China

[gbmkhm01]

I know ur a freeTibeter

[lamrimeater]

We are supposed to believe you and China but when China monitors every media and journalistic intention to undermine the public and the world for that matter. This is hilarious in the sense that its just like a Chinese propaganta film... like his Holiness said, if there isnt real turmol in tibet, and if the Chinese government is not covering anything up then why wont they allow outsider groups to come in and investigate? Why do they feel the need to control? the truth is china wants the tibet

[bolshevikML]

Tibet is free now, because the PRC ablished the insane oppression of the old Tibetan feudal system and the tyranny of the backward monks. "Free Tibet" is just sugar-coated U. S. imperialist rhetoric which conceals the real intention of the western imperialists, that is, the violation of the sovereignity and territorial integrity of the PRC and the invasion of Tibet, restoring there the tyranny of feudalism. The US and Dilly-Dally too would be well-advised to accept the facts. Tibet is China.

[tnemaciren]

You and your western supporters are a bunch of hypocrites. When US/Europe allows Osama and his Al-Qaeda gang to run around freely in the USA/Europe, then maybe China will consider allowing you terrorists in China.

[Popajaja]

"Being unable to pay back the money and grain we owe Nedong Dekhang, we, Tsewang Rabten and my wife, serfs of the Dusong Manor, must give up our daughter Gensong Tonten and younger son Padma Tenzin to Dekhang to repay the debts. The descendents of their son and daughter will be Dekhang's serfs."

Free and happy serfs ???

[MarxBakuninMe]

Yes, emancipate. Freed by the communists* from a theocratic regime which murdered and tortured.

*I understand however that the Communists also committed atrocities - but to ignore the crimes of the Dali Lama would be wrong.

[SerfREVOLT2009]

Emancipate my ASS, you 50 Cent MURDERERS.

Serf Emancipation REVOLT ~ 28March2009 ~ TIBET

[MarxBakuninMe]

Very nice. While I am no fan of the Chinese "Communist" regime (i.e the *current* regime) it is important to keep in mind that terrible human rights abuses occured under the rule of "His Holiness" the Dali Lama. I think that Christopher Hitchens did a good job of exposing him by the way - hit google and check out the article.