Seven Years in Tibet 1

Seven Years in Tibet

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Tibet experienced its first-ever FAMINE between 1959-'63 under Mao's Great Leap Forward campaign.

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This was a mad mammoth plan that ended in full-scale economic disaster, killing at least 36 million people in China and Tibet.

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"Inside Tibet"

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has amazing colour footage of Tibet in the early 1940s. Don't be put off by the black and white at the start.

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Brad Pitt is banned from entering china cos he starred in this movie - Fact!

May Tibet, her land and people be free!

[GordonShigley]

Recently, the self-immolation of monks in Tibetan-populated area of Sichuan Province has shocked not only the masses but also the Buddhists, as nobody would have believed that these practitioners and disseminators of boundlessly benefiting from Buddhist doctrines have cast away their vows "to cultivate endless merits for all sentient beings" and ended up in such a way of avijja, brutality and extremism.

[GordonShigley]

Renowned religion expert Li Decheng, director of the Religion Department of China Tibetology Research Center wrote an article specifically elaborating his view on the self-immolation occurrence with an insightful observation of the principal Buddhist commandments.

In the article published on CNN, Li Decheng pointed out that the suicidal behavior is in defiance of the precious life, seriously violating the core gist of Buddhism and wantonly trampling the principal Buddhist doctrines.

[GordonShigley]

"According to Buddhist teachings, all disciples must stick to the doctrines to cultivate their own mind and to accomplish perfection, during which they have to keep the vows of mercy, act as Bodhisattva preachers, and abide by the precepts."

Precepts are prioritized among the three principles. The basic rule for Buddhists is to uphold the five precepts: no killing, no stealing, no sexual misconduct, no lying, and no intoxicant.

[GordonShigley]

Among the five commandments, no killing is the ultimate commandment, which must be observed and is infrangible.

"After the self-immolation incidents occurred, some malicious individuals disregarded the fundamental commandment of Buddhism, saying that the self-immolation did not violate the tenets of Buddhism as the motivation for the acts is not selfish at all."

[GordonShigley]

"Leave the motivation alone, and let's look at the scriptures of Buddhism which exactly state that killing for any reason whatsoever is not allowed. Any killing is a betrayal to the key commandment of Buddhism and a crime."

Whether one is voluntarily or taken in to commit suicide, the conduct itself has seriously violated the fundamental commandment, and it is a criminal act.

However, when the miseries happened, some people ignored the fundamental commandment,

[GordonShigley]

dubbing the act as a "noble one for the utmost kindness"; some even claimed that "the self-immolation was a religious behavior to show sacrifice for the Bodhisattva and that happed in the past."

Since Buddhism was founded, the precept against life killing has been substantially accepted by all believers. But what is unbelievable is that those malicious speakers beat the drum for such irrational acts as self-immolations.

[GordonShigley]

And this, on the other hand clearly has exposed the vicious scheme of the backstage manipulators.

Besides, according to Buddhist commandments, it also has committed Pārājika-dharma to kill oneself for believing in instigations and slanders. In short, Buddhist doctrines teach that Pārājika is committed when someone believes in "no good deeds, no value of life" or "good deeds lead to ascension".

[GordonShigley]

No killing is the fundamental Buddhist commandment, which not only strongly opposes and firmly forbids killing, including abetting killing, encouraging killing, and disregarding killing,etc, but also actively advocates people to abandon killing and to save lives. Any form of killing is a serious violation against essential commandments of Buddhism and commits ultimate guilt. To save life is boundless benevolence.