Free Tibet! Our Hero the Dalai Lama!

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Guardian: Down with the Dalai Lama

BEIJING, June 19 (Xinhuanet) -- The Guardian newspaper published an article on Wednesday entitled "Down with the Dalai Lama."

The article, signed by Brendan O'Neill, editor of spiked, the online magazine, reads in part as the following.

Why do western commentators idolise a celebrity monk who hangs out with Sharon Stone and once guest-edited French Vogue?

Has there ever been a political figure more ridiculous than the Dalai Lama? This is the "humble monk" who forswears worldly goods in favour of living a simple life dressed in maroon robes. Yet in 1992 he guest-edited French Vogue, the bible of the decadent high-fashion classes, which is packed with pictures of the half-starved daughters of the aristocracy modelling skirts and shirts that most of us could never afford.

He claims to be the current incarnation of the Tulkus line of Buddhist masters, who are "exempt from the wheel of death and rebirth." Yet he's best known for hanging out with clueless western celebs like Richard Gere and Sharon Stone (who is still most famous for showing her vagina on the big screen). Stone once introduced the Dalai Lama at a glittering fundraising ball.

The Dalai Lama allows himself to be used as a tool by western powers keen to humiliate China. Between the late 1950s and 1974, he is alleged to have received around 15,000 dollars a month, or 180,000 a year, from the CIA.

He has also been remarkably nepotistic, promoting his brothers and their wives to positions of extraordinary power in "his fiefdom-in-exile in Dharamsala, northern India."

He poses as the quirky, giggly, modern monk who once auctioned his Land Rover on eBay for 80,000 dollars and has even done an advert for Apple.

Yet in truth he is a product of the crushing feudalism of archaic, pre-modern Tibet, where an elite of Buddhist monks treated the masses as serfs and ruthlessly punished them if they stepped out of line.

The Dalai Lama demands religious freedom, yet he persecutes. Those who defied his writ were thrown out of their jobs, mocked in the streets and even had their homes smashed up.

When worshippers complained about their treatment, they were told by representatives of the Dalai Lama that "concepts like democracy and freedom of religion are empty when it comes to the wellbeing of the Dalai Lama."

The Dalai Lama has effectively been turned into a cartoon good guy. In America and western Europe, the Dalai Lama has been embraced as a living, breathing representative of unsullied goodness.

Just as earlier generations of disillusioned aristocrats fell in love with a fictional version of Tibet (Shangri-La), so contemporary un-progressives idolise a fictional image of the Dalai Lama.

Most strikingly, the Dalai Lama is used as a battering ram by western governments in their culture war with China. The reason he is flattered by world leaders and bankrolled by the CIA is not because these institutions care very much for liberty in Tibet, but rather because they want to ratchet up international pressure on their new competitors in world politics: the Chinese.

At least one reason why the Dalai Lama can pose as "the ultimate spiritual authority" and all-round supreme leader of Tibetans and their future is because influential elements in the west have empowered him to play that role. In doing so, they have been complicit in the infantilisation of the Tibetan people.

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[SolomanKane2k8]

Dalai Lama is a damn hypocrite who supports apartheid Israel so I have no respect for him what so ever. Free Tibet but not Palestine?

[Maohammet]

That is true, not only that, the Dalai Lama did not speak out against the apartheid regime in South Africa. China backed the majority blacks, the ANC against apartheid.

[ashthegreat]

Just to inform everyone.

Most people on youtube are from China... Thus most comments and ratings you will see here are heavily influenced by the Chinese biased people.

I'm not saying either side is wrong. I'm just saying do not trust the ratings and "good vs bad" comment ratings either because you do not know who is rating them.

Maybe he is evil? I don't know. But check it out... Dunno.

[Maohammet]

@ashthegreat, people watching this vid has the intelligence to judge, and should not be influenced by ratings. If your opinion is based on ratings, then you shud shoot yourself for retardity.

[ashthegreat]

and if you think most people on youtube have the intelligence and judgement to follow their own opinions then you should jump of a cliff or join an army where idiotic sheeple like you are put to a more beneficial use. There are sheep everywhere and they're a lot more than the people who think for themselves. That's why we have wars these days.

Oh and your sick methods of explaining your opinion via executions show what a sad, dismal, and pathetic individual you are inside.

[Maohammet]

Since you have used foul language, you will be blocked. Let people think, you are no more intelligent than anyone watching this vid.

[sweetsf4life]

All China did was saving Tibetans from slavery. Wake up people, I don't get why so many people support Tibet independence, when no one knows the whole history and truth behind the story. Is it really a chain reaction of blindness? The Dalai Lama movie is the greatest propaganda of all. Watch what would happen to the Tibetans if China really frees Tibet, then you will know why Dalai Lama wanted it back. He always talks about peace, but nothing he suggested was for peace. Sort of Ironic?

[plutonewyork]

free to bed, not tibet.

[goddamnfaggots]

he's pretty popular for a old guy that sounds like a muppet

[givethanks1314]

@SolomanKane2k8

The Dalai Lama system is the similar to Islam, cruel slavery for all, and women are slaves of slaves. Tibet is now freed by China, Palestine is freed by Israel. Too bad, stupid China supports palestinians, a people don't exist (I mean the palestinians are actually Jordanians. lol).

Praise God!

[sweetsf4life]

@citizen9121 well, would the US government easily give out US passports to Al Qaeda descendants as soon as they apply for one? If there's a group of people in your country who is against their own government, it makes sense for the government to give them a hard time. I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, sorry but I'm sure every country does that.

[citizen9121]

@sweetsf4life If you try to justify that China occupied Tibet inorder to free from slavery then please tell me why do Han gets passport as soon they applied and why not Tibetan people not getting passport for ages! That shows that Tibetan are still living under some form of slavery under Chinese rules.

[ashthegreat]

That is completely not the way I base my opinion. I think for myself, something you probably cannot do.

Idiot.