Irreligious men separate dharma or religion from politics. Politics and all of life should rather radiate out of Dharma. The Dalai Lama is true to Buddha-dharma. He is fighting for the freedom of his people out of deep spiritual convictions. The truth has set his people free.
Recently, the Chinese Government praised the UPA in India for asking its ministers to boycott felicitations of the head Lama. Rediff News reports the Chinese Ambassador to India, Sun Yuxi gushing about India’s changed stance towards his Holiness.
We need to ponder on a few things:
i) Why has India, a long ally of the Dalai Lama suddenly changed stance? Is it because China is the next touted bully-in-the-block? — Is it because the Left Front shares power at the Centre and the Chinese ideologues have to be appeased? Is there any US underhand pressure at work here?
ii) Goutama Buddha had been born in India. Buddhism is in a sense, India’s contribution to the world. Is this neglect of the Tibetan Buddhist in the same vein as our indifference to Hinduism, the massacre of Buddhist monks in Burma, the blasting of the Bamiyan Buddhas and last week’s destruction of Buddhas in the Swat valley in Pakistan? Are we as a nation disgusted with what is our own?
iii) The Tibetans have no home, no human rights or even the right to practice their own faith. At this crucial juncture is it humane for us to abandon them? Genocides are of different types. A very subtle yet vicious type of genocide is swamping an ethnic population with a very fast growing colonizing population.
Before no time there is are no ethnic people alive. The Chinese have done just this in Tibet and we fear that the Indian Chinese will slowly swamp out Dharamshala, Sikkim and other places where there still remain traumatized Tibetans.
The last days of the Tibetans are here. A civilization is known by its treatment of powerless ethnic groups. Let us as a nation judge our elected leaders. India too is a dark place on this earth.
Via: Rediff News
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