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2008-12-22T09:42:00.000+13:00

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Shocking!!!!!!!!!!!

In a fairly amazing coincidence I stumbled upon a ...

2008-12-13T14:05:00.000+13:00

In a fairly amazing coincidence I stumbled upon a podcast on this very issue today: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4111

and just in case the Dalai Lama ever denies his kn...

2008-12-12T15:00:00.000+13:00

and just in case the Dalai Lama ever denies his knowledge of the idea of having the plebs regard their terrible lives as a deserved consequence of past negative actions, here's a video and transcript of him actually saying it:

http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/1997/erste6852.html

and here is the link to the google translated version:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/1997/erste6852.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=5&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dwdr%2Bdalai%2Blama%2Bsieben%2Bjahre%26hl%3Den

This section here is the relevant bit, but it's a bad translation:
"A poor Tibetans had little reason to change its rich Gutsherrn to envy or anzufeinden, because he knew that all the seeds from his previous life reaps. We were simply happy."

A better translation is this:
"The poor tibetan had little reason to be jealous of or be angry with his rich feudal lord, because he knew that everybody is reaping the seeds sown in previous lives. We were simply happy."

And that man got the nobel peace price.Paul, pleas...

2008-12-12T14:44:00.000+13:00

And that man got the nobel peace price.
Paul, please keep investigating.

Gidday there,I am going to research the issue of t...

2008-12-12T13:57:00.000+13:00

Gidday there,

I am going to research the issue of the skinning further and gather more info on this, along with human sacrifices – so give me time to get to the library, search the net and send emails. This is a subject in itself. One thing I will say is we need to view even grim practices like this, against the brand of Buddhism adhered to. To sacrifice ones child to a living-God could be seen as furthering the victims chances at a better life next time round.

Robert Ekvall (American Missionary and Anthropologist) reported human sacrifices and he was in Tibet between 1923-1938.

Sir Charles Bell (traveled extensively 1905-1920 ish and published the first book on Tibetan language) reported seeing two children ‘slain for the purposes of a religious ritual’.

So one thing is for sure human-sacrifice were happening last century, how prevalent this practice was, I have yet to ascertain.

If anyone can add to the issues of human sacrifice in Tibet - then please add to this.

Cheers.

Paul.

I don't know about the children's skins either, bu...

2008-12-12T12:21:00.000+13:00

I don't know about the children's skins either, but I have also heard from Tibetans that much of what you are saying about the serfdom of Tibetans was true.

I can also attest from experience that the Dalai Lama has theocratically banned the practice of an well loved religious practice, and that its followers are persecuted. More and more evidence of this is coming to light. Check out: http://www.shugdensociety.info/newsEN.html and http://www.dorjeshugden.com/ and http://www.wisdombuddhadorjeshugden.blogspot.com for more about all this.

This persecution has been hidden for many years, and when practitioners first drew attention to it, they were vilified by press who could not understand that the Dalai Lama could behave this badly. However, that is now changing, and this year there has been a lot more press coverage to show the ban and persecution.

See http://www.westernshugdensociety.org/en/press/coverage/
for some of this coverage.

Thanks for your article. Hope you find some of these references interesting.

I find this post very intriguing, but I feel the n...

2008-12-12T04:38:00.000+13:00

I find this post very intriguing, but I feel the need for some references. A little bit of Googling hasn't revealed much except for people making similar claims without evidence. There are a few links provided in places, but all the ones I've found so far are dead. Wikipedia, of course, has nothing on the issue.

For example, that's clearly a picture of human skin, and almost definitely children's. But the picture provides no evidence that they were skinned alive, or even that they died of anything other than natural causes to be skinned later.

I'd very much like to read more about this though.

I agree that Tibet does not need to return to theo...

2008-12-12T03:52:00.000+13:00

I agree that Tibet does not need to return to theocracy.

But I have been there, and every Tibetan I met was very anxious to get rid of the Chinese...not only to regain a lost way of life, but to gain some measure of autonomy. Indeed, the Tibetan government in exile has committed to democracy if it ever returns to power, and I think enough of the Tibetans on the ground are into that that the government wouldn't be able to easily snatch it away.

In addition, Tibetans face plenty of oppression from the Chinese occupation. Again, I've seen it. Horrible things do happen under theocracy, but remember that China does have a powerful propaganda machine.

In short, I think it's a mistake to view any invading country as a liberator.

Not everyone is taken in by this imposter.http://w...

2008-12-12T03:32:00.000+13:00

Not everyone is taken in by this imposter.

http://wisdombuddhadorjeshugden.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html

http://www.wisdombuddhadorjeshugden.blogspot.com/

http://www.wisdombuddhadorjeshugden.blogspot.com/

This is very interesting. Do you have any citation...

2008-12-12T02:42:00.000+13:00

This is very interesting. Do you have any citations or bibliography?

Thanks~