The Dalai Lama is now saying that the Chinese are going to kill him. But no mention of the Chinese in cahoots with Dorje Shugden practitioners now? Perhaps since he is receiving the Templeton Prize for non-violence and humanitarianism, it would be contradictory for the Dalai Lama to raise the Shugden issue and the oppression that many Tibetans are suffering due to the Dalai Lama's ban on this sacred practice.
I find the murder hypothesis a bit fanciful. Surely if China wanted to assassinate the Dalai Lama, it would be quite easily done. On the other hand, would it be like how the assistants of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama tried to poison Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen when pretending to ask for blessings? How interesting karma is. But then if the Dalai Lama does not have the karma to be killed in that way, like Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen, then he has nothing to fear? But i digress.
What I found interesting in this article was that:
1. The Dalai Lama mentions again that the Karmapa could be a possible spiritual head of the Tibetans. This is something that has become more possible since the Karmapa has been exonerated of the foreign currency issue.
2. That China could be more democratic in his lifetime for economic reasons. Personally I don’t care what the reasons are but I hope this will be the case and that China as a whole becomes more open to Tibetan Buddhism in China, and not just keep Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet.
I’m going to grab the paper tomorrow and read the whole interview!
Dalai Lama reveals warning of Chinese plot to kill himhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/tibet/9261729/Dalai-Lama-reveals-warning-of-Chinese-plot-to-kill-him.htmlBy Dean Nelson, in New Delhi12:24PM BST 12 May 2012
The Dalai Lama has revealed his fears after being warned that Chinese agents have hatched a plot to kill him.
In an exclusive interview with this week's Sunday Telegraph, the 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, revealed he had been passed reports from inside Tibet warning that Chinese agents had trained Tibetan women for a mission to poison him while posing as devotees seeking his blessings.
The Tibetan Buddhist leader said he lives within a high security cordon in his temple palace grounds in Dharamsala, in the Himalayan foothills, on the advice of Indian security officials.
Despite being one of the world's most widely revered spiritual leaders he has enemies in China and among some Buddhist sects.
His aides had not been able to confirm the reports, but they had highlighted his need for high security.
"We received some sort of information from Tibet," he said. "Some Chinese agents training some Tibetans, especially women, you see, using poison – the hair poisoned, and the scarf poisoned – they were supposed to seek blessing from me, and my hand touch."
Relations between China and the Tibetan government-in-exile in India are poor and mutual suspicion high following more than 30 self-immolations in the last year by Tibetans in protest at Chinese moves to marginalise their language and culture.
He said suspicion of Chinese interference in finding his reincarnation following his death meant he may be the last Dalai Lama and that Tibetans could decided to abandon the institution.
A number of young Buddhist monks, including the Karmapa Lama, could emerge as the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, he said.
Despite frosty relations with Beijing, he said he believes China will change its hardline stance within his lifetime and adopt democratic reforms to safeguard its economic growth.
He said Chinese leaders should use Buddhist logic to overcome their suspicion and anger, but confessed he struggles to control his own temper.
He said: "Advisers, secretaries, other people around me, when they make some little, little mistake, then sometimes I burst. Oh yes! Anger and shout! Oh! And some harsh words. But that remains a few minutes, then finished."
Although he sometimes regrets such behaviour, he believes it is occasionally good for "correction."
Read the full interview in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph
