Dalai Lama To Kick Off Year-Long 'Thank You India' Events On Saturday

[dsnowlion]

What's more humiliating, creating an event to show your appreciation and no one shows up, or having your own spiritual leader saying he's basically given up on you and that the no more spoon-feeding? Time for CTA to grow up?!

This is probably the biggest slap in the face for the Tibetan leadership in Dharamsala. They have been using the Dalai Lama for years now in order to garner support, and flex their authority and influence over others. But in an interview to CNN-News18 earlier this month, the Dalai Lama said he does not care about the alleged pressure from China which caused the cancellation of the high-profile ‘Thank You India’ events in Delhi. The events were supposed to mark 60 years of the Tibetan government’s exile in India. On top of that, he said that the position of the Dalai Lama was no longer relevant, and that the Tibetan people – not the leadership – must decide on whether to continue the position or not.

It seems like the Dalai Lama is leaving the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) and the Tibetans in-exile to fend for themselves. No more spoon-feeding. Perhaps the Dalai Lama has had enough of being exploited by the Tibetan leadership and lost all hope in the Tibetan president’s paving the way for the Dalai Lama’s return to Tibet or even Tibetan autonomy. In that case, isn’t the CTA comparatively more irrelevant than the Dalai Lama, since it failed to achieve what it set out to do decades ago?

Dalai Lama To Kick Off Year-Long ‘Thank You India’ Events On Saturday

The Central Tibetan Administration will organise a public event at the Tsuglagkhang temple on Saturday and the event will be attended by Indian dignitaries too.

Aishwarya Kumar | News18.com
Updated: March 27, 2018, 11:49 AM IST

New Delhi: Marking the 60th year of exile in India, Tibetan Buddhist leader Dalai Lama is set to kick off yearlong pan India ‘Thank You India’ events on March 31.
The Central Tibetan Administration will organise a public event at the Tsuglagkhang temple on Saturday and the event will be attended by Indian dignitaries too.
In a statement, President Dr Losang Sangay said that Tibet is inextricably linked to India through geography, history, culture, and spiritually and that “the Tibetan struggle is ‘Made in India’ and said that ‘the success of the Tibetan struggle will be India’s success story.”
The announcement of the spiritual leader’s attendance comes a month after, according to a report in the Indian Express earlier this month, foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale had sent a note on February 22 to Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha, following which the “senior leaders” and “government functionaries” of the Centre and states were directed to skip events of exiled Tibetan leaders.
The Centre later clarified that Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was free to “carry out his religious activities in India”, reacting to reports that the government has asked senior functionaries to “skip” all events by the “Tibetan leadership in India”.
In an interview to CNN-News18 earlier this month, Dalai Lama had said that he doesn’t care about alleged pressure from China forcing the cancellation of events in Delhi to mark 60 years of the Tibetan government’s exile in India. He also said the position of the Dalai Lama has become irrelevant now and that the Tibetan people must decide on whether to continue it. The Tibetan government-in-exile shifted the high-profile event commemorating Dalai Lama’s 60 years of exile as an effort to bringing peace to relations between India and China.
Many Tibetan activists are said to have communicated to relevant authorities as the development ‘humiliated’ Dalai Lama.
China has for long considered the spiritual leader as a dangerous separatist and says Tibet is an integral part of its territory and has been for centuries. Beijing also says its rule ended serfdom and brought prosperity to what was a backward region, and that it fully respects the rights of the Tibetan people.
“Today, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the best ambassador for Indian values of non-violence, ahimsa and inter-religious harmony and the promotion of basic human values: compassion and kindness,” said Dr Sangay.
Source: https://www.news18.com/news/india/dalai-lama-to-kick-off-year-long-thank-you-india-events-on-saturday-1700849.html

[Celia]

@dsnowlion One can only hope that such is the case of the Dalai Lama leaving CTA. It will definitely serve to end the manipulations and exploitations carried out by CTA using the Dalai Lama’s name in vain. For far too long, CTA has been getting away with their shenanigans and trickeries by capitalising on peoples’ reverence and respect towards the Dalai Lama. Perhaps the Dalai Lama is now manifesting that things would be better off for the Tibet cause and Tibetans without CTA.

[dsnowlion]

@dsnowlion One can only hope that such is the case of the Dalai Lama leaving CTA. It will definitely serve to end the manipulations and exploitations carried out by CTA using the Dalai Lama’s name in vain. For far too long, CTA has been getting away with their shenanigans and trickeries by capitalising on peoples’ reverence and respect towards the Dalai Lama. Perhaps the Dalai Lama is now manifesting that things would be better off for the Tibet cause and Tibetans without CTA.

I think they just need a better new leadership that can see far. long and wide. Someone who is actually for the people, to unite everyone. Solidarity and not fraction/division. A leader that knows how to play his cards well with China and aim to help the people in Tibet by first paving the Dalai Lama's way back to Tibet. This would be a start to helping Tibet preserve Tibet. You cannot do that if you are outside of Tibet and fighting China. Only way is to work with them not against them. The whole world is working with China, who on earth does CTA think they are. Just a roach without any place to really.

[Rowntree]

His Holiness is not keen on the event for sure. His facial expression tells it all. Samdhong Rinpoche didn't even bother to attend or perhaps he took the opportunity to visit China again and make plans for His Holiness to return. I feel sorry for the two "old man" having to work so hard because of the incapable CTA. Lobsang Sangay is really useless. All he does is to look good, travel, go fine dining, have different female partners, do money laundering and human trafficking. He should impeach but whoever takes over will be doomed from the beginning because Sangay and his cronies would have cleared the CTA funds before the handover.