This is on based on an 2017 article in which the Sikyong Lobsang Sangay claimed that Tibetan Buddhism was saved because 30,000 monks and nuns specially trained in India (presumably by the CTA) "sneaked back" into China-controlled Tibet and saved their civilisation and the religion.
We have heard many wild and absurd claims by Lobsang Sangay who has become extremely good at telling fibs, but someone better give him an Oscar for 'Best Script For a Wild Fantasy'.
Sangay didn't elaborate where the 30,000 monks and nuns were from. If these so-called specially educated members of the Sangha were from the Tibetan settlements, then it would have literally emptied out all the Tibetan monasteries in India. If these 30,000 monks and nuns were from China, then surely it must be surely who is behind Tibet's revival of Tibetan Buddhism.
In any case, if 30,000 Tibetans could do so much, why not send another 30,000 and take over Tibet again?
We may not like that China took over Tibet and we can have debates about whether Tibet actually belonged under China's sovereignty. But one thing is for sure - the CTA is the one that is destroying Buddhism with the corruption of its principles and by the politicization of Tibetan Buddhism. China on the other hand is reviving it. Even Gavin Kilty, the Tibetan translator who is very pro Dalai Lama has this to say:
When the current Chinese president, Xi Jinping, was visiting Europe recently he said, in response to a question about the Chinese government’s lack of care for the Tibetan people, “The Chinese government cares more for the Tibetan people than the international community does.” From one point of view he was correct. The government has poured billions of yuan into Tibet to bolster its economy, improve infrastructure, and provide services. There are even stories of the government building homes for Tibetans who return from exile, and of providing them with jobs and money. Monasteries have been rebuilt; hospitals and schools are constructed where there were none before. These improvements in Tibet are undeniable. The country resembles a large construction site. This is what the president meant when he said the government cares for Tibetans.
Just in the Dorje Shugden ban alone, we have seen how the CTA has deformed the concept of devotion to the guru and the importance of keeping oaths, not to mention completely twisting Tibetan spiritual history.
This is a good article to illustrate how much the CTA take everyone for fools and why the Tibetan cause is failing. How can it succeed when you have someone like Sangay at the helm?
China did not succeed in destroying Buddhism in Tibet: Lobsang Sangay
Sangay said the Tibetan government in exile discourages self-immolation and also noted that not a single Chinese person has been harmed by Tibetans.
IndianExpress.com Published: May 25, 2017
Tibetans have foiled China’s attempts to “destroy” Buddhism in the remote Himalayan region with the help of nearly 30,000 monks and nuns “educated” in India who “sneaked” back to revive their culture, the leader of the Tibetan government in exile has said.
Lobsang Sangay, the president of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), said the “very objective of the invasion, occupation of Tibet in some ways if not defeated, has been diluted because (the Chinese) thought that they would destroy the Tibetan Buddhist civilisation thereby assimilate Tibet into China and Tibetan into Chinese. But it did not work.”
“Since 1980s, we have rebuilt voluntarily mainly by Tibetans inside Tibet and Buddhism has revived. And our sense of culture, civilisation and identity has also been revived in Tibet,” Sangay said yesterday at a public event organised by The Heritage Foundation, an American thinktank.
He said an estimated 30,000 Tibetans who were “educated” in India and “sneaked back” into Tibet have revived their civilisation.
“By going back in 1980s, when there was some social space in Tibet particularly, and in China in general, Tibetans rebuild monasteries in Tibet and learned and reeducated themselves with the help of some of the exiles (who were) trained and educated monks and nuns,” Sangay said.
“Buddhism has revived. Tibetans in Tibet are not just embracing Buddhism even the second and third generation of Tibetans are very much conscious of their identity,” he said. But, he said, the Chinese government “is hell bent upon the destruction of Buddhism in China”. Communist Party-ruled China is officially atheist.
Referring to the ongoing demolition of the Larung Gar monastery – the largest Buddhist institute in Tibet, which has some 12,000 monks and nuns, he said “unfortunately what is happening is that the Chines government is reviving something akin to cultural revolution in Tibet.”
He said the situation is same with other monastries in Tibet, “from where monks and nuns are being expelled.” “Because of this and other repressive policies of the Chinese government, 149 Tibetans have committed self-immolation of which nearly 130 have died,” he said.
Sangay said the Tibetan government in exile discourages self-immolation and also noted that not a single Chinese person has been harmed by Tibetans.
He also blamed China for the rapid melting of “thousands of glaciers” in Tibet on which 1.4 billion people in Asia depend for fresh water, saying migration of the Chinese to the Tibetan plateau and rapid urbanisation and industrialisation has led to the development. The Tibetan civilisation and culture ought to be preserved, he said.
Reiterating the “middle way” approach of the spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in resolving the dispute, Sangay said Tibetans should be granted “genuine” autonomy within China, within the framework of the Chinese Constitution.
“If the Chinese government implement their own laws listed in the Constitution and minorities nationalities act, we could take that as genuine autonomy,” he said, adding that the US supports the middle way approach of the Tibetan people.
“We do believe that the Tibetan cause would prevail,” Sangay said.https://indianexpress.com/article/world/china-did-not-succeed-in-destroying-buddhism-in-tibet-lobsang-sangay-4673149/