Nepal Steps up!

[LosangKhyentse]

Nepal steps up security to quell Tibetan protest

AP[Tuesday, March 09, 2010 22:29]
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA

Nepal has stepped up security and warned Tibetans exiles against organizing protests against China during the anniversary of the failed uprising that sent the Dalai Lama into exile, officials said Tuesday.


Policemen detain a Tibetan activist protesting against the Chinese government outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)Home Ministry spokesman Jayamukunda Khanal said security around the Chinese Embassy and its visa office has been stepped up, with police guarding all roads leading to the area.

Khanal said the local representative of Dalai Lama, Thinley Gyatso, was taken to the chief district officer Sunday and warned that no anti-China protests should take place.

Gyatso was allowed to leave after the meeting with the officials, Khanal said.

Wednesday marks the anniversary of the March 10, 1959, riots inside Tibet against Chinese rule that led to a crackdown and, later that month, the Dalai Lama's dramatic flight across the Himalayas and into exile.

Tibetan exiles in Nepal are expected to demonstrate on the anniversary Wednesday, but they have not made any public announcements, fearing a police crackdown.

Tibetans in Nepal have been protesting regularly against China since 2008. Police usually detain protesters for a few hours and then release them.

Nepal has been under pressure from Western nations to allow the protests _ and from China to stop them.

Thousands of Tibetan exiles live in Nepal, and hundreds more are allowed to pass through the country on their way to Dharmasala, India, where the Dalai Lama lives in exile.

The protests are a source of embarrassment to Nepal's government, which wants strong ties with China. Beijing has repeatedly asked Nepal to better control the Tibetan refugees within its borders and stop the protests.

China claims Tibet has always been part of its territory, but many Tibetans say the Himalayan region was virtually independent for centuries until Chinese troops invaded in the 1950s.
 

from:  http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?article=Nepal+steps+up+security+to+quell+Tibetan+protest&id=26836


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Nepalese police try to stop exiled Tibetans from protesting against the Chinese government at Baudhanath Stupa, in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Hundreds of Tibetan exiles protested Wednesday marking the anniversary of the March 10, 1959, riots inside Tibet against Chinese rule that led to a crackdown and, later that month, the Dalai Lama's dramatic flight across the Himalayas and into exile. (AP Photo/ Binod Joshi)

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Delhi

Policemen detain a Tibetan activist protesting against the Chinese government outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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Nepal police detain Tibetan protesters during a protest against Chinese rule over Tibet in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Hundreds of Tibetan exiles protested Wednesday marking the Tibetan National Uprising anniversary of 1959. Nepali police arrested around 30 Tibetan, including a Tibetan radio journalist, witnesses told Phayul (Photo: Lhuboom/RFA)

4th picture:

Police arrest Tibetans shouting anti-China slogans as they try to storm the Chinese Embassy Consulate in Kathmandu March 10, 2010. Tibetans in Kathmandu protested during the 51st anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule. (REUTERS/Gopal Chitrakar)

[emptymountains]

You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...

[Geronimo]

hahaha!em,_'The Princess Bride',My name is Carlos Montoya...........

"A recent report in Al Jazeera English characterized the incident as Nepal curtailing Tibetan community's free speech rights, under pressure from China.

Focus on the Tibetan community in Nepal and neighboring India has however failed to include growing division within the community on a very serious issue-religious freedom. The Dalai Lama has imposed a ban on worship of deity Shugden. This has divided the community as Shugden's believers face hostility and suspicion.

As Nepal continues to put emphasis in building closer relationship with China, its relationship with hundreds of Tibetan refugees scattered around the country is bound get more strained in coming days. Anniversaries commemorating events like 1959 uprising juts add extra pressure to the already difficult situation."

Even Muslims recognize the despotic behavior of this Dalia Lama as a Sangha Breaker!
His brother did the same thing Marching For Free Tibet until he had a dehabiltating stroke.
The only humane thing to do for the Refugees is to prepare for their return home to Tibetan China.
 The next is to clarify and seperate the Dharma from the taint of Tibetan Politics, Which are as dark as the history of the Vatican.  Better the Tibetans return to China Tibet and accept their karma and make things better from their Homelands.For the Aristocrats, well they've already joined all the rest who have had to flee from their home lands for one reason or another. The odds simply are not in the favor of the 145,000+-Refugees, When there are over 2.6 million Tibetans apparently happy to live in Tibet than go traipsing all over the world disgruntled. We have Liitle Cuba in Miami and Little this and little that all over the place. So, another generation disperses and life go on and if this Lama had a mission? I think it is done!

Get the Tibetans out of these camps and send them back to the land with their educations. The ones that the Dalia Lama Trust surely provided Scholarships for an entire generation, he owes them that much.


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[Geronimo]

Dalai Lama told to stop separatist activities
March 12, 2010 

China on Thursday called on the Dalai Lama to stop indulging in separatist activities and create conducive conditions for talks with the government.

"The Dalai distorts the true situation in Tibet. He attacks and insults the central government's policies on Tibet to trumpet his separatist claims of independence or semi-independence," Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said.

The Dalai Lama had accused the Chinese government of putting "the monks and nuns (of Tibet) in prison-like conditions", and deliberately "annihilating Buddhism" during an address to mark the 51st anniversary of his exile, in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamshala, on Wednesday.

The Dalai Lama had on March 10, 1959 fled the country after an armed rebellion to separate Tibet from China was foiled. The Dalai Lama also referred to China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region as "East Turkestan".

"This exposes and proves his intent of splitting up China and wrecking ethnic unity," Qin said. No country in the world recognizes Tibet Autonomous Region as an independent nation, nor do they acknowledge the "exiled government", he said. Qin also praised India for its efforts to ban anti-China movements in the country.

The Dalai Lama's address came just four days before the second anniversary of the March 14 Lhasa riots in 2008 which left 19 dead and injured over 400 people. Lhasa's Vice-Mayor Jigme Namgyal told China Daily Wednesday that the Dalai Lama was "a separatist who uses religion as a cloak" to conceal his intentions.

"They (Tibetans in exile) are just a small group of people attempting to create a dramatic effect in the international arena as well as in Lhasa. They must be thinking about inciting more trouble this year as the anniversary approaches, but I don't think they will succeed."

Namgyal also refuted the Dalai Lama's claim about the condition of Buddhists in Tibet, and said Tibetans were now more focused on their quality of life. "The people in Tibet have put much effort on improving the quality of their lives and I don't think there's any problem in this matter."

"The Dalai Lama cannot decide the future of Tibet; that right is in the hands of Chinese people including Tibetans. The so-called "annihilation of Buddhism" is an audacious lie. The government does not interfere with people's beliefs as long as they are legal. It has never stopped Tibetans from their religious practices and has actually provided lots of conveniences. For example, when there are big religious festivals, the government provides funding and helps in other ways," the vice-mayor added.

Over the year, the central government has done much to ensure a better life, more than 6 billion yuan ($878 million) was invested for environmental protection efforts in Tibet over the past eight years, while another 9.8 billion yuan was approved over the weekend for an environmental protection program.

The local illiteracy rate has dropped from 98 percent 50 years ago to the current 2.4 percent. Local schools teach both Tibetan and Chinese.

"There are over 1,700 places of religious worship in Tibet and a total of 460,000 monks and nuns. The need for prayer and religious activity is fully met. All the monks and nuns over the age of 60 are also included in our social welfare system," Padma Choling, Tibet's governor, told Xinhua.

[Geronimo]

The Dalai Lama is a Communist

For the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Marxism has formed his political framework since the 1950s. The Dalai Lama’s infatuation with Mao can be seen in a remarkable poem he wrote while on his visit to China in 1954. Right up until his flight from Tibet in 1959, the Dalai Lama was working closely with the Chinese. Many Tibetans can remember that in the 1970s the Dalai Lama attempted to start a Tibetan Communist Party with the intention to spread communism amongst the Tibetans in exile.
Quotes Photos References Also see...I still think of myself as half-Marxist, half-Buddhist

Beyond Dogma: The Challenge of the Modern World,Souvenir Press, 1996
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama

Sometimes I think that, boldly stated, the Marxists’ socioeconomic theories can be considered Buddhist – a part of Buddhism ... The capitalist West is simply thinking about money and how to make more profit. My main consideration is to find a closer working relation with the Communists.

The Times of India, Delhi, 30 May 1996
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama

‘O! Chairman Mao! Your brilliance and deeds are like those of Brahma and Mahasammata, creators of the world.

Only from an infinite number of good deeds can such a leader be born, who is like the sun shining over the world.

‘Your writings are precious like pearls, abundant and powerful as the high tide of the ocean reaching the edges of the sky.

O! most honourable Chairman Mao, may you long live.

Tibetan Interviews
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama

It was only when I went to China in 1954-55 that I actually studied Marxist ideology and learned the history of the Chinese revolution. Once I understood Marxism, my attitude changed completely. I was so attracted to Marxism, I even expressed my wish to become a Communist Party member.

'His Journey: Exile', Time Magazine, 4 October 1999
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama

Before the [seventeen-point] agreement … Tibet could see no way ahead. Since the agreement Tibet has left the old way that led to darkness and has taken a new way leading to a bright future of development.

... I heard Chairman Mao talk on different matters and I received instruction from him. I have come to the firm conviction that the brilliant prospects for the people of China as a whole are also the prospects for us Tibetan people; the path of our entire country is our path and not any other.’

Tibet: Record of a Journey
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama

[thor]

Khanal said the local representative of Dalai Lama, Thinley Gyatso, was taken to the chief district officer Sunday and warned that no anti-China protests should take place.

Gyatso was allowed to leave after the meeting with the officials, Khanal said.

Governments also realise that the Dalai Lama has the power and authority to control the Tibetan population. Dalai Lama should stop saying that he has no control over the Tibetan people or that he cannot tell the Tibetan people to 'stop' whatever they are doing re Dorje Shugden. Dalai Lama has the power to stop this Shugden controversy in its tracks. I find it painful to see the Sangha involved in political demonstrations such as this. Its even worse when its about religion.

[harrynephew]

another sad chapter of Tibetan history(in exile). I just wish all these can stop happening and we all return to our practices, livelihoods and move on.........

move it

move it


move it peeps

HN

[DSFriend]

Governments also realise that the Dalai Lama has the power and authority to control the Tibetan population. Dalai Lama should stop saying that he has no control over the Tibetan people or that he cannot tell the Tibetan people to 'stop' whatever they are doing re Dorje Shugden. Dalai Lama has the power to stop this Shugden controversy in its tracks. I find it painful to see the Sangha involved in political demonstrations such as this. Its even worse when its about religion.

Where do we even begin? Dalai Lama said there is no ban!

[Big Uncle]

I think that the Tibetan people should be more respectful of their host country and do more to return their kindness instead of creating more problems. Aren't the Nepalese like the Indians had very kind to the Tibetans? On top of that the Tibetans have been thriving and have amassed relative prosperity while many of the local people are in desperate poverty. Shouldn't they do something more constructive instead of protesting so much.

[Lee Dhi]

“Wednesday marks the anniversary of the March 10, 1959, riots inside Tibet against Chinese rule that led to a crackdown and, later that month, the Dalai Lama's dramatic flight across the Himalayas and into exile.”

From the above statement, it can be derived that the riot contributed to the fleeing of the Dalai Lama from Tibet. Based on results, rioting against the Chinese government does not help or contribute to the cause of autonomy in and freedom of Tibet. Besides not achieving the desired result of freedom and autonomy, the riots (past and present) seem to have caused more damage than good. Some of the harmful consequences of these riots include:

1)   Bloodshed.
2)   Material damage of property.
3)   Waste of resources: the resources used to control the riots could be put to more constructive use.
4)   Disharmony in Nepal and difficulty for the Nepalese people.
5)   Negative impression of the “peaceful” Buddhist.
6)   Stringent control of Dharma growth in China, which is such a big and influential nation that can bring great benefits should they embrace and ambassador pure Buddhadharma. In other words, these riots created some level of obstacle for the smooth and swift growth of Dharma in one of today’s most influential nation.

Perhaps it is time to consider alternative approaches. This does not mean to give up the dream of having a free Tibet. Instead it is a call to find a different method. As to whether the new method will work or not, it is uncertain. However, what is somewhat certain is that the old method does not work.

At the same time, what defines a free Tibet? Is freedom solely defined by the political status of a nation or can it be viewed from the angle of the happiness and state of mind of its people? This contemplation could be a good start to finding the alternative path to move forward for Tibetans and Tibet.

[Geronimo]

Dalai Lama “Supporters” Violently Oppress Buddhist Monks in Mundgod, India


Stone-throwing in Mundgod – 3 cops, 30 others hurt


DECCAN HERALD
Monday, September 11, 2000
MUNDGOD (Karwar) Sept 10 (DHNS)

Three police officers and more than 30 persons were injured in a stone pelting incident in Lama camp of Tibetan settlement, Mundgod on Sunday morning.

More than 2000 Lamas, including 200 women, who are said to be the followers of Dalai Lama took out procession under the leadership of Prema Tsering, and tried to destroy a Shugden temple and started pelting stones at Shugden devotees. Police personnel resorted to a lathi (stick / cane) charge and later shot teargas shells.

The Dalai Lama supporters opposed prayers at the Shugden temple, due to the difference of opinion between Lama followers and Shugden devotees.Dorje Shugden Devotees Charitable and Religious Society had arranged a three-day seminar which started on Saturday, but Lama supporters staged a protest march today which ended in the stone pelting.

Police Inspector B.D. D’Souza, PSI S.T. Gasti, ASI Ganapati S. Naik and more than 30 Shugden devotees were injured in the stone pelting. However, the timely action of the police averted mishap.

Mr Yesha Lama has urged the arrest of the culprits who tried to destroy the Shugden temple and the building belonging to Kunja Lama, and requested the police to provide protection for Shugden devotees.

Mr G.B. Chebbi (Superintendent of Police), Dr T.D. Pawar, Additional SP V.S. Naik, Dy SP, Asst Commissioner Naveen, Tahsildar Raghavendra Rao have camped at Mundgod and are supervising the law and order situation.

Monk Lozang Tsering, 29. Shartse Monastery.
Fled Tibet in 1990 to study Buddhism in India.
He and other monks were maltreated and injured by Tibetan protesters,
including monks, recruited from various camps by the local
Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA) and local Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC)
and the settlement Chairman to disrupt the two-day prayer conference of the
all-India Shugden devotees’ representatives.

There is panic in the Tibetan settlement area and vehicular traffic was stopped. More than 50 representatives from all over India and three delegates from Nepal have participated in this seminar, which will be concluded on Monday. The General Secretary of Shugden Devotees Charitable Society L.K. Thakur has urged the district to provide police protection to Shugden devotees.

[Deccan Herald]

[Lee Dhi]

It is so sad that Dalai Lama supporters act this way. Such actions destroy the Dharma and the Dalai Lama himself. Reading these newspaper "cut outs" about events surrounding the Buddhadharma world is like reading any other samsaric news/gossip. The fuel for these news are the actions of so called "Dharma - Dalai Lama supporters". Like Harrynephew stated, we need to move it with the moving on and return to pure Dharma practice...not destruction.

I hope that these "supporters" will have the good karma to see the consequence they are causing and make a conscious decision to change their action of body, speech and mind!

[thor]

Regardless of whatever is happening in Nepal right now, yesterday in Dagom ladrang a puja was performed for Dagom Rinpoche. I hope his incarnation returns soon! 

[Geronimo]

H.H, Kyabje Dagom Rinpoche reincarnated in Ulaanbaataar, Mongolia last year.

[DSFriend]

H.H, Kyabje Dagom Rinpoche reincarnated in Ulaanbaataar, Mongolia last year.

The "devil worshipers" have control over death and they return! One after another, they reincarnate back just like jack popping out of the box.