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The Tibetan Road To Extinction
P. S. Remesh Chandran
Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
Book Title Image By Karin Henseler. Graphics: Adobe SP.
This book was proposed and started in 2016, not yet published. Excerpts from it are released here. Please visit this page again for more excerpts.
The Tibetan Road To Extinction
P. S. Remesh Chandran
Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
This book was proposed and started in 2016, not yet published. Excerpts from it are released here. Please visit this page again for more excerpts.
Chinese government repeats to the world that Tibetans look exactly like the Chinese and therefore China owns Tibet. It is the other way. China was first peopled by those who migrated from Nepal, Tibet and Burma, not from Europe as they like to believe which means that Tibetans are the father and owner of all Chinese.
Chinese government claims that they provide Tibetans with all physical needs such as food, shelter and clothing but they never claimed that they satisfied the spiritual needs of the Tibetan people such as leisure, comfort, calmness, religion and liberty. Tibetans emphasize spiritual needs which the Chinese can never understand- limited or constricted in their feelings.
During the past decades, America’s insistence on China’s withdrawal from Tibet has been becoming weaker and weaker, till President Obama totally stopped talking about the freedom of Tibet. Chinese investment, economic invasion and parliamentary lobbying have become such massive and permeating that American government does not now have a free hand in deciding whether China’s foreign invasion there is right or wrong. After this success, Chinese diplomats and industrialists are beginning to achieve the same neutral attitude from India, Burma and Philippines the same way. For the time being, Japan and Nepal are excluded from the purview of these economic and diplomatic sabotages which does not mean that China is not interested; it is only waiting for Japanese banking businesses to collapse and Nepal’s good relations with India to suffer set backs. Within a few years, industrialists in America, China, India, Philippines, Burma and Japan will begin to speak in the same language and tone which already has begun in India.
Tibetans have never been a farming community. It is not because they are lazy but because their land in high altitudes would not support agriculture. No food crops but only a few grasses will grow there. Growing season is short and water is scant. So Tibetans turned to cattle, with large herds continuously on the move through the countryside. During centuries the people of Tibet had been herding for a living. The land there is not suitable for farming. Had it been suitable they already would have been farming their land. The fact is most of their land is suitable only for herding. The Chinese occupiers ignored this basic fact and insisted that the people of Tibet become landlocked and turn to farming. This only resulted in the people starving, as they could not grow food in the tiny patches of land allotted to them. And they were not allowed to go back to herding. The starvation which resulted from this kind of land reform was the reason for the revolution in Amdo which eventually led to the exile of the Dalai Lama and his people from the occupied Tibet. Chinese Communist Party purposefully tied Tibetans to useless agriculture and landlocked labour, knowing that it would be their suicide. Brainwashed by the Chinese government’s propaganda, the world asks: why can’t the Tibetans cultivate their land and live like others?
The people in the occupied Tibet do not get any considerable education as claimed by their occupiers. China could create no great academicians, scientists or educationalists out of Tibet during the past 50 years. The Chinese Communist Party or its Polit Bureau does not contain any notable Tibetans in them which is a sure sign of the Chinese Government’s hatred and contempt for the Tibetans. What consideration the Chinese claim to have given to the Tibetans is purely for cheating the world and justifying the occupation of Tibet.
Dalai Lama is pictured by the Chinese as a slave driver who is responsible for the feudalism in Tibet. Tibet’s general backwardness cannot be attributed to him because he was only a child then. As he grew up, he has certainly made his contributions to reform Tibet’s political structure. It was him who established parliamentary democracy among Tibetan exiles. The Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution in China did not do any good to the Tibetans or to the Chinese, for that matter. The Chinese like to describe what happened in 1959 as liberation for Tibetans but in reality it only opened the doors to more famine, oppression and religious hara-kiri in the Tibetan plateau.
Cultural uniqueness and traditions of the Tibetans are not safe under Chinese rule. The ages-old traditions and culture even in China are not safe under the communist rule. The next coming is the fulfillment of basic necessities such as food, shelter and clothing. The Tibetans were not living in the open, unclothed and in hunger, during all those years till the Chinese occupation. To provide them basic amenities in life, no Chinese presence or communist administration is needed. But China wants the resources of Tibet for replenishing the fast depleting resources of their country. And they want a buffer zone in between them and the surrounding countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. It is only that Tibet is convenient to have in possession to satisfy these Chinese needs. Tibetans also are traditionally reluctant towards accepting technology as a means of life for they are higher-inspired spiritually by the majestic forces of nature obeying which and in harmony with which they live peacefully. But China gives too much importance to technology which is only capitalistic achievements of science in disguise. They do not possess as spiritual enlightenment as the Tibetans to recognize the dangers caused to society’s ethical and economic integrity by too much dependence on technology. For centuries we have been hearing about Lhasa as the Forbidden City, a city forbidden to foreigners. It was their wish to remain secluded so that their special religious and spiritual atmosphere could be preserved and lived in. Even while depending on slave labour and serfdom, Tibetan society was living far more close to gods than the Satan. Now their tranquil social life is lost in exchange for nothing good except suppression, oppression, subjection, poverty and state slavery.
It is this basic truth the world wants to forget in exchange for huge deposits of Yuan from China and substitution of costly but durable consumer goods in their country with cheap and brittle Chinese goods. America, India and many other countries are now filling their markets with inferior Chinese goods. India even prepared herself to import Chinese cars, car tyres and motor cycles at cheap prices so that a four-wheeler and two-wheeler revolution could be brought about in India but the experience of other countries which filled their streets and homes with Chinese junk dissuaded India from making the contracts materialize. Still India signed many contracts for importing Chinese junk. To mass produce these junk and export it to newly-found-friendly nations like America and India they need cheap labour force and virgin lands with resources. Within a decade, the world countries will have to unite to crush imperialist China as they united to crush imperialist Japan, Germany and Italy in 1945. Occupation and suppression of the Tibetan people by the Chinese is only a fore-warning of what is yet to come.
Chinese government claims that they provide Tibetans with all physical needs such as food, shelter and clothing but they never claimed that they satisfied the spiritual needs of the Tibetan people such as leisure, comfort, calmness, religion and liberty. Tibetans emphasize spiritual needs which the Chinese can never understand- limited or constricted in their feelings.
During the past decades, America’s insistence on China’s withdrawal from Tibet has been becoming weaker and weaker, till President Obama totally stopped talking about the freedom of Tibet. Chinese investment, economic invasion and parliamentary lobbying have become such massive and permeating that American government does not now have a free hand in deciding whether China’s foreign invasion there is right or wrong. After this success, Chinese diplomats and industrialists are beginning to achieve the same neutral attitude from India, Burma and Philippines the same way. For the time being, Japan and Nepal are excluded from the purview of these economic and diplomatic sabotages which does not mean that China is not interested; it is only waiting for Japanese banking businesses to collapse and Nepal’s good relations with India to suffer set backs. Within a few years, industrialists in America, China, India, Philippines, Burma and Japan will begin to speak in the same language and tone which already has begun in India.
Tibetans have never been a farming community. It is not because they are lazy but because their land in high altitudes would not support agriculture. No food crops but only a few grasses will grow there. Growing season is short and water is scant. So Tibetans turned to cattle, with large herds continuously on the move through the countryside. During centuries the people of Tibet had been herding for a living. The land there is not suitable for farming. Had it been suitable they already would have been farming their land. The fact is most of their land is suitable only for herding. The Chinese occupiers ignored this basic fact and insisted that the people of Tibet become landlocked and turn to farming. This only resulted in the people starving, as they could not grow food in the tiny patches of land allotted to them. And they were not allowed to go back to herding. The starvation which resulted from this kind of land reform was the reason for the revolution in Amdo which eventually led to the exile of the Dalai Lama and his people from the occupied Tibet. Chinese Communist Party purposefully tied Tibetans to useless agriculture and landlocked labour, knowing that it would be their suicide. Brainwashed by the Chinese government’s propaganda, the world asks: why can’t the Tibetans cultivate their land and live like others?
The people in the occupied Tibet do not get any considerable education as claimed by their occupiers. China could create no great academicians, scientists or educationalists out of Tibet during the past 50 years. The Chinese Communist Party or its Polit Bureau does not contain any notable Tibetans in them which is a sure sign of the Chinese Government’s hatred and contempt for the Tibetans. What consideration the Chinese claim to have given to the Tibetans is purely for cheating the world and justifying the occupation of Tibet.
Dalai Lama is pictured by the Chinese as a slave driver who is responsible for the feudalism in Tibet. Tibet’s general backwardness cannot be attributed to him because he was only a child then. As he grew up, he has certainly made his contributions to reform Tibet’s political structure. It was him who established parliamentary democracy among Tibetan exiles. The Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution in China did not do any good to the Tibetans or to the Chinese, for that matter. The Chinese like to describe what happened in 1959 as liberation for Tibetans but in reality it only opened the doors to more famine, oppression and religious hara-kiri in the Tibetan plateau.
Cultural uniqueness and traditions of the Tibetans are not safe under Chinese rule. The ages-old traditions and culture even in China are not safe under the communist rule. The next coming is the fulfillment of basic necessities such as food, shelter and clothing. The Tibetans were not living in the open, unclothed and in hunger, during all those years till the Chinese occupation. To provide them basic amenities in life, no Chinese presence or communist administration is needed. But China wants the resources of Tibet for replenishing the fast depleting resources of their country. And they want a buffer zone in between them and the surrounding countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. It is only that Tibet is convenient to have in possession to satisfy these Chinese needs. Tibetans also are traditionally reluctant towards accepting technology as a means of life for they are higher-inspired spiritually by the majestic forces of nature obeying which and in harmony with which they live peacefully. But China gives too much importance to technology which is only capitalistic achievements of science in disguise. They do not possess as spiritual enlightenment as the Tibetans to recognize the dangers caused to society’s ethical and economic integrity by too much dependence on technology. For centuries we have been hearing about Lhasa as the Forbidden City, a city forbidden to foreigners. It was their wish to remain secluded so that their special religious and spiritual atmosphere could be preserved and lived in. Even while depending on slave labour and serfdom, Tibetan society was living far more close to gods than the Satan. Now their tranquil social life is lost in exchange for nothing good except suppression, oppression, subjection, poverty and state slavery.
It is this basic truth the world wants to forget in exchange for huge deposits of Yuan from China and substitution of costly but durable consumer goods in their country with cheap and brittle Chinese goods. America, India and many other countries are now filling their markets with inferior Chinese goods. India even prepared herself to import Chinese cars, car tyres and motor cycles at cheap prices so that a four-wheeler and two-wheeler revolution could be brought about in India but the experience of other countries which filled their streets and homes with Chinese junk dissuaded India from making the contracts materialize. Still India signed many contracts for importing Chinese junk. To mass produce these junk and export it to newly-found-friendly nations like America and India they need cheap labour force and virgin lands with resources. Within a decade, the world countries will have to unite to crush imperialist China as they united to crush imperialist Japan, Germany and Italy in 1945. Occupation and suppression of the Tibetan people by the Chinese is only a fore-warning of what is yet to come.
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