Read it, check the sources. 90% are from non Chinese, non Communist/Socialist sources. Many many Buddhists have said that the Lama’s Buddhism was devoid of the peace and harmony that was such a large part of their belief system. Yet he has had 40 years to put his own spin on things, and as time passes his word spreads more as history falls to a back burner. I hate how Lucid presents his facts but he speaks true.

Buddhism is really a cult, just like any other religion. You can organize it and you can try and put a pretty picture on it but in reality they are all just trying to get people to conform to control. This can be said about any religion, and that’s why I stand with the Brights.

“I’ve read many many non Chinese reports and all the ones NOT written by Bhuddists all compare the Dali Lamas tibet to Medieval Europe.”

I too have read many books. I love Science Fiction. Namely the kind that involves space battles carried out from the perspective of an arrogant, yet highly skilled, Admiral. The one I’m reading right now, is called “Flag in Exile” and is the 4th installment of the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. Furthermore I like to indulge in excessive alcohol consumption, and regular heterosexual intercourse with my peers.

As you can see, we are clearly on even ground.

Anyway, your description of Tibet is precisely the justification that China has scrounged up in order to continue it’s occupation.

Congratulations, all those reeducation camps are really paying off.

Chairman Mao is the red sun in our hearts!

If the Lama Links get reported, we will know who it was. lol

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*=t, no pass.

Your argument, like most people’s, is full of holes. Buddhism is not a religion, it’s a philosophy.

Yes, of course Tibetans should be free of persecution. How does that relate to Buddhism? Do you imply the Monks persecute or somehow repress people? If so, explain how, or explain why Buddhism should not be there.

The Colbert Report is a non-Chinese report, but do you believe everything he says? Quote your sources, not your non-sources.

The ones who should take their heads out of their asses and those who spout crap without at least justifying their crap in a logical manner.

BTW Bhuddists are just nutjobs like every other religious idiot.

Keep the ol’ screws loose eh? Cloaks and daggers much? Smoke and mirrors? Shrooms?

You have provided one website, with a very questionable degree of accuracy — i.e. the author’s ability employ logical fallacies in order to fluff the already questionable assertions. Furthermore he has no qualms about quoting books whose neutrality is easily disputable. Take for example, the source for the following statement:

“Stuart and Roma Gelder interviewed a former serf, Tsereh Wang Tuei, who had stolen two sheep belonging to a monastery. For this he had both his eyes gouged out and his hand mutilated beyond use.”

The source quoted (Gelder and Gelder, The Timely Rain, 113) is briefly summarized in another book (The China Quarterly, p194): “The Timely Rain is a generally favourable treatment of Chinese Communist policies in Tibet and of general conditions there.” Which interestingly enough goes on to say: “A reading of the Tibetan Sourcebook, even though it presents excerpts from Chinese Communist broadcasts and publications, shows the Chinese and their ways are not acceptable to most Tibetans.”

As a whole, the article doesn’t even attempt to cover up the fact that it is simply a propaganda piece by an armchair communists who has never had the displeasure of living under a communist state.

And finally, the website under which it’s posted is by it’s own admission “a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice.” These kind of folks simply look for ideas to “dissent” entirely irregardless of it’s merit (seemingly the more truth it carries, the louder they protest against it).