Fields: Hello Dalai! Hold Your Nose, He’s Coming To Town
BY SAM FIELDS
Guest Columnist
I don’t know any leader in the world who avoids examination more than Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso.
Who????
For short his name is Tenzin Gyatso. Still puzzled?
Perhaps you know him by his title–His Holiness, The Dalai Lama.
On October 25, he will be in Miami for a fundraiser and some speeches.
Anyone who knows something about history should make anyone think twice about giving him a dime much less keeping him on the pedestal he occupies.
THE FACTS
1. The Dalai Lama is not a name. It’s a title like Pope, Archbishop of Canterbury or Fuehrer.
2. A string of Dalai Lamas had absolute dictatorial control of Tibet from the 17th century until 1959 when another dictator, Mao Tse Tung, drove him out.
3. Gyatso was born in 1935. At the age of 3 he was anointed as the Dalai Lama by Buddhist monks who envisioned him keeping things the same.
4. Tibet was an absolute feudal dictatorship where feudal lords controlled 95% of the illiterate population. Dissenters were tortured and killed. People were bought and sold as slaves.
5. Three hundred years of successive Dalai Lamas, living in the palatial lap of luxury, gave the moral underpinning for this abomination.
6. In 1950, following Mao’s civil war victory, the Chinese tried to reassert their control of the area. China and Tibet signed The Seventeen Point Agreement that acknowledged Chinese sovereignty while accepting Tibet autonomy with the Dalai Lama in charge. Gyatso and Mao met for the signing.
7. In the mid 50’s the agreement fell apart when the feudal lords, angry at their declining power rebelled. Gyatso and brother worked with the CIA supporting a guerrilla movement. It failed and in 1959 the Red Army fully took over. [In a 1993 New York Times interview he admitted this was all true.]
8. In 1959 Gyatso fled and formed a government-in-exile in India. He joined a new guerrilla movement that was CIA funded and trained in Colorado. It also failed.
Tibetans rightly resent Beijing’s control and most particularly the Beijing backed migration of Han Chinese, who are displacing the native population. There have been uprisings that have lead to violence.
Beginning in the 1970’s, Gyatso successfully re-branded himself as the innocent victim and rewrote Tibetan history.
I have never heard or read of Gyatso acknowledging 300 year of oppression by the Dalai Lamas.
An apology? Forget it.
Gyatso’s followers have bought into his and Hollywood’s Tibetan image from in the 1937 movie Lost Horizon. It’s a Himalayan paradise headed up by the Dalai Lama (played by Sam Jaffe) where all is peace and love. The worst problem is forgetting your mantra.
The good news is you don’t have to go to Hollywood to sit at the feet of Gyatso and his acolytes like actor Richard Gere.
So you better not shout, you better not cry, you better not pout I’m telling you whythe Dalai Lama is coming to town.
Among those who will be there is a member of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Miami. I spoke with her and it was eye-opening.
Like Catholics defending Papal misconduct or Jews rationalizing Israel expansionism, “she don’t want to know nothing’ from nothing about the truth of Gaysto or Buddhism then or now.
Karma
The most interesting part of the conversation was our discussion about Karma. It is my contention that Karma is nothing more than a phony moral underpinning to justify those with wealth and power.
For those unfamiliar, it is a belief that all living things move up or down a spiritual evolutionary ladder. It all depends on your conduct in the last life.
Put another way: “what goes around comes around in the next life. Enough good lifetimes and you get to Buddhist heaven.
She was a bit perplexed when I asked her what, for instance, a slug might do to move up or down the ladder.
With the Jews it was another story. Simply put, she believes the six million Holocaust victims got their comeuppance for bad conduct in previous lives.
I assume that applies to the Tutsi in Rwanda, the Kurds gassed by Saddam Hussein and a host of other genocidal victims.
If that is right then what is good for the goose is good for the gander. So I guess the Tibetans, suffering under the greasy Chi COM thumb, are getting what they deserve.
To support Gyatso is to interfere with Tibetan karma. So save your money.
October 23rd, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Fields uses the history of Tibet to smear the Dalai Lama. Using his reasoning, today’s German leaders should be shunned because of Hitler and Italian leaders because of Mussolini. With logic like that it is no wonder he is at the lower rungs of the legal profession, defending drunks, pedaphiles and other scum.
October 23rd, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Just as in all “organized religions”, the logic of Tibetan Buddhism falls apart when questioned on the most fundamental levels. Love the slug question, Sam!!!! Throughout history, the Dalai Lamas (Popes, etc) used the ignorance of the Tibetan (European, etc) people to rule over them by promising something better when they were dead (or in the case of Buddhists and Hindus, completed the cycle of samsara to achieve nirvana). Religion is a tool to manipulate and control the masses. There is no need in the 21st century to live our lives based on superstitions that inspire fear. Having said that, I have to go now as it is time for me to worship The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Blessed Be HIS Noodly Goodness.
October 24th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Legal Man…why are you making this a personal thing??? Sam’s point is that Dalia Lama has never acknowleged a rotten system…how would you feel about Germany, if it became a holocaust denier?….that said it’s kind of clear that anyone inculcated (brainwashed) from age 3 probably is sincere that he has a worthwhile message..
October 25th, 2010 at 3:40 am
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October 25th, 2010 at 8:08 am
If you’re going to hate someone, hating the exiled leader of a tiny minority fighting for its cultural survival under oppressive and bloody one-party rule is a pretty darn poor choice.
October 25th, 2010 at 11:53 am
rastas,
one party dictatorships suck regardless of the size.
why is hello Dalai ientitled to a pass?
October 25th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
one party dictatorships suck regardless of the size.
why is hello Dalai ientitled to a pass?
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Who’s talking about a pass? But what you’re doing is akin to lambasting President Sarkozy for the excesses of Robespierre or Louis XIV. Your aim is off by several centuries.