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Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can briefly explain why Dalai Lama is considered as a joke among many Chinese?
Mainland universities have been ordered to steer clear of seven topics in their teaching, including universal values, press freedom and civil rights, two university staff said, offering an insight into ideological control under the new Communist Party leaders.
A Beijing-based industrial relations professor said yesterday the order, in the form of a classified document, had come from the General Office of the party's Central Committee, and only a select group of teaching and administrative staff at his university had been briefed about it.
The Beijing professor, who also declined to be named, said he had not personally seen the document but had been briefed on it because he had been outspoken.
"It's apparent back-pedalling if we cannot talk about what the Communist Party did wrong in the past," he said.
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can briefly explain why Dalai Lama is considered as a joke among many Chinese? I know it has a lot to do with politics, but I just don't know much about the details of what he did, and what is he trying to accomplish, in which resulted him to be so disliked/hated.
I admit that I didn't follow the news much about this in the past, and my Chinese history is "pretty horrible" XD
I tried googling, but most of the answers/opinions I got are from the Western perspective, in which favors Dalai Lama, and possibly biased?
Anyways, hope ya'll think tanks can help me out a bit here, any help is appreciated!
Thanks
PS: Please don't troll, I appreciate debates, but please not trolling.
This is a very deep historical question, whose roots go back at least to the T'ang Dynasty. A short, crisp answer is almost impossible. Much of what you need to know is intimately connected to Chinese history, and to the expansion of the Chinese state itself.
Would you seriously be interested in a detailed reply?
Interesting, thanks. Think I need to look into that too.
Also, how about things that happened recently, like why are we blaming him for the protesters that set themselves on fire? What does lama have to do with this, directly/indirectly?
detailed reply as authored by indians or western writers? Then he also needs to read our side of history if the OP is conversant in Chinese!
Tibet was a free country until 1950s Until China Invaded because of prior historical claims over the region. I believe Dalai lama was the Religious/Political head of the region.Invading Chinese took away his Political Influence in the region.So, he Incited armed rebelion against the chinese .When the chinese Retailated he fled to India. In the next following years, Indians and CIA actively supported the tibetian rebels ,encouraged by Dalai lama. Chinese CCP then started demonising him by propaganda that how he is a Western puppet. As of now I believe the support for tibetian rebels has ceased .Now even Dalai lama is approving chinese claims over tibet ,But asking for more political autonomy and freedom in the region. But ccp being communist does not allow it.
On a personal note, from his speeches , I don't think He is a bad guy. If some one Invades your home, takes away your freedom ,You are going to retailate .But I believe chinese should act Pragamatically and give the tibetians some Political space in the region.It will be win win for everyone.
Please do not react in such a defensive manner before even knowing what I would have said.
Tibet wasn't a free country, it was even protected by the Qing government while the British causing troubles there. It is a part of China. The action of the CCP was a maintenance of territorial integrity. In fact freeing Tibet was one of the few good things that the goddamn CCP have ever done, since the CCP wipe off the serfdom in Tibet and Siniora system from the hands of the Lamas and landlords. Not to mention the fertility rate and educational level of Tibetan people in Tibet rarely grow until the CCP has come.
The CCP even help write a Tibetan-English-Mandarin (Han) Dictionary (unlike other minorities in China such as Mongolian, Korean and Kazakh, Tibetan vocabulary cannot even meet the need of learning modern technology), while Dalai can't even come up a dictionary in India and they have to teach their children by English at school.
As for political space, there are many Tibetan have power in Beijing (the NPCSC), also in Tibet the highest leader and most of the officers are Tibetan.
Sikkim was a free country until 1975 until India invaded.![]()
Just my opinion that may provide an option for balancing reading materials
Tibet was under British control from 1912-1948 and was not "free" at all. The Dalai Lama had to obey the orders of the British Indian government. There were pro Republic of China Tibetan insurgents against the Dalai Lama and the British like the "Tibet Revolutionary Party" based in Kalimpong and they wanted Tibet to be a Republic inside of China instead of under the control of British India.
CIA declassified some old records from its Tibet operations in the late 2000's, and an American woman made a documentary movie based on these secret dealings in 2010. It turned out that Dalai Lama was on CIA payroll from 1953 to 1972, ending on the initiative of the CIA after Nixon visited China. During this period, Dalai actively managed the killing of hundreds of Chinese through his two brothers, who were the leaders on the ground. Dalai reinvented himself as a peace guru only in 1974, after having been unemployed for two years.
This Dalai Lama is a disguised politician with his religion. Before his self imposed exile in 1951 he used to run a slave system in the Chinese self ruled province Tibet. Millions and millions Tibetan Chinese were bought and sold as ordinary commodities which should never be tolerated. This system had since been abolished in 1951 by Mao. It is ironic he is campaigning for 'freedom' and 'autonomy', what to go back to the system before?
Tibetans and Han are all Chinese and many are in fact blood related. China is the home to all 56 ethnicities of Chinese and Tibetans are just another member of our big family.
Amazingly, western media has imposed a complete self-censorship on these proven facts (out of ignorance, arrogance, jealousy or hatred towards China).
I hope this has helped answer your question.
Tibetan dictionaries have existed since the 1880s.
What a lurid and distorted account.