tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59577109634922853662024-03-05T22:52:55.547-08:00burning tibetBaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-61351601032954483462020-09-06T23:05:00.000-07:002020-09-06T23:05:26.649-07:00Behind the Uniform<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"> (<i>I wrote this review of <b>Tibetan Guerrillas in Exile</b>, a documentary film by Tibetan filmmaker Kelsang Rinchen, in 2009 and is included in my book <b>Yak Horns: Notes on Contemporary Tibetan Writing, Music, Film & Politics</b>. With the SFF now in sharp focus due to open conflicts between India and China in Indo-Tibetan borders, this rare documentary is important. Please watch and share. Thank you.</i>)<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Watch trailer here</b>: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23v9XBpgAk0</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Full doc. here</b>: https://www.facebook.com/kalsangr<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <br />On 20 October 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, troops of China’s People’s Liberation Army (the PLA) attacked India. They crossed two 16,000-foot passes, routing the Indian border sentries. In Ladakh in Northwestern India, the Chinese army swiftly overwhelmed fifteen of twenty-one Indian army posts. By the second week of November, the PLA took over the town of Tawang in the Northeastern Frontier Area (NEFA) and marched toward Tezpur in the Brahmaputra Valley. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />India’s dismal performance in this high-altitude battleground of the Sino-Indian War prompted the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, to raise the Special Frontier Force on 14 November. Nehru made this decision on his birthday on the advice of the Intelligence Bureau founder-director, Bhola Nath Mullick, and World War II veteran Biju Patnaik – later to become the chief minister of Orissa. Incidentally, it was on the same day that the Chinese army resumed its attack on the eastern front after a brief lull. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLUM0eworhX_bmF3zeWlqvO5gwijB_F2G01abSnkbKk4bDgJvOvoMMudMW0qh7zsiP3MIV3PfSd_tUl8zyUm8ZKcSQh6QfggXOy0MU3pLH8UWX3zYNrUQWKjRvvcjdBKzxCA1jMKGmKbhf/s2048/Yak+Horns+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1332" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLUM0eworhX_bmF3zeWlqvO5gwijB_F2G01abSnkbKk4bDgJvOvoMMudMW0qh7zsiP3MIV3PfSd_tUl8zyUm8ZKcSQh6QfggXOy0MU3pLH8UWX3zYNrUQWKjRvvcjdBKzxCA1jMKGmKbhf/s320/Yak+Horns+cover.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;">On 20 November, six
days after the creation of the special force, Jawaharlal Nerhru addressed the
nation on All India Radio: ‘Huge Chinese armies have been marching in northern
part of NEFA. We have had reverses in Walong, Se La and today Bomdila, a small
town in NEFA had also fallen. We shall not rest until the invader goes out of
India or pushed out,’ he said. ‘This was the lowest watermark of India morale,’
wrote Dr P. B. Sinha and Colonel A. A. Athale in their mammoth and now-declassified
book History of the Conflict with China - 1962 published by India’s Ministry of
Defence.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <br />The Cabinet Secretariat under Nehru ordered that the SFF should be an elite force composed mainly of Tibetan refugees. Its main goal was to conduct covert operations behind the lines of the PLA and to engage its soldiers in the über-tough terrain of the Himalayas. The first Inspector-General of the SFF was a retired Indian Army Major-General, Sujan Singh Uban. Not long after, the SFF was re-named as ‘Establishment 22’ since Uban was commander of the 22 Mountain Regiment in World War II.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />Members of the SFF numbering around twelve thousand mostly came from Chushi-Gang-Druk, a resistance group founded in Tibet by Andrugtsang Gonpo Tashi, a Tibetan businessman. The resistance fighters of this force had come into exile with the Dalai Lama in the aftermath of China’s occupation of Tibet. They welcomed the founding of Establishment 22 in the hope that through this new regular force a Tibetan army could be maintained to fight against the Chinese some day in the distant future. ‘The main objective was to fight the Chinese to get back independence for Tibet. That was why I joined the force,’ said Passang, an SFF veteran. But, till this day the opportunity to fight for their country has never arisen.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />However, a few months before the Bangladesh War in 1971, the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi wired a message to the Tibetan soldiers. ‘We cannot compel you to fight a war for us, but the fact is that General A. A. K. Niazi [Pakistan’s military commander in East Pakistan] is treating the people of East Pakistan very badly. India has to do something about it,’ Gandhi wrote, ‘In a way, it is similar to the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans in Tibet; we are facing a similar situation. It would be appreciated if you could help us fight the war for liberating the people of Bangladesh.’ </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />Consequently, three columns of SFF led by Gyato Dhondup, Ratuk Nawang and Pekar Trinley, who were simply identified as ‘political leaders’, infiltrated into Bangladesh, then called East Pakistan. In collaboration with the Mukti Bahini or Freedom Fighters, an armed group fighting against the Pakistani army, the SFF conducted raids destroying infrastructure such as bridges and communication lines – especially in Chittagong, where an important naval base was located – that enabled the Indian Army to advance into East Pakistan. However, this operation by around three thousand Tibetan soldiers was so secret that even the Indian army knew nothing of it. ‘We knew that they were there. But what they were doing I had no idea,’ admitted Major-General K. K. Tewari, who was Chief Signal Officer during the war.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />One of the biggest achievements of the SFF was the demolition of Do Hazari Bridge that connects Chittagong to Burma. On 16 December 1971, Lt. Gen Niazi of the Pakistan Army signed the Instrument of Surrender and over ninety thousand Pakistani troops surrendered to the Indian forces making it the largest military surrender since World War II. However, thousands of these defeated soldiers were planning to escape into China via neighbouring Burma by crossing the Do Hazari Bridge. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />A day after the signing of the surrender, the SFF received an urgent message from the chief of Indian Eastern Command, Lt.-General Jagjit Singh Arora, ordering them to destroy this strategic bridge. This was one of many successful missions that the SFF undertook in the Indo-Bangladesh War. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />Over the course of their covert operation, the three Tibetan columns lost fifty-two soldiers, including one of their commanding officers, Gyato Dhondup. Hundreds were injured. Tibetan Guerrillas in Exile, a documentary by Kalsang Rinchen, a young Tibetan filmmaker, tells the stories of the SFF and these Tibetan veterans who today mostly live in old peoples’ homes, playing carom and making noodles to make ends meet.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />In the summer of 2008, Kalsang – then a student at the University of Buffalo – traveled to India with his polished script and cameras. The journey was to document the life story of these veterans, their roles in the Bangladesh War and their fates in the aftermath. Inspite of his limited student budget, and the official embargo placed on the subject, Kalsang has done an admirable job in narrating the lives of these brave and dwindling former soldiers. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />The most agonizing experience that one gets watching this documentary is the void in the faces of these veterans stemming from their unfulfilled dream of fighting for their country. In 1963, when a column of the SFF was posted in Bogtai, a border post spanning India, Tibet and Bhutan, some soldiers took a few steps into Tibet, picked up handfuls of earth and shouted out loud: ‘This is my land! This is my land!’ If we look deeply into their eyes, we see that they still hold the amber of hope that there might be one last battle to reclaim their country. <br />‘I want to fight for Tibet, even if that means throwing some dust in the enemy’s eyes,’ says Lama Kunchok, an SFF veteran, looking straight into the camera and the hue of his monk’s robes glowing bright.<br /> </span></span></p>BaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-5714113104789227462017-05-14T22:52:00.000-07:002017-05-14T22:52:54.373-07:00Reclaiming 'the soil beneath his feet and sky above his head'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>White Crane Lend Me Your Wings </i></b>by Tsewang Y. Pemba</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(This review was previously published in the </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Journal of Indian Literature</i></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">The Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso
(1683-1706), was arguably </span><span style="text-align: left;">one of the most inspiring Tibetan poets. His lyrical
songs have found a permanent place in the hearts of Tibetans, and to this day his
words are set to new tunes by Tibetan artistes around the world. Like most
Tibetans Tsewang Yeshi Pemba too was inspired by songs of the poet Dalai Lama,
and in fact the title of Pemba’s posthumous novel </span><i style="text-align: left;">White Crane, Lend Me Your Wings</i><span style="text-align: left;"> is borrowed from a famous quartet Tsangyang
Gyatso composed days before his sudden death at the age of twenty-three. Pemba
was the first Tibetan allopathic doctor and a surgeon, who had authored two
books </span><i style="text-align: left;">Young Days in Tibet </i><span style="text-align: left;">and </span><i style="text-align: left;">Idols on the Path</i><span style="text-align: left;">. Dr Pemba died in 2012.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">White Crane</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> is set in Nyarong, a valley at the
heart of Kham in Eastern Tibet. With soaring mountains, deep valleys,
undulating rivers, and open grasslands, Nyarong is something of a highland ‘Wild
West’ whose tribes often engaged in blood feuds while at the same time making
generous donations to local monasteries and propitiating deities who never
answered their prayers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">Paul or Paul-o, a central protagonist of Tsewang’s
novel, follows roughly the same path as that of George Patterson or </span>Patterson
of Tibet, a
Scottish missionary, who the present Dalai Lama fondly called Khampa Gyau, ‘the
Bearded Khampa’. At the age of twenty-seven in 1947, Patterson went to Tibet and set up his base in Dartsedo, a
border town between Tibet and China. From there he extensively traveled and spent
time among the militant tribal Khampas learning the language and treating them
medically.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paul-o, however, is born in Nyarong to a missionary couple from San
Francisco, who come to Tibet with mission to bring the entire high plateau into
the fold of the ‘one true God’. Though the missionary couple manage
to convert only a handful of Tibetans into Christianity, ‘they won the
hearts of Tibetans’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paul-o’s oath-bound friend, and the other central character in the novel,
is Tenga or Tenpa Gyurmay Dragotsang, the son of the chieftain of Nyarong.
Paul, Tenga and their gang’s idyllic youthful days spent horse-riding, swimming,
hunting expeditions and frequent sexual escapades are cut short by the advancing
army of the newly-formed Communist China. Tashi Tsering Rithangtsang, Tenga’s ancestral
archenemy, leads the shabbily-dressed but disciplined Red Army troops into
Nyarong. This shrewd double-headed opportunist Khampa in the novel reminds one
of a controversial character in modern Tibetan history, Baba Phunstok Wangyal,
who guided the Eighteenth Army of China’s People’s Liberation Army to Lhasa in
1951 to ‘liberate’ Tibet from foreign reactionaries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Tenga, Paul-o and Khampa warriors realize that they were no match
for the battle-hardened and well-equipped Chinese army swarming their beloved
Nyarong, like swarms of locusts usurping a ripe field of barley, they decide to
send Paul-o to British-India to seek assistance for their resistance against
the occupation of their country. Negotiating an uncharted route Paul-o sneaks
out of Tibet only to find that the outside world does not want to be involved in
the thorny issue of Tibet’s invasion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author Tsewang Yeshi Pemba</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a wonderful novel in which Pemba
has penetrated into the unique psyche of Khampas – the people of eastern Tibet
– and manifested his deep understanding of their dispositions into his vivid characters.
This is particularly interesting given the fact that the author was born in
Gyangtse, a town in central Tibet and went to study in British-India at a
tender age of nine, later moving to England to complete his higher education
and medical studies. Much later in his peripatetic life, he met, interacted and
formed a deep friendship with former Khampa guerrilla fighters in Darjeeling
and Kalimpong. This, it seems, had an immense impact on the author, driving him
to set the story in rural Kham with an all Khampa cast with the exception of
the American missionaries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of the defining Khampa temperaments
is their courage. When Tenga and his guerrilla group is on the edge of defeat,
he says, ‘I shall fight the Chinese Communists who’ve taken my Nyarong away
from me till the end – no matter how powerful they get, no matter how numerous
their forces.’ As in Pemba’s novel, the youth of today’s Nyarong display the
same audacity and adamant desire to challenge Beijing’s occupying forces. Only
the method has changed. Today youths in Nyarong – as well as youths in other
parts of Tibet – no longer pick up guns or wield swords. Instead they resort to
nonviolent tactics, including self-immolation. Two young men, eighteen-year-old
Tashi Wangdu and twenty-four-year-old Pema Gyaltsen have recently set
themselves on fire in Nyarong within a year. Both demanded freedom for Tibet
and the return of the Dalai Lama from exile.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Crane</span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a fast-paced and
breathtaking tale of love, friendship and vendetta, and above all it is a story
of man’s innate desire for freedom. When the land is lost everything else
becomes inconsequential. This loss forms a tight knot at the pith of one’s heart.
Life is consequently retuned into a singular goal to reclaim ‘the soil beneath
his feet and the sky above his head.’ To be able to accomplish this
repossession is one’s ‘true freedom’ and ‘true liberation’.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Launch in Dharamsala (above) and in Delhi (below)</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNKalhytWX8x-DgqGSZMZzexTuyc7CqHQFQKgrw_ca9oxXVVCrojPcB1YdfWJI3C_NXSn9h9WiaP4hhi2kCIAWhzOCxpGJaXK0lXO3viX07HA9pQqtDMQnHhUjA-JSDA256vwU6oRBRUJt/s1600/aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNKalhytWX8x-DgqGSZMZzexTuyc7CqHQFQKgrw_ca9oxXVVCrojPcB1YdfWJI3C_NXSn9h9WiaP4hhi2kCIAWhzOCxpGJaXK0lXO3viX07HA9pQqtDMQnHhUjA-JSDA256vwU6oRBRUJt/s400/aa.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
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BaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-10011638375806077562017-02-05T09:06:00.000-08:002017-02-05T09:06:35.094-08:00མཁས་དབང་ཨེ་ལིའོ་ཊི་སྤེས་ལིང་མཆོག་ལ་ཕུལ་བ།<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">for Prof. Elliot Sperling (1951-2017)</span></div>
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ངེད་ཅག་འཁྱམ་པོའི་ཁྱུ་ཚོགས་ཐག་རིང་གི་ཡུལ་ན།</div>
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བརྩེ་བའི་སེམས་གཅོང་ངལ་དུབ་ཉིན་དང་མཚན་བཏུད་ཀྱང།</div>
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འཆི་བདག་གཤིན་རྗེའི་བཀའ་ལ་ལྡོག་ཐབས་ནི་མི་འདུག</div>
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འཚོ་བའི་ངར་སྐད་ཁྲོད་དུ་མདུན་སྐྱོད་འདི་བྱེད་སྐབས།</div>
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སྐུ་ཉིད་མཉམ་དུ་མེད་པའི་ཡིད་སེམས་གཉིས་སྐྱོ་ཡང།</div>
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འཁོར་བའི་སྣ་ཐག་འདི་ལ་གཡོལ་ཐབས་ནི་མི་འདུག</div>
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དེ་རིང་འུ་ཅག་རྡ་སའི་རི་རྩེ་འདིར་བསྡུས་ནས།</div>
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དམ་པ་ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་ཆེད་དུ་དྲན་རྟེན་གྱི་འདུ་འཛོམས།</div>
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ནམ་མཁའ་སྔོན་པོའི་སྟེང་གི་སྐར་ཚོགས་ལྟར་མིན་ཡང།</div>
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ཁྱེད་ཉིད་དྲན་པའི་གདུང་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཡི་རྦ་རླབས།</div>
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ཕྱོགས་བཞིར་གཡོ་བའི་ཤུགས་སྒྲ་ན་བུན་བཞིན་འཁྱམ་ནས།</div>
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རྡོ་ལ་རྡར་གྱི་རི་རྩེར་སྐད་ཅིག་ལ་བཞུད་སོང།</div>
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འཇིག་རྟེན་ཕ་རོལ་དེ་ནས་མིག་བལྟ་ཞིག་གནང་རོགས།</div>
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ངེད་ཅག་བོད་མིའི་ལས་དབང་རླུང་རྟ་ཡི་སྐྱོད་ཕྱོགས།</div>
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ཁྱེད་དང་ཁྱེད་འདྲ་མཁས་པའི་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ལ་རྟེན་ཡང།</div>
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ཁྱེད་ནི་མི་རྟག་སྒྱུ་མའི་གར་འཁྲབ་ནས་བུད་དེ།</div>
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འུ་ཅག་ཆ་རྒྱུས་མེད་པའི་རྒྱ་ལམ་གྱི་འགྲུལ་བ།</div>
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གར་འགྲོ་ཆ་མེད་ངང་ནས་ཡུད་ཙམ་རེ་ལུས་ཀྱང།</div>
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རི་རྩེ་མཐོན་པོའི་འབྲོང་བཞིན་དཔའ་ངར་ཞིག་སྐྱེས་ནས།</div>
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རང་དབང་གཞུང་ལམ་ཆེན་མོར་མདུན་སྐྱོད་ནི་ལོས་བྱེད།</div>
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གཤིན་རྗེའི་ཕོ་ཉའི་མི་རྟག་དྲན་སྐུལ་ལ་རྟེན་ནས།</div>
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ལན་ཅིག་མཇལ་བའི་སྐལ་བ་མི་ཚེ་འདིར་མེད་ཀྱང།</div>
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ཕྱི་མ་བསྐྱར་དུ་མཇལ་བའི་སྨོན་ལམ་ཞིག་ཕུལ་ལོ།</div>
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BaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-1051180133527618312016-08-08T02:22:00.000-07:002016-08-08T02:36:51.265-07:00WHEN NYINJEY LEFT TOWN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nyinjey left town</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">The
sun did not show up for three days,</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Rain went on beating the resilient leaves</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Fog
intercoursed with everything on its path,</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">It
sneaked through the cracked windowpanes,</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Germinating
moulds on our winter shoes.</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Days
are like nights long hours to drudge,</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">The
pain in my right ear has moved up</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Four
fingers closer to the crown of my head,</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">The
throbbing is like two bulls fighting</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">On
a sandy river bank, their hooves</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Splashing wet sands in ten directions.</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Hordes
of earwigs are gnawing me from inside.</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">And
I thought of the Big Apple, its lights,</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">The
sunless, smelly subway trains always showing up</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">On
time to gobble up masses of lonely souls,</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Worry-soaked
and desperate to reach their destinations.</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Here
is a mosquito trying to land on my</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Left
foot which hasn’t touched water for a week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">A
dog barks in the distance as if</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">One
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">The
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Stale
air laced with germs from my hysteric coughing.</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">On
a night such as this</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">What
do I hope?</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">What
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">What
do we hope?</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Nothing.
Anything. Everything.</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Ah, a passport with a majestic eagle on it!</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">A
hassle-free travel at the airport.</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">A
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">May
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Like
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">Ah,
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">When
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; line-height: 150%;">As
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BaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-9174148384084416142016-05-29T21:38:00.000-07:002016-05-29T21:40:05.487-07:00‘I Will Carry the Sky’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Review of</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><em style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Coming Home to Tibet”</em><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">By Tsering Wangmo Dhompa</span></h4>
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<span style="text-align: left;">‘I come from there and I have memories / I have a mother /And a house with many windows…’ wrote one of my favourite poets Mahoud Darwish.</span></div>
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Tsering Choden Dhompa came from a place, where the land was so white and cold in the winter you would think a humongous freezer was perpetually at work; in the Summer the same land would transform into a colossal garden as if the goddess of art was letting the entire arsenal of her palette loose on the plateau. This cycle of seasons continued. Yaks pounded flower petals into pulp when the sun was hot or left large imprints in the snow when the wind was cutting into their coats.</div>
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Choden lived there until she was forced to encroach on others space as a million bayonets poked through her blue sky and snuffed out the yak-dung fire in her hearth. Soon after being wed to the chieftain of a nomadic clan, she hastily packed her belongings. The year was 1959. It took three more years for Choden and her group to escape from Tibet – braving many encounters with Mao’s Red Army, hunger and death.</div>
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In exile she gave birth to her daughter, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, in Dharamsala, a small town in northern India. Tsering Wangmo grew up listening to her mother’s stories in their tiny rented rooms – tales of flowers so bright one would turn pale at the sight or the land so cold that pee would turn into a thin stripe of yellowish ice before it hit the ground.</div>
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At the age of twenty-four, Tsering was left alone with a bunch of hand-written notes and her mother’s recollections enveloping her entire existence.</div>
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When the heart is over-burdened with memories, and the mind over-stuffed with tales, they often misbehave and worst still rotate out of their orbit.</div>
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For over half-a-century Tibet has been denied her independence. But more importantly, she has lost her stories – often locked away in the forgetful heads of sweater sellers burrowed in Indian cities, or cast aside by monks and lamas who are distracted by monastic rituals. Very little of Tibet’s narrative has been shaped, articulated and asserted by Tibetans themselves. Moreover, interpretations of our reality by outsiders telling fantastic tales have turned us into a mono-coloured one-size-fits-all single commodity. As a result, we can be popularly defined by a few generic sentences: ‘Tibetans are kind-hearted,’ ‘Tibetan culture is so interesting,’ or ‘You are a Buddhist so you are a vegetarian.’</div>
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Once an American friend visiting Dharamsala remarked, ‘Tibetan children are so cute with their red cheeks.’ We were sitting on a rooftop restaurant and witnessed a monkey jumping from a tin-roofed house to a tall pine tree. ‘Even the monkeys have red bottoms, so cute!’ she blurted. I didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry.</div>
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But I am at peace now. You can sigh with relief too.</div>
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At last, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa has written a book which is at once classic and profound. Tsering has nurtured her mother’s stories in the depth of her heart until they are perfectly ripe and then seasoned them with tales from contemporary explorations. The result is <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Coming Home To Tibet</em>. This is arguably the first-ever book in English – authored by a Tibetan born and raised in exile – that masterfully weaves a number of narratives into a tale to reflect the multi-layered Tibetan way of life and manifold issues facing Tibet today. Never having read a Tibetan story that is so absorbing and refined, I didn’t realise the punch had landed on my belly until the glove was off the hand.</div>
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After college in Delhi, Tsering packed her toothbrush and went off to the US to pursue further studies in creative writing. Years later she made a number of visits to her mother’s birthplace in eastern Tibet to confirm the veracity of her mother’s stories which she clung to while moving from one rented place to another. After arriving on the vast landscapes filled with tiny flowers fighting for a space to pop their heads up to the eternal blue sky, Tsering realised her mother’s words were more than matched by the profusion of colours on the ground.</div>
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But the land itself can provide only so much gratification. Tsering writes:</div>
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‘I have lived my life defined as a refugee in Nepal and India, a resident alien and immigrant in the United States. At last, I am a Tibetan in Tibet, a Khampa in Kham, albeit as a tourist in my occupied and tethered country.’</div>
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Tsering does not push herself to the forefront of the narrative. Her love for the land and its people overshadows her and she becomes secondary. She carefully reconstructs Tibetan life through conversations with her relatives – Aunt Tashi, Uncle Phuntsok and Ashang, and over thirty cousin-brothers and sisters – and anyone else who has a story to tell. Like a veteran detective, she lets nothing go unnoticed. To define her people, their civilisation and the present dilemma under occupation, Tsering has picked up the tiniest scraps of evidence such as the way a young man stands leaning against a newly-installed electric pole in Kegyu, or the obstinate persistence of nomads to stick to their land and animals, no matter how much they are bombarded with ideological indoctrination or propaganda about the benefits of life under the red flag.</div>
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Tsering has the patience of a hermit when it comes to coaxing tales from the most reticent of informants such as her uncle. After many silent evenings, her uncle tells her of his life and the experiences of over two decades in prison simply for being a lama and the relative of a Tibetan chieftain; how he witnessed as prison guards dragged ‘the dead away like a log of wood down the hallway and disposed them in ditches’; and how he failed to tease even a single drop of tears from his eyes after Mao died when prisoners were ordered to cry or face dire consequences.</div>
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Very little has changed in Tibet since the terrible campaigns of the early years of China’s occupation. If at all, the scale of repression has increased. Since the 1990s over 2.5 million Tibetan nomads are being forced to settle at permanent locations. This has caused joblessness, social disharmony and most of all the death of over nine thousand years of Tibet’s mobile civilisation. Nomads are governed by decisions made in Beijing. There is, Tsering writes, ‘no place for truth in the system, just the act of allegiance’ to the rulers.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Coming Home To Tibet</em> records the lives of Tibetans. And yet it is certainly not a book that simply uncovers Chinese rule on the high plateau. Tsering meditates on exile, dislocation and her ‘transnational nomadic existence’. No matter how much she loves her native land that gave birth to her mother, Tsering cannot brave the harsh winter of the land of snows. Icy wind filters into the layers of her garments and cold floors sends chills through three layers of woollen socks and then sneaks into her flesh and bones, forcing her to book a permanent place near the stove. The winter has only begun. Tsering has to find her way out.</div>
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The road that brought her into Dhompa – where her grandfather was the chieftain – takes her back to San Francisco, where the electricity is as dependable as a yak. A washing machine, wireless internet, a walk in the park or an occasional cup of coffee has become a part of her life. ‘The city gives one the feeling of being home,’ writes Simone Weil, the French philosopher and mystic.</div>
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For displaced people around the world, such as Tsering, there is an urgent need to ‘take the feeling of being at home into exile’ and to ‘be rooted in the absence of a place’ temporarily stolen away from them. If anyone who is over-burdened with memories fails to create a provisional ‘home’ in the borrowed land, the pain gnaws from within and life becomes unliveable.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Coming Home To Tibet</em> is a fitting tribute from a daughter to her mother. Tsering has narrated her personal loss and the collective loss of her homeland like no one else. In her acquired tongue, she has written a book that is dangerously subtle and evocatively beautiful.</div>
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‘And I weep to make myself known / To a returning cloud. / I learnt all the words and broke them up / To make a single word: Homeland …’</div>
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We can invoke clouds only in poetry. Reality is too harsh and clouds only return to strange lands. On New Year’s day in 1994, Tsering’s mother died in a tragic car accident on India’s Grand Trunk Road. Choden was with three friends.</div>
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Words can never fill the void left by the death of a beloved mother or the loss of a country, but they are the only enduring milestones against forgetting. Words assign a place in history for the accused, the persecuted, the occupied and the dead. To forget is not to care and not to care is to collude against memory. It denies truth a chance to triumph.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Coming Home To Tibet</em> is a crowning achievement, a quintessential book worthy of the granddaughter of a Khampa chieftain from Dhompa in eastern Tibet. This should and must be read by all Tibetans and their friends for a thoroughly nuanced understanding of Tibetan lives then and now.</div>
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BaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-68968451876099539042015-07-15T22:12:00.001-07:002015-07-16T23:57:41.309-07:00The Last Words of Sonam Topgyal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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particularly to the local heads of the minorities;</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am the twenty-seven-year-old son of Tashitsang of
Nangchen, Yulshul in Tso.ngon region. Currently, I
am a monk studying at Dzongsar Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As people within the country and outside are
aware, the Chinese government does not look at the true and actual situation of
the minorities but practices only harsh and repressive policies on them. At a
time when the government is carrying out policies to stamp out our religion,
tradition and culture, and destroy our natural environment, there is absolutely
no freedom of expression for the people, and there is no channel to talk about
our situation and file our complaints.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furthermore, every time the people try to report
truth about their situation and file any complaint, instead of
providing solutions, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the authorities </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">retaliate with more crackdowns and arrests. Through various deceptive
regulations, the government also prevents monks and nuns from joining religious
institutions. In a nutshell, they are carrying policies to completely wipe out
the minorities.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our chief goal is for His Holiness the Dalai Lama
to be able to return to the Potala Palace. I sacrifice my life to prove to the
world and especially the people of China and the Chinese authorities that we
have absolutely no power or channels to talk about injustices being done to
us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My Tibetans brothers and sisters of the same
blood, please do not remain aloof as if you have seen or heard nothing. Be united, be strong and work hard for our just struggle so we win in the end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Written on 1 July 2015 just as the sun was rising: Sonam Topgyal </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 23.200000762939453px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">27-year-old monk, Sonam Topgyal, set himself on fire on Thursday 9 July at Gesar Square in Kyegudo in Yulshul, Kham, Eastern Tibet</span></span></td></tr>
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BaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-28577701909854437382014-07-21T21:47:00.001-07:002014-07-21T21:49:24.075-07:00Under the Crimson Sky<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>My review (written in 2010) of Nagtsang Nulo's book appeared in <b>Yak Horns</b>, after Dharamsala-based Khawa Karpo Tibetan Culture Centre published the Indian edition of Nulo's book in Tibetan. Following is the first three paras and the full review can be read in my book:</i></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga5z2mvxx18lADtp5acTOpT3oKrh6lIS2AfANWPXGNxAmoHkCWlWW4aBC_aVBQw-klxLHBLAN5nC88W8D7FS_Y-GG3x_SIKIQj6ql7EBtPZlDVqhxy_PGj3PRfhKg-MgbplCQl1mriZhgT/s1600/2014-07-Reading-List-My-Tibetan-Childhood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga5z2mvxx18lADtp5acTOpT3oKrh6lIS2AfANWPXGNxAmoHkCWlWW4aBC_aVBQw-klxLHBLAN5nC88W8D7FS_Y-GG3x_SIKIQj6ql7EBtPZlDVqhxy_PGj3PRfhKg-MgbplCQl1mriZhgT/s1600/2014-07-Reading-List-My-Tibetan-Childhood.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">The day before the People’s Liberation
Army (PLA) marched into his village in Northeastern Tibet, Nagtsang Nuden
Lobsang – popularly known as Nulo – had a terrifying dream. Thousands of
heavily-armed men on horseback galloped amidst dark clouds and dust, shooting
everyone in their way. People were felled like willow trees cut by chainsaws.
The eight-year-old Nulo had nowhere to hide and tried running after his father
whose face was covered with blood. At this moment he cried out, ‘Father!’ Then
Nulo’s cousin, sleeping alongside him, punched him in the belly to wake him up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;">In January 1956, Beijing dispatched an
additional 150,00 troops into Eastern Tibet. Over the next two years, the PLA
imposed a campaign of repression and terror. Monasteries were destroyed and
monks were tortured, sometimes burned alive and often forced to have
intercourse with nuns right in front of the troops. Arrested Tibetan guerrilla
fighters were crucified, dismembered, decapitated or sent to hard labour camps.
Entire rebelling villages were decimated. News of these Chinese atrocities had
already been trickling into the village where Nulo lived with his nomad family.
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scarves in greeting. The Chinese troops marched in the middle of the road in
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><b>Note</b>: This is one of the five poems in the first section of <i>Written in Blood. </i>Theurang wrote this particular poem on 15 December 2008, when Beijing's propaganda machinery was spewing out 'burning, looting, smashing' lies to describe an overwhelmingly peaceful protests that spread across the Tibetan Plateau. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;">As you can see, this translation has none of the pun, edge and cutting sarcasm of the original Tibetan. Nevertheless, I hope that you will get some sense of Theurang's pulse.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">By Theurang (Tashi Rapten)</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;">Translated from Tibetan by Bhuchung D. Sonam<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cold wind blows in this hellish realm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Causing an imbalance of hot and cold elements in people<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">In this uncertain weather in the hellish realm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Newspaper is like a medical prescription for the sick<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">A prescription that they have to pay for but fetches no medicine<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">A prescription like the one stamped with the ‘Constitution’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">The news from this realm is a contagious disease<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">A disease that transmits through people’s mouths and ears<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Those who have the disease are servants in this realm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">If this hellish realm is like an infirm dragging his shits in his pants<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Isn't the newspaper but a paper to wipe one’s bottom?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">Isn’t it?</span></div>
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BaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-2423359506197123662014-05-25T22:17:00.001-07:002014-05-25T22:18:53.447-07:00Pain Without Trace<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTGq6A8Ej1ZWQNMAIXLtpypMBXC-CgGzC2Q1s3GDEJ95VKh_A0Gz_GdwG22UYJhLTUy0NKLJB_vqIedLrzMVVumQcgYC8JS7BEglQAnzi5ZvZOY_ZMK2GHI1btztEK6lRQjBQgQbug8zxz/s1600/ngngn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTGq6A8Ej1ZWQNMAIXLtpypMBXC-CgGzC2Q1s3GDEJ95VKh_A0Gz_GdwG22UYJhLTUy0NKLJB_vqIedLrzMVVumQcgYC8JS7BEglQAnzi5ZvZOY_ZMK2GHI1btztEK6lRQjBQgQbug8zxz/s1600/ngngn.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Gepey, a young Tibetan musician from Ngaba, Amdo in northeastern Tibet, was arrested on 24 May 2014 by the Chinese security personnel from Barkham soon after a concert organized by a group of Tibetans in the area.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Here is my rather rough translation of one of the ten songs from his album released in 2012.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Pain Without Trace</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On top of the Potala Palace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Five-starred red flag is hoisted</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The heart of my faraway brother</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Is drowned in tears of sorrow,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Trishor Gyalmo, the sacred lake</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Is frozen in the three winter months</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Swans of the lake's north side</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Have flown away into the realm of peace,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The greedy and scheming enemy</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Has taken over the Tibetan land</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Causing fresh wounds in the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hearts of all our people,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The shameless robbers have</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Stolen our fathers' inheritance</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Turning the hearts of a powerless people</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Colder than waters of the great rivers ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like most of the arrested Tibetan artistes, Gepey is accused having political contents in his music. His whereabouts is unknown.</span><br />
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BaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-18116991603843719882014-05-16T23:48:00.000-07:002014-05-17T02:23:07.879-07:00A LETTER FROM PRISON<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>before arrest and torture</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12pt;"><span id="goog_790592633"></span><span id="goog_790592634"></span>Goshul
Lobsang was born to a nomadic family in Gyutsa Village in Machu, northeastern
Tibet. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12pt;">In 1992, he came to India to study in a Tibetan refugee school.
After his return to Tibet, the local Chinese authorities constantly harassed him. To
avoid further persecution, he went to Lhasa and other areas and later returned home to teach English to fellow nomads and children from
neighbourhood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Chinese Public Security Bureau (PSB) officers
of Machu county arrested Lobsang on 29 June 2010. And for about 5 months he was
subjected to severe torture, including pain-inducing injections, and sleep deprivation. According to Tibetan Centre for Human Rights & Democracy, the police also used sharp-pointed
objects to pierce his finger nails and cuticles which made his hands immobile and useless. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt;">On
26 November 2010, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Kanlho (Ch:
Gannan) Intermediate People’s Court and imprisoned at Ding Xi in Gansu Province.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>after his release from prison</i></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
November 2013, his health deteriorated and the prison officials, fearing that he
would die in prison, released him on 29 November.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
September 2012, while in prisoner in China’s Gansu Province, he wrote a note
titled Prisoner of Clear Conscience, which he shared with a group of friends on 1
March 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt;">On
19 March, he died survived by his mother, wife and two teenaged children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prisoner of Clear Conscience<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;">Translated from Tibetan by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights & Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
have a family. I have siblings. I have a wife and children. For them, I have
sincere love and affection, and for the sake of this love and affection, I am
determined to sacrifice my life. But for the sake of our own people, even if I
lose this love and affection, I will have no regrets. I am an ordinary nomad
who loves his people, so I am willing to do anything for my people. I might
lose this bony and haggard body that has suffered brutal pain and torture
inflicted out of sheer hatred, I still will not have any regrets. I have the
desire to follow in the footsteps of martyrs who expressed everything through
flaming fire, but I lack courage [to do such a thing].<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">However,
I don’t have the desire to bow my head in surrender to an environment, which
denies freedom to speak out against lies and to struggle for equality.
[Therefore], I fell into such a situation [of torture and suffering], for which
I, an ordinary nomad, have no regrets. What I desire is a free world wherein
people can enjoy a life of harmony – I don’t want an atmosphere of darkness, a
society wherein life is subjected to oppression.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
have no regrets, although all of a sudden, I may be compelled to separate from
the path of life that [I have been treading along] with my beloved mother,
siblings, wife and children. I may have to depart with [feelings] of cold,
heavy sadness, but I have no sense of guilt in my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">My
clear conscience is my only asset in this world. I don’t possess anything other
than this, and I don’t need anything other than this.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">[But]
my only regret that weighs heavily on my heart is the lack of profound sense of
solidarity among our people, because of which we are unable to achieve a strong
unified stand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fellow
countrymen, we must have a far-sighted [political] vision and strong unity. We
must have a strong sense of faith in our culture and tradition, and a sense of
gratitude to those who have contributed so much to our nation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fellow
countrymen of the Land of Snows, we must all uphold unity. May this unity be
sustained for tens of thousands of years!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Goshul
Lobsang<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">28
September 2012<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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BaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-91740628120142155642014-05-05T04:38:00.000-07:002014-05-05T04:38:13.183-07:00Mishra Recommends<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_tl3T9NMJyxytrQqcU-SOEzaEc3EQg1HaWmNX_cggkxuNQNomniPAZusn4drIoxwSaDwxVITJCgEA1U0z76bwD6_-5lRmTaQm0oV3b904ze_t3KeSc-2g_7rdht6qBR5C6wUwJunE6i9/s1600/pankaj-mishra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_tl3T9NMJyxytrQqcU-SOEzaEc3EQg1HaWmNX_cggkxuNQNomniPAZusn4drIoxwSaDwxVITJCgEA1U0z76bwD6_-5lRmTaQm0oV3b904ze_t3KeSc-2g_7rdht6qBR5C6wUwJunE6i9/s1600/pankaj-mishra.jpg" height="123" width="200" /></a><span style="color: black;">During the discussion last Saturday with Pankaj
Mishra – who Pico Iyer calls 'a rare writer who is at ease as a
historian, philosopher, traveler, and memoirist' – organized by Tibet
Policy Institute in Dharamsala, I asked if he could recommend three books that every Tibetan
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<span style="color: black;">Here are Mishra's recommendations in the same order he mentioned:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">1. <b><i>China in Ten Words</i></b> by Yu Hua, the author of <i>To Live</i>, <i>Chronicle of a Blood Merchant</i> and many more.</span></div>
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"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">China in Ten Words</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> uses personal stories and astute analysis to reveal as never before the world’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. In "Disparity," for example, Yu Hua illustrates the expanding gaps that separate citizens of the country. In "Copycat," he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. And in "Bamboozle," he describes the increasingly brazen practices of trickery, fraud, and chicanery that are, he suggests, becoming a way of life at every level of society. Witty, insightful, and courageous, this is a refreshingly candid vision of the "Chinese miracle" and all of its consequences.''</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">2. <b>Red Dust</b> by Ma Jian, the author of <i>Noodle Maker</i>, <i>Stick Out Your Tongue</i> and many others</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">"In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for “Spiritual Pollution,” and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing. So with little more than a change of clothes and two bars of soap, Ma takes off to immerse himself in the remotest parts of China. His journey would last three years and take him through smog-choked cities and mountain villages, from scenes of barbarity to havens of tranquility. Remarkably written and subtly moving, the result is an insight into the teeming contradictions of China that only a man who was both insider and outsider in his own country could have written. "</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">3. <b><i>Socialism is Great</i></b> by Lijia Zhang, a writer, journalist and public speaker.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">With a great charm and spirit, </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">“Socialism Is Great!”</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> recounts Lijia Zhang's rebellious journey from disillusioned factory worker to organizer in support of the Tiananmen Square demonstrators, to eventually become the writer and journalist she always determined to be. Her memoir is like a brilliant miniature illuminating the sweeping historical forces at work in China after the Cultural Revolution as the country moved from one of stark repression to a vibrant, capitalist economy.</span><br />
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I am adding one more to the list, which is Mishra's own <i><b>A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and its Neighbours.</b></i><br />
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<i>'</i>'Journeying to Tibet on the newly built express from Beijing, to Mongolia on the Trans-Siberian Railway, and then through Indonesia, Malaysia, and Taiwan, he draws, too, an vivid portrait of China's neighbours, and the shadow the restless giant casts over its stage.''<br />
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<i>Baba Phuntsok Wangal, popularly called Phunwang, was a life-long Tibetan communist, who had unfailing faith in the goodness of socialism. He was also a controversial figure, who guided the Eighteenth Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army into Tibet, which ultimately helped complete China's occupation of Tibet and the flight of His Holiness the Dalai Lama into exile.</i></div>
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<i>However, at the age of thirty-eight, the Communist Party of China put him behind bars and when released, he was an old man of fifty-six. Baba's enduring legacy may be his writings, which</i><i> have profound historical values and</i><i style="line-height: 150%;"> provide great insights into China's Tibet policy and its failures. </i></div>
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<i>Following is the second of the five letters that Baba Phuntsok Wangyal wrote to Hu Jintao, the then Chinese president. These letters were translated by Tenzin Losel, Bhuchung D. Sonam, Jane Perkins and Tenzin Tsundue, and published in a book titled <b>Witness to Tibet's History</b>. </i></div>
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Respected General-Secretary Hu Jintao<o:p></o:p></div>
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My greetings! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On October 29 last
year I presented a long letter to you and the leaders of the NPC Standing
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Committee. On February 26 this year __ according to comrade Sheng Huaren from
the NPA Party Group who presided over the forum attended by Wang Yunlong,
Secretary of the Party Group of the NPC Department of Administration, Zhuwei
Qun, Deputy-Director of the United Front Department and Sithar, Director of the
Tibet Bureau __ entrusted by the Central Government and on behalf of the Party
Group my letter was discussed, emphasising the need for consistency with the
Central Government on the “Tibetan issue inherited from the past”. And I was
told to think the matters over carefully to voice my opinions. Since this happened
to be the time of “two meetings” (the National People’s Conference and the
National People’s Consultative Meeting), this was delayed until April 4. With
regard to that letter, I made some statements and requested the NPC Standing
Committee to report my opinions to the Central Government. I am now presenting
a summary of those statements<br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The letter I presented to General-Secretary
Hu Jintao and to the NPC Standing Committee is in line with the spirit of the
Central Government’s initiatives to build a harmonious and stable socialist
society, which can be proven by the entire contents of that letter, and so it
is needless to restate this. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->The
key concern in the overall question is: Whether or not it is good for the
religious leaders of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tibetan Buddhism __
with the Dalai Lama as the core __ and the exile Tibetan Government, including
around 10,000 Tibetan compatriots, to return to the nation or remain abroad.
Strategically this is a question which needs to be carefully considered and
deliberately decided. It is necessary to understand that those Western
anti-China elements are trying to ensure that they [the Dalai Lama and his
exile Tibetan Government] remain abroad, so as to keep on playing the “Tibet
card” for the sake of their own interests. Therefore, keeping them abroad is
politically short-sighted and irresponsible in terms of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>history __ creating endless troubles in the
future. On the contrary, striving for the Dalai Lama’s return to the nation will
transform passivity to activity, antagonism to harmony. The continuation and
furtherance of foreign and domestic policy __ namely the policy towards
overseas Tibetan compatriots __ should lay stress on the Central Government’s
advocacy of “harmony and stability”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
over a thousand years intangibility has exceeded tangibility in the spiritual
sphere of the day-to-day life of devoted Tibetan Buddhists; whether or not the
hearts of the people are peaceful and stable cannot be ignored and
underestimated, especially the general wishes of the people __ the most
important factor which can play a decisive role at a very critical moment.
Therefore, [we] must channel our actions according to the situation and avoid
being at a disadvantage. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Forgive
my being straightforward. The comments made by the leaders of the United Front
Department __ let’s not talk about other things __ merely concerning the basic
spirit of the Central Government’s initiatives to build a “harmonious and
stable” socialist society, they are not in conformity with this. The Central Government
emphasises the importance of “friendship” as the national policy. We can take
an example from the policy towards Taiwan __ under the premise of One China
_<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which never censures past mistakes.
Nevertheless, the United Front Department, in line with the “leftist struggle”,
has stressed too much on the “Tibet issue”, with “peace” on one side and
“struggle” on the other. It even adopts “delaying tactics” to play for time
with the Dalai Lama, waiting until his death. This is apparently a continuation
of the wrong-thinking “leftist” line over nationality and religious work __
especially on the “Tibet issue”. Everybody is aware that this wrong line of
“leftism” has brought disastrous consequences to the Party, the nation and the
people. That is why it has been negated by Party decision-making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Unquestionably, I myself and many others who understand
the facts are extremely dissatisfied with this wrong-thinking line of “leftism”
and the mistakes made by it. Let’s just forget other things, merely as far as
the above-mentioned matters are concerned, people make various comments, such
as: Ignoring good advice, they landed themselves in the trouble of “two
Panchens” today; the two great Buddhist leaders whom the Central Government
used to care about, and who attract world attention __ the Seventeenth Karmapa
and Agya Rinpoche, the abbot of Kumbum Monastery __ were also forced to flee
overseas; playing for time, and intending to produce “two Dalais”,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will create greater trouble in the future at
home and abroad. However, the question of the Dalai Lama’s health, and how long
he will live, will not be decided according to the timetable of others. And
regarding such questions, people have further comments, such as: The Karmapa is
likely to be the successor to the Dalai Lama after his passing, in case of a
period of vacuum of leadership. Although all the heads of Tibetan Buddhism,
from the Gelug, Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyud and Bonpo, have fled abroad one after
another, they are still the inheritors of the Buddhist doctrines and are
playing an important role, directly and indirectly. Of course, those mistakes
are not related to the leaders from the United Front Department. The question
is related to the [Party] Line, not to the individuals. Therefore, in order to
improve and intensify the friendly relations between brotherly nationalities
such as the Han and Tibetans __ and for the prosperity and stability of the
nation and the people __ this residual “leftist” line should not be continued;
it is time to bring it to an end.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baba Phunwang (standing right) when Tibetan delegates <br />signed the '17-point Agreement' under duress. <br />Baba was the Chinese official translator.</span></td></tr>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The letter I presented to the Central Government is
concerned with the entire Tibetan nationality and peace and stability across
the Tibetan regions in the Land of Snow, which occupies a quarter of the total
area of the nation,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and is related to a
far-sighted, longterm strategic policy that needs to be sensibly considered and
carefully decided, rather than being a question of seeking advice on current
policy and concrete matters. Some people who are responsible for the relevant
departments, who ignore the actual situation and don’t care about the wishes of
the masses, will not think deeply about their attitudes and words; they will
not even undergo self-censure. Therefore, I sincerely request the NPC Party
Group to report this to the Central Government __ headed by General-Secretary
Hu Jintao __ to be handed over to the Central Institute of Political Research
with a written instruction. And with an attitude of Seeking Truth From Facts,
objectively and without prejudice, make practical suggestions. All the decisions
are up the Central Government. <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>With regard to the comments made by the United Front Department, besides
the general tone that they adopted, [they] strayed from the point when
mentioning my “talk” with Li Weihan in 1982, and criticised me for adhering to
the so-called “consistently incorrect point of view”, my view on “the greater
Tibetan regions”. But that was actually a plot attributed to Old Li by some
specific leaders who had me sent to prison for 18 years and have never admitted
their mistakes. Old Li, aged 86, is now in hospital; those people have not even
seen his articles, so what is the value of their comments? I wrote a letter of
20,000 characters to the leaders of the Central Government, and particularly
wrote a letter to comrade Deng Xiaoping and General-Secretary Hu Yaobang
appealing to the Central Government to form a study team to clarify the
arguments on the theoretical principles of nationality. Fortunately, after the
Central Government looked into this their summing up was that “according to the
regulations of the Party it is permitted to hold different points of view”, and
the case was held over indefinitely, with some statements made by comrade Zhong
Xun. Therefore, after 23 years, referring to the talk with Old Li is unnecessary
and of no significance. <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->As early as the 1940s I was the main person responsible
for all kinds of revolutionary activities of the nationality democratic
movements, and in 1951 I was the only Tibetan among the members of the Party
Committee for the PLA’s Lhasa advance troop and of the CCP Tibet Work Committee
during the ‘50s. For the sake of the Party, the people and history, and
following the principle of being a communist who must be open and above-board,
and must not hide any opinions, I present this letter to the leaders of the
Central Party, and send it to some Tibetan comrades for reference. [I] believe
that this letter has fully reflected the expectations and wishes of ordinary
Tibetans on the restoration of relations between the Central Government and the
Dalai Lama. Many Tibetan comrades have directly or indirectly expressed their
agreement to my views. “Bitter medicine is good for ailments, good advice is
unpleasant to the ears”. My letter cannot be supposed to be good medicine, but
having a clear conscience __ and from the bottom of my heart __ I sincerely
stated the views that people feel uncomfortable to talk about, dare not talk
about to protect themselves, and the questions that are sensitive to some
people. Whether or not the views will be adopted is entirely up to the Central
Government’s decision-making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an
individual I am powerless. But time will prove all and history will make a fair
evaluation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Comrade Hu Jintao, I
completely understand that the leaders of the CCP Standing Committee, headed by
you, are deeply occupied with affairs of state. Nevertheless, the question of
the Tibet issue of today is the most important of all our nation’s nationality
works. Though I am in sound health, clear-minded, and able to write and give lectures,
time does not spare people. I am now 83-years-old and have no ambition for fame
and repute. I have spoken the truth from facts, and this is all purely in the
interests of the state and nationalities. Looking forward to understanding if
there is anything inappropriate herein. <o:p></o:p></div>
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BaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-57445299877635189252014-03-09T23:57:00.000-07:002014-03-10T21:55:36.867-07:00My Native Land<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">My Native
Land<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">By Marjang Nyuk*<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 150%;">Translated
from Tibetan by Bhuchung D. Sonam<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">My native land is written in a
drop of tears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Printed with a drop of blood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">My native land is made of a single drip of sweat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Many centuries ago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">From atop the high plateau<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Amongst people of many nations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">In the splendour of its glories<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">My country stood tall with pride and
confidence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">‘I am a man!’ it is said to have declared.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 36px;">In those times -</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">There were none who did not know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Its warriors and their reputation.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">There were none who did not see </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 36px;">the snow lion flag</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 36px;">Flying in the wind</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"> by the Potala
Palace.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Today …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">My native land is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">A pool of tears flowing from every crying eye<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">A drop of blood untouched by happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">At a far corner of this world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Its freedom is being beheaded<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">At a low rank of this world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Its rights are peeled off one by one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">My native land is stripped bare<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Turned
limbless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Why?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Why?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">དུར་ས་འཚོལ་བ། སྨར་ལྗང་སྨྱུག་གིས་བརྩམས།</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i><br />In Search of a Grave</i> by Marjang Nyuk</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">* Marjang Nyuk is a pseudonym of a young Tibetan intellectual living in the occupied Tibet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'We must fight for our freedom. It cannot be attained by begging or through petitions,' he writes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>In Search of a Grave </i>was published by Dharamsala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights & Democracy and is available for free at the TCHRD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Yak Horns</b><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">:</b><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Notes on Contemporary Tibetan Writing, Music, Film & Politics</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tibet has
been written about, commented on and described by travellers, ‘experts’ and
scholars for centuries – each presenting their own version of reality. This
title brings together a collection of essays on contemporary Tibetan arts and
social issues, expressed through the eyes of a Tibetan writer in exile who
experienced and lived through many of the events narrated here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'Bhuchung D. Sonam articulates the voice of a new generation of Tibetans in exile – voiceless and stateless – longing for a space to call home. He eloquently describes the hopes and aspirations of young Tibetans. He is perhaps one of the very best spokespeople for the youth of his generation.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #05060c;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tsering Shakya, author of <i>Dragon in the Land of Snows</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.100000381469727px;">'The canvas of </span><em style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.100000381469727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Yak Horns</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.100000381469727px;"> is vast, peopled with personalities drawn from history and from our own times, who through their writings and meditations have enriched Tibet and expanded the scope of its culture and literary traditions. In making his canvas large by bringing in Tibetans from history, from the other side of the Himalayas and from all fields of endeavour that excite and spark their creative fire, Bhuchung Sonam has rendered inestimable service to the Tibetan people and their struggle.'</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #474747; line-height: 22.100000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thubten Samphel, author of <i>Falling Through the Roof</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'</span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Sonam is an intrepid chronicler, and little seems to have escaped his prolific pen in the years represented in the book. What one also gets is a sense of the secular literary and cultural traditions of Tibet, through his cataloguing of the works of individuals such as the inveterate traveller and controversial writer of the early twentieth century, Gendun Choephel, who could be seen as a precursor to the secular Tibetan intellectual movement of which Bhuchung D. Sonam is a contemporary representative and to which he owes allegiance.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>SONGS FROM A DISTANCE</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">... an all-encompassing spirit. for a poet it is his words, for a farmer
it is his land, for a shepherd it is his hut, for a factory worker it is his
tools, and for an exile it is his rivers, the mountains and a house he
left long ago; for a nomad it is his tent on the grassland, where he can
churn his butter and sing his songs without a giant shadow hovering. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'And this is perhaps what pushes writers like Sonam and Tsundue to their desk every morning to sing the songs of freedom on behalf of their silenced brethren behind the pale hills of the Himalayas. Their songs are sad and touching of course, but they are never depressing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We might want to listen.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tsering Namgyal, author of <i>The Tibetan Suitcase</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most of us write primarily to exercise creative expression and to assert our identity in a world where we have neither political status nor definite direction; to declare our colour in a spectrum where our wavelength has become subservient to patterns not our own; to make clear in the minds of the listeners the fantastic illusions of life lived in our land churned, chanted and chained through the ages.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; text-align: justify;">'His words are the window to his room without a door. And what we find inside echoes the feelings of an entire generation of exiled Tibetan youth. In the title poem, he shows us the paradoxes of life, alluding to his own personal conflicts as he longs for the peace that can only be found in his own land, </span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">in the land full of icy white peaks.'</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tenzin Dechen in <i>www.tibet.net</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">'I am particularly struck by Bhuchung’s profound knowledge about Tibetan culture, traditions, religion and history considering his young age and the fact that he was brought up and educated in exile. The images and words he use in all his poems give the whole book a very “Tibetan” feel, irrespective of the fact that the book opens with a Tibetan poem. No Tibetans will be unmoved after reading this book because it speaks directly to their hopes, pain, values and roots.'</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tsering Tsomo Chatsug in <i>www.phayul.com</i></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Muses in Exile</b><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">: </span>An Anthology of Tibetan Poetry</span></div>
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Edited by Bhuchung D. Sonam</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the
first time, the voices of Tibet’s diaspora find expression in an anthology of
poetry composed in English: Muses In Exile. History teaches us that artistic
and intellectual creativity reach their zenith under the most adverse con-
ditions. And so it has been with Tibetan verse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of the
thirty writers published here, some have already died young. One at home in
Tibet; others in Alaska, Toronto, New Delhi and in the mecca of their exile
Dharamshala. However, far flung their lives, the longing for a homeland, the
emigre’s estrangement, is expressed here in unison to a variety of literary
tunes. This collec- tion is testimony to the anguish, rootlessness and
unwavering destiny of a displaced people still mentally marching homeward
across the Himalayas.<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">major achievement is that it was able to offer readers - through these poems, which are otherwise not readily available - an opportunity to unlock the minds of their earlier predecessors in the wilderness of the foreign lands. They have written these poems in places like India, Sri Lanka, Hawaii and California.'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>DANDELIONS OF TIBET</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'What I have written down here is an expression of surviving as a refugee for the last twenty years. Of being wrenched from where I belong, of facing the conflict of duality .. being Tibetan living Indian, thinking Tibetan speaking in Hindi, wishing Tibet landing in US, desiring to be among the yaks and sheep but having to live among thoughtless fuming vehicles.'</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Life I define not</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Death I know not</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Days I see not</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nights I feel not</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Only confusion reigns</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chaos to a lunatic point</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Eternally fused.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mind engulfed in emptiness</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Darkness shells me through</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A deep tunnel of sublime clamour</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I came out noise by absolute silence</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Raised to a lunatic point ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- 14 October 1996 -</span></div>
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of <i>Voices from Tibet</i></span></b><i style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 150%;">: Selected Essays and Reportage </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">by
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nomads have skilfully managed their lives in the fragile environment of the high
plateau. They raised limited numbers of livestock, which provided them enough
to sustain their mobile civilization. This symbiotic relationship between nature
and man never tipped to either party’s disadvantage.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That’s until the red flag began to flutter
against the blue sky of the Tibetan Plateau.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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half-a-century of China’s occupation of Tibet. In the same year, according to cables
leaked by Wikileaks, the Dalai Lama told the then US ambassador to India that the
international community should focus on the critical state of Tibet’s environment
for five to ten years; the Tibetan leader reportedly said this was far more crucial
than the political situation. ‘Melting glaciers, deforestation and increasingly
polluted water from mining are problems that cannot wait,’ the Dalai Lama said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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appeal little is being done. In fact the scale of mining on the plateau has
increased manifold and since 2008 China has effectively banned the international
media’s entry into Tibet. Today </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Garamond; line-height: 150%;">North Korea is more
accessible to foreign journalists than Tibet said professor Carole McGranahan </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 150%;">of the <span style="background: white; color: #2c2c2c;">University of Colorado and the author of <i>Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">At such a worrying time, the voices of
Beijing-based Tibetan author and blogger Woeser – and her Chinese husband Wang
Lixiong – are crucial in creating a vital communication link between Tibet-under-China
and the free world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Woeser and Wang Lixiong, jointly published by Hong Kong University Press and
the University of Hawai’i Press, is an urgent and timely book. The authors’ </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 150%;">courage in expressing their dissenting views on
Tibet is matched by the authenticity of their reportage on wide-ranging concerns
such as demolition of historical buildings in Lhasa, forceful resettlement of
nomads, mining, self-immolation and flooding of Chinese migrants into Tibet – many
of whom engage in crass and barefaced appropriation of Tibetan culture and
religion to make quick and easy money.</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Garamond; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thematically arranged in five sections – Old Lhasa Politicized, Economic Imperialism
with Chinese Characteristics, Religion Under Siege, Wrecking Nature, and Culture
Twisted, Trampled – to provide a clear picture of daily Tibetan experiences under
the machinery of authoritarian rule that Woeser and Wang describes as ‘grounded
on rigid structure and ruthless logic’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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book is the legitimacy of the couple’s writing. The authors are no armchair commentators.
They have put their lives in danger by travelling to many places on the Tibetan
Plateau to gather accounts of people and places most affected by dictates from
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Rinpoche was sentenced to death in December 2002 with a two-year reprieve for
his alleged possession of explosives, Woeser made a trip to Rinpoche’s homeland
deep inside Kardze in Kham to find out about the Chinese authorities’ claim to
have found ‘bombs’ hidden a ‘secret compartment’ in his house. Woeser found out
that to build his new residence, Rinpoche – like many others who constructed
houses in that region – used explosives to level a piece of land located at a
ravine. Some unused sticks of dynamite were stored in a ‘space between the
rugged slope and the wall panels of the house’. These were what the police
found which led to Rinpoche being handed down the death sentence, later
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province, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche said, ‘There are some people who say that
taking up my case will make things worse for me. At this point, I have fallen
to the lowest point. Nothing worse can come. So, you can make appeals and
initiate campaigns for me.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about ‘charlatan lamas’ and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tulkus</i>
stationed in monasteries charging exorbitant prices from unsuspecting tourists for
phony future predictions and fake puja ceremonies. When visitors ran short of
cash, they would say, ‘No problem, we take credit cards here.’ These operatives
are Tibetan-speaking Chinese from tour companies that have colluded with local
religious bureaus which issue them permits to set up bases and business in major
monasteries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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community, Woeser and Wang’s essays are perhaps the most reliable source of information
on Tibet that still continues to flow through many channels such as books,
blogs, press interviews and social media. Many other Tibetan writers such as
Theurang, Dolma Kyab and Kunchok Tsephel who have articulated national
aspirations are serving various sentences – some as long as fifteen years – in
Chinese prisons for their writing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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facing threats, harassment, house arrest and being tailed daily, they have
managed to avoid being put behind bars thus far. There is however real danger
that, like their friend and Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo who is serving eleven
years in jail for his role in drafting Charter 08, their days may be numbered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bear witness and chronicle issues facing both Tibet and China today under the
Communist Party. Woeser writes that ‘for the powerless, the pen can be wielded
as a weapon – a weapon honed by the Tibetan faith, tradition and culture,’ and
that ‘[i]n the face of the devastation Tibet has endured and the aspirations of
Tibetans who have gone up in flames, I shall redouble my strength to resist
oppression; I simply will not concede, or compromise.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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voices of this brave couple and realize that their articulation carries the weight
of every person on the plateau whose voice is stifled and whose aspiration for
freedom rebutted with bullets and armoured vehicles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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BaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-50126626551909033232013-12-26T21:48:00.001-08:002013-12-26T21:48:41.753-08:00Better Gun than God<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmPAkaKzsbiIgkJP30CZaBaq97zcQ8e1rhl1iT_QbRXTERCQam-I9qxFIa4j_dLnp3Q_MEmHefM9OMCxl4_r-RN8O7jjNLZGWch4DYrJgYlpbY2m3BmNVUY3E3hRG4JXSQiXz4WtuXN30S/s1600/nepal1960_lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmPAkaKzsbiIgkJP30CZaBaq97zcQ8e1rhl1iT_QbRXTERCQam-I9qxFIa4j_dLnp3Q_MEmHefM9OMCxl4_r-RN8O7jjNLZGWch4DYrJgYlpbY2m3BmNVUY3E3hRG4JXSQiXz4WtuXN30S/s400/nepal1960_lg.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chushi Gangdruk fighters in Mustang, Nepal - 1960s</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">When
a posse of the occupying People’s Liberation Army shot dead his root lama in
the middle of the Kyichu River on 10 March 1959, Jedung Jampel Lekmon joined a
small underground resistance group in Gyangtse, a strategic town in central
Tibet. His group soon joined Chushi Gangdruk and engaged in numerous fights against
the Red Army.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">After
his escape into exile Lekmon enlisted himself with the Tibetan guerrilla
fighters and received training on wireless communication, air signalling and
heavy weapons engagements from CIA operatives in Colorado. Immediately after
the training they were airlifted to Bangladesh from where they sneaked into
Mustang in Nepal via India. This small band of men proved themselves worthy of their
warrior ancestors whose spears pierced holes into the Chinese empire over the seventh
and eighth centuries. However, in the early 1970s the Tibetan guerrilla
movement came to a sad and painful end due to circumstances beyond the leaders’
control.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today the history
of the Tibetan resistance is down-graded, unrecognized and often intentionally cast
aside by all parties involved, including the exile Tibetan government. A
handful of surviving former fighters are at the tail end of their lives, thumbing
rosaries and reciting holy mantras to wash away sins they may have committed while
fighting for their country. Irony can’t be more acerbic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">No
good deed, however, goes unremembered. Not in the world of literature, at
least.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYBlOOKdtlDBI7B2LVQqTOoLsYagGc1TXROQ8IWsMW-6jIvTHnygRdscsR3OL54PkJm2MqnSH0_L7cYre-cGH7k7x4ZrE8hAgTFD4jf0l0eClgUbr4-AkJFL7JaLs3MLv_RZNyKPdwkjsJ/s1600/horse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYBlOOKdtlDBI7B2LVQqTOoLsYagGc1TXROQ8IWsMW-6jIvTHnygRdscsR3OL54PkJm2MqnSH0_L7cYre-cGH7k7x4ZrE8hAgTFD4jf0l0eClgUbr4-AkJFL7JaLs3MLv_RZNyKPdwkjsJ/s320/horse.jpg" width="204" /></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kaushik
Barua’s novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Windhorse</i> is a fitting
tribute to these Tibetan resistance fighters. In his delightful prose, Barua
has recounted their lives – what was at stake and why so many were ready to
forego so much to pick up arms and face death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Barua
is a natural storyteller. His book follows the tales of two central characters
– Lhasang, who was born in eastern Tibet and grows up soaked in Tibetan culture,
myth and folklore; and Norbu, who was born in India’s capital Delhi to a
well-off Tibetan merchant but had no idea about his people and their way of
life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">While
Lhasang was entrenched deep in the struggle from childhood, Norbu discovers his
roots much later in life. Norbu’s future is fluid, as Barua writes, his vision ‘nameless
and barely visible – like a lighthouse in a fog’. It is Dolma, his girlfriend,
who clears the fog and shows Norbu his destination. ‘You can join, Norbu’ Dolma
says referring to the rebel group being put together in exile by Thupten,
Lhasang and others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Four
years later Norbu writes to his girlfriend from Mustang, from where the
guerrillas were carrying outs raids into occupied Tibet. ‘Today I killed a man.
I pulled a trigger and a bullet pierced his skin… I don’t know if he expected
it. If he knew what happened. I was far away. If this ever happens to me, I
might think of you.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;">Windhorse</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"> is a powerful human story.
Despite the fact that the narrative is based on the real-day actions of the resistance
fighters, it has so many elements of personal stories woven in to create a deep
emotional impact. This is a story of dislocation, love, loss, betrayal, conflicts
and frustration making it a potent representation of a people who are ruthlessly
driven out of their ancestral homeland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Barua’s
moving account of the freedom fighters is also likely, in my mind at least, to
clear two invalid assumptions about Tibet’s struggle for freedom: that it has
been nonviolent throughout and that Tibetan people are always peaceful, compassionate
and happy. Characters in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Windhorse</i> are
such average, everyday people that many – whose minds are overstuffed and saturated
with prevalent images of Tibetans – will have hard time accepting that the
story is in fact about recent history of Tibet and the people involved in it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
universal tale, evocatively told in a language that reflects the ordeals of
people still lingering in refugee camps, will tug at any reader’s heart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;">For
the Tibetans, Barua’s story appeals to us, in the words of imprisoned writer
Theurang – ‘t</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: black; font-family: Garamond;">o
call upon the courage of our conquering ancestors /</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"> <span style="background: white;">to raise their
warriors’ swords</span> / <span style="background: white;">to invoke their
martial spirit...’ There have to be more Gesars, Milarepas, Lhasangs, Norbus,
Athars and Ratus to ignite the embers of freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, there
will be more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>(My rough translation of Tsultrim Gyatso's last words. As you can see some parts are hard to read. If anyone comes across a picture in which the texts can be read clearly, please share and I will improve on the translation. Thanks, BDS)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I, Tsultrim Gyatso, the warrior of the snows, set myself on fire for the welfare of all Tibetans.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">The golden
teardrops.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alas Tears. Heart break. Brothers, do you hear? </span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">Do
you see? Do you hear? To whom should should I tell about </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">the
suffering of six million Tibetans</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">? In this the brutal Chinese prison, all our precious </span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">treasures
such as gold and silver are stolen. People are </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">made
to suffer. Tears fall down thinking about all these. Precious human body engulfed in flames.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">October 26 was a fine Saturday. The sky was blue and the mountain air crisp. I was on my wa</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; text-align: justify;">y to the screening of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; text-align: justify;">Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer</i><span style="background-color: white; color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; text-align: justify;">, a documentary fil</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">m on all-women Russian rock band Pussy Riot who fights for LGBT rights and opposes Vladimir Putin’s curb on basic freedom in Russia. The screening of the film was at the Club House located in the center of McLeod Ganj.</span><br />
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over nine thousand exile Tibetans take refuge in Dharamsala and McLeod Ganj, where His Holiness the Dalai Lama resides, can perhaps be termed as the Mecca of exile Tibet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The festival aims to bring high quality, independent films along with their filmmakers from around the world to Dharamshala in order to enrich knowledge and understanding of other societies, cultures and ideas; and to promote and encourage local filmmaking talent by organizing special screenings and masterclasses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">It also aims to promote contemporary art, cinema and independent media practices in the Himalayan region by creating spaces and opportunities to nurture, encourage and develop contemporary forms of creative expression.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; font-weight: normal;">Art, the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; font-weight: normal;">German poet and playwright, Bertolt Brecht, wrote ‘</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; font-weight: normal;">is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it’. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; font-weight: normal;">For people such us, who are engaged in resistance against occupation and at the same time asserting our identity, art is indeed a hammer to shape our reality. Art is neither an elitist hobby nor an obsession of a few recluses. It bubbles in the street corners and within the walls of our rented rooms. All we need to know its existence is a little awareness and patience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Furthermore, art should and must necessarily be a part of our non-violent struggle for freedom. Creative resistance such as Lhakar Movement that evolved from inside Tibet in the aftermath of Spring Uprising in 2008 is an ingenious tactic that has large practical applications both in and outside Tibet. Especially when used to assert Tibetan identity and representation, Lhakar Movement is an art applied and perfected.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">But to be even more innovative in non-violent strategies, there is a great need to understand larger issues and resistance movements taking place elsewhere in the world. Many films, including <i>Jai Bhim Comrade</i>, a fantastic documentary on India’s class politics,<i> Gulabi Gang</i>, which documents a band of women fighting for Dalits and women’s rights, and <i>Ai Weiwei:</i> <i>Never Sorry</i> were shown during the festival. These documentaries link us to battles for freedom raging elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">On 27 October before the screening of <i>With You Without You</i>, I was having tea with some friends. One of them looked around and said, ‘Very little Tibetan crowd. More should come to watch these great films.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is not that Tibetans don't love watching films. They do. During weekends some of my friends would go to Pathankot, which is over sixty kilometers from Dharamsala, to watch Bollywood blockbusters. I have also heard stories of women who would cook soon after getting back from office in the evening so that they can watch their daily TV soaps on time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Are we numbed by never-ending Saas-Bahu TV serials and manufactured motormouthing episodes such as Big Boss and other idiotic reality shows?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dharamsala bursts with activists and activism all year round. But they often lack creativity and a larger outlook towards Tibet's struggle for freedom. On my last visit to Delhi, a friend said, ‘When I was in Dharamsala I was a small frog in a small well. Now I am a small frog in a big well.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">The transformation of a small frog into a giant frog can only take place when we meet, interact and share ideas with personalities from other communities. DIFF provides this platform. As many as ten internationally acclaimed directors and producers were in town to present their films and to interact with the audience. Many of them sat in the warm October sun on the ground of Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts sipping tea and occasionally shaking hands with fans. </span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">I witnessed very few young aspiring Tibetan filmmakers and activists striking conversations with any producer or director.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">The festival also featured lecture performance and art works that explore ‘socio-political, historical and psychological relevance concerning the question of image making and representation…’ which has direct bearing on assertion of Tibetan identity and representation when much of our narrative is being shaped by others.</span><br />
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དགའ་ལྡན་ལྔ་མཆོད་སོགས་ཀྱི་དུས་ཆེན་ཁག་ནི་ཕྱོགས་ཡོངས་དད་ལྡན་མང་ཚོགས་ཁྲི་སྟོང་མང་བོའི་དད་སེམས་དང་ཡིད་ཆེས་ཀྱི་ཕྱག་སྐོར་ཀློང་ནས་འགོ་རྩོམ་ངེས་ཡིན་ལ་ཁོང་ཚོའི་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་སྤྲོ་དགའི་དད་འདུན་གྱི་ཁྲོད་མཇུག་བསྡུ་སྲིད་པ་ཡིན་མོད།
འོན་ཀྱང་ད་ལོའི་དུས་ཆེན་ཁག་ནི་ཉེན་རྟོག་དམག་མི་ཁྲི་སྟོང་མང་བོའི་མེ་མདའི་འཇིགས་སྣང་སྐད་སྒྲ་དང་གོམས་སྟབས་བར་མཇུག་བསྡུས་སོང་།
མ་གཞི་དུས་ཆེན་རེ་རེའི་ནང་སྤོ་བོ་ལགས་ཀྱི་བྱམས་བརྩེ་དང་རྨོ་མོ་ལགས་ཀྱི་སྐྱབས་འཇུག ཨ་ཕའི་དགོད་སྒྲ་དང་ཨ་མའི་འཛུམ་མདངས།
བུ་ཆུང་ཚེ་རིང་གི་ཞབས་བྲོ་དང་བུ་མོ་སྒྲོལ་མའི་གཞས་དབྱངས་སོགས་བསང་དུད་དང་མཆོད་མེའི་ཀློང་དུ་མཐོང་ཞིང་ཐོས་ཐུབ་པ་དང་དེ་དག་ཡོད་ཚད་ལྷ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་བཀོད་དུ་ཐིམ་འགྲོ་བ་ཡིན།
ཡིན་ནའང་ད་ལོ་ནི་དེ་དག་གི་ཚབ་ཏུ་འཇིགས་སྐྲག་དང་སེམས་ཁྲེལ། དོགས་འདྲི་དང་ཞིབ་བཤེར། གདུག་རྩུབ་དང་བརྙས་བཅོས།
བཀག་སྡོམ་དང་བཙོན་འཇུག་སོགས་ལས་མ་འདས། ལྷག་པར་དུ་ད་ལོའི་ས་ག་ཟླ་བར་བོད་རིགས་སྤུན་ཟླ་མང་བོ་ཞིག་ཉེས་མེད་ངང་བཙོན་འཇུག་དང་འདྲི་གཅོད་བཏང་རྗེས་གནས་ནས་སྐྲོད་པར་བྱེད་པའི་ཁྲིམས་མེད་ལུགས་མེད་ཀྱི་བྱ་སྤྱོད་དེ་དག་བོད་མི་རེ་རེའི་སེམས་སུ་ན་ཟུག་གི་མེ་ཕུང་དང་ཞེ་འཁོན་གྱི་སྐྲན་འབུར་ཡིན་པ་སྨོས་མ་དགོས།
གཞན་ཡང་བོད་ཁུལ་གཞན་དག་ནས་བོད་རིགས་དད་ལྡན་པ་དང་མང་ཚོགས་ལྷ་སར་མཆོད་མཇལ་དང་གནས་སྐོར་སོགས་ལ་འོངས་པར་རྦད་དེ་བཀག་སྡོམ་བྱས་སོང་།<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2";">ང་ཚོ་ཅིའི་ཕྱིར་འདི་ལྟར་ཉེས་མེད་བཙོན་འཇུག་བྱེད་དགོས་སམ།<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2";">ང་ཚོར་ཅིའི་ཕྱིར་འདི་ལྟར་འདྲི་བརྩད་བྱེད་དགོས་པ་ཡིན་ནམ།<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2";">ང་ཚོ་ཅིའི་ཕྱིར་འདི་ལྟར་ཚོང་ལས་དང་སློབ་སྦྱོང་།
ལས་རིགས་གཞན་དག་དང་ཁ་བྲལ་བར་བྱས་ཏེ་སྡོད་དབང་མེད་པར་ཡུལ་གཞན་དུ་སྐྲོད་དགོས་སམ། ཅིའི་ཕྱིར་ང་ཚོ་མི་རིགས་ཡོངས་དོགས་ཡོད་ཉེས་ཅན་དུ་བལྟ་བ་ཡིན་ནམ།
ཐ་ན་དགུང་ལོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་དགུ་བཅུ་རུ་སླེབས་པའི་སྤོ་བོ་རྨོ་མོ་དང་སློབ་ཆུང་འགྲིམས་པའི་བུ་ཕྲུག་ཚོའང་དོགས་ཡོད་ཉེས་ཅན་ལྟར་བརྩི་བ་ཡིན་ནམ།
འདི་ནི་ཁྱེད་ཚོས་བཤད་བཞིན་པའི་ཁ་བྲལ་རིང་ལུགས་དེ་མ་ཡིན་ནམ། མི་རིགས་དབྱེ་འབྱེད་དེ་མ་ཡིན་ནམ།
སྒེར་གཅོད་རིང་ལུགས་དེ་མ་ཡིན་ནམ། བྲན་གཡོག་ལམ་ལུགས་དེ་མ་ཡིན་ནམ། <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2";">དུས་རབས་ཉེར་གཅིག་པ་ནི་ཐམས་ཅད་འཛམ་གླིང་རང་བཞིན་ཅན་དུ་འགྲོ་བའི་སྐབས་ཡིན་ན་ང་ཚོས་མྱོང་བཞིན་པའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་འདི་དག་སུ་ཞིག་གིས་རྟོགས་སམ།
ད་ལོའི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་གནད་དོན་གལ་ཆེ་ཤོས་དེ་སེ་རེ་ཡའི་(Syria)གནད་དོན་ཡིན་པ་དང་རྒྱ་ནག་ལ་མཚོན་ན་རྒྱལ་མཚམས་ཀྱི་གླིང་ཕྲན་(Island)རྩོད་རྙོག་དེ་རེད།
སེ་རེ་ཡའི་གནད་དོན་ནི་སྒེར་གཅོད་རིང་ལུགས་པའི་བཙོན་དབང་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་མི་བྱེད་ག་མེད་ཀྱི་འོས་ལངས་ཐེངས་ཤིག་ཡིན་པ་དང་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཡིད་སྐྱོ་བ་ཞིག་ཡིན་མོད།
འོན་ཀྱང་མི་དམངས་ལ་སྐད་འབོད་བྱེད་པའི་རང་དབང་འདུག རྒྱ་ནག་གི་ས་མཚམས་རྩོད་རྙོག་ལ་མཚོན་ན་དེ་ནི་སོ་སོའི་ཁེ་ཕན་ཁོ་ན་ལས་མ་འདས།
གནད་དོན་འདི་གཉིས་ལ་འཛམ་གླིང་གི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་སོསོའི་སྲིད་འཛིན་དང་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་རྒྱལ་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ཐུགས་ཁུར་དང་དོ་སྣང་ཚད་མེད་བྱེད་བཞིན་ཡོད།
ཡིན་ནའང་ང་ཚོར་ཐ་ན་གཞི་རྩའི་འགྲོ་བ་མིིའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་ཀྱང་མེད་པའི་གནས་བབས་འདིར་རྣམ་པ་ཚོས་ཐུགས་ཁུར་དང་རོགས་རམ་གནང་བའི་ཚོར་བ་གང་ཡང་བྱུང་མ་སོང་།<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sudan)རང་བཙན་དེ་འདེམ་བསྐོའི་སྒོ་ནས་བཙུགས་སོང་། ལེས་པེས་ཡའི་(Libya)དམངས་གཙོ་དེ་དྲག་ཤུགས་ཀྱི་སྒོ་ནས་སྤེལ་སོང་།
འབར་མའི་(Burma) རང་དབང་དེ་ཞི་བདེའི་སྒོ་ནས་བསྐྲུན་སོང་། ཡིན་ནའང་ང་ཚོ་ནི་དེ་དག་ལས་ལྡོག་སྟེ་མུན་ནག་གི་དུས་སྐབས་སུ་སླེབས་པར་བྱས་ཡོད།
དེ་བས་ང་ཚོ་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་རྒྱལ་ཚོགས་དང་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་ལྷན་ཚོགས། རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་ཁྲིམས་ཁང་།
གཞན་ཡང་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་སོ་སོའི་འགོ་ཁྲིད་དང་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་སྡེ་ཁག་དག་ལ་རེ་བ་མེད་པར་ཆགས་པ་དང་ངང་ངམ་ཤུགས་ཀྱིས་དོགས་པ་ཟ་བར་བྱས་སོང་།
ཁྱེད་རང་ཚོས་དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ཁེ་ཕན་ཁོ་ན་ལས་གཞན་ལ་བསམ་གཞིགས་མི་བྱེད་པའི་ཚོར་བ་ཤུགས་དྲག་བྱུང་སོང་ལ་དེ་བས་ང་ཚོས་ཁྱེད་རྣམ་པའི་རིན་ཐང་གཞན་དག་ཀྱང་མཐོང་ཐུབ་མ་སོང་།<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2";">ད་ལོའི་སྟོན་ཁར་ང་རང་ཐེངས་གཉིས་པར་ལྷ་སར་འོངས་དུས་ཕ་ཡུལ་ནས་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་ཀྱི་འཛིན་ཡིག་བླངས་རྗེས་འོངས་པ་ཡིན།
མེ་འཁོར་ནང་ངས་མཐོང་བ་མཐའ་དག་ནི་རྒྱ་མི་རྐྱང་རྐྱང་ལས་མ་འདས་ཤིང་། ཁོང་ཚོ་མང་ཆེ་བ་ལྷ་སར་འོངས་ནས་ཁེ་ཕན་འཚོལ་མཁན་འབའ་ཞིག་རེད།
ཉིན་རེ་བཞིན་རྒྱ་ནང་གི་ས་ཆ་མང་བོ་ནས་འདི་ལྟར་མེ་འཁོར་ཐེངས་མང་བོ་ཡོང་གིན་ཡོད་པ་དང་མི་དེ་དག་ལས་མང་ཆེ་ཤོས་ནི་རིག་གནས་དང་དཔལ་ཡོན་མེད་པ་དང་བླང་དོར་གྱི་གནས་གང་ཡང་མི་ཤེས་པའི་སྒེར་དོན་རིང་ལུགས་པ་ཤ་སྟག་རེད།
ཐ་ན་དེ་དག་གི་ཁྲོད་དུ་ནང་ལོགས་སུ་མི་བསད་རྗེས་བོད་ལ་བྲོས་བྱོལ་བྱེད་པའི་མི་གསོད་ལག་དམར་དང་རྐུན་མ།
ཇག་པ། ཁྲམ་པ། མགོ་སྐོར་གཏོང་མཁན། གཞང་ཚོང་མ་སོགས་ངེས་ཅན་ཞིག་འདུ། ང་ཚོ་མཉམ་དུ་ལྷ་སའི་མེ་འཁོར་འབབས་ཚིགས་སུ་འབྱོར་མ་ཐག་ང་ཚོ་བོད་རིགས་ཁ་ཤས་དེ་ཚོ་ཉེན་རྟོག་དམག་མིའི་ཞིབ་བཤེར་དང་མེ་མདའི་འོག་ཁོ་ཚོའི་སྒོ་རྭའི་ནང་ཁྲིད་པ་དང་འཛིན་ཡིག་མེད་ན་ཕྱིར་སྐྲོད་པ་དང་ཡོད་ནའང་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་ཀྱི་ལས་ཀ་ཉིན་གཉིས་གསུམ་ལ་སྒྲུབ་རྗེས་གཞི་ནས་ཉམ་ཆུང་གི་ཙི་ཙི་བཞིན་སྡོད་དགོས།
“རླབས་ཆེ་བའི་”རྒྱ་མི་དེ་ཚོ་ནི་ལྷ་སར་འབྱོར་བ་ན་དེ་ལས་ལྡོག་སྟེ་དེ་ལྟ་བུའི་གནད་དོན་ཅི་ཡང་གདོང་ལེན་བྱེད་མི་དགོས་པར་སྔ་ན་མེད་པའི་རང་དབང་ཐོབ་འགྲོ་བ་དང་སྔ་ན་མེད་པའི་གོ་སྐབས་རེག་འགྲོ།
ཁོ་ཚོས་མགོ་བོ་ཡང་དགྱེས་ཏེ་མངོན་སུམ་འཛེམ་མེད་ཀྱིས་མི་ལས་དགུ་ལས་བྱས་ཆོག རྒྱུ་མཚན་ནི་ཁོ་ཚོར་མཚོན་ན་རང་དབང་ལུང་བར་འབྱོར་བས་ཡིན།
ཁོ་ཚོས་བོད་མི་རིགས་ཀྱི་རིག་གནས་དང་ཀུན་སྤྱོད། ཆོས་ལུགས། སྐད་ཡིག གོམས་སྲོལ། དཔལ་ཡོན་ཐམས་ཅད་དངོས་དང་བརྒྱུད་པའི་སྒོ་ནས་རྩིས་མེད་རྡོག་རལ་དུ་གཏོང་བཞིན་ཡོད།
དཔེར་ན་བོད་རིགས་ལ་དྲི་མ་ཁ་ཚུལ་སོགས་བཤད་པ་དངོས་སུ་མཐོང་སོང་ལ། ཁོ་ཚོ་རང་ཉིད་ནི་ཁ་ལུད་གང་སར་འཕེན་པ་དང་གཅིན་སྐྱག་གང་སར་གཏོང་བ།
འགྲིམ་འགྲུལ་སྒྲིག་ལམ་མི་བརྩི་བ། ཁོར་ཡུག་སྦགས་བཙོག་བཟོ་མཁན་རྐྱང་རྐྱང་རེད། འདི་ནི་དཀར་ནག་གི་གོ་ལྡོག་པ་མ་ཡིན་ནམ།
འདི་ནི་མི་རིགས་འདྲ་མཉམ་ཡིན་ནམ་ཡང་ན་དམགས་གཙོ་རང་དབང་ཡིན། རིག་གནས་འཛུགས་སྐྲུན་ཡིན་ནམ་ཡང་ན་རང་སྐྱོང་སྲིད་ཇུས་ཡིན།<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>སྤྱིར་བཏང་ཉེན་རྟོག་དམག་མི་མཐོང་དུས་བདེ་འཇགས་ཀྱི་འདུ་ཤེས་ཤིག་དང་དགའ་ཞེན་གྱི་དུ་ཤེས་ཤིག
རྒྱབ་རྟེན་སྐྱབས་བཅོལ་གྱི་འདུ་ཤེས་ཤིག་དང་བརྩི་བཀུར་གྱི་འདུ་ཤེས་ཤིག་ཡོད་པ་ཡིན། རྒྱུ་མཚན་ནི་ཁོང་ཚོ་ཚང་མ་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ཁྲིམས་འཛིན་པ་དང་བདེ་འཇགས་སྲུང་མཁན་ཡིན་པས་རེད།
ཡིན་ནའང་བོད་དུ་དེ་ཚོ་མཐོང་མ་ཐག་འཇིགས་སྐྲག་དང་སྐྱི་གཡའ་བའི་འདུ་ཤེས་ཤིག་དང་སེམས་ཁྲེལ་དང་དོགས་གནས་ཀྱི་འདུ་ཤེས་ཤིག་མ་གཏོགས་ཅི་ཡང་མེད་དེ།
རྒྱུ་མཚན་ནི་ཁོ་ཚོས་དབང་ཆ་བཀོལ་ཏེ་རྒྱུ་མཚན་ཡོད་མེད་ལ་མི་བལྟོས་པར་གང་བྱུང་དུ་འདྲི་བརྩད་དང་ཞིབ་བཤེར།
ཐ་ན་བཙོན་འཇུག་སོགས་བྱེད་པས་ཡིན། དཔེར་ན་ཐེངས་ཤིག་ང་རང་ལམ་དུ་འགྲོ་སྐབས་ཁོ་ཚོས་ང་རང་ལ་གང་དུ་བསྡོད་ཡོད་པ་དང་ཅི་བྱེད་མཁན་ཡིན་པ།
འཛིན་ཡིག་ཡོད་མེད། ད་ལྟ་གང་དུ་འགྲོ་བ་སོགས་དྲིས་པ་དང་ཡང་ན་ཇ་ཁང་གང་དུ་འགྲོ་བའམ་མི་སུ་ཞིག་ལ་ཐུག་འཕྲད་བྱེད་པ་སོགས་དྲིས་སོང་།
དེས་ན་ངའི་མི་སྒེར་གྱི་གསང་བའི་རང་དབང་ཟེར་བ་གླེང་ཐབས་མི་འདུག གཅིག་བྱས་ན་གསང་སྤྱོད་གང་ཞིག་ཏུ་འགྲོ་བ་དང་གཅིན་པ་ཐེངས་ག་ཚོད་བཏང་བ་སོགས་ཀྱང་འདྲི་བར་བྱེད།
དཔེར་ན་ངའི་གྲོགས་པོ་ཞིག་ཐེངས་ཤིག་ར་མོ་ཆེ་དགོན་པར་འགྲོ་དུས་མི་འདྲ་བའི། “ས་ཚིགས་”ནས་ཐེངས་མ་བདུན་ལ་འདྲི་བརྩད་བྱས་པ་རེད།
གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་དང་པོ་ཏ་ལ་སོགས་དེ་བས་ཀྱང་སྨོས་མ་དགོས་པ་ཡིན། དེས་ན་ང་ཚོའི་ལུས་ཕུང་གི་རང་དབང་གང་དུ་ཡོད་དམ།
ང་ཚོའི་འགྲོ་འདུག་གི་རང་དབང་གང་དུ་ཡོད་དམ། ང་ཚོའི་སྨྲ་བརྗོད་ཀྱི་རང་དབང་གང་དུ་ཡོད་དམ།
ང་ཚོའི་བསམ་བློའི་རང་དབང་གང་དུ་ཡོད་དམ། ང་ཚོའི་རྒྱུ་ནོར་གྱི་རང་དབང་གང་དུ་ཡོད་དམ།<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>འདི་ལྟ་བུའི་གནས་སྟངས་འོག་ཁོང་ཁྲོའི་མེ་ལྕེ་དེ་ཉིད་བོད་ཁམས་མདོ་དབུས་ཁམས་གསུམ་ཡོངས་སུ་ཁྱབ་པ་དང་བོད་མི་རེ་རེའི་སེམས་སུ་འབར་བཞིན་ཡོད་དེ།
རླབས་ཆེ་བའི་རང་རིགས་སྤུན་ཟླ་མི་ཉུང་བ་ཞིག་གིས་རང་ལུས་མེར་བསྲེགས་དང་ཐ་ན་ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་དུའང་དེ་ལྟ་བུའི་དོན་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་བ་རེད།
དེ་བས་རང་ལུས་མེར་བསྲེགས་ནི་རང་བཞིན་གྱིས་བྱུང་བ་ཞིག་མ་ཡིན་པར་དེ་ནི་གདམ་གསེས་མེད་པའི་གདམ་གསེས་ཀྱི་ལམ་བུ་ཞིག་ཡིན།
ཁོང་ཚོ་ནི་མི་འདྲ་བའི་ས་གནས་དང་མི་འདྲ་བའི་རྒྱབ་ལྗོངས། མི་འདྲ་བའི་ཁྱིམ་ཚང། མི་འདྲ་བའི་ཕོ་མོའི་མཚན་མ།
མི་འདྲ་བའི་ལོ་ཚོད་བཅས་ཀྱི་དཔའ་རྒོད་རིང་ལུགས་པ་འབའ་ཞིག་ཡིན་ཏེ། ཁོང་ཚོས་རང་ཉིད་ཀྱི་བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་ཚེ་སྲོག་དང་ལང་ཚོ་ཕ་ས་འདིའི་ཡོད་ཚད་ཀྱི་ཆེད་དུ་ཕུལ་བ་རེད།
ཁོང་ཚོ་ནི་རང་ཉིད་འཚོ་གནས་ཙམ་ཞིག་བྱེད་མ་ཐུབ་པ་རྩ་བ་ནས་མ་ཡིན་པར་ཡོད་ཚད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་ཚད་ཕ་ས་འདིའི་མཐའ་དག་གི་དོན་དུ་ཡིན།
འདི་ལྟ་བུའི་རླབས་ཆེ་བའི་ཕུགས་བསམ་རིང་ལུགས་ནི་ནམ་ཞིག་མངོན་འགྱུར་བྱེད་ཐུབ་བམ། འདི་ལྟ་བུའི་བློས་གཏོང་ནི་ཁ་ནས་བཤད་པ་ཙམ་མ་ཡིན་པར་རང་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ཟུངས་ཁྲག་དྲོན་མོའི་མཛད་རྗེས་དེ་མི་རབས་ནས་མི་རབས་ལ་ཕུལ་ཟིན་ཡོད་པས།
རང་རིགས་དང་རང་རིགས་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཀྱིས་ཁོང་རྣམ་པ་ཚོར་ནམ་ཡང་བུ་ལོན་ཆད་པར་ངེས། ཁོང་ཚོས་ང་རང་ཚོ་ཤིན་ཏུ་སེམས་འགུལ་ཐེབས་པར་བྱས་སོང་ལ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བརའང་བྱས་སོང་།
རྒྱུ་མཚན་ནི་ཁོང་ཚོས་ང་རང་ཚོའི་ཆེད་དུ་སོ་སོ་རང་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ཚེ་སྲོག་གི་ཟུངས་ཁྲག་གིས་རང་རིགས་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་སྟེང་ཆེས་འོད་སྟོང་འབར་བའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཀྱི་ཆ་ཤས་དེ་བསྐྲུན་ཡོད།
འདི་ནི་ཕ་ས་འདིས་བརྗེད་མི་རུང་བ་དང་ཕ་ས་འདིའི་མི་རེ་རེས་བརྗེད་མི་རུང་བ་ཞིག་ཡིན། ང་ཚོའི་མི་རབས་འདི་ནི་འདི་ལྟ་བུའི་བློས་གཏོང་གི་འགན་འཁྲིའི་དུས་རབས་ཤིག་ཡིན་པ་རེད།
གཞན་དག་གིས་སྐད་བརྒྱབ་སྟེ་ཁྲོམ་སྐོར་བྱས་ནས་མི་འདོད་པའི་ངོ་རྒོལ་མཚོན་པར་བྱས་ཆོག་མོད།
འོན་ཀྱང་ང་ཚོས་ཅིའི་ཕྱིར་གཅེས་སྲོག་གིས་ངོ་རྒོལ་བྱེད་དགོས་པ་འདི་ཅི་ཡིན་ནམ། ཁོང་ཚོས་ང་ཚོའི་འཕེལ་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ལམ་བུ་དང་ཕ་ས་འདི་ཉིད་ཀྱི་མཚར་སྡུག་གི་མ་འོངས་པའི་བགྲོད་ལམ་ལ་རང་ཉིད་ཀྱི་གཅེས་སྲོག་གི་ཟུངས་ཁྲག་དང་ལང་ཚོའི་ལོ་ཟླས་རྨང་བཏིང་ཡོད།
ང་ཚོ་ཁོང་རྣམ་པའི་ལམ་བུའི་རྨང་རྡོ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་རི་རྩེར་སྙེག་དགོས་ཨང། <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ང་ཚོས་ཀྲུང་གོའི་འགོ་ཁྲིད་པ་དག་ལ་བཤད་འདོད་པའི་རེ་བ་ཞིག་ནི། དངོས་དོན་ལ་གདོང་ལེན་བྱེད་མི་འདོད་པ་ཕུད་ཁྱེད་ཅག་གིས་ང་རང་ཚོ་བཙོན་དུ་འཇུག་པ་དང་འདྲི་བརྩད།
བཀག་སྡོམ་སོགས་བྱེད་པ་ལས་ང་ཚོ་དང་མཉམ་དུ་བགྲོ་གླེང་བྱེད་པ་དེ་ནི་ཐབས་ལམ་བཟང་ཤོས་དེ་ཡིན།
གད་སྲིད་འགྱུར་བ་གང་ཡང་གཏོང་མི་འདོད་ན་ཁྱེད་རང་ཚོ་ང་ཚོའི་སྣེ་ཁྲིད་པ་བྱེད་པའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་ཤོར་ཚར་བ་དང་སྤུན་ཟླ་མི་རིགས་བྱེད་པའི་རིན་ཐང་ཡང་བརླགས་ཟིན་པ་རེད།
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<span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[6]">我身陷一间灼热的房间</span><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]" style="background-color: #fafbfb; color: #4e5665; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[1]">光芒在天花板闪耀,</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[2]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[3]">一个皮沙发邀我</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[4]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[5]">放松一下脊背,</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[6]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[7]">可我的心在跳动,</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[8]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[9]">奔向村边的小河</span><br 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data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[17]">我被捆在一块石头上,</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[18]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[19]">因为妈妈每天要在地里劳作。 </span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[20]" /><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[21]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[22]">这里的灰色房子盯着我。</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[23]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[24]">列车上的人们</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[25]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[26]">寒颤,躁动,疲倦,孤寂,迷茫,</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[27]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[28]">盼望另一种生活版本。</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[29]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[30]">我的心神奔向</span><br 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data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[38]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[39]">此刻我是风中飘浮的</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[40]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[41]">一株蒲公英的绒毛。 </span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[42]" /><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[43]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[44]">你怎么样,我的叛逆?</span><br 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data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[52]">抑或是墙上的眼睛</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[53]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[54]">盯着你全身肌肉的每一次抽搐?</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[55]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[56]">我看到你的心流淌开去</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[57]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[58]">奔向你群山之间的家园。</span><br 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data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[73]">浇灌的麦穗。 </span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[74]" /><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[75]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[76]">每一天打开互联网</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[77]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[78]">我的心都会担忧</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[79]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[80]">你失踪的新闻,</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[81]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[82]">像卓玛加②一样被投进一间牢房</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[83]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[84]">在他的《骚动的喜马拉雅山》</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[85]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[86]">成为书林一景的前夜;</span><br 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data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[122]">可你的笔随着故事起舞,</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[123]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[124]">以另一种语言传到我的耳边。 </span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[125]" /><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[126]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[127]">我在远方歌唱</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[128]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[129]">你我是撒在同一首诗中的词语,</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[130]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[131]">那是更敦群培⑤囚室里写下的绝唱; </span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[132]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[133]">你我都是雍日本⑥ 之剑碎裂的残片,</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[134]" /><span 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data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[156]">① 布琼索南(Bhuchung D. Sonam):生于西藏,从小随父母流亡印度,曾获印度巴洛达大学经济学硕士学位,现在美国波士顿一所大学深造,兼用藏文、英文写作,著有英文诗集《西藏蒲公英》(Dandelions of Tibet)和《二元冲突》(A Conflict of Duality, 2006),编有藏人以英文写作的诗集《流亡的缪斯:西藏流亡诗人选集》(Muses in Exile En Anthology of Exile Tibetan Poets)。</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[157]" /><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[158]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[159]">② 卓玛加:原北京大学某研究所研究生,2002年即将获得硕士学位之前,走访西藏各地并撰写《骚动的喜马拉雅山》,次年流亡印度,一年后返回西藏,2005年被捕,以“骚动和颠覆国家罪”判处十年半有期徒刑。《骚动的喜马拉雅山》一书已由国际笔会西藏流亡作家协会出版。</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[160]" /><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[161]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[162]">③ 加羊吉:青海电视台藏语编导、西藏歌手、藏语作家,2008年4月1日被青海省安全部门拘押二十多天,后因“证据不足”,以取保候审的名义交付巨额罚金才获释,目前仍就职于青海电视台。2008年夏天,甘肃人民出版社出版她的专著《爱与痛的随想》。</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[163]" /><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[164]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[165]">④ 可能指青海果洛州著名说唱艺人达贝,在安多民间被称为“果洛达贝”,于2008年4月一度被拘押。</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[166]" /><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[167]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[168]">⑤ 更敦群培 (1903-1951) :近代西藏的著名学者、画家、诗人、翻译家,西藏文化史上承前启后的大师。1946年在拉萨以涉嫌“印造伪钞”的罪名被捕,实际原因可能是他在旅行印度期间卷入“西藏革命党”的活动。1950年十四世达赖喇嘛亲政后大赦政治犯,更敦群培因此获释。</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[169]" /><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[170]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[171]">⑥ 雍日本:五○年代汉藏武装冲突中藏人眼里的康巴勇士,据米克尔·登海姆(Mikel Dunham)的《菩萨勇士》(The Buddha's Warriors)一书,雍日本于1956年4月在理塘寺战死。</span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[172]" /><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[173]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[174]">⑦ 涂巴:一种西藏传统风味的面条,或称疙瘩面,拌有牦牛肉、白萝卜丝和藏式辣椒。 </span><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[175]" /><br data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[176]" /><span data-reactid=".r[30h1f].[1][4][1]{comment10202051825486107_6554585}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[177]">原文: </span></span></span></div>
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BaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-41410600557529733512013-07-15T01:29:00.000-07:002013-07-15T04:44:06.663-07:00SHE WOLF<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Translated from Tibetan by Bhuchung D. Sonam</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Across the chain of rocky hills</span></div>
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Where the soul of my she-wolf is said to roam</div>
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Letting her livid mind ride the yellow black storm</div>
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The terror of the earth and sky cuts across her shawl</div>
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Her cries vibrate like sounds of battles raging</div>
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Failing to avoid the rage of angry demons</div>
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The wolf clings to the dead of the Ten-million Burial Ground</div>
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Multiple-thinking head collide with rocks</div>
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The sound of collision spreads across the world</div>
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And the hopes of bad times strike the she-wolf</div>
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Like thousand promises made of the time</div>
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Sounds of the sages’ thigh-bone horn lingers</div>
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Lighting a thousand lamps of the soul</div>
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Quietly shedding the secrets of the truth</div>
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My she-wolf abodes in the celestial-realm</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Months and years pass by at a click of fingers</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Whereas the soul of the wolf remains in the world</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pure and clean like a mind of a one-year-old child</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Garamond; font-size: small; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Constantly busy fulfilling various worldly deeds</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Once I heard the cry of the she-wolf</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Pulling my heart and mind towards her</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">To enjoy a feast that I did not earn</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">And today this body pains and aches</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">In this tightly bewitched world of mine</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I once read the she-wolf’s story</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">And like the boundless joy of freedom</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">It gave waves of heart-warming bliss</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Gods have hurled stones into the abodes of demigods</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Irate demigods send rains of rocks in return</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">In between this battle of gods and demigods</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">My she-wolf flourish gracefully in peace</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Madly laughing hordes of demons</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Swim in a sea of reddish black blood</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">This heart-shaking terrifying enemy of demons</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Conquered me and my she-wolf in this century</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">I failed to recognize the battles in the right</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">From this end of the world that belongs to me</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><b>Note</b>: Lhachap Jinpa is one of the foremost Tibetan poet in exile. He was born in Amdo and came into exile. He told me that he wrote this very cryptic poem decades ago in Tibet. 'I wrote this as it came to me' he said sitting in his tiny one-room quarters at Gu-Chu-Sum Movement of Tibet, a Dharamsala-based Tibetan former political prisoners association.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>As a reader if you can make sense of what this poem could mean or means to you, please share your thoughts. Thanks</i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">All translations by Bhuchung D.
Sonam except where mentioned</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFW_KBYjzy-4rNfUE4NrXTS-zVPIEDoBy6AUupkB41BNskwU3dZv8G__MtsuPAXV9vopIxoaI8VgAF_yZI1rjilNgj1sdBPOtLRHdma0AAhFAETp0IaY6sHgYyHrg6nM3PEH3-STGXcRMV/s1600/tenzin+phuntsok.jpe" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFW_KBYjzy-4rNfUE4NrXTS-zVPIEDoBy6AUupkB41BNskwU3dZv8G__MtsuPAXV9vopIxoaI8VgAF_yZI1rjilNgj1sdBPOtLRHdma0AAhFAETp0IaY6sHgYyHrg6nM3PEH3-STGXcRMV/s1600/tenzin+phuntsok.jpe" height="200" width="148" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Tenzin Phuntsok</span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Age: 40<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Date of
self-immolation: 1 December 2011 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Place:
Chamdo, Kham, Tibet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Current
status: Deceased<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Last message of Tenzn Phuntsok:</span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">If
Khenpo Lodoe Rapsel, Namsey Sonam and all the monks and nuns of Karma Gon
Monastery, the true and un-mistakable practitioners of Buddhist dharma, have to
endure torture and imprisonment like this, then it is better for all of us at
Karma Gon Monastery to die. I, the despicable Tenzin Phuntsok, write this with
loyalty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Brothers
and sisters, don't be sad and don't lose your courage. My Dharma friends, think
about our two khenpos and the monks and nuns who are holders of the Dharma
practice. How can we believe in these rules that restrict the freedom of
religion? I, Tenzin Phuntsok, wrote this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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friends in Karma Gon Monastery, it is useless just to live thinking about our
beloved khenpos and the monks and nuns. Stand up! Clinging to taste of the
eight worldly concerns, beings run away from these as they would from their
enemies, I bow before the Buddha, who cannot be placated by small pleasures. I,
the sorrow-filled, loathsome man called Tenzin Phuntsok wrote this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I think about the suffering throughout Tibet, and especially the pain at Karma
Gon Monastery, there is no way that I can go on living. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigz0mKFxQQpPD76xwd9WWHnr1nZq7vEzUy2sXWZgbZ_3ThOCgIEGuqfBviyragv75OAr3rFzn2wXMIkFwO7fsAwcsfEBRj_UIy2KMlRiiUAD6A4b8TGksJH4opXMOG-abKd96H6JPL7EzE/s1600/sobha+renpoche.jpe" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigz0mKFxQQpPD76xwd9WWHnr1nZq7vEzUy2sXWZgbZ_3ThOCgIEGuqfBviyragv75OAr3rFzn2wXMIkFwO7fsAwcsfEBRj_UIy2KMlRiiUAD6A4b8TGksJH4opXMOG-abKd96H6JPL7EzE/s1600/sobha+renpoche.jpe" height="200" width="138" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Symbols"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sonam Wangdu</span><span style="color: #000202; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">aka </span></b><b><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Lama Soepa </span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Age: 40s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: Monk/Social worker<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date of self-immolation: 8 January 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place: Darlag county town, Golog, Amdo, </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Northeastern Tibet Current status: Deceased <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The last
message of Lama Soepa:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">To all the six
million Tibetans – including those living in exile – I am grateful to Pawo
Thupten Ngodup and all other Tibetan heroes who have sacrificed their lives for
Tibet and for the reunification of the Tibetan people. Though I am in my
forties, until now I have not had their courage. But I have tried my best to
teach all traditional fields of knowledge to others, including Buddhism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">This is the
twenty-first century, and this is the year in which so many Tibetan heroes have
died. I am sacrificing my body both to stand in solidarity with them in flesh
and blood, and to seek repentance through this highest tantric honour of
offering one’s body. This is not to seek personal fame or glory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">I am giving
away my body as an offering of light to chase away the darkness, to free all
beings from suffering, and to lead them – each of whom has been our mother in
the past and yet by ignorance has been led to commit immoral acts – to the
Amitabha, the Buddha of infinite light. My offering of light is for all living
beings, even as insignificant as lice and nits, to dispel their pain and to
guide them to the state of enlightenment. I offer this sacrifice as a token
long-life offering to our root guru, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and all other
spiritual teachers and lamas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">I am taking
this action neither for myself nor to fulfill a personal desire nor to earn
recognition. I am sacrificing my body with the firm conviction and a pure heart
just as the Buddha bravely gave his body to a hungry tigress [to prevent her
from eating her cubs]. All the Tibetan heroes too have sacrificed their lives
with similar principles. But in practical terms, their lives may have ended
with some sort of anger. Therefore, to guide their souls on the path to
enlightenment, I offer prayers that may lead all of them to Buddhahood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">May all
spiritual teachers and lamas inside Tibet and in exile live long. Especially, I
pray that His Holiness the Dalai Lama will return to Tibet and remain as
Tibet’s temporal and spiritual leader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirgDJ2Bdm83hSag6MDE1H_Ee6VuRs_-SPKadWMCtatxYYZ53-T07aQyJFP3P3kORDgqQZBKCIs00pDAKwtlYlv0ncNImOAyaoxTtS_UO3EFY12f7npjsAcob7-6OE8kDLS3hLMAs-jbkyD/s1600/nangdol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirgDJ2Bdm83hSag6MDE1H_Ee6VuRs_-SPKadWMCtatxYYZ53-T07aQyJFP3P3kORDgqQZBKCIs00pDAKwtlYlv0ncNImOAyaoxTtS_UO3EFY12f7npjsAcob7-6OE8kDLS3hLMAs-jbkyD/s1600/nangdol.jpg" height="200" width="158" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Nangdrol </span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Age: 18<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: Layman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date of self-immolation: 19 February 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place:
Dzamthang, Amdo, <span style="color: #000202;">Northeastern Tibet </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Current status: Deceased <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The last
message of </span></b><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Nangdrol:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Raise
your head high with courage and loyalty. I, Nangdrol, call with gratitude upon
my parents, siblings and relatives. The time has come for me to leave, For the
sake of the Tibetan people, by lighting my life on fire. My requests to the
Tibetans are -- Be united, Be Tibetan, Dress Tibetan and Speak Tibetan. Never
forget that you are a Tibetan, Be compassionate; Respect your parents; Most of
all be united; Treat animals with compassion, Do not slaughter them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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live His Holiness the Dalai Lama! Long live all the lamas and tulkus of the
Land of Snow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tibetan people be free from China’s oppressive rule, There is immense suffering
under China’s rule, and this suffering is unbearable. There is no way to
further endure this Chinese occupation, its terrible rule, this torture without
trace. In the end the merciless Chinese will kill the Tibetans. Long live His
Holiness the Dalai Lama.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Age: 26<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: Activist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date of self-immolation: 26 March 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place: Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, India <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Current status: Decased <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The last
message of </span></b><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Jampel Yeshi:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Long Live His Holiness
the Dalai Lama, who is the shining example of world peace. We must strive to
ensure the return of His Holiness to Tibet. I pray and believe that the Tibetan
people in and outside Tibet will be united and sing the Tibetan national anthem
in front of the Potala Palace.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">My fellow Tibetans, when
we think about our future happiness and path, we need loyalty. It is the
life-soul of a people. It is the spirit to find truth. It is the guide leading
to happiness. My fellow Tibetans, if you want equality and happiness as in the
rest of the world, you must hold fast to this word 'LOYALTY' towards your
country. Loyalty is the wisdom to know truth from falsehood. You must work hard
in all your endeavours, big or small.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Freedom is the basis of
happiness for all living beings. Without freedom, six million Tibetans are like
a butter lamp in the wind, moving without direction. My fellow Tibetans from
the Three Provinces, it is clear to us all that if we unitedly combine our
strength, there will be results. So, don't be disheartened.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">What I want to convey
here is the concern of the six million Tibetans. At a time when we are making
our final move toward our goal – if you have money, it is the time to spend it;
if you are educated it is the time to produce results; if you have control over
your life, I think the day has come to sacrifice your life. The fact that
Tibetan people are setting themselves on fire in this 21st century is to let
the world know about their suffering, and to tell the world about the denial of
basic human rights. If you have any empathy, stand up for the Tibetan people.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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practice our religion and culture. We demand freedom to use our language. We
demand the same rights as other people living elsewhere in the world. People of
the world, stand up for Tibet. Tibet belongs to Tibetans. Victory to Tibet!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Age: 25<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: Layperson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date of self-immolation: 19 April 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place: Ngaba, Amdo, Northeastern Tibet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Current status: Deceased <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sonam </span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Age: 24<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: Layperson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date of self-immolation: 19 April 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place: Ngaba, Amdo, Northeastern Tibet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Current status: Deceased</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The last
message of </span></b><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Choephak
Kyab and Sonam:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Tibetans
are a people who have a unique culture and spiritual tradition. They are compassionate
and treat others with respect. However, after the Chinese occupation, Tibetans
suffer without basic human rights. It is for this reason, and in order for
peace to prevail on earth, we offer our lives by setting ourselves on fire. The
suffering of Tibetans without basic human rights is far worse than the
suffering that we endure when we set ourselves on fire. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Our
cherished parents, family members and relatives, it is not that we do not have
love and affection towards you. With equanimity we have taken this decision to
set ourselves on fire for Tibet's freedom, for the Buddha Dharma, for the
happiness of all living beings and for world peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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must do as we have written – even if we are taken away by the Chinese. Do not
do anything; we will be happy if nobody gets harmed because of us. Do not be
sad for us; listen to scholars, lamas and khenpos. If you want to be scholars
then make sure to take the right path, have affection for your race and by
learning about our culture, you must remain united. If you do all this then our
wishes will be fulfilled. We earnestly hope that our wishes will be carried
out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Age: 36<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: housewife/nomad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date of self-immolation: 30 May 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place:</span><span style="color: #000202; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Dzamthang Monastery, Amdo, Northeatern
Tibet<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Current status: Deceased <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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message of </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Rikyo:</span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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for world peace and happiness! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ensure His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s return to Tibet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not indulge in slaughtering and trading of animals, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not steal, Speak Tibetan, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not fight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all sufferings of sentient beings on myself,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not resist by fighting if I get into Chinese hands alive,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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united, Study Tibetan culture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fire I burn, my family, do not worry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tamdin Thar</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Tamding Thar </span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Age: 64<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: nomad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date of self-immolation: 15 June 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place: Chentsa county town, Malho, Eastern Tibet <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Current status: Deceased </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The last
words of Tamding Thar:</span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">'I take
refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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myself on fire as an offering of light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that His Holiness the Dalai Lama will return to Tibet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will prevail on earth and that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ruled by Tibetans.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ngawang Norphel</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tenzin Khedrup</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Age: 22</span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: Layperson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date of self-immolation: 20 June 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place:
Yulshul, <span style="color: #000202;">Kham, Eastern Tibet <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Current status: Deceased </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tenzin Khedrup</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Age: 24<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: former monk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date of self-immolation: 20 June 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place: Yulshul, Kham, Eastern Tibet <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Current status: Deceased </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The last
message of </span></b><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Norphel
and Tenzin Khedrup:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Independence
for Tibet! His Holiness must return to Tibet!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
two of us cannot contribute anything towards Tibetan culture and religion nor
can we do anything to benefit Tibetans in financial terms. Hence, the only
thing that we can do for Tibetans, the long life of His Holiness the Dalai
Lama, and for his return to Tibet, is to set ourselves on fire. We would like
to urge other Tibetan youths like us to pledge that you will never engage in
such acts as fighting amongst yourselves; instead you must remain united. We
have hope and faith that you will maintain loyalty among all the Tibetans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYHk_QFlp2V4qy5eDonkoihWTPWAfzAX9wkVtVN99okA7gOxWZMCpukvPRrC1CdD1v8Z_I3r5bk9GRN-OgD9ftjJETGby_x81LcgXMJbzGg6cD-crIsqAgD-tyqdj9rW5AhmbfnRAv5-cx/s1600/G.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYHk_QFlp2V4qy5eDonkoihWTPWAfzAX9wkVtVN99okA7gOxWZMCpukvPRrC1CdD1v8Z_I3r5bk9GRN-OgD9ftjJETGby_x81LcgXMJbzGg6cD-crIsqAgD-tyqdj9rW5AhmbfnRAv5-cx/s1600/G.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></span></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gudrup<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gender: Male<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: Writer/poet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date: 29 September 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place of self-immolation: Nagchu, Tibet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Current Status: Deceased<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Last words of Gudrup:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the Land of Snows, although looking back at our past we have nothing but a
sense of loss, anger, sadness, and tears, I pray that the coming new year of
the Water Dragon brings you health, success, and the fulfillment of
aspirations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.5pt;">We must identify and give
prominence to our pride in ourselves as a people and even in the face of loss
and suffering, must never lose our courage and spirit in our endeavour to
uphold our unity.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Age: 24<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: nomad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date of self-immolation: 12 November 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place: near a school in Dorongpo in Rebkong, Amdo, Northeastern
Tibet </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Current status: deceased </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The
last message of </span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12pt;">Nyingkar Tashi:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;">We, the million
Tibetans led by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama, want independence
for Tibet. Freedom to learn our language, freedom to speak our language. Free
the imprisoned Panchen Lama. His Holiness the Dalai Lama must return home. I am
setting myself on fire to protest against the Chinese government. My father
Tashi Namgyal and other family members, there is no need to worry and feel sad.
Instead engage in spiritual activities and accumulate merits. My request is
that every Tibetan must learn and speak Tibetan, dress Tibetan and must remain
united and rise up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tashi, 12 November 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Age: 26<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: cab driver<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date of self-immolation: 17 November 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place: Dolma Square, Rongwo Monastery in Rebkong, Amdo,
Northeastern Tibet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Current status: deceased <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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message of </span></b><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Chakmo
Kyi:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Return</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Kailasa; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">of</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Kailasa; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">His
Holiness to Tibet! Freedom of language!</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Kailasa; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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nationalities. China's new leader Xi Jinping must meet with His Holiness the
Dalai Lama.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sangye Dolma </span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Age: 17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: nun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date of self-immolation: 25 November 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place: Bharkor Vilage in Dokarmo, Malho, Eastern Tibet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Current status: deceased <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The last
message of </span></b><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sangye Dolma:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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deep blue sky above<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">my lama has
returned back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">into the tent
with white rock steps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">look, my
Tibetan brothers and sisters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">look at the
peak of that snow mountain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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snow lion has returned back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">look, my
Tibetan brothers and sisters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fortress in the forest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">look at the
beauty of the turquoise plain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">my tigress
has come back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">look, my
Tibetan brothers and sisters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">look at the
land of snow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is on the rise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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independent country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">While His
Holiness the Dalai Lama<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for too long<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Travelling
all over the world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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suffer under oppression<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">let's pray
for this darkness to be over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">the Panchen
Lama is in prison<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">let's pray
for his release and happiness for the land of snow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Children of
the snow lion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Do not forget
that you are Tibetan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Tibet is an
independent country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dolma<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Kelsang Kyab </span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Age: 24<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: semi-nomad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date of self-immolation: 27 November 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place: Outside the Peoples Government building in</span><span style="color: #000202; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Symbols"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Current status: deceased <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The last message</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Monlam Uni OuChan2"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">My dear parents, my sister, relatives and everyone
else, please take care. i setting myself on fire for the welfare of Tibet, the
land of snows. May His Holiness the Dalai Lama live long! I earnestly hope that
the sun of happiness will shine for Tibet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dhondup<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Age: 20s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Occupation: layman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Date of self-immolation: 24 February 2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Place: Jhakhyung Monastery in Palung, Tshoshar, Eastern Tibet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000202; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Current status: deceased<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The
last message:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">‘Over
one hundred Tibetans from all parts of Tibet set themselves on fire. They were
true heroes of the Tibetan people. If Tibet does not win independence and
freedom, it is certain that China will eliminate Tibet’s culture and
traditional ways of life. This year the authorities have banned the teaching of
Tibetan language in Bayan district. All the Tibetan teachers were expelled. It
is out of sheer sadness that today, on the evening of the fifteenth day of the
Tibetan New Year, I am setting myself on fire in front of the Jakhyung
Monastery. Today is Tibetan Independence Day.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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BaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-44571227824168508252013-05-13T04:35:00.000-07:002013-05-17T21:04:26.682-07:00Must We love the Party…<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">On 8 May,
among many issues the Tibetan prime minister discussed at the Council on
Foreign Relations think tank, Dr Lobsang Sangay said: ‘We don't challenge, or
ask for, an overthrow of the Communist Party. We don't question or challenge
the present structure of the ruling party.’ The ruling party being the
Communist Party of China (CCP).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">This
statement by the popularly-elected head of the exile Tibetan government
contradicts two of the fundamental principles that his administration stands
for – the Middle Way policy and democracy.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"></span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Firstly, the basic premise of the
Middle Way policy is neither to seek separation from China </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">‘nor accept the
present conditions of Tibet under the People’s Republic of China’. Rather it is
to seek ‘genuine autonomy’ under the PRC’s <b><u>constitution</u></b>.
This </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">hoped-for autonomy – according to the <i>Middle Way Policy & All Recent Related Documents </i>published by the
information department of Sangay’s administration – ‘would include the right of
Tibetans to create their own regional government and government institutions
and processes that are best suited to their needs and characteristics.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Middle Way policy hence insists
upon China practicing the rights enshrined in its own constitution and thus this
policy is not only challenging but also insisting upon a fundamental shake-up
in the way the party functions. Currently the CCP trumps over the rule of law
and China’s constitution exists to serve the party. The Middle Way policy requires
for the rule of law trumping over the party – consequently winning some goodies.
It does not accept the over-lordship of the Chinese Communist Party as the prime
minister seems to suggest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sangay’s remark also runs counter
to His Holiness’ tireless efforts for more than half-a-century to democratize
the exile community culminating in his election to the post of prime minster
and the countless calls from inside Tibet for freedom. In exile, we are exercising
our democratic rights and one of the prime objectives of the exile government is
to fight for these same values on behalf of Tibetans in Tibet. In this sense, our
resistance and struggle for freedom fundamentally questions and challenges the
communist rule over the Tibetan Plateau.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Validating the ‘present structure
of the party’ undermines the Tibetan people’s aspiration for freedom and
democracy and at the same time it gives absolutely undeserving legitimacy to
the murderous one party rule and its dictators. More than anyone else, such
sweeping statements would fly in the face of over one hundred self-immolators, overwhelming
majority of whom demanded freedom for Tibet and an end to China’s rule over
their homeland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In his last message in February
this year, Phagmo Dhondup said: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">‘Over one hundred Tibetans from all parts of Tibet set
themselves on fire. They were true heroes of the Tibetan people. If Tibet does
not win independence and freedom, it is certain that China will eliminate
Tibet’s culture and traditional ways of life. This year the authorities have
banned the teaching of Tibetan language in Bayan district. All the Tibetan
teachers were expelled. It is out of sheer sadness that today, on the evening
of the fifteenth day of the Tibetan New Year, I am setting myself on fire in
front of the Jakhyung Monastery. Today is Tibetan Independence Day.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Tibet has been gripped in crisis since
Beijing’s occupation nearly sixty years ago which led to the systematic destruction
of its culture and way of life. The situation has worsened since 2008 when the
nationwide uprising against Chinese rule was brutally crushed. A solution needs
to be found at the soonest and as the elected leader of exile Tibet, Sangay is
under intense pressure. But statements such as this will produce no result.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Whatever reasoning compelled the
prime minister to make this statement, it has stretched the Middle Way policy
to an extent where it makes absolutely no sense. To begin with, the Middle Way strategy
came out of great desperation and a necessity to have a plan that is more acceptable
to China so that a possible solution to Tibet’s long-standing dilemma can be
found. But, as the official Tibetan documents sums up, ‘nine rounds of talks
with China … has not produced any meaningful outcome’ and that ‘the Tibetan
people in Tibet and Tibetan communities in exile are growing more impatient
with, and less hopeful of, the Middle Way policy. An increasing number of
Tibetans who have doubts in their minds about the Middle Way policy suggest
that it is better to explore alternative means to resolve the issue of Tibet.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Living in our rented rooms, we
have known over and again that we cannot trust the CCP. Meanwhile, Tibetans in Tibet
have received enough clubs over their heads to know that they have no place in
Xi Jinping’s ‘Chinese dream’. Furthermore, in spite of violent political
campaigns and intense ideological indoctrination for over half-a-century, they
have refused to ‘love the Communist Party’. We must build our strategies upon
these fiercely courageous and never-give-up qualities to carry our struggle
forward. Since the negotiations began decades ago, we have given up enough. Enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We have nothing more to give. As
imprisoned author Theurang asks does a race that once conquered two-thirds of
the world’s territory want to be turned into ‘a bunch of soul-less slaves’
serving others. ‘My dear fellow-countrymen,’ he further writes, ‘if we cannot
paint the bones of our ancestors in gold, the least we could do is to not throw
their gray hair to the wind.’</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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BaDSonamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342349529825988482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957710963492285366.post-4875100555568429362013-04-03T09:04:00.001-07:002013-04-03T20:25:56.315-07:00ON TIBET<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: justify;">A review of YAK HORNS</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: justify;">By Swati Chopra, author of </span><i style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: justify;">Dharamsala Diaries </i><span style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: justify;">and</span><i style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: justify;"> Buddhism: On the Path to Nirvana</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Garamond;">The review appeared in the<i> Seminar Journal</i> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">April 2013</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">YAK HORNS available online at:</span> </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/sft/site/Donation2?2060.donation=form1&df_id=2060&JServSessionIdr004=aaxbfa6sf5.app332b" style="font-family: Garamond;">https://secure3.convio.net/sft/site/Donation22060.donation=form1&df_id=2060&JServSessionIdr004=aaxbfa6sf5.app332b</a><span style="font-family: Garamond;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8euMbfZt5zmE4hOVB3L6FT9Ja8iqLKsTrF1F5JDx3mtgX-JWG3n-9HnpJUqOhyphenhyphenQMRxCwC_Z4-atxCMHiI6l3Ioysm2vbah_vUCK4wXs-YNQ8qqeSnG5DhyphenhyphenDSKJv7WpBesiotx1wlKAyVZ/s320/Yak+Horns.jpg" width="209" /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: x-large;">THE</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;"> narrative of
Tibet has never lacked for commentators and those willing and eager to tell its
story </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">on its behalf. Beginning in the twelfth century, the land, its culture
and its people have been scrutinized and written about by a steady stream of
explorers who managed to breach its defences and sneak into the remote
Himalayan kingdom. These accounts, and those who braved the land of snows to
gather them, became invaluable in the nineteenth century when secret spying and
mapping missions were despatched to Tibet, as the Great Game began to unfold in
Asia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Its strategic
location, its geopolitical importance, and its exotic appeal as a sort of a
last unexplored frontier, ensured that Tibet remained an area of interest for
‘outsiders’ who commented upon it, told and retold its story, and continued to
add to the body of writing on it, even as it passed into an era of turmoil and
occupation by the People’s Republic of China in the twentieth century, and a
section of its population fled their troubled homeland. What is interesting is
that a large part of this body of work on Tibet, scholarly, literary and
otherwise, was written by non-Tibetan ‘experts’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">As the Buddhism of
Tibet, represented most prominently by Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai
Lama, began to gain currency as a credible spiritual path in the western world
circa 1970s and ’80s, a new wave of writings emerged. A host of Tibetan
Rinpoches became popular teachers and began travelling the world, setting up
centres and acquiring students who were affected not only by their teachings of
the dharma, but also by their<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>joie de vivre</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in the face of adversity. The writings
that emerged from the dharma’s interaction with the world, most notably the
West, are a testimony to its ability and willingness to converse with new
perspectives and worldviews that were quite different from its own.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, the world fell
in love with the Thunderbolt Vehicle to enlightenment (Vajrayana Buddhism)
taught by affable, ruddy-cheeked Rinpoches, leading to a ‘dharma publishing’
phenomenon. Glossy-backed books on personal growth, often compilations of
teachings given by a Tibetan teacher, began appearing on bestseller lists.
Though I have never heard or seen any Rinpoche actively reinforce a
Shambhala-esque view of Tibet, either in lectures or in their writings, the
fact that there had existed this very practical system of mind-training in Tibet,
preserved and practised by human beings, who stood before the world and whose
equanimity was palpable, did add to the halo of spiritual accomplishment around
Tibet. I wouldn’t say it further exoticized Tibet, but it did lead to a
somewhat distorted popular perception of the country – that it was a paradise,
disturbed but nevertheless idyllic, filled with enlightened, angelic
maroon-robed monks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is why
Bhuchung D. Sonam’s writings, along with those of a small but growing group of
Tibetan writers within and outside Tibet, become so crucial. Along with the
older Lhasang Tsering and Jamyang Norbu, writers like Sonam, Tenzin Tsundue,
Woeser, Jamyang Kyi and others, are engaged in intently surveying and mapping
the spectrum of the contemporary Tibetan experience – that ranges from
repression at home in Tibet, to a ‘stateless, homeless’ existence as refugees
in India and other parts of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bhuchung D. Sonam’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Yak
Horns</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a collection of the
author’s writings – essays, literary criticism, film and music reviews, et al –
that have appeared in journals, the author’s blog at <u>burningtibet.blogspot.in</u>,
and on websites dedicated to Tibetan writing, like <u>www.tibetwrites.org</u>. Through
the diverse topics he tackles in the book, Sonam amplifies the voice of an entire
generation of Tibetan refugees – those who grew up in exile, never quite at
home, assimilating in their adoptive homelands yet never free of the persistent
remembrance of the true one they had never seen. In this, <i>Yak Horns</i> presents an
invaluable insight into the soul of the young refugee, whose ‘permanent address
has been stolen’, as Sonam’s biography in the book so poignantly states.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">The collection of
articles and essay in <i>Yak Horns<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>also serves as both a mirror of,
and a commentary on, the contemporary Tibetan cultural and literary scene.
Those who may not regularly read the blogs and magazines where these articles
appear will find in this book an opportunity of a snapshot of the same
delivered to them, which suffices as a useful introduction to contemporary
Tibetan perspectives and realities. Sonam is an intrepid chronicler, and little
seems to have escaped his prolific pen in the years represented in the book.
What one also gets is a sense of the secular literary and cultural traditions
of Tibet, through his cataloguing of the works of individuals such as the
inveterate traveller and controversial writer of the early twentieth century,
Gendun Choephel, who could be seen as a precursor to the secular Tibetan
intellectual movement of which Bhuchung D. Sonam is a contemporary
representative and to which he owes allegiance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Along with past
intellectuals, Sonam keeps his lens trained on the contemporary community of
writers within and outside Tibet. For those within Tibet, writing and blogging
have proven to be a crucial means to resist mounting repression by a paranoid
state-machinery wary of Tibetan insistence on a unique and distinct nationhood,
identity and culture. By telling the truth about what is happening in Tibet,
one that is often at variance with the ‘official’ version, they risk
imprisonment, torture, loss of careers and separation from loved ones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">A case in point is
Jamyang Kyi, a journalist employed with the state-run Qinghai Television, whose
account of her imprisonment in the aftermath of the widespread protests in
Tibet in 2008, was smuggled out of the country and published as a book in
exile, titled<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>A Sequence of Tortures: A Diary of
Interrogations</i>. This happened after the blog where her account first
appeared in 2008 was taken down. Another prolific, and fearless, blogger is
Tsering Woeser, who lives and works in Beijing and has often spoken about the
‘imperialist cultural invasion’ of Tibet. Despite repeated curbs and threats to
her freedom, she and her husband, the author Wang Lixiong, continue to post
content on-line that attempts to reflect ground realities in both Tibet and
China.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Time and again in
Bhuchung D. Sonam’s writing emerges the voice of a people chafing at and
struggling with the yoke of a brutal colonization. The only ray of hope seems
to be their resilience, and their refusal to give in to their oppressors
despite overwhelming odds. This is evident in this quote from Gartse Jigme, a
monk from a nomadic family in Amdo, who writes in his book, <i>The Warrior’s Courage</i>, and who Bhuchung
D. Sonam quotes:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘As a Tibetan, I
will never give up the struggle for the rights of my people<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">As a religious
person, I will never criticize the leader of my religion<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">As a writer, I am
committed to the power of truth and reality<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the pledge
I make to my fellow Tibetans.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Indeed, it is a
pledge that resonates through this book and the many paths it traverses, the
many stories it tells, and the one homeland it pays homage to </span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">– Tibet.</span></span><br />
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