My job is too big for one man, says Dalai Lama After 500 years of autocracy, Tibetan leader calls for democracy By Andrew Buncombe, Asia Correspondent Monday, 22 June 2009
In a speech that underscored the pressures he has had to bear during his life serving as both a spiritual and political leader, the Dalai Lama has said there is no need for his successor to perform the two roles.
In a video clip shown to hundreds of monks, nuns and lay people gathered in the mountain town of Dharamsala, the 73-year-old said it was essential that the Tibetan community in exile embraced democracy if it were to keep step with the wider world.
“The Dalai Lamas held temporal and spiritual leadership over the last 400 to 500 years. It may have been quite useful. But that period is over,” said the Nobel prize winner. “Today, it is clear to the whole world that democracy is the best system despite its minor negativities. That is why it is important that Tibetans also move with the larger world community.”…
Hello? Tibetans? Will he make it stick this time? In the past the other lamas have always succeeded in persuading him that they need him to fulfill this impossible task.
THE DALAI LAMA IS UNDOUBTEDLY RIGHT ABOUT THIS. HE’S 500 YEARS LATE, BUT HE’S RIGHT, AND THE REST OF THE TIBETAN LAMAS SHOULD LISTEN TO HIM, INSTEAD OF PLAYING EVEN MORE SELF-ABSORBED POLITICAL GAMES, AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR PEOPLE.
Oh, and hey, the Karmapa should not try to be the secular leader of Tibet either. He could be the single most significant lineage holder left in Tibet. Secular means lay person. Political power is a full-time job, and you just can’t do that and keep full Precepts. No way. It was a serious Dharmic error for the lamas to take the secular government away from the Tibetan noble class, who were designed by nature to be Tibet’s secular government, in the first place. It was that grave error by the lamas that led to Chinese political hegemony in Tibet. The Tibetan noble class still exists, and they are undoubtedly who can run Tibet. I nominate Renji.
Tibetan Princess Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo, “Renji” the only child of the late 10th Panchen Lama
Namu Amida Butsu
Xing Ping
His Holiness has being saying for many years that Tibet should be run as a democracy. But then, I am an old woman, so I know this. I suppose you are very young and may be forgiven.
Comment by Auntie Seldoen — June 23, 2009 @ 4:08 pm |
Auntie,
Thank you. I know exactly what His Holiness has been saying, and failing to say, lo these many decades, and what the lamas have been doing behind his back. Something must change.
I am 62 years old, and I know exactly what I’m doing in the midst of this. There are thousands of Americans behind me, whose pressure I feel 100% of the time, some of them not even born yet, and neither I myself, nor all of those others, will be able to obtain their purposes of being born in the West if the Dalai Lama and other Asian lineage holders continue to fail to get OFF THEIR DEAD BUTTS about the transmisssion of the Buddhadharma to America.
Namu Amida Butsu
Xing Ping
Comment by amerbud — June 23, 2009 @ 5:16 pm |