Cleaning House: Beijing replaces Tibetan government officials with ethnic Chinese

Hello, nice blog but your failure is that you don't know much about Europe! You buy all this BS about "America" (actually the USA) and "Western culture" but you don't seem to have a clue what that actually is. Europe is a very diverse place and in many places much closer to the whole chinese mentality than you may think. People are not really that different, whereever you go. You seriously have to take all these US-American extremists like the Evangelicals and Fox 'News' less seriously, they do not represent "the West" at all. Here in Europe we liken them to our own bad past, the US is actually pretty retarded when it comes to cultural development.

Likewise, try to be less naive about the Dalai Lama.. he's a very dubious figure who claims to speak for all Buddhists of the world, yet he's only the totalitarian head of a small and superstitious sect that is even quite anti-Buddhist when you care to examine what that is really about. Western media play him up because he's another anti-enlightenment, anti-democratic "freedom fighter" like the Taliban in 1980s Afghanistan. His esoteric pseudo-wisdom could only be used to make people more submissive to authority, it doesn't have any of the intellectual brilliance and controversy of real Buddhism.

"you don't know much about Europe! You buy all this BS about "America" (actually the USA) and "Western culture" but you don't seem to have a clue what that actually is."

Actually, I lived there for quite a while. I'm well informed and am speaking from experience. I did a lot of window shopping before I did my purchasing.

"Europe is a very diverse place and in many places much closer to the whole chinese mentality than you may think"

Hmmm, my experience tells me that most Europeans have unfettered access to free, state, and foreign media and therefore have a much broader perspective than most Chinese. My experience also tells me that most Europeans only agree with Mainlanders over Tibet when they are ignorant (Most Europeans know very little about Tibet, it's not taught in schools because it's not relevant to their individual countries).

"Evangelicals and Fox 'News' less seriously, they do not represent "the West" at all."

Having studied in the West, I know this. However, they are highly influential in US thinking. Equally, When I say "the West" I largely mean the English speaking white nations and their close consorts. I freely accept that places like Latin America and the Central European nations most certainly aren't represented by a lot of what I say. I've got to use a label and this one is convenient. After all, I can't go around naming huge long lists of countries.

"our own bad past"

Would that be the bit where you were at war with each other for the best part of a thousand years, or where you carved up concessions in Chinese cities?

"US is actually pretty retarded when it comes to cultural development."

I'll past that down here, but I won't argue against it.

"he's a very dubious figure who claims to speak for all Buddhists of the world"

What's so dubious about him? Is he evading taxes?

"the totalitarian head"

I've brought to mind a number of totalitarian leaders (Tojo, Mao, Pol pot, Stalin Hitler, etc) and I can't see the similaritiesof a small and superstitious sec

"of a small and superstitious sect"

If Beijing wasn't playing it's part, this "sect" would be the official religion of Tibet. As for superstition, I've seen my fair share of that among Western religions too.

"His esoteric pseudo-wisdom could only be used to make people more submissive to authority"

Just like Bush does when he brands anybody who is anti-war as being anti-democracy or anti-army? I fail to see how this is really any different from what any preacher does. He's espousing a voluntary obedience to a particular faith doctrine. This is part and parcel of religion the world over.

"it doesn't have any of the intellectual brilliance and controversy of real Buddhism."

OF course, I could counter by saying that some of what you are seeing as being Buddhism in Europe is merely a watered down version of what the Dali Lama preaches which has been revampted for an audience that is less rural.

If u want to get a better insight of what real tibetans think, i recommend a tibetans-only blog site: http://blog.tibetcul.com/index.html

and

the blog of a famouse anti-china tibetan writer: http://woeser.middle-way.net/

Chinese skills needed.

The buddhism in Tibet was terrible.Those high-class lamas cultivated themselves in the following ways. Uing the vesseles made of humun bone even from alive people , raped virginity……

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard it all before.

China was no different at the time, nor was a sizable portion of Europe. As for Latin America ....