Dalai Lama reiterates resignation threat over Tibet

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Source: AFP

SEATTLE, Washington (AFP) — ...

"The whole world knows the Dalai Lama is not seeking independence or separation," the Dalai Lama said. "If violence become out of control, then my only option is resign -- I want to repeat that ...

Tibetan exiles say more than 150 Tibetans were killed in China's crackdown on the protests against its rule. Beijing says Tibetan "rioters" have killed 20 people ...

"Everyone knows I support Olympic Games," he said, declining to state whether he believed world leaders should attend August's opening ceremony ...

He called for the release of those arrested during the crackdown, medical treatment for those injured, and the opening of Tibet to international monitors so that they might freely investigate.


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China slams 'anti-rights' Dalai Lama
April 14, 2008 05:22am

CHINESE media today denounced the Dalai Lama and his supporters as "anti-human rights", and branded top US politician Nancy Pelosi as "the least popular person in China" for her stance on Tibet ...

A Tibetan source with strong contacts in its capital, Lhasa, said the city was swirling with reports of fresh clashes between monks and security forces at the important Drepung monastery ...

Beijing has blamed the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, for orchestrating the March 14 riots in Lhasa and the unrest that followed in other ethnic Tibetan areas as part of a bid for independence and to ruin the Olympic Games ...

Xinhua denounced the Dalai Lama as a sham and said he dreamed of restoring the Tibetan feudal system of serfdom ...

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23535205-5005961,00.html

Dalai Lama says Tibet can make no more concessions
April 13, 2008 15:40 EDT

... The Dalai Lama says "the whole world knows" that he's not seeking independence for Tibet or separation from China. But, he says he is committed to pursuing Tibet's right to autonomy.

The Dalai Lama also expressed concern that the Chinese government will use more force and "increase the suppression of Tibetan people." He said that if China stops aggression, he'd advise Tibetans to stop their protests ...

http://www.kgan.com/template/inews_wire/wires.national/27d5f408-www.kgan.com.shtml

[FourScore]

1. I love the Dalai Lama. n/t

[ckramer]

2. Dalai Lama understands it well - it's important to suck up China

otherwise he won't be back to the homeland in his life time.

[sudopod]

3. Relevant link is relevant

http://tinyurl.com/69e64p

[petronius]

4. I had no idea the Dalai Lama could resign - I wonder what that would mean,

considering that he is believed to be the reincarnation of the previous Lama. Would a resignation mean that he was never the Lama at all? Would there not be a Dalai Lama until he dies, then a new one would be identified?

I guess Buddhism doesn't have a version of excommunication - if this was the Pope getting upset about the actions of a groups of believers, it wouldn't be the Pope that left the religion...

[ckramer]

6. The "resignation" really means that

he would resign as the head of the exile Tibetan government located in Indian.

That's just an empty gesture to say - "I have nothing to do with the recent violence in Tibet."

[petronius]

7. OK, that makes more sense... (nt)

[PATRICK]

5. One simple symbol

In this case the Dalai Lama is very similar to the Olympics themselves. Quaint, limited of absolutely no threat to any world power or establishment. The glaring failure of this world in simply incorporating these symbols as positive, feel good trophies to showcase the glories of our civilization has been intensified by the very attempt at embracing them.

If the Olympics had been(if possible!) kept rationally related to a divided and warlike world of powers, they would have found a secure, insignifcant place of peace(like tiny Olympos) and kept its time and rituals free from all the crap. Instead the world arrogantly assumed its own superioity to its own past and simply slipped this arcane anachronism into its main flow and ebb and myths. The Olympics themselves have made the world in effect look inferior, stupid and exposed, all the moreso as they have increased in pomp and controversy. Behind every show of worldly glory and state advantage, the lies and failures wash
up finally against the ideal and the vast human spirit it has aroused and phsyically brought together. The mix is toxic to the lies and the fake myths.

The Dala Lama can likely intuit he personally shares the same fate as the "Olympic ideal" and the same state blundering connection to the people aroused at first by direct attack then weak accomodation. Given lip service by "admiring" world leaders his actual power and glaring spotlight on the global heart and soul is continually being denied any reality but is in fact still increasing among the people as the shining ideal. Just small symbols or one man. You would think state leaders could easily have theur way with such "weakness" and simply use them to whitewash civilization.

That is not how it is working out, in fact wmore transformational than ever, it is bringing the whole charade itself down- and hopefully all the misbegotten top rot with it. Our present conflict stage in this process is quite angry, hypocritical, absurd and despairing. The Monkey on the people's back is still there, but the people as a whole are waking up.