rizlared: Yet again you did not read my post fully, I think this is where some people have problems, they half read news reports and then form unsubstantiated " facts" based on the misread stories.
I did not say Panchen requested protection, I clearly stated that the Chinese government took him for what THEY considered his protection.
I am not biased as you try to make out, if you had read my posts correctly you would see that I have NEVER said I agree with any of the actions carried out by the Chinese. I have, however, tried to show what the thinking here in China is based on.
China is an amazing country with an amazing history and culture, they are becoming extremely powerful as a nation and the Government is doing some very good things for its people, but, they still make huge mistakes, misjudge the west's opinions and follow ancient ideas that really have no place in modern society. However, Like a child growing up, who also have to make mistakes and so learn from them, the Chinese people are learning, are trying to change and trying to become more harmonious with the rest of the world, but, unlike Australia which has a tiny history, China has to overcome thousands of years of indoctrinated history and at the same time not lose what makes China so different and unique.
yeah ok, but the way it reads to me your parroting there views rather than explaining its your understanding they think like...which you have just done. To the best of my knowledge they detained his parents to, hang five i'll get a reliable link from Tibet Links page on my web robplum.com
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is seat to the Panchen Lama, the second most important spiritual leader of Tibet. In 1447 the Monastery was founded by His Holiness the 1st Dalai Lama, Gyalwa Gendun Drup, in Shigatse, Tibet's second largest city. It is one of the four great monasteries of Central Tibet and was supervised and looked after by the Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas of the Gelugpa, or Yellow Hat tradition. It has the glory of producing thousands of renowned scholars in the field of Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy and Tantra.
During the lifetime of the 4th Panchen Lama, Lobsang Choekyi Gyaltsen, there were more than 3,000 monks in the Monastery and by 1959 there were 5,000, with another 2,000 monks affiliated to the monastery living outside Tibet. The Communist Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959 and the Cultural Revolution from 1966-80 both wreaked destruction on Tibet's monastic institutions, which lost many precious scriptures, statues and images. Many monks were killed or imprisoned and only 250 were able to follow the Dalai Lama into exile.
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I did not say Panchen requested protection, I clearly stated that the Chinese government took him for what THEY considered his protection.
I am not biased as you try to make out, if you had read my posts correctly you would see that I have NEVER said I agree with any of the actions carried out by the Chinese. I have, however, tried to show what the thinking here in China is based on.
China is an amazing country with an amazing history and culture, they are becoming extremely powerful as a nation and the Government is doing some very good things for its people, but, they still make huge mistakes, misjudge the west's opinions and follow ancient ideas that really have no place in modern society. However, Like a child growing up, who also have to make mistakes and so learn from them, the Chinese people are learning, are trying to change and trying to become more harmonious with the rest of the world, but, unlike Australia which has a tiny history, China has to overcome thousands of years of indoctrinated history and at the same time not lose what makes China so different and unique.
yeah ok, but the way it reads to me your parroting there views rather than explaining its your understanding they think like...which you have just done.
To the best of my knowledge they detained his parents to, hang five i'll get a reliable link from Tibet Links page on my web robplum.com
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is seat to the Panchen Lama, the second most important spiritual leader of Tibet. In 1447 the Monastery was founded by His Holiness the 1st Dalai Lama, Gyalwa Gendun Drup, in Shigatse, Tibet's second largest city. It is one of the four great monasteries of Central Tibet and was supervised and looked after by the Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas of the Gelugpa, or Yellow Hat tradition. It has the glory of producing thousands of renowned scholars in the field of Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy and Tantra.
During the lifetime of the 4th Panchen Lama, Lobsang Choekyi Gyaltsen, there were more than 3,000 monks in the Monastery and by 1959 there were 5,000, with another 2,000 monks affiliated to the monastery living outside Tibet. The Communist Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959 and the Cultural Revolution from 1966-80 both wreaked destruction on Tibet's monastic institutions, which lost many precious scriptures, statues and images. Many monks were killed or imprisoned and only 250 were able to follow the Dalai Lama into exile.