Saturday, April 12, 2008

Madison SFT goes to San Francisco!


Most of the members of the Madison chapter of Students for a Free Tibet were in San Francisco as the official Beijing Olympic torch made its only stop in North America.

We had a great time and had time to do some interviews with local Madison media back home:

Tenzin Lobsang Kunor on the 8 O'Clock Buzz (WORT 89.9 FM)


Tenzin Wangyal on In Our Backyard (WORT 89.9 FM)

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I don't know whether your guys are mindless in personality or abetted by other guys who are also mindless or by those who are political villains.

Your organization is doing the wrong thing!

Your organization is helping liars to spread their lies!
Your organization is helping terrorists to kill innocent Tibetans!

Your guys are still young. Open your minds and eyes, in this ridiculous world, to find the truth about Tibet and China if you really care about them.

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Riots in Tibet and Tibet temple

Tibetan monks have been the pioneers of the past and current riots in Tibet. One reason for this phenomenon is owing to the

influence from the Tibetan separatists abroad. Some senior monks abroad like Dalai Lama impose religious effects on those monks

at home. The other reason is connected with Tibet temple system.

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While in Tibetan temple, thousands of monks are fed by temple. Monks have done nothing but take on religious affairs thus the

temple gets bond with monks tightly. Monks are prone to be used by religion leaders and result in riots.

According to American laws, preaching is a profession and children are forbidden to be recruited into churches as priests.

Churches can set up schools, but they are all under the control of local educational institutions. Contents and requirements of

courses are similar to other schools. Only quite a few church school graduates are involved in religious affairs. In the

monasteries and temples, however, it's common to admit children around ten years old as Lama. They are educated, trained and

brought up by those temples and through over ten years' "religious brainwashing", some of the Lamas will develop some deep-

rooted thoughts that differs from social norms. And even some temples may become the cradle for the new generation of

"separatists".

Police offices are in charge of the security in American churches. Requests of assemblies or gatherings of more than thirty

people need to be filed to police for approval and police officers will be responsible for the security according to rules. But

in temples in Tibet, disciplinarians, also lamas, are in charge of the security. They are supported and trained by the temples

and obedient to the abbots or leaders of the temples. In fact, they are an unofficial armed force of those temples.

Seminaries in universities and colleges conduct theological researches in America, and clergymen all graduate from seminaries.

But in Tibet, Lamas control the researches of theology, Tibetan medicine and calendar. Temples are both the place Buddhists

worship Buddhas and research centers of Tibetan theology. As a result, Tibetan people take Lamas as sovereign authority and

prestige and worship Lamas blindly. Temple abbots and Lamas also develop great influence and appeal day by day, which can be

made use of and instigated by people of some political purposes.

In the United States, the church is a kind of non-profit organizations, which should be registered with the state governments

in the form of shareholding limited enterprises, but have no right in business operation, printing or publication. In China's

Tibet, however, temples, in addition to donations, admission revenues and government subsidies, could also engage in business

operations, planting and breeding industries, and could even print and publish publicity materials, and are exempt from income

taxes. Temples in Tibet enjoy the rights and "freedom" even the United States dares not to grant to their churches, and this,

to a certain extent, promoted a small group of temple personnel to regard them as "privileged" groups.

We could cite more similar cases.

Therefore, temples of Tibetan Buddhism must be reformed. In this way, temples could become a positive factor to ensure social

stability, instead of becoming a factor instigating social unrest and riots.

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AS A NATIVE of China with great affection for the Tibetan culture, I have felt saddened by the violence that erupted in Tibet in mid-March and has left a number of civilians and a police officer killed.

I learned Tibetan folk dancing during dance training in Beijing years ago. I understood from the passion of my teacher and fellow classmates that Tibetan culture (is well respected among China’s majority Han population. As a journalist intern, I interviewed the Tibetan singer Caidan Drolma (in the Tibetan language her names mean “longevity” and “fairies” respectively). Her smile and golden voice in the song “Emancipated Serfs to Sing the Song,” which reflected her own experience, remain fond in my memories.

Here in the United States, I always detect a whiff of politics when Tibet is mentioned. Media coverage on the violence has been critical of the Chinese government. One scene that rekindled my feelings for Tibet was an interview on the privately owned television service for overseas Chinese, Sinovision, which featured an ordinary Tibetan woman on the street who emotionally pointed out that the good life of the Tibetan people had been disrupted by violence committed by a few Tibetan mobs.

Interest groups want to utilize the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to advance their causes. But as a Wall Street Journal reader from Hong Kong responded to a Journal op-ed article calling for a “Genocide Olympics” campaign, some people “forget that the whole point of the Olympics is its explicitly nonpolitical nature.”

Some people believe it is fair to vent their grievances with China, but don’t see any unfairness in depriving China and its people of the dream to host the Games. In both 1936 and 1948, Chinese Olympian athletes had to detour through Asia to raise fund for their trips by performing in competitions. They ended up exhausted and defeated in the Olympics. It would be equally unfair to deprive the world’s athletes of their dreams and the chance to compete in the most important global athletic competition.

Using the Tibetan issue as a cunning game of political machinations is unfair both to China and to the Tibetan people. In order not to alienate certain voters, a politician might say before an election that countries should consider boycotting the Olympic Games. But, after winning the election, he might just as easily switch positions in order not to upset domestic athletes and infuriate China. He would be a victor, but China and the world’s athletes would be the victims.

Foreign reporters highlighted a few weeping monks decrying Tibet’s lack of freedom in the Jokhang Temple after China organized the media trip to Tibet. Didn’t the young Han Chinese man shown separately on Sinovision, whose teenage sister died in the fire set by the mobs, deserve equal coverage by western media?

It would be wrong to assume that the Chinese do not have free minds and that the government orchestrates everything. It’s not surprising that blogs in China have exploded in the anti-splittist and anti-West comments of the “Fen Qing” (furious young surfers), expressing anger over the violence and the western media’s one-sided, twisted reports.

Overseas Chinese have also been energized. A video on YouTube, “Tibet was, is, and always will be a part of China,” produced by a Canadian Chinese student, was clicked 1.2 million times and received 72,000 comments in three days. Patriotism and nationalism are strong among the Chinese. The power of the people’s voice should not be underestimated.

Historical burdens at times prevent people from moving forward. Buddhism’s art of meditation offers wisdom: Let go, develop a refined awareness of the present moment, and reach a clarity of mind. This may be useful for all who genuinely care about the fate of Tibet and desire a constructive solution. As Gandhi said, God ultimately saves him whose motive is pure. Violence and political maneuvering may not necessarily help shorten exiled Tibetans’ journey back home.

-Anne Wu, associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

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