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Promoting Buddhism or Making a Mess of It
Benefiting Tibetans or Doing Them Harm
Driving Tibet to Paradise or Hell
Concluding Remarks
The 14th Dalai Lama Dainzin Gyamco, born in July 1935 in Qijiachuan (present-day hongya Village), Huangzhong (present-day Ping'an) County, Qinghai Province, was called Lhamo Toinzhub when he was chosen by the former local government of Tibet in 1938 as the sole reincarnate of the late 13th Dalai Lama. The Central Government of the Republic of China (1912-49) approved the request of the local government of Tibet for him to be confirmed as the soul boy without going through the traditional procedur of drawing lot from the golden urn. A sitting-in-the-bed ceremony was held in Lhasa in 1940 to enthrone hima as the 14th Dalai Lama under the supervision of Wu Zhongxin, special envoy of the Central Government, and the Prince Regent Razheng. The 14th Dalai Lama came to power on November 17, 1950 at the age of 16, thus becoming one of the Buddhist leaders in Tibet.
On May 23, 1951, the Agreement of the Central People's Government and the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, also known as the 17-Article Agreement, was signed in Beijing. On October 24, the 14th Dalai Lama cabled the Central People's Government and Chairman Mao Zedong expressing his public support for the agreement. In the fall of 1954, the 14th Dalai Lama attended the First National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing in the capacity of a Tibetan deputy to the NPC, and was elected vice-charman of the NPC Standing Committee. On April 22,1956, when the Preparatory Committee for the Founding of the Tibet Autonomouos Region was launched, the 14th Dalai Lama became its director. The 14th Dalai Lama then had the full trust of the Central Government and love of the people. The man, however, failed to cherish the honor he received from the Central Government and love he enjoyed from the people.
In late November 1956, the 14th Dalai Lama was invited to take part in the activities marking the 2,500th anniversary of Sakyamuni's entry into Nirvana in India. He delayed his return for close to three months, allowing himself to be besieged by separatist forces. From then on, he consciously or unconsciously became controlled by these forces.
After 1957, the 14th Dalai Lama worked in coordination with the separatist forces in the upper echelon of the ruling class in Tibet, tearing up the 17-Article A-greement to support armed rebellion which expanded from a regional to a Tibet-wide one. The 14th Dalai Lama fled to India on March 17,1959.
In the past 30 or so years since the 14th Dalai Lama went into exile, he threw himself under the wing of the anti-China forces in the West. Donning the cloak of “ religious leader”, he traveled around to spread rumors to mislead international opinion. Out of their own need, some in the West hailed him as the deity and lauded him as “the peace envoy” and “human rights fighter”. However, it is this ex-leader of Tibetan Buddhism who, discarding the tradition of his predecessors of loving the motherland to trample on religious doctrines, hoodwink the religious sentiments of Tibetan Buddhists, organize an illegal government-in-exile, trumpet “Tibetan independence” to split the motherland, and undermine internal unity and rules of Tibetan Buddhism. Indeed, he has gone far to betray the motherland and the Tibetan people.
This book shows the road embarked on by the 14th Dalai Lama with facts bringing to light his efforts to work against the motherland, Tibetan Buddhism and the Tibetan people. |