Dalai Lama Welcomes China Offer On Talks

Religious Leader Hopes Beijing's Proposed Meeting With Tibetan Emissary Won't Simply Be "Meaningless"

(AP)  The Dalai Lama welcomed China's offer to meet his envoy and said Saturday the two sides needed to talk seriously about how to resolve the problems that triggered riots in the Tibetan capital last month.

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader said he has yet to receive detailed information about the offer of dialogue, but that talks would be good.

"We have to explore the causes of the problems and seek a solution through talks," the Tibetan spiritual leader told reporters at his headquarters in the northern Indian town of Dharmsala, a day after Beijing said it would meet his envoy.

"We need to have serious talks about how to reduce the Tibetan resentment within Tibet," he said. "But just merely meeting some of my men in order to show the world that they are having dialogue, then it is meaningless."

China's offer to meet the Dalai Lama's envoy gave few details, saying only that the "relevant department of the central government will have contact and consultation with Dalai's private representative in the coming days."

Days of protests in Lhasa against Chinese rule turned violent on March 14, galvanizing critics of Beijing's communist regime and threatening to overshadow the Beijing summer Olympics - an object of massive national pride for China.

China says 22 people died in the violence, while overseas Tibet supporters say many times that number were killed in the protests and subsequent crackdown across Tibetan regions of western China.

The Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet amid a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, returned Saturday to Dharmsala after a two-week visit to the United States. He has said he wants meaningful autonomy for the Himalayan region - not independence.

[iamauto]

Shall we support the biggest serfowner in the world just because we don''t like China?

[iamauto]

Dalai is the biggest serfowner in this world.
I don''t know why so many people support him?

[rongjuan]

Xizang (Tibet) is a part of China.
Taiwan ( Taipei) is a part of China, too.
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[rongjuan]

Dalai looks very kind and poor, but who is the criminal of the Violence which made some people dead,including 5 young girls ? Who is the criminal ?

[pugster]

Tibet is now one of the centers of advanced learning of a certain kind - this is a spiritual knowledge they have developed over 1000 years. Their culture is one of the heritage treasures of mankind. compare that with modern China, which has no culture of any value, other than a pathetic pursuit of money and business. The culture of China was destroyed by Mao, he systematically sent his nationalist youths out to destroy every person of learning, every tradition, every valuable cultural artifact. Now China is the poorest nation on earth in terms of its value to mankind, they have not even one prophet, not one philosopher, not one temple or church even that has been there continuously. Now they are destroying one of mankind''''s treasures as they finsih Mao''''s work in Tibet.

Posted by SharnCedar at 09:08 AM : Apr 27, 2008

Spirital knowledge for 1000 years? You mean when slaves/serfs treated no better than animals where mutilation, eye gouging, killing are common? So since China outlaw that they are considered savages? Give me a break.

[pugster]

The problem what the Tibetan Monks want has no respect to the secular laws of the society. Many of these Tibetan Monks swallow religion in its stomach so that they have no respect to the laws of the land. So they think the laws has to be changed to confirm their beliefs. So you have to force the beliefs onto others who don''t want it? In the US there''s the FLDS, scientologists and the Branch Davidians and guess what happened to them.

[sharncedar]

Tibet is now one of the centers of advanced learning of a certain kind - this is a spiritual knowledge they have developed over 1000 years. Their culture is one of the heritage treasures of mankind. compare that with modern China, which has no culture of any value, other than a pathetic pursuit of money and business. The culture of China was destroyed by Mao, he systematically sent his nationalist youths out to destroy every person of learning, every tradition, every valuable cultural artifact. Now China is the poorest nation on earth in terms of its value to mankind, they have not even one prophet, not one philosopher, not one temple or church even that has been there continuously. Now they are destroying one of mankind''s treasures as they finsih Mao''s work in Tibet.

What is next, will the Chinese tear down the great pyramids for building stone? Burn the last of Shakespeare''s plays to heat their busy money businesses? Some of the prayer wheels in Tibet have ben spinning for 1000 years, and the dumb Chinese business money lucky invaders are tearing them down to make room to their crummy little squalid factories.

They cannot "rule" Tibet until they understand the value of Tibet''s unbroken 1000''s of years of heritage. This is a treasure of mankind, being destroyed by the dumb thug offspring of dumb thug Mao. He ruined China''s culture and learning, now his descendants are ruining Tibet.

[sharncedar]

Many Chinese are confused about why the Tibetans are angry - what you have is a cultural conflict. In the modern Chinese way of thought, your god is your stomach, to be happy means to be rich, or to be busy, to be fufilled means to have money and ne successful in business. There is no spiritual life, the only sense of being a part of something bigger than one''s self is to be a part of a nationalist concept of greater "China" and participate in its manifest destiny to devour areas like Taiwan and Tibet and to "get rich" as a huge nation.

The Chinese can''t understand why the Tibetans aren''t happy to be allowed to participate in this ignorant and meaningless lifestyle. They can''t see or understand the spiritual life, they see only money and busy, business and eat. To a Tibetan monk, that is a life beneath contempt, the life of a dog or an animal, a life lived without using the higher faculties of the human mind.

If we are human, then we must have some capacity greater than an animal, greater than the pursuit of money and feeding the stomach. The Chinese once had religion and culture - ionically it was the Tibetans who brought much of that religion and culture to ancient China and taught the Chinese in their temples.

[tfccheng]

Dalai Lama said Chinese government had been undergoing culture genocide to Tibetan peoples. This is nonsense. Chinese government liberated millions Tibetan slaves and of course hurt a few slave owners'' interests; spent billions of RMB to build the modern Tibet and conserve historical heritage; educated millions of Tibetan people to read Tibetan language, etc. Let''s see what is culture genocide. Mayan civilization and many other American Indian civilization were mopped off by Spanish conquerors. Millions of North American Indian and Indigenous Australians were killed by US and Australian and only small number of them lived on their lands full of the White in poverty and under discrimination.

Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), like ETA in Spain, want to split Tibet from China by forces. Why Spain can crack down ETA while China can not do the same to TYC? Is this too ridiculous?

While the West urge China should hold dialogue with Dalai Lama, they condemned Jimmy Carter (another famous Nobel Peace Prize holder) to dialogue with Hamas leaders.

[rongjuan]

Dalai Lama is so kind that makes XIZANG ( Tibet )even all China into trouble!

[delia27-2009]

A long time ago China outlawed God,indeed banished any acknowledgement of a higher source and authority. Now what we have is a mob government who fear what is good and right...the only thing holy to them is their control and power, this however breeds maddness so they are dangerous to civilazation. We must somehow be clever and let them think they are in control. The Dalai Lama maybe able to do this but they fear his kindness as they are evil as in poor of understanding and can barely lift their heads to see the sun....

[rongjuan]

The Chines name of Tibet is XIZANG !

[rongjuan]

Mr.Dalai is not live in Tibet for a very long time.But now, he comes back ,he wants to be leader of Tibet.Well, why did he wants bo come back.Someone , some countries support him to break the peace of China. Chines has billions of people, it''s very hard for China to get peace.If some wants to break the peace,it''s not allow by all the Chinese !

[rongjuan]

If someone wants to free Tibet. He or she should go to Tibet to do that,not only talk! If Dalai wants to get peace ,he should go back to Tibet.And then talk to Chinese leader. Before 1950, only rich people could to go school, now, most of the people could to go school ! I am afraid The Mr. Dalai did nothing for them%uFF01Mr.Dalai not live in China for a very long time !!

[rongjuan]

I have never been to Tibet,so I could make any good or bad comments for it.But I did know that Tibet has no railway ,lack food,lack knowledge... now, all the conditions get better and better. Dalai did nothing good to Tibet!

[pugster]

Dalai Lama''s philosophy for mankind to live together in peace, harmony and enlightenment is one thing. But he certainly has no problem endorsing his fellow Tibetans to kill Chinese with the help of the CIA. He certainly doesn''t have a problem hunting down and killing his fellow Tibetans who practice the Dorje Shugden. I could go on and on.

[guadalcanal3]

The Dalai Lama is a man of peace...he is no threat to China...his philosophy is for mankind to live together in peace and harmony....and...enlightenment.

[pugster]

The last thing that China want to do is to imprison him. As long as this guy is alive, China can heckle him as a CIA sellout. He is a coward and can''t face critism, why does the Chinese want to give him what he want?

[yongamerica]

Oh that''s what China would love, a chance to put away the Dalai Lama deep in its prison system.

[pugster]

If the Dalai Lama wants talks with China, why does he send his lackey there. If he wants peace, he should be there.