Topic: Politics
A report from the Buddhist Channel states The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) received confirmed information from reliable sources that, in mid May 2007 Chinese People's Armed Police (PAP) demolished a colossal statue of Guru Padmasambava popularly known as Guru Rinpoche of the Samye Monastery and that rubble from the statue's destruction is being transported to unknown location according to reports emanating from the area.
Typical thuggish behavior by a nation state born of thuggish brutism. No concept of human rights or freedom of religion for an invaded people who at some point in the distant past were part of some previous thuggish Chinese dynastic empire and so in the eyes of the Chinese government becomes forever a part of the rightful Chinese Empire. This gives them, in their eyes the right to kill and destroy the native culture of Tibet and to try to take over the Tibetian Buddhist religion by picking their own puppet religious leaders. The Chinese Olympics should be boycotted and China treated as the moral pariah they are. And of course, successive US administrations from Nixon on forward have failed to appreciate the mortal danger that the Chinese ambitions are to the West as a whole. The Clinton administration let them get ballistic missile technology that they didn't have and allows their spies access to anywhere in the country so that by dint of espionage they are able to level themselves up to the technology advantage that the West has enjoyed. Totally criminal and completely swept under the rug.
But I would remind the Chinese that the last government that did destroy Buddist statues once resided in Afghanistan. The Taliban, or the remnants of the Taliban are hiding in caves and no longer enjoying a leadership position. Karma does eventually catch up to you.
