(Reproduced)Vigilance Needed against Cunning and Deceitful Underdogs (Part I)- An echo to the
Reference Source:http://foundation.enlighten.org.tw/trueheart_en/49
(By the True Heart News interviewing team in Taipei)In his article The Myths about the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Issue, the third myth Donghua pointed out was that “Dalai is a renowned religious leader in the world and a supreme spiritual mentor; the atheist Chinese Communist Party has been suppressing Tibetans’ spiritual pursuits and freedom because of its political agenda.” Donghua made it clear that even the Tibetan nobles acknowledged the fact that as a part of the Tibetan culture, religion is not only the core of Tibetans’ spiritual life but also a key political instrument. Throughout history, the Dalai Lamas have always assumed the dual role of religious leader and political leader; religion has always been treated as a political shell and tool. Not only does the current XIV Dalai Lama admit to this fact, he often takes great pride in it.
Zhang Gongpu, Chairman of the True Enlightenment Education Foundation comments that Dalai and his government-in-exile have always exploited the foregoing issues in a two-pronged strategy. They engender conflicts whenever possible and cover up their ill-intentions in the power struggles of international politics. When their plots are discovered and antagonized, they would conveniently switch to Dalai’s “religious role” to solicit sympathy, acting like underdogs who have been persecuted, whose religion has been repressed, culture trampled, and ethnic nationality humiliated. Unfortunately, most people are unaware of the dirty laundry these “underdogs” hide in their closets.
The rebuttal lists four reasons to support its “Fact #3,” which again portrays them as underdogs and tries to defend the Dalai Lama and polish his image. For instance, the first reason states, “The Dalai Lama has no army, no assets, no propaganda, and no land, yet people around the world regardless of race, religion, or nationality are all drawn to him because he is a practitioner of compassion and peace. What he advocates - less desire, contentment, straight forwardness, patient endurance, and compassionate - are the elements that will bring security and happiness to mankind in the twenty-first century.” Chairman Zhang says that these lofty yet spurious statements exemplify their typical rhetoric of self-promotion and are sickening to those who are aware of the truth. We shall pick apart their lies one by one and tear down their deceiving front thoroughly.
1. The Dalai Lama “has no army”?
As early as 1959, before the Dalai Lama went into exile, the Tibetan ruling elites colluded with political conspirators of the West and built up an armed guerrilla force called “Khampa guerrillas” in eastern and southern Tibetan to engage in armed violence. After the Dalai Lama fled into exile, sporadic guerrilla activities continued until early 1970s with air and ground support from the Americans before they ceased completely. This guerilla force’s undertaking went awry since its inception: they burned, murdered, plundered, and even raped. Civilians who refused to join them, or were suspected of assisting the Chinese army, were subjected to such cruelties as having their heads chopped off, eyes gouged out, or being flayed. They devastated the lives of innocent civilians acting like a group of roving bandits who brutalized fellow Tibetans. It was no surprise that their guerilla operations eventually fell flat.
http://www.xiachao.org.tw/?act=page&repno=913
Zhang Zaixian (Professor at University of Melbourne), Behind the problems of Tibet (2) Chinatide Association Website
After fleeing to India, Dalai’s group formally established the “Indian Special Frontier Force.” His government-in-exile provided recruits; the U.S. was responsible for supplying weapons, equipment, partial funding and assistance in training; and India provided the structuring, provisions as well as direct command. This Special Frontier Force (SFF) of the Dalai’s group is known to the world as India’s “Establishment 22.” Although its mandate was for “the liberation of Tibet,” in fact, this army was sacrificed by India during the Indo-Paskistani war in 1971, about forty Tibetan soldiers died in the battles. Sadly, those Tibetan who responded to Dalai’s call but ended up paying the ultimate price in an alien country for a war not of their own and enemy they did not know.
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw%21W.IeqCmDGRawmDLBAQNNIFUW2Xgpzx7Q4fpxeg--/article?mid=53
Revealing the Secret of the Dalai Lama’s Indo-Tibetan Special Frontier Force
Apart from its failed attempt to support Dalai with a parachuting guerrilla fighter force, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had also put together a patched-up ground force comprised of Tibetan refugees who were part of the armed guerrilla resistance fighters originally established in Tibet. The force called itself the Chushi Gangdrug (Four Rivers and Six Mountains). After the failed uprising in 1959, the Tibetan war veterans of Chushi Gangdrug fled to India, acquiring new recruits and then moving to Nepal. The army was taken over and funded by the U.S., who gave the Dalai’s brother, Gyalo Thondup, full control over allocating the funds. Unfair fund allocation led to the internal strife which plagued this army later on, to the extent that the leaders opened fire on each other after embezzlement was discovered. All the while grassroots soldiers were severely undercompensated, morale consequently fell apart and the fighting spirit evaporated.
In 1972, Richard Nixon visited China and shook hands with the Chinese leadership and the CIA discontinued its quiet support for the armed resistance which then turned into a roaming group of armed, food-begging refugees. In 1974, the Nepalese army marched into Mustang and wiped out this Tibetan troop. The soldiers who survived either surrendered or fled to India. Those guerrillas who died in battlefields, surrendered, or left stranded in foreign lands were another group of witnesses to the Dalai Lama’s betrayal of his compatriots. One cannot ignore these facts and claim that the Dalai Lama’s government in-exile never had its own army.
http://www.xiachao.org.tw/?act=page&repno=913
Zhang Zaixian (Professor at University of Melbourne), Behind the problems of Tibet (2) Chinatide Association Website
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JC26Ad02.html
Tibet, the 'great game' and the CIA
Chairman Zhang says that despite his emphatic opposition to violence in his autobiography, Dalai has more than once self-contradictorily commended the “victories” of his guerrilla fighters. In actuality, Dalai did have an army at one point, albeit he never set a standard for his military nor possessed the capability and ethics to command it. An incapable general will lead his forces to demise, as the saying goes. Because of Dalai, these Tibetan fighters became vagrant refugees. Some ended up being killed in foreign lands or dying an ignoble death. To claim that Dalai never commanded any army was either a deliberate lie or a selective oblivion of history.
2. The Dalai Lama has no assets?
Once the authentication process of the fourteenth Dalai Lama was completed, Lhamo Dhondup was taken to the Potola Palace by the yellow palanquin that symbolized his noble status. His entire family moved from a village in Qinghai Province to Lhasa and became one of the greatest aristocratic families in Tibet called Dala. According to traditions, Tibet’s local authorities provided Dalai’s family with a huge manor and hundreds of serfs. Therefore, since his childhood, Dalai had enjoyed all kinds of pampering and privileges. As for his family, it became a “family of affluence” and the immediate beneficiary of power. Not only did his family members rise up to the class of aristocrats, they were also offered official positions in Dalai’s government. Although they are in exile at the moment, Dalai and his family members still are occupying high paying posts in the government-in-exile and remain the wealthiest and most powerful Tibetans.
After Dalai’s enthronement, Tianjin Lama (one of the assisting ministers to Dalai’s government) took Dalai, his seal, as well as all the treasures stored in cellars of the Potala Palace and Norbu Linka Palace to Dromo, a city 200 miles from Lhasa at the Sikkim border in southern Tibet, ready for fleeing to India. These treasures - gold, silver, and valuables - were what the Tibetan aristocrats had fleeced from local Tibetans for centuries. According to data disclosed by an unofficial source many years later, when they were heading to Dromo in 1950, more than a thousand pack animals - horses, yaks, mules, etc. - were used to move all the treasures, with each animal carrying an average of 120 pounds. Forty pack animals hauled gold and 600 were loaded with silver. The remaining animals carried gold and silver coins as well as other treasures.
If this data were true, it meant that they transported altogether 2.2 tons of gold, 32.7 tons of silver, as well as other treasures of incalculable value. In 1960, the second year after Dalai’s exodus to India, these treasures were transported by train from Sikkim to Calcutta and were stored in a bank vault. Taking into account these treasures as well as all the stocks and investments controlled by Dalai and his exile government all over the world, Dalai’s asset qualifies him to be one of the world’s richest people. Apparently, the rebuttal’s claim that Dalai has no assets is a flat-out lie!
http://www.xiachao.org.tw/?act=page&repno=917
Zhang Zaixian, Behind the problems of Tibet (4), Chinatide Association Website
Later on, the Dalai Lama sold the treasures he took from Tibet for eight million U.S. dollars. This sale was baffling though, as it is rather insignificant in comparison to the amount of gold and silver past generations of Dalai Lamas had accumulated. Why sell off the heirloom treasures when he could have simply cashed in a little of that gold and silver? And what happened to the rest of his currencies (French or other foreign currencies)? The eight million U.S. dollars from the sale of the treasures was invested under the name of "Chikyab Kenpo," the Tianjin Lama who headed south with all the wealth, and almost all evaporated. In the end, less than one million U.S. dollars was recovered, with which the H.H. the Dalai Lama Charitable Trust was established in 1964.
In the hands of the 14th Dalai Lama, all that was hoarded by the Dalai Lamas of many generations dwindled to less than one million US dollars. Yet even this meager amount that was salvaged ended up in the “Charitable” Trust Fund under the name of Dalai. In other words, the prodigious riches of Tibetan patrimony were completely depleted during Dalai’s “leisurely years of exile.” Surprisingly, no one ever took responsibility for losing the money, nor did anyone dare to question this issue. In the eyes of the Tibetan refugees who have suffered destitution, homelessness, illness, hunger and severe weather, the Dalai Lama is the sole and only person who owns, controls, and supplies all the resources.
http://www.dalailamaworld.com/topic.php?t=361
Freedom in Exile, Chapter 9: A Hundred Thousand Refugees
From the official Chinese Website of the Dalai Lama
As for the foreign aid Dalai received, according to released U.S. intelligence documents, from 1964 to 1968, the CIA provided the Tibetan exile movement with $1,735,000 US Dollars a year for operations against China, including an annual personal subsidy of $180,000 for the Dalai Lama, $75,000 for the “Tibet House" in New York and Geneva, and $1,490,000 for the training and military equipment of Dalai’s armed separatist movement. The US had also continued to provide "direct contact" to some special units of the Tibetan government-in-exile. For example, during the 1950s and 60s, the CIA unsparingly aided Tibetan revolts and armed forces and is still providing an annual funding of $300,000 to the Security Department of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Despite receiving a lofty amount from the US every year, Dalai never doled out his money to his deprived and distressed compatriots. The rebuttal’s claim that “Dalai has no assets” is nothing but a blatant lie.
http://blog.udn.com/giveman/3793595
Where does the money for the Dalai’s living expenses come from?
USA and India Finance the Dalai Group
The Public Shows Up, the Government Pays the Bill
Since the 1970s, Lamaism - Tibetan fake Buddhism - has gradually risen up to become a high-profile religion in the world. Tibetan centers sprout up everywhere while the Dalai Lama creates an enormous sensation wherever he sets his foot in the world, bringing both fame and fortune. At present, the temples and assets owned by the various branches of Tibetan Lamaism all around the globe are uncountable, not to mention the amount of donations generated by their continuous fundraising efforts. The Dalai Lama himself has been busy hosting dharma assemblies, speeches and banquets. The ticket to one could easily cost hundreds of U.S. dollars. Chairman Zhang remarks that, given the facts mentioned above, one can’t give enough praise to Dalai’s ability to amass wealth and one can’t help admiring the amount of fortune he sits on. To say that "Dalai has no assets" seems much too disingenuous.
3. The Dalai Lama “does not promote himself”?
The Dalai Lama is definitely keen on self-promotion. During his exile years in India, he published two autobiographies in his leisure, one of which is called Freedom in Exile. Dalai is a prolific writer. He has authored a huge number of books to spread the Couple-Practice Tantra of Tibetan fake Buddhism. He also received countless exclusive interviews and allowed himself to be included in various media reports. All of his works have been translated in many languages. On top of that, the Dalai Lama and his Tibetan government-in-exile operate their own media and website. Tibetan Centers and Monasteries all over the world continuously work as a mouthpiece for Dalai and his Tibetan fake Buddhism. How can anyone claim that he “does not promote himself”?
As soon as Dalai settled down in India, he could not wait to engage himself in “religious diplomatic visits.” After 1970s, more...
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