[world-vedic] World can learn from India's hosting Tibetan Culture

[Guest guest]

I think that the comments below just about sum up the situation of Buddism in

the world. At the beginning of the last century, it was one of the world's

major religions. The main country where it was practiced was China, but it is

hardly practiced there anymore. The cultural revolution knocked down every

Buddist stupa in China, and the Chinese took out every stupa in occupied Tibet,

too. It is really frowned upon for the Chinese to practice Buddhism, and it has

basically been lost in China over the last generation or two. In Korea, almost

50% of the population have turned to Christianity. I can see why- their country

has been overrun by Western culture, and it is hard to practice Buddhism in an

environment of rock and roll, beach parties, beer drinking, beef eating, etc.,

so they change to the religion that lets you do all that. How many Buddhists

are vegetarian? One of the main practices of Buddhism is vegetarianism. Really-

Buddhism is practically gone with the wind.

 

Who's next?

 

Dharmapada

 

 

Originalcomments:

 

Facing the destruction of their culture and religion (of the country's 6,259

monasteries, nunneries and temples, all but eight have been completely

destroyed

[Guest guest]

nomoshkar,

This is a nice mail. India has offered asylum and

refuge to so many include many among us. I am a hindu

from chittagong. Buddhists and Hindus flee everyday to

kolkata or whereever they can.

this greatness can be attributed to our sanatana

dharma and ideals of lord buddha, lord mahavira and

lord shri sankaracharya.

it has been unfortunate that shri dalai lama has been

involved with controversies regarding kashmir issue.

perhaps he has been tricked into this controversy,

regards

malti

--- Tibet,

UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR. wrote: >

(India, 2nd most populated country on Earth, hosts

> over 80,000

> Tibetans. The World should learn from India, the

> only real

> Democracy on Earth. Instead USA + Allies ignore

> India and fund its enemies.Vrin)

>

> Over 80,000 Tibetans led by their religious and

> temporal leader,

> His Holiness the Dalai Lama, have fled the Chinese

> occupation

> of their country and established a refugee community

> at

> Dharamsala in India.. Facing the destruction of

> their culture and

> religion (of the country's 6,259 monasteries,

> nunneries and

> temples, all but eight have been completely

> destroyed), they had

> a duty which far transcended the need merely to keep

> body and

> soul together: a duty to nurture a whole

> civilisation in exile. With

> help from concerned governments, the UN High

> Commission for

> Refugees, humanitarian organisations, and

> philanthropic

> individuals on the one hand and the sheer tenacity

> of the

> Tibetans themselves on the other hand, the Tibetans

> have

> achieved today what might surely have seemed

> impossible 36

> years ago when they first set foot on Indian soil.

>

> The beginning years were expectedly the most

> difficult. Many

> Tibetans, coming from the high Tibetan plateau,

> succumbed to

> tropical diseases and heat. They were divided into

> road

> construction groups and lived in tented camps. With

> help from

> the Government of India and others, 54 agricultural

> and

> agro-industrial based refugee settlements were

> gradually

> established. The idea was to resettle the Tibetans

> in compact

> homogeneous communities where they would be able to

> preserve and perpetuate their culture and

> traditions, while at the

> same time enabling them to become self-sufficient in

>

> livelihoods.

>

> A democratic administration in exile was set up at

> Dharamsala,

> India, to manage the affairs of the Tibetan

> refugees. With

> assistance from the Government of India, Tibetans

> schools were

> established to impart modern secular education to

> the Tibetan

> children while also emphasising the learning of

> Tibetan

> language and literature, history, culture, religion,

> arts and crafts.

> Today, there are 85 Tibetan schools throughout

> India, Nepal and

> Bhutan with total student strength of 27,585. About

> 70 percent of

> school aged children attend school. Centres for the

> preservation,

> perpetuation and propagation of Tibetan culture and

> traditions in

> different fields of skills and learning were also

> set up. These

> included carpet weaving, wood and metal curving and

> sculpture,

> performing arts, thangka painting, Tibetan medicine,

> Tibetan

> language, history and Buddhism. Primary Health Care

> centres

> exist in almost all the refugee communities. Nearly

> 200

> monasteries and nunneries have been established to

> revive

> religious education and traditions. In short, the

> Tibetans have

> kept alive in India what was almost totally

> destroyed or sinocised

> inside Tibet.

>

> Credit for the success of the Tibetan community at

> Dharamsala

> and elsewhere indubitably goes to the democratic

> vision,

> foresight and leadership of His Holiness the Dalai

> Lama. Today,

> the Tibetan issue is well known internationally. The

> Chinese

> Government demands that the refugees accept that

> Tibet was

> always an integral part of China as a precondition

> for negotiation

> for the future status of Tibet. While the influx of

> the Chinese

> population endangers the culture and identity of the

> Tibetan

> people in Tibet, those at Dharamsala continue to

> work for a

> peaceful settlement.

>

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