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To: kipita

How about you learn something before making yourself look foolish?

The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Autobiography-of-a-Tibetan-Monk/Palden-Gyatso/e/9780802135742/?itm=1

Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at 18 — just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of “reform” that would eventually affect all of Tibet’s citizens and nearly decimate its ancient culture. In 1967, the Chinese destroyed monasteries across Tibet and forced thousands of monks into labor camps and prisons. Gyatso spent the next 25 years of his life enduring interrogation and torture simply for the strength of his beliefs. Palden Gyatso’s story bears witness to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the strength of Tibet’s proud civilization, faced with cultural genocide.


18 posted on 03/26/2008 10:04:24 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: Red in Blue PA

“How about you learn something before making yourself look foolish?”

If he were of the “learning” type, he wouldn’t spout such nonsense in the first place. He would have taken some time to read about Tibet and the ChiComs first.

If certain “FReepers” are enthusiastic about the ChiComs’ genocide in Tibet and elsewhere after learning the facts, the only thing that’s left to question is their moral compass (or more accurately, the existence of one).


21 posted on 03/26/2008 10:13:11 AM PDT by indcons (The civilized world must boycott the 2008 Genocide Olympics.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

see comment above.

The infant was chosen as “God” because when the existening “God” died, his head turned East and the followers kept walking until they found “Him”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso%2C_14th_Dalai_Lama


24 posted on 03/26/2008 10:17:15 AM PDT by kipita (“Love” is to humanity as gravitons are to an infinite # of universes.)
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