Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan people, is one of the most kind, caring, learned, humble and revered person on earth. Many influential observers have put him on the same pedestal as Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Junior and a few more influential people of the 20th century who gained respect and admiration through their devotion to their cause, carried out by polite, non-violence means. As Gandhiji used to say, if truth and justice is on your side, then there is no need for violence!
Yet in the eyes of cruel, undemocratic China, Dalai Lama is a terrorist who would be killed if he sets foot in his beloved birthplace Tibet, the country brutally occupied and ethnically cleansed without any protest from the free world, especially India, who under PM Nehru was subjugated, even facilitated Chinese take-over on the international stage, under the umbrella of non-aligned nations, an anti-American organization, without realising how dangerous and ambitious China is!
Now he would be even more hatred figure in the eyes of China, as he suggested that his possible successor may emerge from Tibetan community in India. Tibetan Buddhism, in common with Hinduism, believes in doctrine of reincarnation. As such a successor is always selected from the Tibetans within the country.
This statement by Dalai Lama has not only upset China but it makes China even more determined to choose the next Tibetan leader from within Tibetan Buddhists, under watchful eyes of China who could manipulate him and make him Chinese puppet who would dance to Chinese tunes!
The EU’s appeasement of China, especially that of Britain is unbelievable, akin to Neville Chamberlain waving a piece of paper declaring “Peace in our time” a Munich Declaration signed by the PM and Herr Hitler, not worth the paper it was written on! China is even more dangerous than Nazi Germany, as China is ruled by clever, cunning and ambitious politicians with unlimited patience who would abide their time and choose the right moment to subjugate the world, not in a hurry unlike Hitler!
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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