Comments on: The Angry Monk

By: Tibet as Privileged Victim, or. Blame China! « The Anatomy Lesson

Tibet as Privileged Victim, or. Blame China! « The Anatomy Lesson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:41:20 +0000

[...] are actually being wiped off the face of the earth and their culture is being wiped out. (via louis proyect). This haziness seems to have evaporated over the years; now, The National Post can carry [...]

By: mike-servethepeople

mike-servethepeople — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:04:15 +0000

The Dalai Lama is not quite the innocent that he pretends to be. And in any case, he’s being pushed aside by violent demagogues financed by the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA front. Hence his threat to resign if they continued with their violence - he’s afraid that control of the movementis slipping from his hands. I don’t have space here to go into all the issues. I have a perspective on it that I don’t expect to be popular in the West, but if you’d like to look at some things I’ve written on Tibet go here: http://mike-servethepeople.blogspot.com and hit the Tibet link on the right hand side.

By: Fellowearthling

Fellowearthling — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:39:33 +0000

Good attempt Aris, very sneaky, very subsersive. All your intention was to create an impression of Robert as an ignoramus so we will jump to the foregone conclusion that he is uttering rubbish. If you care so much about the English language go participate in linguistics/grammar blogs. Robert, you were crystal clear my friend. Your notes prompted further inquiry and look what I found… Thanks for opening my eye,

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=PAR20071118&articleId=7355

Just any other religion, this is a religion that thrives on people’s minds, bodies and spirits. They need your western influence to go back to claim their serfs.

By: Lex

Lex — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:33:57 +0000

My guess is that Robert @8 is not a native English speaker, considering that most English speakers don’t say “Europa”. In which case, his spelling and grammar should be let alone. After all, how many English speakers have the ability to write a comment in Robert’s language?

By: richyrich

richyrich — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:06:21 +0000

thanx robert, your posting has some juice (aris, fuck your ‘friendly suggestion’).
well, if HH Dalai Lama is on CIA payroll or not, if you find homosexuality ‘healthy’ or not, if ancient tibetian buddhism has been blundering their own people or not, if you vote for ‘100 years of no olympics’ or not, if you like the ‘yellows’ or if you support afghan invasion into tibet, as a matter of fact the dalai lama is certainly doing a better job than bush jr.. almost everybody seems to love the former and seems to hate the latter. and the news coming from his office sound much better than the ones from the oval office.

By: Frank Lau

Frank Lau — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:05:31 +0000

Frank, I agree that the interest in tibetan culture in the west is due to misunderstanding rather than understanding. This is understandable looking at how the majority buy into whatever propaganda published by groups or individual with ulterior motive. Otherwise the world will be dull without war in Vietnam, Iraq, and soon Iran, Artic, and outer space.

By: Jim Hartz

Jim Hartz — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:36:19 +0000

1. Padmasambhava was not the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, not Nagarjuna. 2. In terms of dialectics, if Marx had developed his method via an engagement with Nagarjuna’s (Madhyamika) system rather than Hegel’s, there would not be a “crisis of Marxism” today. 3. If the sword in the logo Gendun Choephel designed for the Tibetan Revolutionary Party was the Sword of Manjushri, the two-edged sword of prajna (associated with Nagarjuna’s particular dialectical system), he might very well have understood that. 4. It is well known that the most potent and undiluted versions of Nagarjuna’s Madhyamika philosophy existed in Tibet prior to the Cultural Revolution and the eventual take-over by the now Capitalist Chinese. 5. For Western Marxists to cheerlead the Tibetan genocide, as quite a few do(think of Barrett Watten [Trotskyist], Jack Hirschman [Stalinist], Amiri Baraka [Maoist] in the poetry world–so much for the fabled differences between them), would be like burning the texts of Hegel before Marx had a chance to look at them! 6. The connection of “anger” and “monk” would be no surprise to an actual tantric Buddhist who would understand “anger without hatred” to be compassion. I’ve been considering The Angry Buddhist blog for years!

By: Aris

Aris — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:23:42 +0000

Robert, you might want to check your spelling and grammar before posting. It is a bit awkward to read.

No offense is intended; just a friendly suggestion.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:46:00 +0000

Check out in the enceclopedia printed in 1930 you may find in your grandparents house.
Compaire it with the rewritten history of the new enceclopedia.
The monks in Tibet enslaved the people like no where in the world.
If the slaves did steal his hand was cut.
No one would cancel the olimpics for the American indian or for Palestine or for the fabricated war against Iraq.
If the media can convince people to boycote the olympics that is ok because it will show the stagering hipocrisy.
And I hope it will backfire and no more olympics for the next 100 years.
Picture what you would read in the american press if the mexican prists would run over the border and create riots in California because the mexican culture gets lost.
China has to feed 1.3 millions people and some smarte heads think they can separate Tibet from China like Kosovo from Serbia.
The Chinese better watch out the best invasion route to liberate Tibet is trough Afganistan.
And the american and europaen press is able to convince the nonthinking people to punish the Chinese.
The high living standard in the USA and Europa was acheived by looting the natural ressources their former colonies.
Thanks to this high standard of living the population supports their government most of the time even applauding fabricated wars.
People in the USA are beliving that they live in the most moral nation on earth.

But the day the western people can no more be fooled or bought,the so caled democracy will find the slogans to transform their countries into dictatures never seen on earth.

The true Buddha was alevieting the suffering of the people, contrary the monks in Tibet they made themself a wonderful live by inslaving the people.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:41:54 +0000

Gendun Choephel and the Dalai Lama express respectively the two sides–left hand and right hand–of the Tibetan tantric tradition. Asceticism and sensual excess as opposite paths to spiritual enlightenment reflects the profoundly dialectical approach taught by Nagarjuna, the founder of Tibetan Buddhism.

The dark saying of Herakleitos “the path upward and the path downward are one and the same” may perhaps be not unrelated to this approach.