by While the world moralises over China's occupation, feudalism and abuse in Tibetan culture has been conveniently forgotten This was written in 2013, so I doubt if you would ever read anything like it today now the Guardian has been taken over by MI5, according to recent reports. The Guardian today regularly puts out anti-Chinese propaganda.When I was youger, I would regularly go to my local Buddhist centre to practice Buddhism. But its nihilism, along with being dispassionate, losing desire, and snuffing out the flame of life, wasn't for me at the time. But nowadays I have discovered that the Western translations of the ancient Buddhists texts often got it wrong, and that Buddhism is nowhere near as stark as it seems. Quite the opposite, in fact, so I'm now back into it, but in a gentle
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While the world moralises over China's occupation, feudalism and abuse in Tibetan culture has been conveniently forgotten
When I was youger, I would regularly go to my local Buddhist centre to practice Buddhism. But its nihilism, along with being dispassionate, losing desire, and snuffing out the flame of life, wasn't for me at the time. But nowadays I have discovered that the Western translations of the ancient Buddhists texts often got it wrong, and that Buddhism is nowhere near as stark as it seems. Quite the opposite, in fact, so I'm now back into it, but in a gentle way without fundamentalism, and within the Quaker movement.
Anyway, one day I came across an article about Tibetan Buddhism and I was stunned. The Tibetan Buddhists were brutal warlords who run an oppressive cast system and had turned most Tibetans into serfs. The Tibetan monks were the aristocracy who engaged in the brutal suppresion of the population, including using torture. The article said how most Tibetans were pleased that the Chinese had came in to end their oppression.
This article from the Guardian says very much the same thing, but it does mention some Chinese brutality as well.
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