In this day and age, people around the world, and not only in the USA have picked up the habit of rejecting personal responsibility for their own actions. This is nothing new for Buddhists who see such “passing of the buck” as a part of the delusion that binds beings to their sufferings.

In our world today, we have world leaders and governments who do the same thing. They refuse to take responsibility for what their actions have caused. So if our leaders are doing this, how can we expect individual citizens to act any differently?

One glaring example of this is the People’s Republic of China, which, whenever Tibetans erupt in protests and riots against Chinese occupation of their country, blame the unrest on the Dalai Lama. It’s an absurd statement considering that it wasn’t the Dalai Lama who massed the PLA along the Tibetan-Chinese border and then invaded Tibet in 1950. It wasn’t the Dalai Lama who proclaimed Tibet to be a part of China and then ruthlessly and cynically conquered a neighboring nation all the while calling it a peaceful liberation.

In hindsight, perhaps the Tibetan Empire of the past should have completely destroyed the Tang Chinese. Or perhaps the Tibetans should have never persuaded the Mongolian Empire to not exterminate the Chinese. The Tibetans have historically shown much compassion and mercy towards the Chinese. Perhaps it is time they stop doing such a thing, since it is only getting them no where.

Today, I hear the Chinese government officials blaming all of the Tibetan protests on the Dalai Lama and his supporters, as if Chinese rule over Tibet has nothing to do with the simmering resentment of the Tibetan people. As if the Chinese policy of genocide against Tibet has nothing to do with it. As if the mass population transfer of millions of Chinese into Tibet has nothing to do with it. As if the fact that the Tibetan language, culture and Buddhist religion being suppressed has nothing to do with it. As if the Chinese illegal occupation of Tibet for the for the last 60 years has nothing to do with it.

Beijing will be sorely disappointed after the passing of the 14th Dalai Lama, when the Tibetan resistance to China will continue on and keep growing. Who will they blame it on at that time? Will they revert back to their earlier bogey man who was called “Anglo-American imperialism”? Or will they blame it on India? Or perhaps they will blame it on Al Quaeda, stealing the great enemy of the USA for themselves.

Beijing would do well to learn from their own history. I seem to recall that the nation now known as Vietnam was conquered and ruled by China for a thousand years. And yet, the Vietnamese people never stopped fighting for their freedom. And during the Tang dynasty, they achieved liberation. If Vietnam could do this after a thousand years of Chinese imperial rule, how does Beijing think they can hold onto Tibet forever?

Beijing speaks as if the Tibetan people are happy. But Tibetans are not happy. Most of them are just afraid of getting shot, arrested or tortured. But as the coming weeks will attest, more and more Tibetans will shake off that fear and rise up. They can blame the Dalai Lama all they want, it still won’t change the truth of the matter.

I don’t expect that China’s leaders will ever stop to learn the truth since they are so enthralled by their own delusions, as historically all Chinese imperial rulers have been. (Claiming that the whole world is merely Chinese territory, for one thing.) What will Beijing do when the Chinese economy collapses because they have bled the natural resources of the Himalayas dry? What will they do when the Chinese people decide they have had enough of the delusions and lies? Will they also blame that on the Dalai Lama?

Wow. The Dalai Lama must have some impressive magical abilities to be able to pull off all this stuff that the Chinese leaders claim he does.

It is a marvel of the modern world when leaders such as the current crop of pretentious politicians that run China blame everything that they cause on other people or other forces. It is almost as if the human belief in gods has been replaced simply by more superstition. Perhaps the leaders in Beijing are like this because they have failed to live up to their Marxist principles and they know it. Perhaps it is because they still believe that China is an aggrieved nation threatened by foreigners, as was often the case in their history.

Who can say? But I have a feeling that the 2008 Tibetan Uprising will wipe the snot from a lot of people’s eyes around the world.

-Hugh Kunsang (March 15th, 2008….free share)

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Posted: 03|24|08 at 9:48 am. Filed under: Free Tibet Blog.
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