I have been in the offices of the Tibetan Government in Exile. They are very modest and they have old computers and phones. It is not very contemporary and certainly not that well funded. I have seen the Dalai Lama's house. It is also modest. It is not a mansion or anything. It is simple. He is not extravagant at all. I think there are many lies being told about H.H. The Dalai Lama and it is about time for the Chinese people to look at the evidence and not just the rhetoric.
Chinese Emperors knelt at the feet of the Tibetans that used human skulls as bowls in historic times, so what?
That is irrelevant to the current time.
Twisted historical references is typical Wu Mao rhetoric.
Please don't placate me.
There is terrible persecution, forced sterilization without anesthesia, torture, police brutality, shootings, looting, and people risking their lives to walk across the Himalayas to escape China to Nepal and then to India. It is not a luxury for them to move to India. Tibetans are being singled out by Han CCP military and police force. They have been terrorized. It is well documented. I have heard the stories from people myself. There is no CIA office for the Tibetans to arrive to for them to get a check! It is often terrible poverty and second class life. The reality of Dharamsala is actually quite sad and full of children without shoes and no running water. The money they got from the West is a thing of either fiction or history, but it is not a current situation. I just don't think so. I think that is a myth.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Tibet ཊིབེཏ་:'Walking the Nankhor @ Twighlight'-William Kai Stephanos © 2008 チベット 西 藏
Pilgrims circumambulate The Jokhang Temple in Tibet:
The Jokhang Temple: Tibet
The Jokhang temple is a four-story construction, with roofs covered with gilded bronze tiles. The architectural style is based on the Indian vihara design, and was later extended resulting in a blend of Nepalese and Tang Dynasty styles. The rooftop statues of two golden deer flanking a Dharma wheel is iconic. Jokhang's interior is a dark and atmospheric labyrinth of chapels dedicated to various gods and Bodhisattvas, illuminated by votive candles and thick with the smoke of incense. Although some of the temple has been rebuilt, original elements remain: the wooden beams and rafters have been shown by carbon dating to be original; the Newari door frames, columns and finials date from the 7th and 8th centuries.
The Jokhang temple sits on Barkhor Square in the old section of Lhasa. The entire temple complex occupies approximately 25,000 sq.meters. Pilgrims circumambulate the temple as part of a pilgrimage to the site. The circumabulation route is known as the "kora" in Tibetan and is marked by four large stone incense burners placed at the corners of the temple complex. After circumambulating the exterior, pilgrims make their way to the main hall of the temple which houses the Jowo Shakyamuni Buddha statue, perhaps the single most venerated object in Tibetan Buddhism. There are also famous statues of Chenresig, Padmasambhava and King Songtsan Gambo and his two foreign brides, Princess Wen Cheng (niece of Emperor Taizong of Tang China) and Princess Bhrikuti of Nepal. Many of the statues were destroyed during the "cultural revolution" but have since been recreated – often including broken pieces of the original statues. A chapel to the south of the main hall houses many statues of various Bodhisattva many in yab-yum pose.
A walled enclosure in front of the Jokhang contains the stumps of willows known as the Jowo Utra ('Hair of the Jowo') which according to tradition were planted by Queen Wen Ching at the time the temple was consecrated. Two doring or inscribed pillars flank the north and south entrances to the temple. The pillar on the south side was erected by the Chinese in 1793 during a smallpox epidemic and records advice on hygiene measures to prevent smallpox. On the north side another far older pillar sits.[4] It records the Sino-Tibetan treaty of 822 concluded by King Ralpacan and includes the following inscription: "Tibet and China shall abide by the frontiers of which they are now in occupation. All to the east is the country of Great China; and all to the west is, without question, the country of Great Tibet. Henceforth on neither side shall there be waging of war nor seizing of territory. If any person incurs suspicion he shall be arrested; his business shall be inquired into and he shall be escorted back,"
The third floor contains an image of Palden Lhamo, fierce protector of both Lhasa and the Dalai Lama.
A prostration (Pali: panipāta, Skt.: namas-kara, Ch.: li-pai, Jp.: raihai) is a gesture used in Buddhist practice to show reverence to the Triple Gem (comprising the Buddha, his teachings, and the spiritual community) and other objects of veneration.
Among Buddhists prostration is believed to be beneficial for practitioners for several reasons, including:
* an experience of giving or veneration
* an act to purify defilements, especially conceit
* a preparatory act for meditation
* an act that accumulates merit (see karma)
Theravada Buddhists execute a type of prostration that is known as "five-point veneration" (Pali: patitthitapanca) or the "five-limbed prostration" (Pali: pañc'anga-vandana) where the two palms and elbows, two sets of toes and knees, and the forehead are placed on the floor.[5] More specifically:
... In the kneeling position, one's hand in añjali [palms together, fingers flat out and pointed upward] are raised to the forehead and then lowered to the floor so that the whole forearm to the elbow is on the ground, the elbow touching the knee. The hands, palm down, are four to six inches apart with just enough room for the forehead to be brought to the ground between them. Feet are still as for the kneeling position and the knees are about a foot apart....
First Prostration
Araham samma-sambuddho bhagava
Buddham bhagavantam abhivademi.
The Noble One, the fully Enlightened One, the Exalted One,
I bow low before the Exalted Buddha.
Second Prostration
Svakkhato bhagavata dhammo
Dhammam namassami.
The Exalted One's well-expounded Dhamma
I bow low before the Dhamma.
Third Prostration
Supatipanno bhagavato savakasangho
sangham namami.
The Exalted One's Sangha of well-practiced disciples
I bow low before the Sangha.
Possible Explanations for the Origins of the Word "honky"
>>>2 documented theories and possible explanations for the origins of the word
"honky" are:
1) name given to White men called "johns" who would honk their horns for prostitutes in urban areas such as Harlem and red-light districts in the early 1900s
2) name given to White landlords [in Chicago] who would honk their car horns from the street demanding rent from African-American tenants, thus being called: "honky"...
William Kai Stephanos
"honky" are:
1) name given to White men called "johns" who would honk their horns for prostitutes in urban areas such as Harlem and red-light districts in the early 1900s
2) name given to White landlords [in Chicago] who would honk their car horns from the street demanding rent from African-American tenants, thus being called: "honky"...
William Kai Stephanos
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Tibet ཊིབེཏ: Ganden Monastery: Photos © 2009 Wm Kai Stephanos チベット 西藏 벳
Tibet: Ganden Monastery in 2007...... チベット.......西藏.......
All Photos taken by Wm Kai Stephanos.........What's been rebuilt and being continued to be built......also images of ruins and destroyed building............벳
© 2009 Wm Kai Stephanos
All Photos taken by Wm Kai Stephanos.........What's been rebuilt and being continued to be built......also images of ruins and destroyed building............벳
© 2009 Wm Kai Stephanos
Life in Exile: Tibetans in India, Persecution
I have seen Indians insulting Tibetans, telling them "go back to China you Chink"...that is the life in Exile...for many Tibetans in India. They don't want to be away from their true homeland. It is because of the CCP they stay in India. They have no choice. It is sad.
William Kai Stephanos
William Kai Stephanos
Friday, July 9, 2010
Truth about China? Tell me! William Kai Stephanos
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Truth is truth...I want an honest answer to these questions from a Chinese person. I don't understand the loyalty to the CCP. It can be done another way. The Chinese people can do it without the CCP. That is not the only option. Why is that always such a sticking point? There have been many changes of power in China in history.
"Scholars estimate 16.5 to 40 million people died during the great leap famine in China. In his October 2005 essay in COMMENTARY, Arthur Waldron describes the architect of China's Cultural Revolution this way: Mao was the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century. Much of the killing was direct, as in the torture and purges at Yanan. After the Communist seizure of power in 1949, the practice became countrywide."
I think the Chinese people should be given a lot more credit than the government [CCP]. Government, after all, is only made of people. If the Cultural Revolution had never happened, China would be far more advanced now. The CCP's usefulness was as a militaristic power in uniting the country, true, but in internal affairs it has failed miserably. The CCP starved its own people by the millions. A more advanced representational system with checks and balances would have sped up China's development decades and decades ago. It is still stalling progress as it desperately tries to hold onto power. I believe in the Chinese people, all ethnicities of them, but not the CCP.
Why be loyal to a regime that is cruel and corrupt? The people of China can do much better.
The Chinese youth will rise up against the CCP. It is inevitable.
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Truth is truth...I want an honest answer to these questions from a Chinese person. I don't understand the loyalty to the CCP. It can be done another way. The Chinese people can do it without the CCP. That is not the only option. Why is that always such a sticking point? There have been many changes of power in China in history.
"Scholars estimate 16.5 to 40 million people died during the great leap famine in China. In his October 2005 essay in COMMENTARY, Arthur Waldron describes the architect of China's Cultural Revolution this way: Mao was the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century. Much of the killing was direct, as in the torture and purges at Yanan. After the Communist seizure of power in 1949, the practice became countrywide."
I think the Chinese people should be given a lot more credit than the government [CCP]. Government, after all, is only made of people. If the Cultural Revolution had never happened, China would be far more advanced now. The CCP's usefulness was as a militaristic power in uniting the country, true, but in internal affairs it has failed miserably. The CCP starved its own people by the millions. A more advanced representational system with checks and balances would have sped up China's development decades and decades ago. It is still stalling progress as it desperately tries to hold onto power. I believe in the Chinese people, all ethnicities of them, but not the CCP.
Why be loyal to a regime that is cruel and corrupt? The people of China can do much better.
The Chinese youth will rise up against the CCP. It is inevitable.
unit45x
Tibet ,ཊིབེཏ་ Lhasa to Beijing 中国: Qinghai Railroad 'skytrain'
Tibet ,ཊིབེཏ་ Lhasa to Beijing 中国: Qinghai Railroad 'skytrain'
Railroad Photo Show July 2007...49 hours on the train w/ out getting off....starts in the wee morning hours of Lhasa to landscapes in the wild then on to photos of Chengdu before the earthquake.........the video goes way past Chengdu....the very last photo is Tienanmen Square in the rain at night...xie xie
ཊིབེཏ་ チベット
The riches that China expects to extract from Tibet in the near future, perhaps better explains the money that China annually spends on Tibet than the empty claims of modernizing Tibet.
How China is Plundering the Natural Resources of Tibet:
http://woodsmoke.wordpress.com/2008/0...
China is incurring huge expenditure in transferring and consolidating the Chinese population in Tibet. Massive investment has been made to build a network of modern highways all over Tibet. China can also boast of having laid the highest railway track in the world that connects Lhasa with Beijing. In fact, China often complains that its civilizing mission in Tibet is costing the government and people of China large amounts in terms of subsidies to an under-developed region. According to official Chinese statistics, the level of annual subsidies to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) in the late 1980s was around 1 billion yuan or $270 million. However, all the infrastructure that China has built in Tibet has not made the lives of the native Tibetans any better; it has only taken the exploitative apparatuses of the Chinese government deeper.
Chinas Ministry of Land and Resources has announced monumental new resource discoveries all across Tibet. The findings are the culmination of a secret 7-year, $44 million survey project, which began in 1999. More than 1,000 researchers were divided into 24 separate groups and fanned out across the Qinghai-Tibet plateau to geologically map the entire Tibetan region. Their findings have lead to a discovery of 16 major new deposits of copper, iron, lead, zinc and other minerals worth an estimated $128 billion. These discoveries add to Tibet's proven deposits of 126 minerals, with a significant share of the worlds reserves in lithium, chromite, copper, borax, and iron. Lack of resources has been a bottleneck for the economy, Meng Xianlai, director of the China Geological Survey, had once complained in his statements. The discoveries in Tibet will alleviate the mounting resources pressure China is facing.
Tibet is now said to hold as much as 40 million tons of copper — one third of Chinas total, 40 million tons of lead and zinc, and more than a billion tons of high-grade iron. Among the Tibet discoveries is Chinas first substantial rich-iron supply. A seam called Nyixung, is alone expected to contain as much as 500 million tons. Thats enough to reduce Chinese iron import by 20 per cent. The new copper reserves are no less substantial. A 250-mile seam of the metal has been found along Tibets environmentally sensitive Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge. One mine there, called Yulong, already described as the second-largest reserve in China, is now estimated to hold as much as 18 million tons, according to the government news site Xinhua and could soon become the largest copper mine in the country, helping to feed Chinas increasing demand of the metal used for electrical wiring and power generation. China, which until now has imported much of its copper from Chile, is estimated to hold 5.6 per cent of the worlds copper and is its seventh largest producer.
The riches that China expects to extract from Tibet in the near future, perhaps better explains the money that China annually spends on Tibet than the empty claims of modernizing Tibet.
Railroad Photo Show July 2007...49 hours on the train w/ out getting off....starts in the wee morning hours of Lhasa to landscapes in the wild then on to photos of Chengdu before the earthquake.........the video goes way past Chengdu....the very last photo is Tienanmen Square in the rain at night...xie xie
ཊིབེཏ་ チベット
The riches that China expects to extract from Tibet in the near future, perhaps better explains the money that China annually spends on Tibet than the empty claims of modernizing Tibet.
How China is Plundering the Natural Resources of Tibet:
http://woodsmoke.wordpress.com/2008/0...
China is incurring huge expenditure in transferring and consolidating the Chinese population in Tibet. Massive investment has been made to build a network of modern highways all over Tibet. China can also boast of having laid the highest railway track in the world that connects Lhasa with Beijing. In fact, China often complains that its civilizing mission in Tibet is costing the government and people of China large amounts in terms of subsidies to an under-developed region. According to official Chinese statistics, the level of annual subsidies to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) in the late 1980s was around 1 billion yuan or $270 million. However, all the infrastructure that China has built in Tibet has not made the lives of the native Tibetans any better; it has only taken the exploitative apparatuses of the Chinese government deeper.
Chinas Ministry of Land and Resources has announced monumental new resource discoveries all across Tibet. The findings are the culmination of a secret 7-year, $44 million survey project, which began in 1999. More than 1,000 researchers were divided into 24 separate groups and fanned out across the Qinghai-Tibet plateau to geologically map the entire Tibetan region. Their findings have lead to a discovery of 16 major new deposits of copper, iron, lead, zinc and other minerals worth an estimated $128 billion. These discoveries add to Tibet's proven deposits of 126 minerals, with a significant share of the worlds reserves in lithium, chromite, copper, borax, and iron. Lack of resources has been a bottleneck for the economy, Meng Xianlai, director of the China Geological Survey, had once complained in his statements. The discoveries in Tibet will alleviate the mounting resources pressure China is facing.
Tibet is now said to hold as much as 40 million tons of copper — one third of Chinas total, 40 million tons of lead and zinc, and more than a billion tons of high-grade iron. Among the Tibet discoveries is Chinas first substantial rich-iron supply. A seam called Nyixung, is alone expected to contain as much as 500 million tons. Thats enough to reduce Chinese iron import by 20 per cent. The new copper reserves are no less substantial. A 250-mile seam of the metal has been found along Tibets environmentally sensitive Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge. One mine there, called Yulong, already described as the second-largest reserve in China, is now estimated to hold as much as 18 million tons, according to the government news site Xinhua and could soon become the largest copper mine in the country, helping to feed Chinas increasing demand of the metal used for electrical wiring and power generation. China, which until now has imported much of its copper from Chile, is estimated to hold 5.6 per cent of the worlds copper and is its seventh largest producer.
The riches that China expects to extract from Tibet in the near future, perhaps better explains the money that China annually spends on Tibet than the empty claims of modernizing Tibet.
Monday, July 5, 2010
in China social unrest is inevitable, July 5, 2010
In reality, China is facing a labor shortage. That is the truth of the situation. The CCP is facing a lot of serious issues right now. The fate of the CCP's future is questionable and so-called past achievements will not bolster their dominance in the times ahead. The people of the PRC are changing and revolt is hovering over the CCP's head. The Chinese people are tired of their promises and the lies. The dam is about to break, and social unrest is inevitable. Inequality will break the tide.
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