Essay on Tibet

Bob Fu conveys clearly the inexorable control that Communist leaders in China have over their people. For example, after Fu and his friends participated in the Tiananmen Square protests, Fu was coerced, day in day out, to write a confession of his purported misdeeds against China and her people as a “counterrevolutionary” (79-82, 85, 87).

“In 1949 35,00 Chinese troops invaded Tibet.”This was put into detail in an article by Hisyam Takiudin.The Chinese raped,tortured,and murdered one fifth of the Tibetan population,most in work camps and during arbitrary.As a result,47 million people in all have died during these tragic times. The brutality was so bad that the parents with children were forced to bury their children alive when they disobeyed.These crimes have lasted 49 years! Evidently,these crimes are still being committed! In Tibet today there is still no freedom of speech,religion, and arbitrary detainment still continues. As Tibetans are being slaughtered,we’re sitting here doing

The Republic of China never attained direct control over Tibet, and so there was a de facto independent Tibetan state. This unofficial and unrecognized country continued to exist for about forty years. During this time, Tibet was controlled by a very conservative people. Refusing to modernize and/or industrialize. When the communist revolution in China occurred, and the former government fled to Taiwan, they would have to face a new threat: the People’s Republic of China. The People’s Republic claimed that the Tibetan government was exploiting the citizens as serfs, and that they should be liberated from them by none other than the People’s Liberation Army. Although Tibet actually had a high resemblance to medieval European feudalism, the government never exploited the citizens per se. When the PLA was at their doorstep, they were nowhere near prepared and were conquered by the Chinese. They were eventually officially annexed into China, and the 14th Dalai Lama was exiled to India. Under the PRC, the Tibetans endured many hardships that were brought upon them. The so-called Great Leap Forward led to widespread starvation, and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution led the Red Army to destroy thousands of cultural artifacts and sites,

Tezin Gyatso, the head of state and the spiritual leader of Tibet, was born in Amdo, China on July 6, 1935 into a peasant family. At the age of two, Gyatso was recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, and therefore an incarnation of Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of Compassion. Gyatso’s life as the Dalai Lama began when he was enthroned at the age of four in Lhasa. However his political responsibilities did not arise until 1950 when thousands of soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army invaded Lhasa. In 1959, the Tibetans held the largest demonstration against China’s invasion of their home, therefore declaring Tibet’s already established independence. This was known as the Tibetan National Uprising, which was crushed by the Chinese army. As a result, Gyatso and over 100,000 Tibetans fled across the Himalayas and into India where His Holiness was given political asylum.

Tibetan Buddhists Genocide What Is Genocide? A Genocide are the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. In other words a Genocide is one type of people deciding to kill another type of people because of their race, religion, or just different. For example, Adolph Hitler killed Jewish people because he thought Jewish people were the reason why the Germans lost World War I Tibetan Buddhists The religion of Tibetan, a form of Mahayana Buddhism. However, Tibet refers to a mountainous region in Central Asia, covering 2.5 million square kilometers. Today, Tibet occupied by China. However, the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people, lives in exile in India,

China took over control of Tibet in the 1950's, which forced the Dali Lama to flee the country to India where he lives in exile. He has been heavily involved in politics on behalf of Tibet and has become quite famous. This pop-culture fame has resulted many movies regarding the current plight of Tibet and the Dali Lama as well as the spread of Tibetan Buddhism to western countries. Sri Lanka has seen a significant militarization in recent years. "Most natives and overseas visitors never anticipated that such a naturally beautify and peaceful society within a relatively short period of time - three decades - would turn into one of the most violent and militarized societies on the planet" (Tikhonov and Brekke

The fourteenth Dalai Lama, named Tenzin Gyatso, has been both the spiritual and political leader of Tibet for about sixty-five years. When most people imagine life as a political or spiritual leader they most likely imagine a life of privilege and luxury. His Holiness, however, has lived a life of exile away from his people and his country. When His Holiness was at the young age of fifteen, The People's Liberation Army invaded and took control of Tibet. In order to protect the religion of Buddhism and his life, he fled Tibet and journeyed to the neighboring country of India. Since then, he has been joined by a number of refugees who, to this day, try their best to preserve their religion for generations to come. Can you imagine trying to protect

other leaders of the Chinese government. In 1959, the Dalai Lama was forced to flee into

What comes out of this massive and detailed dossier is a tale of horror in which Mao emerges as one of the greatest mass murderers in history, responsible for the deaths of at least 45 million people between 1958 and 1962. It is not merely the extent of the catastrophe that dwarfs earlier estimates, but also the manner in which many people died: between two and three million victims were tortured to death or summarily killed, often for the slightest infraction.

China was suffering from harsh living conditions prior to the massacre, which pushed the students to take action. To begin with, the country had been under intense economic pressure. After adopting a capitalist type economy, the country began suffering from rising inflation, declining wages, and increasing unemployment rates. The biggest department store sold two hundred times its usual monthly income. Fearing inflation would make living necessities unaffordable, citizens used all their savings to purchase items ahead of time, thus, creating a false demand and increasing debt. Labour unrest grew as 20 to 30 million citizens were laid off in state enterprises that year. Many more were laid off in other labour sectors, increasing unemployment rates. Even though China’s economy

China has been a communist country since the communist revolution took place in 1949, since then China has been ruled by the dictator Mao Tse-Tung. However the Chinese dictator died in September 1976, he was hailed abroad as one of the worlds’ great leaders. Certainly one of the more impressive aspects of the Chinese communist government, has been the willingness of the people to protest against it (3, pg. 4).

As of 2009, The Chinese Communist Party has allegedly tortured and killed approximately 2,000 (Jacobs, 2009 pg.1) people who practiced Falun Gong. Falun Gong is a peaceful group. They don’t quite consider themselves a religion, but the CCP has deemed them a “cult” (Chang, 2004 pg.96). What is it about this organization that threatens the CCP so much, that they feel the need to imprison them, torture them, and sometimes execute them? To answer that question, you must first look at China’s traditional and political history, and also examine objectively, the history and ideals of Falun Gong.

The Tibetan Plateau, a region unlike any other on Earth, in south central Asia stretches across western China into the distant Himalayas. At an average altitude of 12,000 feet, it is the most elevated region on Earth, and not only is it home to one of the most unique landscapes but also to one of the most unique cultures and people of the world, the Tibetans. Tibet has a rich history that can be dated back to almost 1300 years ago, almost all of which China has been involved in some way. This conflict can be traced back to the beginning of Tibet’s existence, and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) uses claims of historical suzerainty to defend there often questioned subjugation of Tibet. The tense conflict between the two states is nothing new and has consisted of everything from autonomy to harsh violence, the destruction of many of Tibet’s most salient monasteries, their religion and culture, and leaving thousands dead, and attracting the attention of many western powers for their human rights violations.

About 100,000 people followed him into exile and he established a democratically based alternative government at Dharamsala in Punjab, India, aptly known as little Lhasa. It has cultural and educational institutions and serves as a “capital-in-exile” for 140,000 Tibetan refugees. In the past decade, the Dalai Lama has tried to negotiate with the Chinese while in the main time pleads for help where ignored by United Nations and NATO who have gone to war to defend the Kawaties, the Bosnians and others. Despite the fact that they have forsaken the Tibetan people in favor of selling products to the Chinese masses the Dalai Lama is still fighting for the freedom of his people until this day. He is 63 years old and hopes to return to his country in his lifetime.

In 1950, at the age of 16, the Dali Lama assumed full political power of Tibet, and following the enthronement, Harry leaves Tibet to return to Austria to seek out his son who was born while Harry was attempting to climb Nanga Parbat.