Comments for Felonious Monk - What's the deal with the Dalai Lama? at http://www.pacificfreepress.com , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.pacificfreepress.com Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:06:28 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/418-felonious-monk-whats-the-deal-with-the-dalai-lama.html#comment-343 Hi. I've met the dalai lama. I studied at hismonastery every day for a long time. I'm currently applying to graduate programs to study indo-tibetan intellectual history, philology and other obscure, nerdy shit. I speak TIbetan and have met thousands of Tibetans. I was in Tibet this summer. I just want to ask: when you write: "before the Chinese invasion, "His Holiness" ruled over a harsh feudal serfdom with the proverbial iron fist", do you mean to suggest that Tenzin Gyatso - as an adolescent monk - was a despot? Are you expecting people to take this pseudo-historical statement seriously? You write: "the Dalai Lama packed up his riches and escaped into neighboring India, the CIA set up and trained an army of Tibetan contras." Again, you have a convenient sense of history. May I suggest you read "Buddha' Warriors: The Story of the CIA_Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Invation, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet" by a nice I guy I know named Mikel Dunham. Or, if you'd prefer to keep your head in the sand to drown out the sound of derisive laughter that meets your every sophmoric verbal ejaculation, that's cool with me. But, just in my own sense of decency, I felt I should share just in case you care to know what an utter fool you seem with these careless and intellectuall thin comments. dominic - dominic di zinno Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:07:43 +0100 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/418-felonious-monk-whats-the-deal-with-the-dalai-lama.html#comment-332 It's a shame, Mickey, that you can't save your oh-so-witty criticisms for world leaders who are currently brutalising their own subjects, or are invading others' countries leaving trails of death and woe; rather than a man who has devoted his life to spiritual development and world peace. How on earth did you manage to summon up the energy to get so worked up over somebody who so obviously does no harm to a living soul; even if he does seem to rattle your personal beliefs somewhat? Do you really wonder who "designated the Dalai Lama as a conduit of wisdom, and why"??? If so, then spending some time REALLY exploring that question might shed a little light for you and make you a happier person. In fact, exploring - properly - many of the matterss and questions you have raised yourself in your ill-informed article might just be the making of you. Or do you already think you know it all???!! Peace and Love. - Rebecca Parry Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:51:58 +0100 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/418-felonious-monk-whats-the-deal-with-the-dalai-lama.html#comment-326 Dear Mickey, thanks for your thoughts. I know that you are in a world where you have the rights to write whatever you want without having to atleast consider what you are writing hurts somebody. I would like to add just few things. Did Dalai lama ever confessed that he's a Buddha? Did he ever confess that he is immnune to all kinds of diseases. The simple answer is no. I don't look upto him only because I am a Buddhist. I have always looked upto him for all the good qhe has done and the sacrifices he had made for the sake of all human beings. You put yourself in his shoes and what would you have done if you were in his place. Must be partying all the time if you have freedom! - sonam sangpo Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:22:20 +0100 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/418-felonious-monk-whats-the-deal-with-the-dalai-lama.html#comment-322 [img]http://mysite.verizon.net/res6rexj/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/hillarycommie.gif[/img] - Hildebeast Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:52:30 +0100 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/418-felonious-monk-whats-the-deal-with-the-dalai-lama.html#comment-320 Hi MickeyZ Ahmedinejad - oops! A (perhaps understandable) slip lumping historical deniers together. "One-sided" - as Giovanni Vassalo characterized the article - extends undeserving courtesy to the Mick! This article is so biased it has no side - in fact, no depth whatsoever. MickeyZ - learn your facts for real sources, not a newspaper that is working to promote communism. All the best - Chagri Lama Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:18:38 +0100 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/418-felonious-monk-whats-the-deal-with-the-dalai-lama.html#comment-318 Even the historical Buddha had critics, which teaches you patience. For those of us who have known and watched the Dalai Lama for a number of years, we know that this article is completely one-sided and often factually incorrect. For one, the young Dalai Lama was not aware of the CIA activities when he was in Tibet. Another, the Dalai Lama often stated that there has been too much killings in the Iraq war. If you would like to get a well-documented and well-referenced footnoted book about the Dalai Lama in Tibet, I suggest you check out Thomas Laird's new book: The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama, available at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Story-Tibet-Conversations-Dalai-Lama/dp/0802118275/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/103-5148274-6166201 Best wishes to Mickey Z & all. - Giovanni Vassallo Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:25:04 +0100 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/418-felonious-monk-whats-the-deal-with-the-dalai-lama.html#comment-312 Since he is worshipped as a deity by Tibetans, people would have made themselves slaves to him, not he them, and [i]certainly[/i] not like we had in the South. Also, not everyon in Tibet is Buddhist, and not Buddhists in Tibet are monks and nuns, and not all pacifism is nonviolent. I'm far from believing Tibetans innocents, or the Dalai Lama a deity, but you and your [i]Worker's World[/i] buddy, really ought to do a little more research before you spout off like this. You sound as bad about religion as the fundamentalists do about atheism. - cb parrish Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:40:38 +0100