For the history, it is useless to talk about right or wrong. Also attention, Tibet has been part of china for 5 centuries. Even after 1911, tibet never officially declare independence and do not have diplomal relations with other countries in the world, Tibetan also took part in the Republic of China government meeting. So it is wrong to say Tibet is independent in 1911- 1949.

The most of important thing is 99.9% of Chinese(including Han, Miao, Tibetans…) all believe Tibet is definitely a part of China. If some riots happened, soldiers would come immediately

Tibetans *DO* worship him as a god and that’s sad and dangerous. Take a look at this video with Tibetans saying that he is a god and “the living Buddha”. Even the MP of the Tibet Government in exile Tsultrim Tenzin said that Tibetans worship him as a “superhuman” and a “god”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdTnEnBsneM

Go to 4:40 and 5:40.

I think you’ve been seriously brainwashed by the Da-Lie cult. Please think for yourself. Just because the Da-Lie Lama says something doesn’t make it the truth. Question everything.

I did not go to school in China. I went to school in the US and I know how to think for myself. Many Chinese also know how to think for themselves because they don’t trust anyone who claims to be god. If anyone tells me he’s god and that everything he says is truth, I always question it.

Of course Tibetan Buddhism is vast thus generated many school of thoughts.

I am sorry If I have hurt your integrity, all I want is peace for the Tibetan living inside Tibet. So that they dont have to suffer under the decaying ideologies of CCP.

u believe in ‘Karma’ . if not, I suppose u believe in newton’s third law of motion.

To me, it’s no different from any other religion, at times, even worse that they enslaved 90% of Tibetans to serve their theocrats. Shame on people for using religion to control other people, shame!!

Totally agreed.

CIA and Dalai Lama gain mutual benefit by using each other. Dalai Lama is just another ambitious want-to-be.

There are other people in other provinces of China have complains about China’s fast growth economy, and are these countries support “independence” going to act like separatists every time they hear some “unhappy” voices from a country??

As far as I know there are lots of UNHAPPY Americans unhappy about our political policies and regulations that we are being forced into, are we going to march “independence” and get aids from other countries to break us away from U.S.??

Tom, I appreciate your shows that touched versatile issues, but at times, the issues were not discussed in balanced matter. I am not if this episode of your show has brought any thing new from what most people have already heard from CNN or other western news sources.

the Da-Lie Lama’s proposals aren’t that fair. they include a demand for the ethnic cleansing of non-Tibetans from “greater tibet”. I want autonomy for the TAR and maybe some parts of greater Tibet as well but the Da-Lie Lama is not gonna get anywhere with his ridiculous proposals.

BTW, why do most tibetans think of him as god? he’s just a human being. tibetans should learn to think for themselves. religious fanaticism and dogmatism is very dangerous. what he says is not always truth.

Most of the most well respected experts on Tibet like tibetologist Melvyn Goldstein, Tom Grunfeld, and Bary Sautman would have given a much more balanced view together with prof. Shakya. Shakya is more biased towards the Tibetans (not a surprise) and the other experts on Tibet has more of a pro-China stance.

Also, Barnnett didn’t really address one of the points raised by a caller. He tried to dodge the issue. Did anyone notice that? He said that the Khampa rebels were funded and trained by the CIA (which is also true but not what the caller brought up which was the fact that the Da-Lie Lama was paid by the US government).

The caller mentioned that the Da-Lie Lama was on the US government’s payroll, not that the Khampa rebels were. Barnnett conceded somewhat but did not mention anything about the tibetan government in exile or the Da-Lie Lama.

The Da-Lie Lama was paid over $180,000 a year by the CIA for some years in the 60s and his government in exile was paid over half a million per year to spread anti-communist propaganda. That’s on the CIA’s own records released through the Freedom of Information Act. even the government in exile has admitted now that they were paid by the CIA. the Da-Lie Lama use to deny that he was paid by the CIA but now we know that that is just another one of his lies.

such propositions raise a much more serious and pervasive issue. It seems that asking some Chinese intellectuals—be they Communist Party officials, liberal democrats or dissident writers—to think about Tibet in an objective and reasonable manner is like asking an ant to lift an elephant; it is beyond their capabilities and vision. Their perception is impaired by racial prejudice and their imagination clouded by the convictions and certainties of all colonial masters.

my friends are in pure state of ignorance, despite Chinese government building infrastructure and modernizing, Tibetans in Tibet are spiritually not happy which resulted in recent revolt even under the “bayonet” in Mao’s word.

I am going to answer to my own question, I know why, because today’s Chinese Han ethnic cultures are pretty much western worshiping culture. Ironically, the funds for the Tibetan Independence Group all come from the western countries, like Europe and United States, and the same time they are the ones encourage the industrialization and modernization throughout the world. When other countries want to do some catch up for modernization, it’s the same very countries doing the back stabbing.

I just don’t get it, whenever western Caucasians implies a culture transformation or ever changing world, they can do that to themselves or other cultures, but other cultures can’t have a choice of emerging another cultures. Why is an old and a surf culture has to be reserved without being transformed or emerged? Why is Chinese Han ethnic cultures influence so bad? How is that most of the world are heavily influenced by western culture legitimate and pushing for modernization toward China??? Do you see the hypocrisy here??

I am well aware of emerging trend of the states converging on to make unions because of the global effect of todays politics, economy or social upheavals in any particular state.

Despite the fundamental difference between Tibet and China which are clearly indicated by recent crisis in march undermining the “Chinese govt special zone” subsidies, The Dalai Lama has proposed a very pragmatic solution under the consititution of PRC itself, which Chinese govt. has denied and instead attacked on Dalai Lama which will again anger Tibetan worldwide.

I as Tibetan feel that there is no inch of compromise left to do from the Tibetan side.

Chinese govt hardliner policy is based on the patriotic education they have propagated to their Chinese student since 1994 who are now the backbone of the Chinese economy.

Chinese govt for the fear of lost of face among its working citizen has decline to consider the most pragmatic and practical solution proposed by the Dalai Lama.

I urge all our Chinese brother and sisters to contemplate on the proposal put up by Dalai Lama and Who is the responsible for unwanted China bashing.