News arrived in my email box last night.
Apr. 25th, 2003 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynAfter Monday's movie and the stuff I've been doing in Feng Shui, I felt that I had to take some kind of action, if only as a very small form of karmic repayment for the right to use anything about Tibet at all in my game material. This was crossposted to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
buddhists, so's you know.
For those of you not familiar with Tibetan Buddhism, the Panchen Lama is the #2 lama in the religious/governmental hierarchy. When the Dalai Lama dies, the Panchen Lama leads the search for his next incarnation, and when the Panchen dies, the Dalai Lama leads the search for the next Panchen. Back in 1995, the current Dalai Lama identified a small boy - six years old - as being the eleventh Panchen Lama. Shortly thereafter, the Chinese government came in and put the boy and his immediate family under house arrest. They said they had identified the next Panchen Lama and that this boy was an impostor. The general idea is to solidify their control of Tibet by controlling the kingmaker figures.
It's the Panchen Lama's 14th birthday today, so I'm told. It'll be ... oh, gosh, I think the eighth one he's spent under Chinese house arrest.
You might want a look at a page with action you can take about this. Namely:
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/panchenlama_usa
There's another one for people outside the States:
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/panchenlama_intl
Thought you should know. I've already mailed my Congressbeings. I might be in love with China as a culture and a historical force, but dammit, they* can be such absolute bastards sometimes!
*along with every other government, country, organization, race, and culture on the face of the planet Earth, including but not limited to my own - is that enough of a disclaimer for you?
buddhists, so's you know.For those of you not familiar with Tibetan Buddhism, the Panchen Lama is the #2 lama in the religious/governmental hierarchy. When the Dalai Lama dies, the Panchen Lama leads the search for his next incarnation, and when the Panchen dies, the Dalai Lama leads the search for the next Panchen. Back in 1995, the current Dalai Lama identified a small boy - six years old - as being the eleventh Panchen Lama. Shortly thereafter, the Chinese government came in and put the boy and his immediate family under house arrest. They said they had identified the next Panchen Lama and that this boy was an impostor. The general idea is to solidify their control of Tibet by controlling the kingmaker figures.
It's the Panchen Lama's 14th birthday today, so I'm told. It'll be ... oh, gosh, I think the eighth one he's spent under Chinese house arrest.
You might want a look at a page with action you can take about this. Namely:
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/panchenlama_usa
There's another one for people outside the States:
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/panchenlama_intl
Thought you should know. I've already mailed my Congressbeings. I might be in love with China as a culture and a historical force, but dammit, they* can be such absolute bastards sometimes!
*along with every other government, country, organization, race, and culture on the face of the planet Earth, including but not limited to my own - is that enough of a disclaimer for you?
