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Fifty years of occupation. What should be done for the future of Tibet? — Your Views

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Crossroads for Tibet

Tibet at crossroads. What should be the future direction of the Tibetan movement?Tibet Sun graphics

More than 50 years of Chinese rule in Tibet has threatened the very fabric of Tibetan life in their own country. Their leader, the Dalai Lama, was forced to flee into exile in India. China’s repressive policies have aimed at Tibetan cultural genocide.

China has adopted a policy of waiting for the Dalai Lama to die, assuming that the Tibetan issue will also be buried with his demise.

The Dalai Lama has followed a policy of rapprochement and pursued a process of dialogue between his envoys and the Chinese leaders to achieve greater autonomy for Tibetans to practice their culture and protect their environment in Tibet. Recently he expressed hopelessness regarding the talks.

He has said repeatedly that he was not seeking independence for Tibet anymore, but China has consistently vilified and attacked him as a separatist, frustrating him to the point of saying that his faith in Chinese leaders is shrinking, and calling for a special meeting from 17 to 22 November for Tibetans to decide on the future strategy of the Tibetan movement.

The Dalai Lama is frustrated, and so are the Tibetans. What should be done now? Should there be a shift from the current policy of trying to obtain autonomy? What should be the strategy to achieve the goal? Should the post Dalai Lama situation be talked about during the meeting? Should the meeting also be taken as an opportunity to search for candidates for the next Prime Minister, considering Samdhong Rinpoche’s second term in office ends in 2011?

Share your views before the crucial meeting of leading Tibetan exiles that will shape the future of Tibet.

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What should be done for the future of Tibet?

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Jigdal said on Friday, November 07, 2008:

brothers and sisters,
we never been this united since the bold display of courage and sacrifice by our Tibetan brothers and sisters in Tibet this march.

never before i have felt this alive and hopeful that once again we can restore our spirit of Rangzen!

Despite the relentless and genuine efforts of His Holiness, the Chinese govt. has never for once reciprocated in a sign of humility and sincerity.

But today the time has come to tell the world that we are one people, one nation!

let this be a defining moment - a moment that even if many countries have compromised our truth, we, the people of Tibet, will never do so no matter what.

let this be the day that once again our heart and soul are rekindled with the spirit of Rangzen!

Make your streets echo, like those bygone days of 60s and 70s, with the sound and spirit of Rangzen !

so let us unite and make the Rangzen the answer to the call during the upcoming emergency meeting this month.

let us make it heard everywhere. be it by word of mouth, a simple call, blog, text messages, articles, news papers, or any other.
LET US BE THE CHANGE!!!

"that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope.

And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can." -Barack Obama

Tsetan said on Wednesday, November 12, 2008:

Can the young Tibetans say "YES WE CAN"?

Barack Obama is elected as the next President of US creating an unprecedented history. Compared to the previous Presidents of US, he is very young. This is a generational thing demonstrating the capability of the young generation. Looking at this amazing change of leadership in US, isn't it inspiring for the young Tibetans to accept the challenge to be leaders in Tibetan society at this critical time of Tibetan history by saying "YES WE CAN".

Like it or not. Can or can not. Today’s young Tibetans are responsible for the future of Tibet. So, I think, for the future of Tibet, Tibetan youth should start getting pro-active, responsible and passionate about our cause.

Each passing year, we see many elder generation, especially eminent leaders are dying one by one. His Holiness Dalai lama is 74 and we should accept the bitter reality that His Holiness is in human form and will not live forever.

His Holiness has always considered Tibetan youth so important that He dearly called them “Future seeds of Tibet’. However, these “future seeds of Tibet” hasn’t been able to impress His Holiness. During the recent TCV anniversary in Dharamsala, His Holiness lamented on the lack of specialists in exile community and reemphasized on youths to specialize in different fields in order to be able to fill the intellectual and professional vacuum in Tibetan society.

Our parent’s generation who came to exile without any education and resources worked very hard for the present self reliant economic situation of the exile community which is much appreciated in the world. However, realizing the power of education and the lack of it causing the loss of Tibetan independence, the aging elder generations expect a lot from the young generation of Tibetans because of the educational opportunities we have.

Generally, people say politics is a dirty game. But in the case of Tibetan politics, we cannot leave it for elder generation alone to handle because what they do with the politics today will affect us, our life and future of Tibet. Therefore, the young Tibetans should be serious to participate in the politics of Tibet so that we do not end up blaming our elders later for the future Tibetan situation.

In such a scenario, are we, the young generation of Tibetans, up to the expectations? Are we going to let them down? Are we believers of Karma to be so irresponsible to ignore such a justified, noble and dear cause?

Keeping these in mind, if we do our part sincerely, when we get old, we can tell the younger generation of Tibetans “We did our best. YES YOU TOO CAN.” Otherwise, the future generation will not have a respect for us and we too will have this big guilt of wasting our times of YOUTH.

As the historic emergency meeting of Tibet is going to be held very soon, we, the young Tibetans should do serious soul searching regarding how to rededicate ourselves for the future of Tibet.

Jigmeling said on Tuesday, December 16, 2008:

First of all we should dissolve our exiled government because of this structure all the exiled Tibetans are more busy in playing dirty politics in Dharamsala, for Dharamsala as if that is the final place AND PEOPLE LIKE lODU gYARI, DOLMAS ARE ABUSING THIS TGIE buy using, misusing and abusing THE SACRED NAME AND PRESENCEOF HIS HOLINESS THE DALIA LAMA to continue their their primitive hold and control over he poor and help less Tibetans. We need to get rid of such people as soon as possible to save out future. We lost our country becausae of these corrupt and feudal people when His Holiness was young and these people never developed international relations with any country even with India. We are depending only on religious connection with India. Today Lodi Gyari is busy serving Chinese interest more faithfully by pretending to be Dalai Lama's representattive and envoy .So let's not tolerate these peple first and be ready to sacrifice ourselves for Tibet. Wew have been busy talking, talking and talking but did nothing concrete on our own and now we have educated younger generations and should take over the role from people like Lodi Gyaris , Dolma and Karma S TO SAVE OUR FUTURE WHICH IS VERY FREGILE NOW THAN EVEN IN OUR HISTORY.Hope Buddha guides us all to see the reason and open our eyes to se the truth and speak the truth and support the truth. So let's sacrifice our selves first.....this is the first strp towards right solutions....Meetings will never give us sollutions but more headahces and confusions because these meetings are actually cheating classes . so expect nothing and do everything for Tibet. Rangzen

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