Choedak Gyatso
DHARAMSHALA, India, 18 January 2021
After the end of the preliminary round of the 2021 Tibetan elections, we are all eagerly waiting for the official announcement of the results from the Election Commission. Various sources are showing hypothetical results, which shows the people’s interest and responsibility in the principle of the democratic system.
For the past few months of my observations and analysis of the Sikyong candidates for the 2021 elections, I believe Mr Penpa Tsering (PT) is the right candidate to win. The following qualities listed will enable him to confidently and efficiently lead the people in the right direction. Though I am very sure that the majority will go with PT for the final Sikyong election, I feel it important to enumerate the qualifications that he possesses which make him the best candidate for the post of Sikyong. My inner conscience is forcing me to write and share these with the general public. After all it is much better when the best will lead.
1) Well experienced:
We can’t substitute the well-experienced nature of someone with a newcomer. PT has sound knowledge of the Tibetan Administration in Exile. He was also the chairman of the drafting committee of the Charter of Tibetans in Exile.
2) Strong Tibetan background:
PT is a man with good taste in Tibetan language, history, culture, religion, and geo-political matters. Most importantly, he has always considered the situation of the Tibet and Tibetans inside Tibet as the main focus of our struggle.
3) A man of action:
He is a strong follower of the principles of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and a firm believer in non-violence and the Middle-Way Approach to resolve the Tibetan issue with the Chinese leaders. His firm belief in this policy has many calling him the “Prince of Umey-lam”.
4) Globalisation:
In this time of globalisation, it’s highly important to act according to the global situation and its changes. PT is a true leader who always keeps abreast of new developments with global issues, and knows how to walk and talk according to the need and situation.
5) Emotional balance:
A leader with sound emotional balance is crucial during hard and unexpected troubled times. I saw that PT has this rare quality. He is very confident and firm during hard times, and has the potential to face critical times smoothly.
6) Man of truth and moral values:
When in need he is always straightforward with head, keeping the values of empathy in heart. Even with the knowledge of Google, if a leader is without ethical values they can’t serve the people properly. PT considers moral ethics as an important priority to lead the masses.
7) A sense of gratitude:
A great leader can’t do anything without sincere and strong support from his co-workers and the people. PT is a man who feels and shows the gratefulness of the previous generations for their legacies, and the support of present co-workers. He knows for whom and when to give credit.
8) Man with vision and mission:
If we look closely to the works and services that PT has served in the last three decades, it’s clear as crystal that he has a far-sighted vision and strongly-planed mission. PT is a leader of strategies in detail. Knows how and when to give the priorities to different programs and projects. Without which, it’s hard to carry the programmes to reach the goal.
9) Communication and accountability:
To solve the problems of the people and the nation, a sound communication and accountability is really important. If the leader is not accountable and noncommunicable to the people, then there is always a gap and mistrust. Mr PT is very down-to-earth and accountable to the people.
10) Unity and justice:
If the atmosphere of Gangchen Kyishong, i.e. ‘Central Tibetan Administration’, needed to turn into a place of no threat to the staff, equal opportunities to all, and no sycophants to the authorities, PT is the right choice, at the right time, to the right seat of 2021 Sikyong.
So with responsibility, I share this with my Tibetan brothers and sisters. Having such numerous qualities of Penpa Tsering la, now it is time for us to vote for him. His leadership is the need of the time.
The best should lead.
About the author
Choedak Gyatso is Vice President of Global Tibetan People's Movement for Middle-Way Approach, and a member of the Local Tibetan Assembly Dharamshala.
This reads like a recommendation for a baby sitter. Emotional balance, sense of gratitude, humility and many qualities that quiet Frankly will not move a needle for the Tibetan people. We are hiring a person to lead us during a very important time in world politics, the imminent challenge to Chinese hegemony. Here is chodak Gyatso dragging us back to the stone ages. We need leaders like Kaydor or Lobsang sangay la, now more than ever. Screw humility, emotional balance (this is definitely up for debate, how emotionally stable is an alcoholic?) and Penpa Tsering can’t even condemn extremist such as Thupten thokmay and Mila rangzen, how the heck is he going to unite the Tibetan people? Honestly before posting anything on your website, Tibet sun should use a little discretion and get their editors to help writers. I am no Shakespeare but even I am shocked at the poor level of writing here. This guy must be encouraged to share his opinion but you should help him with the writing. How did this get past your editors? Common..
Arguments should revolve round the merits and demerits of the candidates as an individual rather than his provincial background. We are voting for someone to lead the whole of Tibetans in exile and who can live up to the expectations of those inside Tibet. Otherwise every election will drive us further and further apart till we reach a point of no return. I have my choice for Sikyong but I respect other people’s rights to differ. Once the election is over, I will respect the winner as our elected leader whether that person is someone I voted for or not.
Thokmeys or Mila Rangzens are own creation. We should not be ones following them blindly like the rats that followed the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Mr Chodak gyatso, you have written a wonderful passage to give awareness about PT la. He is an incredible leader that the general people understand his potentials. A man with capabilities to lead the CTA smoothly and unitedly, the Tibet issue may be resolved in his tenure of Sikong. Good luck PT la for the final round of election.
Hot News…
Tibetan writer Jamyang Norbu became a victim of false accusation by a supporter of Penpa Tsering. He falsely said the author brokered a deal with the ‘Magpa’ of Kathak family to pull down PT’s leg for money. Jamyang la gives a fitting reply to that hoaxer available at High Asia, Jamyang’s new youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIZQpf4df1g&ab_channel=HighAsia
Its an attempt to discredit the most prominent Rangzen advocates by PT in conjunction with CCP sympathizers among the U-May Lam advocates. These people have now become the conduit for Chinese propaganda in the exile community. The biggest issue that concerns the CCP is the independence of Tibet, Taiwan. Hong Kong and East Turkistan.
The United Front of China has infiltrated Penpa Tsering’s supporters and they are spreading disinformation about Tibetan independence advocates like prize winning author Jamyang Norbu and Tibetan ex-political Independence advocate Lukar Jam and deceive the public.
Another hoax video appeared about Lukar Jam, allegedly “being involved in an elaborate spy ring” in June 2020. It is conducted by Penpa Tsering supporters at the behest of the CCP. It shows Lukar Jam arrested and handcuffed, his hair in disheveled and his face contorted in front of bulky policemen around him!
The United Front of China has infiltrated Penpa Tsering’s supporters and they are spreading disinformation about Tibetan independence advocates like the prize winning author Jamyang Norbu and Tibetan ex-prisoner, Political commentator and Independence advocate Lukar Jam.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to upload the video here. Penpa Tsering has openly demonstrated his love of communist China by praising the so called “Chinese help in Tibet” despite the fact that Tibet is under military occupation and has been plundering our resources for six decades. It’s very clear that he will sell Tibet down the river in order to fulfill his personal ego & ruin Tibet.
Former representative in North America Kelsang Dorjee Aukatsang is running for the Sikyong 2021 with his competitive resume and controversies. The candidate has been criticized of disrespect for the Dalai Lama with incapable leadership and inflated political ambitions.
It was said that Kelsang Dorjee Aukatsang’s career heavily relies on his close relationship with the current sikyong Lobsang Sangay. Sources close to CTA said Kelsang Dorjee Aukatsang was appointed to Represent for North America entirely based on the support of Lobsang Sangay, and the appointment was not endorsed by Gaxagat all.
Meanwhile, another dispute of Kelsang Dorjee Aukatsang is about disrespect for the Dalai Lama.
In the past, same as other Tibetan communities, the photo of Dalai Lama were on the wall of the office of Representative for North America. After Kelsang Dorjee Aukatsang took the office, he removed the photo of Dalai Lama and replaced with a photo of Lobsang Sangay. In addition, Kelsang Dorjee Aukatsang failed to manage the reception and security of the Dalai Lama’s visit to the United States. After meeting with President Obama, Dalai Lama was arranged to leave the venue through a garbage conveying passage, which was interpreted as a snub and contempt for Dalai Lama. Normally, any national leader or important person would enter or leave only through the main entrance. Besides, incidents like followers of Shugden rushed in and insult Dalai Lama occurred during Dalai Lama’s visit, which led to accusations of Kelsang Dorjee Aukatsang incompetence. There are some rumors among…
Religious fanatics and Khampa haters like this guy have been spreading lies and attempting to brainwash people by trying to give credence to a totally discredit lie. They know they stand on very slippery ground with Penpa Tsering who is accused of murdering Kathak Tulku.
PT is a marriage wrecker! Despite Kathak’s immense love and care for PT, he abused his trust and friendship by having a secret sexual relationship with Kathak’s wife while Kathak was the legal husband. What does this show of PT’s personality, trust worthiness, personal integrity and moral authority?
This shows the kind of person he is. If religious fanatics and racists succeed in their endeavour, the Tibetan people are doomed to a misery of internecine feud and destroy the unity which is already in a very precarious situation owing to PT and his callous conduct.
His drunken brawls and falling off chairs in his office are all indications of a man who has no control over his sexual urges or drinking habits. Surely, those who have a bird’s brain would see a sober and clean man like Kaydor Aukatsang is a thousand times better than a drunk sexual predator!
But religious fanatics and racists like Lob Tsering hide behind the smoke screen of devotion in order to achieve their devious goals like Islamic jihadists, who murder, maim, blow up in the name of Allah. They don’t have reason but are drunk by their fanaticism and call for the death all infidels.
He is doing the same here by concocting baseless lies about anybody who he and his ilk sees as a threat to PT chances. This creature has no other reason but repeat the same fallacy over and over again like a tantric mantra in the hope that the unsuspecting and unworldly masses will buy his lie and vote for his controversial candidate.
I am neither a fan of the Sun (the bias media), who had done numerous data error reporting during the electoral regional result declaration, nor of PT.
May be a well written personal opinion, but for me Kalsang dorjee Aukatsang is the better, more capable, ethical and innovative to lead Tibet at the forefront at this critical time. In short, vote Kaydor4sikyong 2021 for better tomorrow and for less chaos. Time to wake up people to use your own conscience. In the time when Tibet is awaiting for a sound leadership, may the will of the People be heard and executed rightfully!!!!
I worked 30 years in CTA under His Holiness. The most important year is 1979.
That year, the chinese via Gyalo Dhundup (Dalai Lama’s brother) has hinted that Dalai Lama should drop independence, and revert back to 1951 Peking agreement of autonomy, which the monk vacated in 1959 in Tezpur as invalid. However, to save face of the Lama, 17 point agreement was renamed as ‘Middle Way Approach.’
The chinese were ready to eliminate Dalai Lama if he didn’t seek autonomy within Chinese constitution. Gyalo Thundup was allegedly told by Deng ‘We love Dalai as he is a good man. But if talks independence, and offend other Tibetans and Chinese, then we can’t stop some random fanatic from assassinating him. I am telling you this secret because our secret service got wind of some rascal planning to kill Dalai.’
This is the genesis of the middle way. You won’t see Dalai Lama with Tibetan flag or associating himself with rangzen. Why? He could be killed. And no one will do anything including india, usa, uk. They will just condemn it, people will protest, and there will be chaos, but after few months, business will continue.
So we must know that Dalai Lama really want tibetan independence. But chinese have threatened him of assassination of he doesn’t continue speaking about middle path. Tibetans should know how to play the game. Lukar Jam criticize Dalai Lama for umaylaam, and DAlai Lama likes it.
the problem is – of 150,000 Tibetans in diaspora, if all of them seek middle way approach, then what happens? Chinese will say middle way approach is extreme, Tibetans will be forced to get a step down, and choose between the extreme and impracticality of Middle Way and total assimilation. Middle way will be new rangzen, and rangzen will disappear. This tactic…
@ Lejotsang,
So for 30 years, you were working a Chinese spy in Tibetan administration? From all the intent and purpose of your writing, it is as clear as day light, you are a paid Chinese agent with a mission to sow dissension and exploit unseemly process of democratic exercise, which you, the CCP craps could hardly comprehend.
I wonder why Penpa Tsering never condemns his far-right extremist supporters like Mila Rangzen, Lhaksam and Thupten Thokmey.
You must be joking. These unsavoury creatures are his attack dogs! He is not propelled to the office of the Sikyong by his decency, wisdom and love for Tibet but through the promotion by these under-world goons. If they don’t do their dirty work to smear his competitors like Gyari Dolma and Kaydor, he wouldn’t stand a chance to compete with them.
He was written off! Not a single Yabshi family endorsed him nor any eminent ex-CTA official. In fact, he was deserted by his own right hand man Lobsang Choejor by telling him not to run for the Sikyong!!! Choejor endorsed Dongchung. At times, even the ex-monk was saying he was incapable to do the top job.
He is the creation of these shadowy underworld figures by maligning and character assassination of the two prominent candidates by peddling and concocting lies, fabricating stories to tarnish their reputation. Without these he doesn’t stand a chance!
That is why, there is danger for the first time that our present system is being hijacked by criminal elements to elect a charlatan. The candidates must have the right to defend themselves when they are routinely attacked like they have been subjected to by these undesirable elements.
Next time, our system must allow the candidates to campaign in their own way to present their manifestos, their ideals and defend themselves from attack and attack to defend themselves. At the moment, PT has employed these underworld dons to attack and destroy their standing in the community in order to parachute himself on the top. This is totally unacceptable.
Criminals, U-Tsang supremacists, religious fanatics are all involved in suppressing the good candidates by tarnishing their reputations in order to install a charlatan of their choosing.
Gyari Dolma and Kaydor are supported by the devils like Orgyen Topgyal and Tenpa Yarphel. They are also supported by the descendants of immoral tsokpa-13, Taiwan money eaters and dogyalwalas as well. We stand firm with Penpala and Dongchung la. Penpala’s devotion towards His Holiness and his fight for justice against the splitist elements in our society won people’s hearts.
You are a hate monger and living in the past. The generation of that era have left this world so don’t dig the dead from their graves. People like Gyari Dolma and Kaydor probably were school children.
Besides, the Gyari family is one of the most well-known family from Nyarong region of Kham. Led by the late Gyari Lodoe Gyaltsen, the family has been most loyal to HH The Dalai Lama. It’s no wonder that HH made him Special Envoy until he resigned. So, your attempt to tarnish the name of Gyari Dolma is nothing but a total fabrication.
Kaydor is the son of prominent Tibetan freedom fighter Chamdo Jampa Kalden. He sacrificed his life for Tibet both as a leader of a guerrilla force and also the SFF. He served the CTA too. Both families and both generations have been loyal servants of HH. Your disparaging comments about them are purely out of hate and totally baseless.
Gyari Dolma belongs to the Nyingma tradition. To the Nyingmapas Shugden is feared even to mention its name.
Kaydor’s father was a student of the great Chamdo Geshe Jampa Thaye. He belonged to Sera Je College. Sera Je has had no history of Shugden worship and in exile it has been in the forefront of supporting HH in his effort to stamp out the worship of Shugden. Kaydor follows his heroic father. So, your baseless charges are nothing but an imagination of a jealous and hate monger who has no qualms in telling lies through your teeth.
Gyari Dolma and Kaydor have nothing to do with Orgyen Topgyal or Tenpa Yerphel. You don’t have a shred of evidence but because of your hatred, your dirty mouth vomits foul accusatory lies like Chinese communists. Both you and your fellow travellers are staking your hope in the believe that if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth! Shame on you!
Penpa Tsering la and Gyari Dolma la are the two well experienced and highly regarded and respected true leaders in our society, I still hope Gyari Dolma come out of the preliminary results somehow and have a good fight for the final syikong election. I believe PT & GD to be worthy candidates for our syikong, Kador la has a long way to go to serve in syikong post, if it’s not LS endorsement Where do u think Kador will be. Anyway, nothing to take away from Kador. May the best candidate win.
Choedak Gyatso you are misformed and selective in writing about Penpa Tsering. Penpa Tsering is a hypocrite and fake. He refused to debate with Lukar Jam because he said to defame His Holiness. For Penpa Tsering happy for his friends and supporter to defame His Holiness. His friend Dolma C Khoza posts regular posting on her Facebook something negative about CTA and most disgusting. She wrote of her Facebook that Tibet doesn’t belong the Dalai Lama and accused His Holiness of sleeping and doing nothing for Tibet. There are plenty of photos of Penpa Tsering with his arms around Dolma Khoza. I wish I can share some of the posts from Khoza and the images, so the public can she Penpa Tsering is deliberately encouraging his supporters to bad mouth and defame His Holiness. Penpa Tsering needs to explain why he associates with people writing bad things about His Holiness on their Facebook. Penpa Tsering is a hypocrite.
Tenzin Dolma and Rangzen, thank you for opening the eyes of some people who live in a world of their own fantasy about Penpa Tsering. Through the lies and fraud told by PT supporters like Mila and Thokme, they have created a cult figure about Penpa Tsering just like Trump supporters built around Trump. However, everyone knows that Trump is a fraud and a pathological liar. PT is much the same.
All his claims are a cover and a conduit to cover himself with glory. The claims he and his storm troopers make are all based on jealousy and personal vendetta. They are neither logical nor truthful. They are made to suit their vested interests. So, nobody should be surprised at the double standard of his claims.
If you look at the pictures of his supporters, you will see lot of Sheelas. These are much like the women who are attracted to Trump.
Penpa Tsering sent his family to Canada from US after he was fired from his job. Penpa Tsering always talk about middle way, but his family’s refugee application in Canada is all about born in Tibet, protest against Chinese rule in Tibet, seeking Rangzen for Tibet and so and so. With the time, copy of their refugee application will be uploaded in relevant media.
When Dolma C. Khoza said and I quote “WAKE UP DALAI LAMA” and “Tibet belongs to 5.5 mil Tibetans not just the Dalai Lama” where was PT la, where was our press and where was all the U-Tsangwas who profess such reverence to His Holiness. He has never once distanced himself nor disowned nor condemned any of these vicious people and their comments, the likes of Thokmey, Mila, Late Thinlay Kelsang and Tsetan Phuntsok et al. All these people worked tirelessly on behalf of PT la. He is the DON.
Well articulated and written by the writer. I second with affirmation the above stated, there is no better candidate than PT, right leadership, straightforward and devout has given so much to the Tibetan community in the past, he is the outright and most deserving winner definitely without a doubt.
Choedak la beautifully written hope more to come in future. Keep writing bro.
It’s a pity and shame that most of khampas try to paint some one who is honest and sincere…and again and again they try to push those gabarsings like tenpa yarphel and serta tsultrim to stir general public with fund from Ringo trulku and ogyen topgyal?
Most of our young children they don’t know about the differences in Khampa, Utsang and Amdo. It is people like you who say most Khampa which is not correct. These regional racism minded exits in among most of the Tibetans who are older than 20 years old. They exist as much in Khampa so does in Utsang and Amdo too. This is not only one side problem. It is a sickness that carried down from our forefathers and parents generations and now people like you who keep carrying on. Look at Mila Rangzen, Thupten Thokmey how racist they are. They got so many followers and most of these people are like you and mostly UTSANGSPAS. So don’t blame others try to point your fingers to all us and realize the fact. What is it doing, Is it helping us, No!
Well said! It’s really nauseating that we Tibetans are attacking and vilifying each other on the basis of regionalism. If you have unalloyed devotion and faith to His Holiness, and have feeling of love, devotion, and sense of attachment to a homeland, I beseech you not to use regionalism. We all are just Tibetans and we all have two main common pros and cons of being Tibetans. Our main pros of having His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a parent and mentor is our immeasurable fortune that no other nation, and the cons that we have been suffering for the last more than 60 years is that we are stateless. We don’t have our own land to put even our single foot. Please exercise and utilize the democracy, a blessing showered by His Holiness, to strengthen our unity, dispel our differences and to regain our Country. Attacking and criticizing on basis of regionalism is dividing and deepening our differences further and this is what Chinese are looking to achieve. And we are unconsciously working according to the wishes of the Chinese Govt. So sad and so unfortunate.
PT will not win, but Kaydor if we take the poll result, kaydor will get gyari dolma, Lobsang Nyendak votes whereas PT will get dongchung Ngodup votes, so it will be nerve breaking final contest between PT and Kaydor, but Utsang voters will be the king maker again.
whoever wins in final poll, please let us all be Tibetan first and break way from regionalism which is poisoning every thing we do and everything HH the Dalai Lama stands for.
Penpa Tsering is well-experienced in the frog-hole of Dharamshala bureaucracy. But when he was thrown into the international stage in USA as Dalai Lama’s rep, he wasn’t able to carry himself in dignity when rubbing shoulders with the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Richard Gere.
Therefore, they had to write to the Dalai Lama saying, ‘This bloke means well. But he just doesn’t have the smarts to navigate the complex geo-politics.’ This is how PT was expelled.
PT said ‘Dalai Lama picked me up for N America rep.’ Then, Lobsang sangay said, ‘PT was fired the in the same manner that he was picked up.’ This is a very sharp, and pointed comeback by LS camp. In sum, Dalai Lama expelled PT for inefficacy. I have no doubt about it.
Penpa Tsering should make a detailed rebuttal of various charges levelled against him, including his hand in the mysterious demise of Kathak Rinpoche, forged visa documents discovered in his apartment, drunken brawl with a fellow Amdo in McLeod Ganj. All of these allegations are neither proven nor disproven as he himself never addressed these issues. Tenpa Yarphel’s allegation against PT is explicitly graphic: “The murderer is sitting in this parliament house itself. The blood of the carnage is still warm on the floor in the MT hotel.”
The only way PT can clear the mess around him is to sweep it clean with a broom of clarification. Otherwise, the mess won’t go away by itself by ignoring.
Fiction by another well known nameless character! ?
To talk of PT’s morality sounds like talking about the morality of a whore!
He is accused of romping with Kathak’s wife and then having an affair with another younger women and finally deserting the family for good after bankrupting them!
All the trials and tribulations of PT was exposed by the son-in-law of Kathak Tulku to warn Tibetans of PT’s penchant for immorality, criminal forgery and dubious character that would bring doom to the Tibetans.
Mary Trump exposed Trump because he posed a present danger to the US and she was able to stop Trump from another four years of ruin but in the secretive and backward Tibetan society, people are oblivious to the cries of the small, hapless people and only hob nob with powerful and the moneyed.
The accusations are no more heresy but coming from the family who are victims of PT’s lust and greed. Is such a person fit to hold the top office? Is the EC burying his head in the sand? Get off your high horse of self vanity and make sure PT meets the requirement envisaged in the constitution.
I don’t think a man with dubious back ground of deception, history of alcoholism, criminality and intolerance towards fellow Tibetans who doesn’t agree with his brand of politics should be elected because it will only exacerbate the already existing tensions in the community.
The blood letting in New York, the TYC, the TWA, Rangzen and U-Mey Lam are the handiwork of Mr Penpa Tsering supported and encouraged by his mentor. He is notoriously controversial who has single-handedly split the Tibetan community right through the middle.
His strategy is to paint the Dalai Lama as a captive surrounded by vicious enemies who are out to get him and that he is the sole protector! In REALITY HH has NO ENEMY! It’s ONLY PT’s DECEPTION!
This is a Khampa man loaded with Dotoe bias pulling trigger against someone who’s not one of them! As simple as that!
C’mon man, you can do better, that’s if you put your proud Dotoe hat aside. I’m not a fan of Penpa Tsering, nor I’m a hater of Kaydor, or Dolma Gyari. But your accusations against and slandering of Penpa Tsering cannot get cheaper than that. Penpa Tsering may be a man with flaws, like anyone, i agree. But as we say in Tibetan, ‘have some elements of shamefullness’ if you swear by “Kunchok-sum”! Even if you point out 10 “immoralities” of PT, there has to be at least one that’s good about him. Don’t you recall? Or do you mean Kaydor or Dolma Gyari are lotus-born with zero flaw who were created by “almighty” in his image? LOL
These “Khampa Chikpa” proud flag carriers are actually pushing people like me vote for Penpa Tsering. And, funnily, these are the same people who call for “unity” and ask to eschew “Cholkha Choeluks” all over Facebook, but push for their candidates. A perfect example that plays this game so successfully is the behind-the-scene torch-bearer of “khampa politics” is the present sikyong, Lobsang Sangay. The guy when he’s on micro-phone, so articulately plays “utsang-dotoe-domey as one” choir that ordinary Tibetans are always left smitten by his message of oneness. And that’s also how he actually won election twice. But once he’s off the microphone and away from limelight, the guy goes back to feed his “phayul chikpa” ego and have his Khampa youths, as Donald Trump said, in “stand back and standby” mode. Going by biased comments of khampa flag-carriers, I can tell it’s going to be a repeat of nauseating Lobsang Sangay’s 10 years in office. Maybe I should vote for Penpa Tsering.
Your thoughts are clouded by your narrow mindedness of seeing everything in the realm of cholka. You can’t see the bigger picture but only the bad habit of “us and they”. So, you lash out like a wounded dog even when no harm is done.
If Sonam Gyatso’s VICTIM STATEMENT is not accepted as bonafide statement, where can we find the reliable source? Can you tell me?
In civilised nations, victim statements are taken with utmost seriousness and on the basis of victim statements, perpetrators are prosecuted. But our society is still in the habit of blaming the victims instead of the perpetrators. You are still calling it “hearsay”. It goes to show the cold heartedness of the Tibetan society where victims can find no justice nor redemption.
PT is supported and peddled as a leader by the likes of Mila, Thokme and Lhaksam. The former two are rabid anti-Khampa hate mongers and have been attacking and demonising the community for the last five years. The man is keeping such anti-social elements as his boot licking enablers and storm troopers.
They have weaponised the Dalai Lama as a sledge hammer to destroy, expunge opposition and malign anyone whom they don’t like. It shows that he is a gangster who has his own storm troopers who are dividing the Tibetans in order to get himself ahead of others. This is immoral and not acceptable.
Unlike your fertile imagination, I wear a hat which is embossed with TIBET on it! I am not a regionalist but a NATIONALIST! I embrace all Tibetans as the sons and daughters of the Monkey father and the mother Ogress.
If PT is elected the wounds of 2016 will re-emerge. There will be disunity in the community and there will be mayhem both in the parliament and in every walk of administration by conscientious objectors.
You are blinded by your regionalism thought & hatred towards PT. You tried to tarnish PT’s image by hearsay allegations. You people will always blame him for everything. That’s the strategy used by your leader Juchen and his followers. Juchen & his followers doesn’t like PT because he is honest, and a true follower of HH, and have the guts to challlenge them. If Kathak’s son in law is so sure about what he says, why doesn’t he file a case against PT till now. Why he release the opinion piece in Bangchen & that too just before the voting. Who will believe in Bangchen, which is owned by Serta Tsultrim, another communal minded Chithue as evidenced from his behaviour in parliament. Kathak’s son in law knows very well that, he has no evidence to prove his allegations. This is just to mislead the public by trying to tarnish PT’s image. I suspect, he is rewarded by the Chushigandruk nyingpa group. I agree with the PT’s quality mentioned by the author. Therefore, approximately 40% of the voter voted for him in preliminary round although he belongs to the minority Amdo region unlike Kaydor who got his vote mostly from his Chokha Chikpa. You even think negatively about PT for taking stand against those who tried to malign HH name. As a responsible Tibetan, everyone of us should stand for Tibetan cause & take a stand against those ungrateful people like Urgen Topgyal, Lithang Arthar etc who tried to malign HH name.
You and your fellow travellers are masters of trickery and liars. Now, you are accusing me of “thinking negatively of so called “standing up” for HH? Where did you get such idea? You FABRICATED to suit your evil intention, right?
The Dalai Lama is LOVED BY NOT ONLY THE TIBETAN PEOPLE BUT THE WHOLE WORLD. No body is out there to harm him. He also loves every human being and all other beings like birds and animals. But people like PT and his gang of goons WEAPONISED the Dalai Lama to discredit, destroy and muzzle opposition.
These shameless people are using the sacred name of the Dalai Lama to get traction with the public to make a living for themselves. These are criminals. The Dalai Lama’s sacred name MUST NOT BE MISUSED for personal gains. He is ABOVE POLITICS!
Get that in your mind and stop concocting stories. Donald Trump got 73 million votes but that doesn’t prove he is a good person. It goes the same for your hero.
He is in cahoots with anti-social and hate monger Thokme and Mila. These are his bootlickers and fawning dogs.
Except for Tibet Express, no one printed because all the Tibetan language papers are owned by Amdowas while the VOA, RFA are manned by Amdowas. They are biased against the poor victim because they will gain nothing by supporting him. This is the state of affairs in our society.
You got lot of rubbish in your head. Better clean up before it rots. You are accusing me of bias but you are 100 times more biased than me.
Sonam Gyatso is warning the Tibetans of what will befall if PT is elected. He is privy to the wayward and criminal ways of PT because his family was the first victim. Your claim that it was instigated by an organisation is a figment of your imagination and you don’t have a shred of evidence.
The son-in-law i am afraid is a man steeped in controversy himself. Allegations of corruption when the new Upper TCV hall he built had to be done again within a year’s time. He pocketed funds from there so really people should watch their own back when coming out with blazing guns firing at others.
WOW ? I have nothing more to add than to agree with the writer. Chodak Gyatso La has pin pointed each and every significant points that PT possess, which has gained people’s attention, respect and support. I too therefore, support PT with full faith and admiration. Thank you Tibetsun, the voice of people.