Shiho Fukada for the New York Times
It feels like last year all over again.
News from Tibet says that there are protests here and there. All of us on the outside are scrambling to find out the details. We call Dharamsala, New York, London, Beijing, trying to work out what exactly happened. Once we piece together the story we take it to the world.
Again there are so few images. And so far, no moving images. No video. Nothing to show on TV.
But it is happening and everyone knows. We know. 6 million Tibetans and hundreds of thousands of Chinese police, soldiers and officials know.
Just like last year, and the year before that, and fifty years before that, there is a heroic battle raging at the highest point of the earth. It is a test of wills between a people with nothing but faith and a State without a soul.
I know the people will win. They always do when they have this kind of feeling.
Yesterday Tape may have killed himself. But it wasn’t suicide. It certainly wasn’t selfish. He did it for his people and his nation. But it’s still so sad. So very, very sad.
It kind of feels like last year all over again.
Except now everything is different.
Because this year there is No Losar, the beginning of a new movement.
I live in a very small Country> Costa Rica in Central America. Yet I am completly concerned with Tibetans and trying to teach my fellow country brethren to understand what is happening in this beautiful contry. I want to preserve it, its people, the mountains, the budhism and of course all traditions and love for HIS HOLINESS. I would like to be able t return, after my last visit in 2007. I have my friends in Lithan and hope they all are well and safe.
Lupita No losar, bod gyalo
I am with you all the way as an activist for Tibetans and I am also practicing Tonglen meditation of compassion with hopes that it reaches the Tibetans through the air waves….God, you are so right about a State with no Soul
China WILL fall apart from within…so very many of its own citizens uttertly disdained, not treasured….so much sadness, anger, grief….Kaaren
My dear friend,
These days lots of different thoughts are coming in mind(very confused).But one thing is for sure is If we didn’t do anything for Tibet at this moment then we have to wait NEXT 50 years and you know how it feels to live a life of Refuggee,right?sometime I feel like I will flush my own blood before they take my land and liberty.
Bho-Gyalo
Mingmar Tsering(Tibetan Refuggee from Nepal).
Thank you for all your hard work and dedication. I have had the Tibetan people in my hearts and prayers for some time now. With the anniversary coming up, I especially am praying for the ones who lost their lives for the cause. Although I am a dedicated Buddhist, I admire those who actually fight back. What else can they do? May all sentient beings be free some day.
My Dearest Friends!
I am with you with my heart, with my mind.
I believe, freedom is not far anymore.
all my metta,
gabica
friends,
ive long been a tibet sympethizer, but now ive decided to start acting and helping too, whichever way possible.. cant sit in blind fold when this is happening to the purest people left on the planet, the best human beings we have… we need to save these monks …
also, my request to all is not to provoke the tibetans to abandon tehir peaceful way of protests and embrace vilonce… that’ll end it all. china can then convineintly term them as ‘terrorists’ and that will change the world’s view forever. dnt let that happen. belive in the power of true budhdhism