patth (Patt Haring) (08/19/89)
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/* ---------- "THE WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION OF TIBET" ---------- */
THE WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION OF TIBET
"It's the greatest calamity of the twentieth century that Tibet has
fallen into a darkness. It's monasteries have been closed; it's seekers
of truth have been forced into labour camps. This was the only country
in the world which was working with a onepointed genius in search of one's
own interiority and it's treasures, and it has been stopped by the Chinese
communist invasion. It seems our whole civilisation is a pretension; our
whole talk about freedom and independance are mere words!" declared Osho
Rajneesh in response to a recent US bipartisan congressional delegation
whose report revealed that "Tibetan culture and religion are now threatenend
with extinction by the policies of China."
Three international fact-finding missions have recently toured Tibet,
visiting more than 500 towns and cities in the last year, and have emerged
with 10.000 slides, 40 hours of film, and the first documented evidence of
the wholesale destruction of Tibet's spiritual civilization.
Tibet Today, a booklet written by John Avedon and recently published by
Wisdom Press, Massachusetts, USA, gives a brief synopsis of the legacy
of Chinese rule from 1950 to 1979:
* 1.2 million Tibetans Dead: one-sixth of the entire population.
* 6,254 monasteries destroyed, their art and statuary either melted into
bullion or sold for foreign exchange.
* 60 % of Tibet's priceless and irreplacable spiritual and philosophic
literature burned.
* The vast Tibetan Province of Amdo converted into the planet's largest
gulag, interring up to 10 million prisoners.
* One out of 10 Tibetans imprisoned, and at the close of the 70's,
100.000 still in labor camps.
* Over a quarter million Chinese occupation troops have forced the
Tibetan People into an inhuman regimen of 14 hours of labor daily,
no freedom of movement, no education or health services to speak of and
two five-year periods of nationwide famine.
In sum, a 2,100-year-old civilization has essentially been destroyed in
just 20 years.
"It seems the law of the jungle still prevails," Osho Rajneesh stated
in discourse some months ago at Rajneeshdham, Poona. "There has been no
protest. Not one country has raised it's voice against China.
Rajiv Ghandi has said, 'Tibet is China's internal affair'. This has been
a tremendous weight on me. In the first place, Tibet is not China's
internal affair! Has Rajiv Ghandi forgotten those thousands of miles Indian
territory in the Himalaya's that China invaded? That too is China's internal
affair? Then soon the whole of India will be China's internal affair,"
Osho warned.
From Rajneesh Times International, august 1, 1989
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