Apr 09 2008
What distigushes ’religion’ from ’sect’? (Wikipedia has a good one) Wider audience considers a religion? Number of followers determine the status? Great salesmanship?
I don’t know how Lin Yun began his sect, but I came to know him whom my aunt warmly greets as Erge 二哥, the second older brother (he’s the second son) in 1986, when I [...]
Apr 09 2008
I did a little research on Tibet few years ago, as a by product: I was gathering info on one of my great great grandfather who’s Viceroy of Sichuan during the Qing dynasty. In his memorials 奏折 to the Emperor or the edicts from the Emperor to him, Tibet occurred rather frequently, hence my research. Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan and the logistic [...]
Apr 09 2008
The CIA is everywhere - Tibet, Afghanistan, Iraq, S America, etc, etc. Half the time, they create the problems for others… by Foster Stockwell
Western concepts of Tibet embrace more myth than reality. The idea that Tibet is an oppressed nation composed of peaceful Buddhists who never did anyone any harm distorts history. In fact the [...]
Mar 27 2008
Tibet took the headline again. CNN’s video showing monks and plain cloth chanted, something made in China and then shame on China in English that remind me of Putin’s comment on Kasparov, asking why did the chess champ when arrested, speak out in English rather than Russian? Putin said when a politician works the crowd of other nations rather than the [...]
Mar 25 2008
J came to play card game baifen this past Sunday. I haven’t seen her for a good few years. Last time was at a ski resort, we had hot pot and well, played cards in the evenings. She just got divorced then, and the older son (now sophomore in college) lives with dad and she [...]
Mar 21 2008
A friend fm Beijing at dinner last night said her mom was in Tibet last week. “It’s ok as long as you didn’t take pictures. Few foreign tourists got beaten up for disobeying.” Who did the beating? The local Tibetans. Ok, great, wonderful. Got the picture?
Another held the view that Dalai Lama is frail, in declining health and [...]
Mar 18 2008
NYT ..
“DHARAMSALA, India — The Dalai Lama on Tuesday invited international observers, including Chinese officials, to scour his offices here and investigate whether he had any role in inciting the latest anti-Chinese violence in Tibet. He also threatened to resign as leader of Tibet’s government-in-exile in the event of spiraling bloodshed in his homeland. … [...]
Feb 06 2008
I saw Hotel Rwanda the other day. There’s a slew of African films.. where are films about China? Are Chinese or China that much harder to penetrate, understand? Or she lacks blood curdling sensations? I don’t seem to recall a genocide in China or northern Asia, in recent memory .. .. race and religion has a lot to do with it.
Feb 01 2008
There are serenity and affluent in the war torn Iraq, mostly in the Kurdish area. This pic from NYT shows more in line with the Sopranos spending an afternoon with his gangs than gun lugging suicide bombers. I know there are conflicts between Sunnis and Shiites. The Kurds, who are mostly Sunni but not Arab .. [...]
Jan 12 2008
Isn’t it so predictable?! Bizwk asks “Why a growing number of successful urban professionals are flocking to Buddhism“? Well, short answer is money can’t buy happiness ‘inside’ in ways that it can buy toys. But, religions, like music/art/dessert are all depend on money. Doesn’t it? I dont think it’s spiritual awakening, just they finally and actually can [...]
Nov 24 2007
Do religions give you more strength, enlighten you? Obviously I was born and bred in the heathen country, so I’m a heathen; don’t know the privileges and benefits being religious.. .. So, what would Romney do if he becomes pres?
Nov 16 2007
Due to the fact that Angela had a meeting with Dalai Lama back in September. What does he bring to the table? Did her meeting improve the human right condition in China? This comes as a surprise, because Germany has been staying out of Chinese internal conflict for a long time. Actually it was this attitude - [...]
Oct 18 2007
The editorial is right that every time someone muttered Dalai Lama, China would rush to the center stage, lashing it out. What’s for? Shouldn’t China feel secure enough to refrain from such behavior, as with Taiwan? Not sure what exactly has Dalai Lama done for his poverty stricken constituents, building a financial center like HK to elevate the region? How many schools or roads [...]
May 08 2007
For Einstein, faith meant a reverence for the creation of the universe and its laws – and the mysteriousness of their nature. “Human beings in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free but are as casually bound as the starts in their motions.”
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” Like some [...]