What do I think of the Dalai Lama

by Tani Jantsang

Did I ever meet him? Yes. I was asked to photograph the affair in the late 1970’s for family members. I met him, shook his hand, he shock mine with a hearty shake, and we spoke a few words. Then I moved on to do what I wanted to do - hang out with my friends. I knew a man that knew the Dalai Lama quite well, Tochto and Tochto hung out with me and my friends - we even spent one New Years Eve together at a dance club. Photo of Tochto behind the Dalai Lama - he was with the Dalai Lama, not just standing up so close to him - next to him were his security guards. Photo of Tochto and I at my cousin’s house is shown here, I do have others, one should suffice. My grandfather is a Lama also. What dealings my grandfather had with this Dalai Lama I don’t know about, never asked about, never cared about. The Tibetan Lamas in the area, in general, tended to be snobs. The Tatars, on the other hand, were genuine, down-to-earth, friendly people. The only language the Tibetans and Tatars shared in common was ENGLISH! My grandfather’s brother Dambin was also a Lama - and I can assure you he certainly did NOT fit the picture of a peace-loving white lighter. He did, however, fit more into a description of Jenghis Khan (Genghis, Chinggis, etc). He was locked up a few times by the Czar’s police and then escaped. He had a war-lord’s army in Northwest China (the old Karakorum territory) whereupon he kicked some Chinese Nationalist butt royally - and then some. His was not the way of peace. He was a warrior and a Lama. Very UN-Tibetan. Very Tatar.

Neither I nor my Lama grandfather are TIBETAN. We are Tatars. We come from what is properly called the SOVIET UNION, formerly RUSSIA - just Northeast of the Ukraine in a town called Astrakhan. Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov) also came from Astrakhan and his name, Ulyan, means "Red" in the Tatar-Mongol language. This language, including Mongolian, is related to TURKISH! NOT to Chinese at all! There are Buddhist Tatars there that have been there for hundreds of years. They are far from Tibet and their customs are VERY DIFFERENT.

What do I have to say of this Dalai Lama? In mystical language I’ll say that if he were truly the incarnation of Amithaba, there is no way Mao’s army would have run him out of Tibet! And if he is truly a man of "no-ego" and "no-self" then it wouldn’t matter WHERE he practices his yoga - in Tibet or in the USA. However it does matter to him. Why? Doesn’t he BELIEVE in KARMA??? In more mystical language I’d say that KARMA has been very active but it would seem that the Dalai Lama and his Tibetan exile followers no longer BELIEVE in Karma! On that I do have practical comments that are not mystical at all. The comments are similar to some of the truths that came out about the myth of not-so-nice Mother Theresa!

We are all told that the Dalai Lama is the spiritual (and political?) leader of a country which was actually, in reality, one of the last slave societies on the planet Earth. The propaganda that advocates this Dalai Lama always ignores slavery and fabricates total lies about the positions and actions of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army under Mao Tse-Tung - a man who can be TRULY SAID to have been a Bright Light in the midst of a society that was total hell.

Happily, I didn’t have to write too much of this - someone else did me the favor! Here it is.

Tibet is portrayed in much literature, including occult literature, as a peace-loving, non-violent society, when it was in fact a brutal society of high Lamas owning hundreds of thousands of serfs. The Dalai Lama’s family alone owned 4,000 people.(1) As one former serf told journalist Anna Louise Strong on life before liberation: "I was not much different than a yak." (2) Of course, everyone is supposed to believe that they can come back reincarnated as any creature, yak, dog, rat, etc. Religion is used to stifle rebellion against one’s KARMA or FATE. In other words, if you have the life of a slave, that’s your Karma. This is no different from Altar-Throne tyranny that used to exist in the West before the Renaissance came to overthrow it in part. Serfs and slaves believed it was God’s Will for them to BE serfs or slaves - and of course, Kings were Kings by Divine Decree. It was the same in Tibet. Tatar society was NEVER like this! NEVER!

In complete contrast to the Buddhist Tatars whose Lamas were ordinary people that chipped in and did work, that lived in yurts with the common folk, and that often visited and helped everyone in any village, the high Lamas of Tibet lived wholly isolated from the people, and the young Dalai Lama constantly watched "his people" from his palace with a telescope. He also had advisors that kept the younger Dalai Lama even more cut off from the people.

Factual History: Prior to 1949, Tibet had been considered a part of China. According to Strong, "No foreign power in seven hundred years has recognized Tibet as a separate nation or sent an ambassador to Lhasa." (3) While Tibet was relatively autonomous in the period immediately prior to 1949, so was most of imperialist-weakened China as it had broken up into different pieces run by warlords. Lies and propaganda would portray the Communist Chinese who were sent into Tibet as being rude to everyone, bossy, and (of course) trashing various and sundry religions items including "peace" signs of friendship or as being fanatical ranters screaming out Karl Marx’s saying: "Religion is the opium of the people." This is not true. But it is true that religion was used by Tibet’s ruling classes to justify oppressive systems and get the people to believe that they deserve their conditions because of Karma. Like the Christian nonsense about "life will be better in the hereafter," the Tibetan version told adherents that if they tolerated their position in society well enough, they might do better in another life. Religion is a reactionary idea that Communists do speak against, but the methods that the People’s Liberation Army are accused of using are not only historically inaccurate but are known to Communists to be wholly ineffective at destroying superstition! Mao himself wrote instructions in his "Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan." It was written 20 years before contact with Tibet. Mao wrote that the Communists should guide the peasants in attaining a full measure of political consciousness, they should leave it to the peasants’ own initiative to abolish superstitious and other bad practices and should not give them orders or do it for them."(4) Mao also explained that the nobility would otherwise use this alienation of the peasants’ current ideology to rally them against the Communist Party and the revolution. But with careful political work the peasants will become impressed by the honest ways of the Communists and take up the revolutionary science of Marxism that puts the faith in the masses’ own actions and not in gods or the location of their ancestors’ graves. Communists always used reason, not force, in such matters because using force would backfire and cause people to rally around religion instead of resisting it and seeing it for the fairy tale it was.

What about the PLA business: The PLA entered the city of Chambdo in 1950. This area plagued by fighting between Tibetan and Szechwan warlords, was not, according to most maps, part of Tibet. In 1950, however, the population was majority Tibetan. The PLA entry was anticipated by the Dalai Lama, so Tibetan troops were sent to meet and fight the PLA. The PLA quickly defeated the Dalai Lama’s army in Chambdo. Many Tibetans, including some of the leadership of the Tibetan army, went over to the PLA side. The PLA was able to win support by explaining their intentions and through sharing what was happening in [other parts of] China. The PLA did not advance into Tibet until 1951, when an agreement between the Dalai Lama and the Central Government for the ‘Peaceful Liberation of Tibet’ was signed. The agreement set the terms of the transition for Tibet back into being a functioning part of China. Claiming the support of the Tibetan people, the Dalai Lama also claimed to support the agreement, in which China was to "leave unchanged the political structure, the powers of the Dalai Lama, the income of the monasteries" and was not to "use compulsion for reform." Instead reform was left in the hands of the local governments and monasteries who had agreed to begin reforming themselves. These agreements included things like abolishing debts the serfs had owed for generations to the monasteries.(5) As one might imagine happens with such reforms, the Dalai Lama and the nobility dragged their feet at the reforms, especially land reform, and staged a number of rebellions! After a 1959 nobility-led rebellion, the Dalai Lama fled to exile in India. With the self-removal of the bulk of the nobility and their invalidation of the 1951 agreement, serfdom was officially abolished and land reform was carried out in earnest.(5)

"Kundun: The Amazing Story of the 14^th Dalai Lama" "Seven Years in Tibet." blah blah blah. Autobiography or Biographies of the Dalai Lama, pure hype: spiritual and political leader of feudal Tibet. Pure saccharine: painting the Dalai Lama as a reformer, and the People’s Liberation Army as horrible oppressors. The Dalai Lama had very little contact with the common people of Tibet. The Tibetan Court tried to keep the Dalai Lama in the dark about various political matters (palace intrigue, the existence of Tibetan prisons and the Tibetan army). Why not tell the story of the People? Base it on the lives of the majority of the population not on the top leader. Why not tell of the hard work and low standard of living of the serfs compared to the nobility who sat on their cushioned thrones in palaces and "did yoga" and other tripe but never once did one single day’s worth of WORK. Why not tell the story of the former slave woman who became the leader of Tibet after the Dalai Lama fled. After all, it must have been HER KARMA - right? Or tell the story of this former serf who said: "I think I was not much different from a yak or any other draft animal for I could not read or write a word and knew nothing at all. For generations my family belonged to a big serf-owner who had five hundred families of serfs, working both in farming and in livestock. I wore the same sheepskin winter and summer and it was my only garment. It was so old that there was no wool on it anymore nor any warmth but only plenty of lice. I was always hungry."(6) And if after the Bright Shining Sun, Mao Tse-Tung, came to be, this poor serf rose and now has a position of authority and eats well and has clean clothes: IS THAT NOT THE KARMA OF THIS SERF??? What happened to the Doctrine of Karma? Did it get lost somewhere along the way when the Dalai Lama fled? Or was it just abandoned? Or did they NEVER BELIEVE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE? Like maybe the Czar never really believed that he was put on the throne by God? Yeah? Well, if he DID believe it, surely the bullet put through his head by one wonderful Bolshevik Comrade disabused him of his illusions.

The Dalai Lama, in fact, represents a slave society! In the almost 50 years since the Dalai Lama took office, he has yet to denounce past serfdom or even say that restoring the Dalai Lama regime will not mean restored slavery for the Tibetan masses. The Dalai Lama is always said to have lamented the "Chinese invasion" because his reforms were about to take place. OH? The only changes are in the way the Dalai Lama and his press agents TELL THE STORY! It is said now that the Dalai Lama did not approve the 1951 agreement for the "Peaceful Liberation of Tibet," which set forth the a slow pace of reforms by which the nobility would give political power to the masses. Between 1951 and 1959, there were several rebellions of the nobility. In 1959, 4 of the 6 wealthy noblemen in the kasha (Cabinet of Ministers) united in rebellion. The rebellion failed because the Tibetan people did not support it. According to the Dalai Lama at the time, he was kidnapped and forced into exile. This claim is highly suspicious because the Dalai Lama refused an offer of the Chinese Communist Party to return to power. Instead, the Dalai Lama remained in India and denounced the 1951 Agreement. This allowed the Chinese Communist Party to abandon the slow pace of the 1951 Agreement and instead speed up it’s reforms. The story gets warped and changed to make claims that the Dalai Lama played no role in the rebellions but willingly flees to India. It is said that Mao had a private meeting with the Dalai Lama. No such meeting occurred! The only evidence anyone has of this meeting is the Dalai Lama’s word for it. In such societies religion most definitely is a poison used to dupe the masses into accepting miserable societies. Even in the Tibetan version of Buddhism, there is the "Buddhist" justification for suffering. Instead of blaming the nobility for their poverty, any serf system wanted the people to blame their ancestors. Instead of making a revolution and carrying out land reform, this form of "Buddhism" wants the people to focus on their next reincarnation.

Where are they now? This nobility in exile serves as the nucleus of the "Free Tibet" movement.

Lots of cash profit is made through various schools of yoga, enlightenment, meditation, etc.etc. Why is this so expensive? And so: what would anyone think I’d "think of" this Dalai Lama? Would I want to talk to him? Oh, I took photos for blood relatives. But would I want to talk to this Dalai Lama? Would I want to talk to the CZAR? NO! I’d want to KILL the god-damned Czar! To top that off, for a very long time no one that was European (white) was ever allowed into Tibet. Blavatsky never went there, she’s a total fraud. Tibetans had a very negative attitude toward the "White Devils." After the Dalai Lama and other Tibetans fled Tibet, they became dependent on these "white devils" for sanctuary; after all, America is pretty much a White Christian country. The resentment and self-loathing in some of the Tibetan common people here is evident. The Tatars are NOTHING like this. Many Tatars loved Lenin and Stalin and joined not only the Communist Party of the USSR, but became NKVD officials. VERY DIFFERENT EXERIENCE. They, as Buddhists even, saw that Communism was a more advanced and more humane system for man, it was universalistic and treated the workers as important, not as serfs.

The Hoolah: Western press coverage and New Age books on Tibet are goggle-eyed, one-sided white-washes to the point of blinding ignorance on the subject of Tibet.

English conservative magazine "The Economist" said: "All the world, it seems, needs Tibet, or more specifically Tibetan Buddhism. ... This perception of Tibet and its religion is an extraordinary accomplishment for a nation of perhaps only 4 million people--2.6 million of them in Tibet proper--scattered across the roof of the world. It appears most visibly in the throngs of young hippies making their way to Dharamsala, the main Tibetan exile, hoping for an audience with the ‘jewel of the lotus,’ and in a new espousal of Tibetan Buddhism by the Hollywood chic."(7) Is this a sell-out of the formerly oral and sacred esoteric tradition of Vajrayana? HELL YES.

Now at least in Scotland, the Scotsman says, "If these freedom-loving hipsters had heard some of the whispers escaping the heavenly state, however, they might have considered moving to next year’s fad." The root of this opinion is a Lama Kundeling who says the Dalai Lama is responsible for despotism and murder to this day.(8)

Although "The Economist" magazine chides the Tibet Buddhists mostly for not being Western enough to keep out the Chinese communists, it has now admitted that the original reason for the exile of the Dalai Lama was a lie of "febrile" junior Tibetan officials in March 1959. Specifically they conjured a rumor that the Dalai Lama would be kidnapped by the central government of China and this is what provoked the civil war that ended in the Dalai Lama’s exile.

Fact: the old system in Tibet was a slave-owning system into the 1950s. The Maoist central government ended the slavery and brought a new economic system, but it was relatively respectful of the culture of Tibet. Former Tibetan slaves were the heads of the Communist Party and government of Tibet--not Han Chinese as the liars would tell everyone.

It is now also known that the CIA did indeed provide concrete military and financial aid to the Tibetan reactionaries--as admitted even by "The Economist" now.

References:

1. Great Changes in Tibet, Foreign Languages Press: Peking 1972. p. 22.

2. Anna Louis Strong, Tibetan Interviews. New World Press: Peking 1959, p. 30.

3. Ibid, p. 74.

4. Mao Zedong, Selected Works Volume I, Foreign Languages Press, 1965. p. 46, 58(n).

5. MIM Theory 8. "The Liberation of Tibet: Revolutionary Advances and Counter-Revolutionary Claims" pp 92-95. (Available: from MIM. This section cites Strong’s Tibetan Interviews and Strong’s "When Serf’s Stood Up in Tibet," New World Press, Peking 1960.)

6. Anna Louise Strong, Tibetan Interviews. New World Press: Peking, 1959, p. 30.

7. Economist reprinted in World Press Review June 1999, p. 30.

8. World Press Review June 1999, p. 31.

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