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Whole Trouble – Change Your Mind, Change the World of military oppression in Tibet

Trouble in Tibet – Changing Mind vs Military Oppression

**Whole Trouble – Change Your Mind, Change the World of military oppression in Tibet: Change Your Mind, Change the World. Great Masters of Nalanda, Atisha.**

**Whole Trouble – Change Your Mind, Change the World of military oppression in Tibet**

Finding ‘Inner Peace’ through mental practices like ‘Meditation’ entirely depends upon the precise, geographical location where the Subject practices Meditation. Prayer and Meditation are useful tools, but they have practical limitations. Mental practices by themselves do not change or alter external reality. At the most, the mental practitioner may develop tolerance and cope with external reality that remains unchanged. If the purpose of mental practice is that of resisting external reality, practices such as Prayer and Meditation can bring benefits like Patience and Perseverance that sustain mental resistance to unchanging external circumstances. Tibetans living under Subjugation have to cultivate an attitude of Patience and Perseverance for they have no other Choice. Oppressive Military Regimes must not be tolerated and to resist military occupation is the right thing to do.

MADISON MAGAZINE

There’s Something About the Dalai Lama | Lifestyle – Madison Magazine There’s Something About the Dalai Lama

Author: BRENNAN NARDI, MADISON MAGAZINE

Published On: May 16 2013 07:32:00 PM CDT

**Whole Trouble – Change Your Mind, Change the World of military oppression in Tibet Great Masters of Nalanda, Acharya Atisha.**

**Meditation_vs_Military_Oppression: Whole Trouble – Meditation to confront the problem of military oppression of Tibet. “Change Your Mind, Change The World.”**

His Holiness made a swing through town this week to headline the “Change Your Mind Change The World” conference hosted by his old friend Richie Davidson of the UW’s Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center and his new friend Jonathan Patz of the UW Global Health Institute. A star-studded affair, the daylong event featured heavy hitters Arianna Huffington (The Huffington Post) and Daniel Goleman (author of Emotional Intelligence) as moderators along with a high-end cast of thinkers and doers who could only be upstaged by someone like the Dalai Lama.

I attended the afternoon session, “Conversations on Science, Happiness and Well-being,” with His Holiness, Huffington, Davidson, Patz and renowned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, who has participated in Davidson’s research on the effects of meditation on the brain. To set the mood of this momentous occasion, UW Chancellor David Ward told the audience, “There is likely no other topic that has greater impact on the world than that of sustainable well-being.” Huffington concurred in her own words: “There is no more important conversation going on on the planet.” She went on to describe a perfect storm that’s brewing on earth right now:

After plugging Huff Post’s new stress-reducer app “GPS for the Soul,” she shared her recipe for changing the world: strength, serenity, and wisdom … “We all have this,” she said. “Most of us are not there.”

The next hour-and-a-half was a reflecting exercise of sorts—each of the three panelists (Davidson, Patz and Ricard) held forth on their own body of knowledge and research interests, and then Huffington asked the Dalai Lama to respond.

Davidson laid out five facts of well-being and cited studies that prove the extraordinary—and relatively new—findings on how little we know about or respect well-being’s effect on our health, both physical and emotional. According to one study, after just two weeks of training in compassion, a study cohort’s brains changed to become more cooperative and altruistic. Another study, this one on infants, found there is an innate disposition toward well-being and generosity.

The Dalai Lama’s curiosity piqued when Davidson explained a mind-wandering study revealing that forty-seven percent of the time the average American is not actually paying attention to what he or she is doing, and is feeling unhappy while doing so. At which point the Dalai Lama leaned over and began speaking with his interpreter, who eventually asked, “Can you explain what mind wandering is?” The Overture Hall crowd erupted in laughter, finding collective humor in the notion that a great practitioner of mindfulness would have a difficult time understanding the concept of distraction. It took a couple minutes for His Holiness to wrap his uncluttered mind around the idea and respond, “That is why it is so important to focus, to practice simple point of mind.”

After Davidson’s presentation on well-being, Huffington wrapped it up by asking the Dalai Lama: “What can we do to help these tools become more widespread?” His reply was a recurring theme throughout the session: education. “That’s the only way.” He also talked about the media’s obligation to inform the public about the positive, not just the negative, as well as his own commitment “to promote secular ethics, harmony.” Human nature is gentle, he explained, but that good nature becomes dormant due to our social environment and the deeply instilled values of money, greed and competition.

UW professor Jonathan Patz, who was among a United Nations panel that shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007, was up next. He opened with the sobering news of late that the earth has for the first time exceeded 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide, which is not good. “Grappling with climate change is a golden opportunity for human health and well-being,” Patz said before exploring the concept of the interdependence of our human species with the survival of the natural world. He did so by telling the story of a third-world village that eradicated malaria with a pesticide, only to weaken the food chain and unleash an epidemic of typhus. The lesson? “The importance of being mindful of the interdependence of life because unintended consequences outnumber our good intentions.” Other topics Patz and the Dalai Lama reflected on were measuring a country’s gross domestic product by more than financial capital—factoring in socio-political and environmental capital as well. Patz also shared with His Holiness that more than population growth, per-person consumption of natural resources is a threat to, well, natural resources and a clear link to climate change and worst-case scenarios.

Scary serious stuff, and the Dalai Lama himself seemed temporarily uncertain about whether humans have the capacity to overcome these challenges until Arianna Huffington asked a doozy of a question: “Is there a connection between burned out humans and burning out the planet?”

Matthieu Ricard’s comments were wide-ranging, from ideas like “voluntary simplicity” and “gross national happiness” to how greed has reduced human qualities to a single dimension. His answer to Huffington’s powerful doomsday question was, in the spirit of Buddhism and the Dalai Lama himself, quite simple: altruism. His Holiness agreed, but framed it quite differently. The opposite of altruism, or selflessness, is selfishness, and he told us there are two kinds of selfish: wise selfish and foolish selfish. If you think more about others’ well-being, he suggested, you will get the ultimate benefit.

At the end of the session, the speakers lined up and joined hands as the audience stood and clapped. But the Dalai Lama decided he wasn’t quite done yet. In an unscripted encore, he looked out on the crowd and began speaking about the masters of teaching in all of human history. Like Davidson and Patz’s modern scientific work, those teachings spread and multiply. “That’s the only way to change humanity’s way of thinking,” he told us. The previous century was marked by violence, “brilliant brains used for destruction,” he continued. “This century should not be that way … so, it is our responsibility.”

As he walked off stage, the Dalai Lama waved, then lingered, then walked toward the crowd and shook hands with several lucky front-row seat holders as John Lennon’s “Imagine” floated through the air.

I left feeling conflicted about whether the answers were this simple, but also moved simply by being in the Dalai Lama’s presence, an experience shared by many. There’s just something about a person whose real and tangible world power doesn’t rest in the hands of the government or the military but in his human capacity for kindness and compassion.
There’s something about the Dalai Lama.

Brennan Nardi is editor of Madison Magazine.

Whole Trouble – The importance of Tibetan Well-Being

Trouble in Tibet – The importance of Tibetan Well-Being

Trouble in Tibet – Problem of Tibetan Well-Being. It is easy to discuss Importance of Well-Being in General Terms. Can Dr. Richard J. Davidson Deconstruct Red China’s Evil Mind to secure Well-Being of Tibetans living under Chinese Repressive Rule?

I am asking for a Discussion About Importance of Tibetan Well-Being for there is Trouble in Tibet. I ask as to Who, When and Where will discuss Problem of Tibetan Well-Being. General discussions about Importance of Well-Being may have no material impact on Well-Being of Specific Communities who live under Occupation by repressive regimes. How to Deconstruct Red China’s Evil-Mindedness?

The Trouble in Tibet originates from Red China – Evil One. Her use of deception, craftiness, cunning, deceitful and wicked practices are ruining lives of innocent Tibetans without reason. Red China’s military occupation is detrimental to Tibetan Well-Being. Red China is Evil-Minded, and Evil-Hearted because of her malicious nature and she does Evil habitually. Is it possible to take ‘Evil’ out of Evil-Minded Red China?

DALAI LAMA AND OTHER LEADERS IN LIVESTREAM DISCUSSION ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF WELL-BEING

Posted by AMY BUCCI of National Geographic Staff on March 8, 2016

Trouble in Tibet. Red China Fools All People All The Time. Praying for descent of Swarm of Trillions of Honey Bees to sting and defeat People’s Liberation Army and force their withdrawal from occupied Tibet.

How might the world look 15 years from now if we choose well-being today? While economic prosperity has generally increased, why haven’t happiness and well-being?
How can we decrease the costs related to depression and stress-related disorders that are projected to double to U.S. $6 trillion by 2030? How can we learn to be happy, to be kind, and to be grateful?

**TROUBLE IN TIBET – PROBLEM OF TIBETAN WELL-BEING. DISCUSSION ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF WELL-BEING AT CAPITOL THEATER, MADISON, WISCONSIN**

Along with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin is gathering world leaders in science, health care and media to alter humanity’s course by sharing how we can cultivate well-being in ourselves, our communities and the world.

You’re invited to “The World We Make” live-stream event on Wednesday, March 9 at 1:30 p.m. CST with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The live-stream is brought to you by the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the National Geographic Society and the Mind & Life Institute.

The event will be moderated by ABC News correspondent Dan Harris.

What does well-being mean to you? How do you make the world a kinder, wiser, more compassionate place? Tell us using the hashtag #maketheworld on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and your post may be featured live at the event.

Please come back at 1:30PM CST/2:30PM EST on Wednesday, March 9 to view the livestream below.

HINDUSTAN TIMES
Dalai Lama to discuss global well-being with experts at US meet today

HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times, New Delhi Updated: Mar 09, 2016 12:50 IST

***His Holiness the Dalai Lama with the presenters of the morning session of the discussion “The World We Make” in Madison, WI, USA on March 9, 2016. Photo/Jeremy Russell/OHHDL***

The Dalai Lama, who is a regular at the university, has espoused concepts such as secular ethics – which states that all humans, regardless of religion or background, should treat each other with compassion.

The Centre for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will host Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and a panel of experts at a live-streamed event aimed at promoting global well-being on Wednesday.

The event, The World We Make, will be held in the Capitol Theatre at the Overture Centre for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin, at 1.30 pm central time. The panel, moderated by ABC News anchor Dan Harris, will focus on how the world will look if the concept of well-being is put into practice.
The event will be broadcast internationally through live streaming, thanks to a partnership with the National Geographic Society and the Mind and Life Institute.

“The science we are doing at UW–Madison is providing crucial evidence to support the idea that simple, secular mental practices can help people cultivate well-being,” says Davidson. “However, scientific research is not sufficient in itself. We need partnerships with global thought leaders like His Holiness the Dalai Lama to catalyse these conversations about well-being and inspire people to view it as a skill that can be learned.”

Concepts such as secular ethics — which states that all humans, regardless of religion or background, should treat each other with compassion — has been espoused by the Dalai Lama, who is a regular at the university.
The other panelists at the event include:

Richard Davidson: The founder of the Center for Healthy Minds, he is best known for his groundbreaking research on emotion and the human brain.

Sona Dimidjian: An associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder, his research addresses issues regarding the treatment and prevention of depression – with emphasis on the mental health of women during pregnancy and postpartum.

Soma Stout: She is the executive external lead for health improvement of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the executive lead of 100 Million Healthier Lives, which brings together hundreds of partners across global communities to ensure healthier lives for over 100 million people by 2020.

Dan Harris: A correspondent of ABC News, he is the co-anchor for the weekend edition of ‘Good Morning America’, and a regular contributor to shows such as ‘Nightline’, ‘20/20’ and ‘World News Tonight’.

The sponsors of the event include PwC, a multinational professional services network; Steelcase, a professional firm; and ambassador sponsors Chade-Meng Tan, Jeffrey C Walker and Ready Set Productions.

**Trouble in Tibet – Problem of Tibetan Well-Being. Dr. Richard J. Davidson Expert on ‘Mindfulness’. Can he Change Red China’s Evil-Minded Nature?**

**Trouble in Tibet – Problem of Tibetan Well-Being. The Neuroscience of Leadership. Can Dr. Richard J. Davidson change Red China’s Evil-Hearted Nature?**

Trouble in Tibet – Problem of Tibetan Well-Being. It is easy to discuss Importance of Well-Being in general terms. I ask for a discussion that relates to a specific community such as Tibetans in Occupied Tibet and the plan to promote their well-being. Can Dr. Richard J. Davidson Deconstruct Red China’s Evil Mind to secure Well-Being of Tibetans living under Chinese Repressive Rule?

Whole Trouble – Trouble in Tibet leads to Mourning in India

Trouble in Tibet – Mourning in India

Exile Tibetans and supporters participate in a candlelight vigil to mourn and stand in solidarity with Lhamo Tsetan who died after setting himself on fire in Labrang in northeastern Tibet in protest against Chinese rule, in McLeod Ganj, India, on 26 October 2012.

‘Trouble in Tibet’ forces Tibetans to make hard choices. For this ‘Trouble’ is due to military occupation, Tibetans express sense of resentment to resist occupation as best as possible. Exiled Tibetan Community in India is mourning the loss of a teenager who sacrificed his life to oppose Occupation.

HINDUSTAN TIMES

Exiled community mourns as teenage self-immolator dies

**FILE – Dorje Tsering, 16, who died from a cardiac after setting himself ablaze at a housing settlement for Tibetan refugees in northern India, seen at his high school in Dehradun, undated.**

A swarm of saddened Tibetans on Sunday paid homage to Dorjee Tsering — the 16-year-old Tibetan boy, who immolated self at Herbertpur near Dehradun on February 29 — who was cremated as per Buddhist rites on Sunday.
All roads leading to McLeodganj were choked by Tibetans, who assembled to pay homage to the Class-10 student of Tibetan Homes Foundation School, Mussoorie, at Lha Gyari temple.
Dorjee’s mortal remains were brought from Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi to Dharamshala on Saturday. The coffin was placed at Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) office and was then shifted to Lha Gyari temple near Dalai Lama’s palace on Sunday morning, where Tibetans of all ages, including schoolchildren, monks, nuns and officials of Central Tibetan Administration, participated in a prayer session.
People cried as Dorjee’s coffin was brought to the temple courtyard. The body was taken to cremation ground in a procession attended by large number of Tibetans. Dorjee was cremated as per Buddhist rites, in presence of family members.
The teenager hailed from Manali and was the youngest among five siblings. He set himself on fire in protest against the Chinese rule over Tibet on February 29 and died on March 3.
“The reason I resort to burning myself like a choemey (butter lamp) is because Tibet was occupied by China since 1959 and I have always felt like I needed to do something for the Tibetan cause. Yesterday, I felt as if burning myself up was the only resort left,” he said in a video testimony a day before his death in the hospital.
He clearly committed the act for Tibet’s independence and to garner global attention to the Tibet issue, said Dorjee’s father Thupten Tashi.
Later in the hospital, Tashi said, “I told him that his sacrifice hasn’t gone unnoticed.”
Recounting the horrific incident, Dorjee’s mother Nyima Yangkyi said he was shivering and asked for water.
“My child’s skin was dripping-off his body but he did not shriek in pain even once. He said he did it for Tibet,” Nyima said.
Dorjee’s elder sister Samden Dolma said the family never knew about his intention, though her younger brother always talked about doing something for Tibet.
“Though he took a wrong path, we are proud of his courage and sacrifice,” said Dolma as she tried to hold her tears.
Dolma said, “I want to urge the youngsters not to take such step as there are others ways to serve Tibet.
Copyright © 2015 HT Media Limited.

**Trouble in Tibet leads to Mourning in India**

Whole Sacrifice – Tibetan Resistance to Occupation

Trouble in Tibet – First Self-Immolation of Year 2016

Trouble in Tibet and its symptom is Self-Immolation, an act of Resistance and Self-Defense to oppose military occupation of Tibet.

FIRST SELF-IMMOLATION OF YEAR 2016 REPORTED IN TIBET

March 02, 2016.

Beijing: A Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire and died in protest against the Chinese rule, in the first such action this year, a US government-funded radio station said on Wednesday.

Kalsang Wangdu self-immolated Monday afternoon near the Retsokha monastery in western Sichuan province’s traditionally Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Kardze, Radio Free Asia reported. It said the monk called out for Tibetan independence while he burned, then died on the way to a hospital in the provincial capital of Chengdu.

Tibetan exile sources say at least 114 monks and laypeople have self-immolated over the past five years, with most of them dying. Radio Free Asia puts the number of self-immolations at 144 since 2009.

Information from the region, which is largely cut off from the rest of the province by security checkpoints, is extremely hard to obtain, and local officials are reportedly under orders to remain silent about self-immolations. An officer who answered the phone Wednesday at Kardze police headquarters and gave his surname as Li said no such incident had been reported.
“We are now in a period of preserving stability. If such a thing happens, we will make it known to the public,” Li said over phone.

Radio Free Asia and other groups also reported that a 16-year-old Tibetan living in India also set himself on fire on Monday as a protest, but that he survived.

The protests are seen as an extreme expression of the anger and frustration felt by many Tibetans living under heavy-handed Chinese rule. Many protesters also call for the return of the Tibetans’ exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet in 1959 amid an abortive uprising against Chinese forces who had occupied the Himalayan region a decade earlier.

Tibetan monks and nuns are among the most active opponents of Chinese rule in the region and the strongest proponents of Tibet’s independent identity, prompting the authorities to subject them to some of the harshest and most intrusive restrictions.

Last year, Tibet’s Communist Party chief, Chen Quanguo, demanded that Buddhist monasteries display the national flag as part of efforts to shore up Chinese patriotism.
Beijing blames the Dalai Lama and others for inciting the immolations and says it has made vast investments to develop the region’s economy and improve quality of life. The Dalai Lama says he is against all violence.

**TROUBLE IN TIBET – FIRST SELF-IMMOLATION OF YEAR 2016. IMAGE OF TIBETAN SELF-IMMOLATION IN NEW DELHI on MARCH 26, 2012.**

**TROUBLE IN TIBET – FIRST SELF-IMMOLATION OF YEAR 2016. TIBETAN JAMPA YESHI SELF-IMMOLATION PHOTO IMAGE.**

**TROUBLE IN TIBET – FIRST SELF-IMMOLATION OF YEAR 2016. SELF-IMMOLATION IS SYMPTOM OF RESISTANCE TO OPPOSE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF TIBET.**

**TROUBLE IN TIBET – FIRST SELF-IMMOLATION OF YEAR 2016 REPORTED. TIBETANS RESIST MILITARY OCCUPATION OF TIBET.**

Whole Trouble – The Military Occupation of Tibet is a symptom of Spiritual Wickedness

Trouble in Tibet – The Spiritual Wickedness of Red China

Trouble in Tibet arrived in the form of military occupation which is a manifestation of Red China’s Spiritual Wickedness. The 100 Most Spiritually Influential People of the World put together may not be able to treat Red China’s Spiritual illness.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet tops 2016 Spiritual 100 list

Tibet post International

Tuesday, 23 February 2016 18:13 Yeshe Choesang, Tibet Post International

TROUBLE IN TIBET – RED CHINA’S MILITARY OCCUPATION OF TIBET IS A SYMPTOM OF SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS. 100 MOST SPIRITUALLY INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF WORLD WHEN PUT TOGETHER MAY NOT BE ABLE TO CURE RED CHINA’S SPIRITUAL SICKNESS.

Dharamshala — The spiritual leader of Tibet His Holiness the Dalai Lama again topped the 2016 list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People, published by Watkins’ Mind Body Spirit Magazine.

Presented annually since 2011 in the spring issue of the quarterly publication, the list – also known as the Spiritual 100 – compiles the most spiritually prominent people of the past year.

“We are delighted to share with you Watkins’ 2016 list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People – spiritual teachers, activists, authors and thinkers that change the world,” the magazine said.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was recognised in front of Pope Francis and South African retired Anglican bishop Desmond Tutu who were placed second and third respectively. Others listed include German spiritual teacher and writer Eckhart Tolle (fourth), Indian American author and public speaker Deepak Chopra (fifth), Brazilian novelist and author of The Alchemist Paulo Coelho (sixth), American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist Alice Malsenior Walker (Seventh), Australian television writer and producer Rhonda Byrne (eighth), Chilean filmmaker and director of El Topo Alejandro Jodorowsky (ninth), American talk show host Oprah Winfrey (tenth), Greek American author and co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington (fifteenth) and British author and commentator known for her books on comparative religion Karen Armstrong (twentieth).

The Magazine also said that “there are plenty of newcomers on this year’s list including the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, psychologist and author Daniel Goleman, physicist and environmental activist Vandana Shiva and poet and philosopher Mark Nepo.”
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

This is just one of the many often-quoted statements from His Holiness the Dalai Lama that continue to land him on top of global lists of influential and inspiring world religious leaders. For several years now, Watkins Magazine has placed the Tibetan spiritual leader at the top of their list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was #1 in 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012. In their 2016 list, published earlier this month, the Tibetan spiritual leader is once again #1.

#21. Jon Kabat-Zinn: Also not a Buddhist per se, but Kabat-Zinn did study with a number of Buddhist teachers before developing the now wide-spread Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).

#25. Sam Harris: One of the “Four Horsemen” of New Atheism, has taken up the practice of vipassana, derived from the early Buddhist tradition, and even teaches it – stripped of aspects he considers religious.

#34. Daniel Goleman: A well-known psychologist and long time scholar of meditation who has worked closely with the Dalai Lama for over a decade. One of his breakthrough books was Emotional Intelligence (1995), and later works include Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama (2003) and Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence (2015).

#36 is Gary Snyder, #38 is Pema Chödrön, #50 is Robert Thurman, #65 is Thich Nhat Hanh, #66 is Jack Kornfield, #68 is Ajahn Brahm, #78 is Tara Brach, #82 is Huston Smith (another wonderful scholar of many world religions, including Buddhism), #89 is Richard Gere, #95 is Sogyal Rinpoche, and #99 is Sharon Salzberg.

The magazine states that the list is compiled based on three factors: “1. The person has to be alive as of January 1st, 2016. 2. The person has to have made a unique and spiritual contribution on a global scale. 3. The person is frequently googled, appears in Nielsen Data, and is actively talked about throughout the Internet.”

“By taking into account the amount of times that a person is googled or how many times their Wikipedia profile is viewed, the list gains a highly democratic parameter. In a sense, being googled is a form of digital voting, and illustrates just how often someone is being sought out,” it added.
According to Mind Body Spirit, the list is not a competition but “is meant to celebrate the positive influence of contemporary spiritual teachers.”
Watkins Mind Body and Spirit magazine is sold and published by Watkins Books, England’s oldest and largest esoteric bookshop that has been trading since 1893.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 23 February 2016 19:08 )

Whole Trouble – Occupation of Tibet brings Trouble for Asia

Trouble in Tibet – Trouble for Asia

**Whole Trouble – Occupation of Tibet brings Trouble for Asia**

People of Asia are slowly coming to grips with ‘Trouble in Tibet’. Red China’s military occupation of Tibet and dam-building to control flow of South Asia’s rivers is a security threat and it demands the use of military power to resolve Tibet’s Trouble.

Preventing a water war in Asia

China’s extensive dam-building would give it control of Southeast Asia’s rivers

An Indian washerman works on the banks of the River Brahmaputra on a foggy winter morning in Gauhati, India, Monday, Jan. 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES – – Monday, January 18, 2016

Just when Asia was getting accustomed to the Chinese threat to the oceans of Southeast Asia, there’s another water worry for Asians. The government in Beijing controls the health of six major South and Southeastern Asian rivers, the heart of life in the region. All of the rivers rise on the Tibetan plateau. The Chinese have been on an intensive program of dam-building on the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra, the Irrawaddy, the Meman Chao Phya and the Mekong, which would give them the ability to control these arteries of commerce, as well as irrigation of rice and other crops, for vast areas downstream.

Snows are melting on thousands of glaciers, the largest concentration of ice north and south of the poles, repeating the ancient and constant cycle of change in the world’s weather. One Tibetan lake, Namtso, a holy site where pilgrims circumnavigate its banks in prayer, expanded by 20 square miles between 2000 and 2014. Tibet’s glaciers have shrunk by 15 percent over the past 30 years. Though subject to the whims of climate change, if melting continues at current levels the warmer temperatures could melt two-thirds of the plateau’s glaciers by 2050, and this would affect in unknown ways 2 billion people in China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

The most dramatic example of prospective risk is China’s plan to divert the Brahmaputra from its upper reaches, where it flows a thousand miles through Tibet and another 600 miles through India, emptying into the harbor of Calcutta, the second-largest city of India. The Brahmaputra is the lifeline of northeast India, a troubled region with caste and other ethnic conflicts.

There’s concern in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia over eight dams under construction on the upper reaches of the Mekong River. The Burmese military junta canceled a dam under construction in Myanmar, formerly called Burma, one of six Chinese-led hydroelectric projects planned for the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy. These plants would have exported electricity to southern China.

Government and the business interests worry that China’s apparent intention to dam every major river flowing out of Tibet will lead to environmental imbalance, natural disasters, degrade fragile ecologies, and most of all, divert vital water supplies. The extent of the Chinese program is monumental — on the eight great Tibetan rivers alone, China has completed or started construction of 20 dams, with three-dozen more on the drawing board.

The Dalai Lama points out the obvious, that China’s dam-building could lead to conflict. He warns that India’s use of the Tibetan water “is something very, very essential. So, since millions of Indians use water coming from the Himalayan glaciers I think [India] should express more serious concern. This is nothing to do with politics, just everybody’s interests, including Chinese people.”

The Chinese program for the Brahmaputra is one of the issues which complicate the India-China relationship. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi blows hot and cold over the threat. Despite extensive contacts, Himalayan border disputes dating from almost a century are no nearer solution than ever, and water is one of the important irritants. Increasing penetration of the Himalayan kingdoms of Nepal and Bhutan, once dependencies of Britain, has become a new concern in New Delhi.

However, China has become India’s No. 1 trading partner — up to $80 billion in 2015, an increase of $10 billion over 2014. India exports mostly raw materials and imports mostly Chinese electronics and other manufactured goods. Economic relations are the usual guarantee that political and economic disagreements will somehow be sorted out. But not always. Keeping the peace if not necessarily tranquility between the Asian giants must be a priority of the U.S. government. A water war is in nobody’s interest.

Whole Trouble – Occupation of Tibet brings Trouble for Asia

Whole Consciousness – Red China’s Divide and Rule Policy in Tibet

Tibet Consciousness – United We Stand, Divided We Fall

**The False Panchen Lama Ordains Monks in Tashi Lhunpo Monastery—for the Communist Party.**

Red China is using religion as a political weapon to disrupt Tibetan Unity and to deliberately weaken Tibetan Solidarity. Red China apart from her military power, is using her economic power to tear apart Tibetan community by pitching followers of one group or sect against another Buddhist group or entity. This policy of ‘Divide and Rule’ is a strategy that is successfully used by Imperial Powers and Colonialist rulers to subjugate native population of countries they occupy, dominate, and exploit to accomplish their selfish goals.

November 4, 2023, corresponding to the twenty-second day of the ninth month in the Tibetan calendar, was the day of the Lhabab Düchen festival. It celebrates the descent of Buddha back to earth from heaven, where he had ascended at age 41 to impart teachings to the gods and liberate his mother from Samsara.
The false Panchen Lama selected this sacred day to ordain, for the first time, 28 monks in the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Shigatse. The monastery is the traditional seat of the Panchen Lamas, which he unlawfully occupies.

THE POLITICS OF TIBET’S POISONOUS RELIGIOUS DIVIDE

By Reuters Staff
December 23, 2015

Tibetan Buddhist monks attend a Buddhism gathering overseen by Gyaltsen Norbu, the 11th Panchen Lama, at the Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, December 8, 2015. REUTERS/China Daily)

The doctrinal schism that the Chinese Communist Party is using to hound the Dalai Lama arose long ago in the internecine politics of his own school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Dalai Lamas are drawn from the dominant Gelugpa School, one of the four major Buddhist traditions in Tibet.

When the 5th Dalai Lama united Tibet in the 17th Century, he made an effort to embrace the other schools to enhance political unity, according to the French Tibetologist Thierry Dodin.
This move angered other senior members of the Gelugpa School who opposed sharing power and privilege. They united in a clique within their school around the worship of Dorje Shugden, then a little-known “protector deity.”

Over the centuries, Shugden devotees came to dominate the Gelugpa School and the religious politics of Tibet. After the Communists came to power in 1949, Shugden practitioners became influential in the exiled Tibetan communities in India and Nepal. At first, they were hostile to Beijing, particularly after Tibetan monasteries and cultural relics were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

That changed with the current Dalai Lama, 14th in the line. He too had been educated under senior Shugden monks. But from the mid-1970s, he began to shape a more inclusive doctrine. In part, this was a political move aimed at unifying the different traditions in Tibetan Buddhism in the face of pressure from Beijing, according to Dodin and other Tibet scholars.
During a period of reflection, the Dalai Lama began to question the value of Shugden worship on the grounds it was harmful. In 1996, he publicly advised his followers to shun the practice.

Since then, scholars say, there has been a gradual shift towards Beijing by the Shugden movement – a move that accelerated in the past decade.
China is careful to avoid obvious public references to its Shugden strategy. But on the ground, evidence abounds that Beijing has thrown its weight behind Shugden devotees.

GENEROUS FUNDING

Chinese authorities have poured funds into rebuilding and maintaining Shugden monasteries in the Tibet Autonomous Region and surrounding provinces. Reports in the state-run media show that China has financed extensive restoration at the Ganden Sumtseling Monastery in Yunnan Province and the Dungkar Monastery near Tibet’s frontier with India, both leading Shugden monasteries.

“There’s a massive drive to keep the remaining Shugden strongholds alive with a lot of support from the party,” said Dodin, director of the website TibetInfoNet. “This does not mean that others are left in decrepitude, but there is no such thing as a poor Shugden monastery.”

Buddhists who openly follow the Dalai Lama’s teachings face persecution by Chinese authorities, according to human rights groups and exiled Tibetans. It is now a criminal offence to discourage Shugden worship, they say.

Beijing also allows Shugden monks to travel overseas to teach and study with foreign Buddhists and exiled Tibetans.

In December 2012, Beijing sponsored the visit to Switzerland of Lama Jampa Ngodup Wangchuk Rinpoche, the first Tibetan lama sent abroad by the government to teach, according to the website dorjeshugden.com, one of the websites that publish news and commentary about the sect.

“By officially nominating him to travel abroad to teach, this would mean that the Chinese government is openly encouraging the proliferation of Buddhism, China’s ancient heritage and Dorje Shudgen’s practice,” an article on the website said.

PROTECTIVE CUSTODY

Another clear signal of Beijing’s preference: Senior Shugden monks are central to China’s effort to educate the Panchen Lama, second only to the Dalai Lama in religious stature.
In 1995, the Dalai Lama recognized a six-year-old Tibetan boy, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, as the reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama. The boy and his family soon disappeared; Chinese authorities have said he is in protective custody. To sideline the Dalai Lama’s choice, Beijing then recognized another Tibetan boy, Gyaltsen Norbu, as Panchen Lama. This maneuver was crucial to Beijing’s plans to control Tibetan Buddhism, as the Panchen Lama plays a major role in recognizing reincarnations of the Dalai Lama, according to supporters of the Dalai Lama and experts on Tibetan Buddhism.

Many of the senior teachers responsible for educating Beijing’s hand-picked Panchen Lama are Shugden practitioners, according to experts on Tibetan Buddhism. Lama Gangchen, the most influential Shugden monk living abroad, has been photographed with this Panchen Lama as well.

President Xi Jinping in June met the party-approved Panchen Lama in Beijing. The monk told Xi he would “resolutely uphold the unity of the motherland and its people,” state television reported.

Chinese authorities have put aside their atheist convictions to insist they will vet the selection of the next Dalai Lama, according to official statements and reports in the state-run media.
This is part of an effort to ensure that the future spiritual leader of the more than six million ethnic Tibetans in Tibet and bordering provinces are loyal to the Communist Party. In response, the Dalai Lama has suggested he may reincarnate outside China or, perhaps, not at all.

That idea drew an outraged response from Zhu Weiqun, the point man in Beijing’s efforts to neutralize the Dalai Lama. “The reincarnation of the Dalai Lama has to be endorsed by the central government, not by any other sides, including the Dalai Lama himself,” Zhu said, according to a March 11 report in the state-run Xinhua news agency.

Source: The politics of Tibet’s poisonous religious divide | Reuters

Gyaltsen Norbu (top 4th L), the 11th Panchen Lama, arrives at a Buddhism gathering at the Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, December 8, 2015. Picture taken December 8, 2015. REUTERS/China Daily/File Photo

Whole Problem – The Problem of Red China – Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

The Problem of Red China – Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

“Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This statement is entirely true of Red China’s Dictatorial Regime. Red China’s use of ‘Absolute Power’ is Enemy of Liberty, Individual Rights, Human Freedom, Peace, Democracy, and Justice. There is no ‘Goodwill’ for Red China’s tyranny. I am not surprised to note that Red China cannot understand the problem of Terror. I predict the downfall of this utterly corrupt regime which is subjugating Tibet without any moral authority.

THE WASHINGTON POST

A Chinese official said the Dalai Lama supports the Islamic State. Ridiculous — and telling.

By EMILY RAUHALA

**The Problem of Red China – Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.**

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks at a peace conference in Bangalore, India. (AP/Aijaz Rahi)

It’s no secret that China’s leaders dislike the Dalai Lama. Over the years, Communist Party cadres have denounced the exiled spiritual leader as a “separatist,” a “splittist,” and a “wolf in monk’s robes.”

On Tuesday, the chairman of China’s top religious affairs committee, Zhu Weiqun, extended that war of words, telling a Chinese reporter that the Dalai Lama sympathized with the Islamic State.

“While the whole world has reached a preliminary consensus on fighting against IS and its cruel, violent behaviors, the Dalai Lama suggested listening, understanding and respecting them,” read an account of Zhu’s comments published by the Global Times, a Chinese newspaper known for its strident nationalism.

“This shows that the Dalai Lama, deep down, sympathizes or approves of ISIS.”

The interview came two days after the Dalai Lama told an Italian newspaper that dialogue was necessary to defeat extremists.

To tackle the Islamic State, “there has to be dialogue,” he told La Stampa on Monday, according to a report by the French news agency, Agence France Presse.
“One has to listen, to understand, to have respect for the other person, regardless. There is no other way.”
Zhu’s attempt to cast a call for dialogue as an endorsement of violence is telling — for two reasons.

First, it calls attention to the Chinese government’s ongoing effort to tarnish the Dalai Lama and, in so doing, try to nullify Tibetan demands for autonomy, religious freedom and human rights.

The Dalai Lama was born in what is today Qinghai province, moved to Lhasa as a child and, after a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule, fled over the Himalayas to India, where he has lived in exile ever since.

In the late 1980s, he publicly abandoned the pursuit of Tibetan independence in favor of what he calls “the Middle Way.” The strategy, which is unpopular among some Tibetans, seeks greater autonomy within the People’s Republic of China, not a new state.

But the central government insists the Dalai Lama is a determined separatist who works to divide China from abroad. They blame him — not economic, religious and cultural discrimination — for the riots that swept across the plateau in 2008, as well as more than 140 Tibetan self-immolations since 2009.

Indeed, in his interview with Global Times, Zhu reportedly said the Dalai Lama “incited” Tibetans to burn themselves to death. He called this “a form of violent extremism,” rhetorically linking public suicides in Tibetan areas to acts of terrorism committed by the Islamic State.

Second, and in a similar vein, Zhu’s comments come amid a post-Paris push to tie what is happening in China’s west to a global war on terror.

In the aftermath of the deadly attacks in Paris last month, China’s top leaders were quick to denounce the violence, but also used the moment to remind the world that, as Foreign Minister Wang Yi put it, China is “also a victim of terrorism.” There should be no “double standard” in how we think about terrorism, he said — a sentiment later echoed by Xi Jinping.
The notion that the West dismisses China’s terror problem is popular here.

In 2014, attackers with knives slaughtered 29 people, and injured more than 100, in an attack at a train station in Kunming. Blocked from reporting at the scene, many foreign reporters avoided using the word “terrorism” or “terrorists” or did so quoting state media — a linguistic hedge that outraged many Chinese.
The same sentiment proved salient after Paris. “In their eyes, only terrorist attacks that happen on Western soil can be called acts of terrorism,” read a China Daily editorial.

The challenge for those researching or writing about mass violence in China is that the word terrorism — tough to define in any context — is used in an extraordinary range of ways here.
China’s top leaders have long warned against the “three evil forces”— terrorism, separatism and religious extremism — and use the words in almost interchangeable ways, observed Australian scholar James Leibold in a recent piece for the National Interest.

Acts of mass violence by Han Chinese are not treated as terrorism, he noted, but for Tibetan and Uighurs, a wide range of non-violent acts seem to count.

“The line between peaceful political activism and violent acts of terror is frequently blurred in China, as the sentencing of Uyghur scholar ILHAM TOHTI and the Tibetan monk TENZIN DELEK RINPOCHE on charges of terrorism and separatism suggests,” Leibold wrote.

“In Chinese discourse, terrorism is employed exclusively in reference to Tibetans and Uyghurs.”

That means that a Nobel Peace Prize winner like the Dalai Lama is an advocate, by Zhu’s count, of “forms of violent extremism.” And so is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

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Emily Rauhala is a China Correspondent for the Post. She was previously a Beijing-based correspondent for TIME, and an editor at the magazine’s Hong Kong office.

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The Problem of Red China - Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. Red China Enemy of Democracy. — **The Problem of Red China – Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. Red China Enemy of Democracy.**

The Problem of Red China - Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely - Red China Enemy of Freedom. — **The Problem of Red China – Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely – Red China Enemy of Freedom.**

The Problem of Red China - Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely - Red China Enemy of Justice. — **The Problem of Red China – Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely – Red China Enemy of Justice.**

The Problem of Red China - Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely - Red China Enemy of Liberty — **The Problem of Red China – Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely – Red China Enemy of Liberty.**

The Problem of Red China - Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely - Red China Enemy of Peace and Justice. — **The Problem of Red China – Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely – Red China Enemy of Peace and Justice.**

The Problem of Red China - Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely - Red China Enemy of Freedom, Liberty, Democracy, Peace, Justice and Goodwill for all men. — **The Problem of Red China – Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely – Red China Enemy of Freedom, Liberty, Democracy, Peace, Justice and Goodwill for all men.**

Whole Aggressor – Red China’s Dictatorial Regime

Tibet Consciousness – Red China’s Dictatorial Regime

On this Thursday, December 10, 2015, World Human Rights Day, I state that Red China is autocratic, domineering, and tyrannical for she exercises power suppressing the views of all others. Her actions are arbitrary, unreasoned, and unpredictable. Red China uses power or authority in accord only with her own will or desire. Red China’s Communist Party is a dictatorial regime for this one-party governance has absolute control of political, economic, and military power giving no room for any kind of dissent.

CHINA CRACKS DOWN ON AGGRIEVED PARTY CADRES IN XINJIANG AND TIBET

Critics say hardline stance against ‘separatism and religious extremism’ has provoked significant disquiet

**Tibet Consciousness – Red China’s Dictatorial Regime.** ***Red China’s Communist Party is a dictatorial regime for this one-party governance has absolute control of political, economic, and military power giving no room for any kind of dissent.***

A paramilitary policeman stands guard in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

SIMON DENYER for the Washington Post

Tuesday 8 December 2015 04.32 EST Last modified on Tuesday 8 December 2015 04.34 EST

China has mounted an extraordinary set of attacks against Communist party members in the troubled western regions of Xinjiang and Tibet, with accusations of disloyalty, secret participation in religious activity, sympathy with the Dalai Lama and even support for terrorism.

The accusations reflect a hardening of the party’s stance in Buddhist Tibet and Muslim-majority Xinjiang, experts said, as well as President Xi Jinping’s determination to push for ideological purity within the party nationwide, quashing debate and dissent. But critics say they also reflect the fact that the party’s hardline approach towards crushing “the three evils of separatism, terrorism and religious extremism” in both regions has not only alienated many ordinary ethnic Tibetan and Uighur people but has also provoked significant disquiet in its own ranks.
Some party officials openly criticise policies handed down from above, complained Xu Hairong, secretary of Xinjiang’s Commission for Discipline Inspection, making the unusual admission in a commentary published last month.

“Some waver on clear-cut issues of opposing ethnic division and safeguarding ethnic and national unity, and even support participating in violent terrorist attacks,” Xu wrote in his agency’s official newspaper.

“This does not mean the cadres participated in attacks,” said Nicholas Bequelin, East Asia director for Amnesty International, “but rather is the equivalent of local officials saying: ‘The central authorities are sending leaders who are so ham-fisted they have driven people to the edge and understandably they have started blowing up things.’”

With Xi taking the lead in formulating policy toward Xinjiang, “everybody has to march to the same drumbeat”, Bequelin said.

An article published last Friday on China Tibet Online, a party website, said that 355 party members had been punished in Xinjiang last year for violating “political discipline”.

The article said that one had joined a social media chat group titled “Uighur Muslim” that was meant to undermine ethnic unity, while another had reposted an interview given by the prominent Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti, who was sentenced last year to life in prison on charges of advocating separatism.

Written by Zhao Zhao, the article said that some officials blame social problems on ethnic discrimination, thereby inciting ethnic hatred. “There is also a lack of faith in Marxism. Some grassroots party members even participate in religious activities,” he wrote, adding that this would never be allowed.

A street in Urumqi, in 2009, shows the scars of riots. Photograph: Peter Parks/Getty

Critics say there is widespread economic, cultural and religious discrimination against Uighurs and Tibetans.
After 2009 riots in Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi, left at least 192 people dead, the party acknowledged that it needed to address Uighur grievances, Bequelin said.

But later, with an increase in violent attacks by Uighurs, the party changed course, asserting at a major meeting on the region in 2014 that the priorities were stability and unity rather than economic development and combating discrimination.

The imprisonment of Tohti, a moderate economist whose work had detailed the problems Uighurs face, sent a strong signal to academics and party officials alike that the debate about discrimination had been closed, Bequelin said. The party now vehemently asserts that Uighur terrorism is directed by Islamist militants based abroad and is increasingly rooted in extremist ideas picked up on the internet.

At the same time, the Communist party has been recruiting, and the number of members in Xinjiang is reported to have risen by 21,000 to 1.45 million in 2014. And that has brought other problems.

“The Chinese Communist party believes that it is witnessing a ‘crisis of faith’ in Xinjiang and Tibet in particular,” said Julia Famularo, an international securities studies fellow at Yale University.

“It has actively endeavoured to draw ever greater numbers of ethnic minorities into the party, but it now fears that these new recruits possess only superficial loyalty to the party-state,” Famularo wrote in an email. “Beijing laments that these minority party members still make clandestine visits to mosques and monasteries, and that they still have stronger ties to their own people than to the party or to China.”

In Tibet, 15 party members were investigated last year and 20 this year for violating political discipline, China Tibet Online reported, saying that some had participated in organisations supporting “Tibetan independence”.

Last month, Tibet party boss Chen Quango said the party would go after officials who held “incorrect views” on minority issues or who “profess no religious belief but secretly believe,” including those who follow the Dalai Lama or listen to religious sermons.

China accuses the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, of trying to divide the country and pry Tibet away from China. The Dalai Lama insists he only wants meaningful autonomy for the region.

This article appeared in GUARDIAN WEEKLY, which incorporates material from the Washington Post

***Tibet Consciousness – Red China’s Dictatorial Regime. Communist Party Dictator Chairman Mao Zedong subjugated Tibet.*** ***Red China’s Communist Party is a dictatorial regime for this one-party governance has absolute control of political, economic, and military power giving no room for any kind of dissent.***

**DOOMED HUMAN RIGHTS IN OCCUPIED TIBET – TIBETANS HAVE NO SAFE PLACE TO LIVE.**

***Tibet Consciousness – Red China’s Dictatorial Regime. Save Tibet from One-Party Dictatorship.*** ***Red China’s Communist Party is a dictatorial regime for this one-party governance has absolute control of political, economic, and military power giving no room for any kind of dissent.***

Whole Liar – Red China conceals several Truths

Tibet Awareness – Red China does not want the World to know several truths

TIBET AWARENESS - RED CHINA - LIAR. RED CHINA DEMANDS TO CONTROL TIBETAN CULTURAL TRADITIONS AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS INCLUDING REINCARNATION OF DALAI LAMA. — **Tibet Awareness – Red China does not want the World to know several truths. Red China demands to control Tibetan Cultural Traditions and Social Institutions including Reincarnation of Dalai Lama.**

Red China deliberately and purposefully distorts truth about her military occupation of Tibet. Red China claims that she has peacefully liberated Tibet from feudal rule. Apart from illegal occupation of Tibet, Red China conceals several truths which she doesn’t want the world to know. Apart from rest of the world, Chinese people have no access to truth about their own country.

Secrets China doesn’t want the world to know ….

**TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – GLOBAL WARMING – CLIMATE ACTION. RED CHINA REFUSES TO ACCEPT THE CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING. RED CHINA IS USING DECEPTION AND PROPAGANDA INSTEAD OF ADDRESSING CORE ISSUES.**

1. Poverty.

Even though China is the world’s most populous country, at over 1.35 billion people, it still has some secrets it doesn’t want us to know. But we dug some of them up just for you!
For instance, despite the fact that the US borrows a lot of money from China, a lot of it’s population is still living in utter poverty. In fact, about 100 million people in China are surviving on less than $1 a day, which works out to less than $365 a year! And nearly 400 million people live on less than $2 a day!

**TIBET’S FREEDOM IS A NATURAL RIGHT .**

2. Death Penalty.

**NEVER FORGET JUNE 04, 1989 – TIANANMEN ANNIVERSARY – BEIJING DOOMED.**

In 2005, China executed more than 4 times as many convicts as the rest of the world combined. That works out to over 1,770 executions, most of them done by firing squad.

3. Air Pollution.

China’s air pollution is so bad from its rapid industrial growth that many people wear masks outside just to be able to breathe. But their problems aren’t limited to their own country. Due to the jet stream carrying their air over to the United States, much of that pollution has traveled to northern California. In fact, about a third of the air pollution in San Francisco comes from China!

4. Reincarnation.

The Chinese government has actually banned Buddhist monks from reincarnating. That is, unless they get permission from the government first. In reality, what seems ridiculous is actually a move to limit the influence of the Dalai Lama.

5. Empty Mall.

**TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. EMPTY SHOPPING MALLS IN SHANGHAI.**

China can proudly boast that it has the world’s largest mall, the New South China Mall, with space for 2,350 stores and 7,000,000 square feet of leasable space! The only problem is that 7 years after it opened it is still 99% empty. The only things actually in the mall are a few fast food stores near the entrance.

**TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. MALL OF CHINA. WORLD’S LARGEST SHOPPING MALL.LONELY, AND EMPTY.**

**TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. NEW SOUTH CHINA MALL. SIGN OF ECONOMIC MELTDOWN.**

**TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. WORLD’S LARGEST SOUTH CHINA MALL IS EMPTY. ECONOMY BUSTED, WASTED, RUINED.**

**TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. SOUTH CHINA MALL. WORLD’S LARGEST ABANDONED MALL.**

6. Blocked Sites.

Facebook and Twitter have been blocked sites in China since 2009 and The New York Times has been blocked since a 2012 article didn’t please the government. They are going to lift the ban in what is called the Shanghai Free Trade zone soon but it is more of a business decision than anything else.

7. Cave Dwellers.

About 35 million people in China still live in caves. Most of these live in the Shaanxi province where the porous soil makes the caves easy to dig. They are often decorated or reinforced with bricks.

8. Water Contamination.

About 700 million Chinese people, or about half of their population, drink contaminated water every day. One of the biggest reasons is that only about 10 percent of the raw sewage produced by the big cities is treated and the rest is dumped straight into lakes and rivers where it leaks into ground water

9. Time Zones.

Back in 1949, China’s Communist regime decided that, even though the country is huge, in order to assert more control it all needed to be under the same time zone, Beijing Standard Time. This has led to ridiculous sunrise times such as 10am in certain parts of the country.

10. Piracy.

78% of the software installed on computers in China in 2010 was pirated. That is a really high number no matter how you look at it. Globally, the average piracy rate is still quite high at 42%, but it is almost twice that in China.

11. Birth Defects.

Birth defects are actually increasing in China by a rate of 40% since 2001. About 1.2 million babies are born in China every year with a birth defect, or about one every 30 seconds.

12. Christianity.

When you think of religion in China, probably the last thing that comes to mind is Christianity. But what is really surprising is that China has a booming Christian population of about 54 million people and growing. Soon they will have the largest Christian population in the world! They already have more Christians than Italy!

A note over here . Due to large masses of people turning to Christianity, the government is resorting to a specific quota of Christian conversions per month.

13. Dwarf Theme Park.

There is a place called the Kingdom of the Little People in China where people with dwarfism put on comical shows for tourists. There are over 100 dwarfs employed by the park.

14. Ghost Towns.

**TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. RED CHINA’S GHOST CITIES.**

About 65 million homes sit vacant in China. This includes some entire towns that are completely devoid of people and they sit empty. These aren’t old houses and towns that died out. They are new cities and houses that were built in expectation of a population boom expanding into them that never happened.

**TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. RED CHINA’S GHOST TOWNS. IMPENDING DEBT CRISIS.**

**TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. CHINA’S GHOST TOWNS.**

**TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. RED CHINA’S ECONOMIC CONTRADICTIONS. INVESTMENT FAILURES NOT REPORTED. CHINESE ECONOMY READY FOR MELTDOWN.**

15. Gobi Desert.

China is home to the enormous Gobi desert which is already about 500,000 square miles or about the size of Peru and it’s only getting bigger. The Gobi is expanding at a rate of about 1,400 square miles a year due to over grazing, deforestation and water source depletion.