An essay by a Tibetan from Eastern Tibet
[size=11pt][/size][font=Arial]All you people had heard enough from the so-calledethnic Tibetans who had never set foot in Tibet. Now let’s hear fromsomeone who are really from Tibet.The following is an essay publishedin a forum in Seattle. I can’t find the original link so that Ireproduce the original article here. If the author sees this andobjects, please contact us.
[/font][font=Arial]All you people had heard enough from the so-calledethnic Tibetans who had never set foot in Tibet. Now let’s hear fromsomeone who are really from Tibet.The following is an essay publishedin a forum in Seattle. I can’t find the original link so that Ireproduce the original article here. If the author sees this andobjects, please contact us.
[/font]From: [size=11pt][url=http://thenewvoice.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/an-essay-by-a-tibetan-from-eastern-tibet/#comments][b]http://thenewvoice.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/an-essay-by-a-tibetan-from-eastern-tibet/#comments[/b][/url][/size]
[font=Arial][b]An essay by a XiZang people[/b][/font]
[font=Arial]by Namjagbarwa, From Eastern Tibet[/font]
[font=Arial]I’ll use the name of my hometown’s pride as my user ID here,—Mt. Namjarbarwa.[/font]
[font=Arial]My English is not good so pls pardon me if you see any typo and mistake.[/font]
[font=Arial]I am from Nyingchi Region, Eastern Tibet. 70% of mybeloved homeland are under Indian military occupation. All Thanks tothe British support in 1962. But that’s another story.[/font]
[font=Arial]During the past month, I’ve witnessed a lotprotests here in U.S.and been told about riots back at my homeland. Ithink it’s my duty to clear on some FACTS that are obviously andselectively omitted by the media and protesters.[/font]
[font=Arial]1. His Holyness the Dalai Lama DOES NOT representTibet.Our Tibetan Buddhism has 4 schools:Gelug, Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu.HH the Dalai Lama is ONE of the TWO most respected living budda ofGelug (Yellow Hat Sect), another one is Panchen Lama. HH the Dalai Lamacan only represent farmers and town living Tibetans from North CentralTibet (Centered with City of Lhasa), which is about 20% of entireTibetan population at the most. Entire South Central Tibet (Centeredwith City of Xigaze) worship Panchen Lama only, as well as we who arefrom Eastern Tibet only believe NyingMa Sect, the Red Hat.[/font]
[font=Arial]2. Example: If the President of Confederacy,Jefferson Davis, fled to Europe after the Civil War was lost. Can herepresent all Americans? I don’t think so. He IS qualified to representall the slave masters though.[/font]
[font=Arial]3. Since 1980, We Tibetans have not paid ONE centof Tax to the central government. We Tibetans have NOT paid ONE cent onfertilizer and seed. We have promotion access to housing,education,birth, employment and all kinds of other social benefits. Thename of this promotion policy is called the Affirmative Act in theUnited States.I don’t know what it’s called in Tibet and honestly Ididn’t really care. It’s been there since I was born. When I realizedthat policy only applies to minority groups in China,I am already 13. I got 10 points raise on my average score when Igraduated from elementary school. And I know my brother got 20 pointswhen he graduated from high school. There are 10 Million high schoolgraduates competing to get into college every year. Can you imagine howmany advantages this 20 point can make?? BTW, I have 3 brothers and 2sisters, and there goes so-called “Forced Birth Control among Tibetans”.[/font]
[font=Arial]4. Just like 95% of other Tibetans,my family wasfarmer-slaves before 1959. We’ve always been slaves till HH the DalaiLama and his slavery government escaped from Tibet, along with mostslave masters. Though the Chinese Army already stationed in Tibet in1950,the reform, the abandon of slavery system was not carried out bycentral government. One story is that in 1954,Chinese Army was hiringin my village to help them building concrete roads. After they foundout that their payments to the villagers are all robbed by slavemasters, they were angry and started paying merchandise and goodsdirectly,just to make sure the masters can’t take them away. That was 4years after People’s Liberation Army entered Tibet.[/font]
[font=Arial]5. I am kinda tired telling these stories now. Idon’t know why the world outside Tibet had so many misleadings andunderstanding to our homeland. I really appreciate that you said youwere speaking for Tibetans. But there are 3 million Tibetans living inTibet now and you are only listening to those around HH the DalaiLama??? Our living conditions are much better than those in exile andmuch much better than 50years ago. and none of these was the effort ofexile Tibetan government, ZERO.We earned it by our sweat drops andpromotion policies from central government.Not a living budda who wasrandomly picked by HH. And we want our life to be better and better.Talking about moral standards and religion freedom, we Red Hat Sect canpractice all traditional customs everyday. I don’t know what happenedto Yellow Hat and I don’t understand why they seem like the onlytrouled ones in Tibet and mostly I don’t see how can HH the Dalai Lamabecome the Representative of Tibet?![/font]
[font=Arial]Long live Tibet, Long live Peace, Long live China.[/font]
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[font=PMingLiU]【[color=red]中文翻譯[/color]】[/font]
[color=blue][size=3][b][font=PMingLiU]一位西藏東部藏人的文章一位西藏東部藏人的文章[/font][/b][/size]
[size=3][font=PMingLiU]那些從未踏足西藏自稱藏族人士的話[/font][font=PMingLiU], 大家可能聽多了。現在讓我們聽聽一位真正來自西藏的人說些什麼。以下是在西雅圖一個論壇發表的文章。我沒法找到原始連接,只能把原文轉載, 如果作者看到有異議, 請與我們連絡。[/font][/size]
[size=3][b][font=PMingLiU]一個西藏人的文章[/font][/b][font=PMingLiU]來自西藏東部的 [/font][font=PMingLiU][color=blue]南迦巴瓦峰[/color][/font][/size][/color]
[font=PMingLiU](註: 又名那木卓巴尔山, 藏语意为'直刺蓝天的战矛', 主峰高7782米,有冰山之父的美誉)[/font]
[color=blue][size=3][font=PMingLiU]我用我家鄉引以為豪的山峰[/font], [font=PMingLiU]南迦巴瓦[/font][font=PMingLiU], 作為我的代號。我的英文不太好,如有打錯或錯字, 請原諒。我來自西藏東部林芝地區, 我熱愛的故鄉有70%都被印度軍事佔據。那全是拜[/font]1962[font=PMingLiU]年英國人支持他們所致[/font], [font=PMingLiU]但那又是另一段故事了。[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=PMingLiU]在過去數月[/font], [font=PMingLiU]我看到美國這裡有許多抗議[/font], [font=PMingLiU]被告知有關我家鄉發生的暴亂事件。我想我有責任澄清一些被媒體及示威者明顯及有選擇性隱瞞的事實。[/font][/size]
[size=3]1. [font=PMingLiU]達賴喇嘛[b]並不代表[/b]西藏。我們藏傳佛教有四個派別[/font]: [font=PMingLiU]格魯[/font], [font=PMingLiU]寧瑪[/font], [font=PMingLiU]薩迦[/font], [font=PMingLiU]噶舉。達賴喇嘛是格魯派[/font]([font=PMingLiU]黃教[/font])[b][font=PMingLiU]兩位[/font][/b][font=PMingLiU]最重要的活佛中的[b]其中一位[/b][/font], [font=PMingLiU]另一位是班禪喇嘛。達賴喇嘛只能代表中北藏[/font]([font=PMingLiU]以拉薩市為中心[/font])[font=PMingLiU]藏區裡居住的農民及居民[/font], [font=PMingLiU]頂多佔全部藏族人口的[/font]20%[font=PMingLiU]左右。中南藏區[/font]([font=PMingLiU]以江孜市為中心[/font])[font=PMingLiU]只信奉班禪喇嘛[/font], [font=PMingLiU]而我們東藏區的人[/font], [font=PMingLiU]只信寧瑪派[/font], [font=PMingLiU]紅教。[/font][/size]
[size=3]2. [font=PMingLiU]舉例[/font]: [font=PMingLiU]如果南軍總統[color=#000000]杰斐逊-戴维斯[/color][/font][font=PMingLiU]在南北戰打輸後逃往歐洲[/font], [font=PMingLiU]他能代表所有美國人嗎[/font]? [font=PMingLiU]我不覺得他可以。他[b]只[/b]配代表所有奴隸主而已。[/font][/size]
[size=3]3. [font=PMingLiU]從[/font]1980[font=PMingLiU]年開始[/font], [font=PMingLiU]我們西藏人沒有向中央政府上繳過一毛錢的稅。我們西藏人沒有付過一毛錢去買肥料和種子。我們獲住屋[/font], [font=PMingLiU]教育[/font], [font=PMingLiU]生育[/font], [font=PMingLiU]就業及所有各項的福利優惠。這種優惠政策的名字在美國叫積極補救[/font](AffirmativeAct), [font=PMingLiU]我不知道在西藏該叫什麼而我也真不管這些。我出生時那些政策就存在。當我知道它們只適用於中國的小數民族時[/font], [font=PMingLiU]我已[/font]13[font=PMingLiU]歲了。小學畢業時我的平均分獲多加了[/font]10[font=PMingLiU]分。我知道我哥高中畢業時加了[/font]20[font=PMingLiU]分。全國每年有上千萬的高中生競爭上大學。你能想像這[/font]20[font=PMingLiU]分能產生多大的效益[/font]? [font=PMingLiU]還有[/font], [font=PMingLiU]我有三個兄弟[/font], [font=PMingLiU]兩姐妹[/font], [font=PMingLiU]那什麼「西藏人被逼限制生育」就該住咀了吧。[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=PMingLiU]4. [/font][font=PMingLiU]跟其他[/font]95%[font=PMingLiU]的西藏人一樣[/font][font=PMingLiU], 我家在[/font]1959[font=PMingLiU]年前是農奴。直到達賴喇嘛跟他那奴隸政府及奴隸主們逃離西藏前[/font], [font=PMingLiU]我們都是奴隸。雖然中國軍隊[/font]1950[font=PMingLiU]年就駐守西藏[/font], [font=PMingLiU]中央政府沒有推行改革或是廢除奴隸制度。有一個說法是[/font]1954[font=PMingLiU]年中國軍隊在我們村子招募勞工去幫他們修水泥路。他們發現他們給村民的工資全都被奴隸主搶走後[/font], [font=PMingLiU]他們很氣的改用貨物來支付村民[/font], [font=PMingLiU]讓奴隸主沒法搶。四年後[/font], [font=PMingLiU]人民解放軍就開進拉薩了。[/font][/size]
[size=3]5. [font=PMingLiU]我現在已懶得再講這些事情了。我不懂西藏以外的世界為什麼對我們故鄉有那麼多誤導理解。我真很感謝你說你是替西藏人說話。但現在西藏生活的西藏人有[/font]300[font=PMingLiU]萬之多[/font], [font=PMingLiU]而你只聽在達賴喇嘛身邊那些人在講[/font]???[font=PMingLiU]我們生活條件比那些流亡的人好多[/font], [font=PMingLiU]跟[/font]50[font=PMingLiU]年前比[/font], [font=PMingLiU]那更是好太多太多了[/font], [font=PMingLiU]而這些卻完全不是流亡政府出的力[/font], [font=PMingLiU]那是個[b]零[/b][/font][font=PMingLiU][size=10pt]。[/size][/font][font=PMingLiU]我們是以汗水及中央政府的優惠政策自己掙回來的。不是他隨便指命的一個活佛[/font]([font=PMingLiU]所致[/font])[font=PMingLiU]。而我們希望我們的生活愈來愈好。說到道德標準及宗教自由[/font], [font=PMingLiU]我們紅教天天都可以奉行一切傳統儀式。我不知道黃教怎麼啦[/font], [font=PMingLiU]而我也不懂為什麼他們好像是西藏那裡唯一有問題的人[/font], [font=PMingLiU]我最弄不懂是達賴喇嘛他如何能成西藏的代表人[/font]?[/size]
[size=3][font=PMingLiU][size=12pt]西藏萬歲[/size][/font][size=12pt], [/size][font=PMingLiU][size=12pt]和平萬歲[/size][/font][size=12pt], [/size][font=PMingLiU][size=12pt]中國萬歲
The same article from Anti-cnn Chinese Fourm: [url]http://www.anti-cnn.com/forum/cn/viewthread.php?tid=67438&[/url];page=1#pid834678
[/size][/font][/size][/color] A very good essay!
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