Dalai Lama On China's Protest Over Visit With Bush: "That Always Happens"

Washington Post:

President Bush met privately with the Dalai Lama today, despite earlier warnings from China that the honors being accorded the long-exiled Buddhist leader this week by Congress and the White House would harm U.S.-Chinese relations.

The strong protest, voiced by the China's Foreign Ministry and the Communist Party secretary for Tibet, underlined China's determination to prevent the Dalai Lama leader from winning international support for his drive to gain autonomy for the mountainous region that has been under Chinese control for more than half a century.

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Comments

[ottq23]

04:49 PM on 10/21/2007

Some great comments about
the DL.
Too bad I missed this thread
when it was in full swing.

The village idiot meets Albert Einstein.
Actually, the whole thing was hilarious. Did anyone notice the body language ?
How the DL took Bush by the hand like a naughty little boy ?
Make no mistake, he has got Bush figured out perfectly.

[MagisterLudi]

11:37 AM on 10/17/2007

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde

[Entheo]

09:23 AM on 10/17/2007

it just tickles me to no end that a simple buddhist monk can so rankle the chinese. just goes to show the power of Virtue vs. {fill in the blank}

[ZenJu]

07:54 AM on 10/17/2007

Have any of you seen the videos of what goes on in Chinese fur and leather "industry"? Go to the PETA site and never, never buy fur or leather again--especially if it's "Made in China"...

[PhillyQuaker]

06:23 AM on 10/17/2007

I remember part of the message His Holiness had for Pres. Bush right after 9 - 11.
"I know you will do the right thing."

[IMPRISONBUSH]

01:06 AM on 10/17/2007

WOUNDER why GEORGE BUSH REFUSED to have PICTURES taken with the " DALAI LAMA " dose he fear RED CHINA WILL STOP SENDING US :

................" POISON FOOD "................
............... " POISON MEDICATION ".........
.............." POISON MEATS "................
................" ETC.".....................

[stargazer13]

02:27 AM on 10/17/2007

I believe him to be a coward and is afraid to be seen with some one with a good spirit. what woulds his buddies think he would never live it down
and regarding China I have alway thought we should pay close attention too her this is a country that has no bases out side of there own country and none dare attack her America could learn a lesson from that kind of power

[WilliamWallace]

07:20 AM on 10/17/2007

Oh, and don't forget, they're buying up western oil fields as well.

[Observer1]

12:32 AM on 10/17/2007

Once Bush embraces you, it is the beginning of the end.

Dear Dalai Lama: It was nice knowing you. I am sorry you made such a poor decision to meet with an idiot and to accept a political medal.

[Observer1]

12:31 AM on 10/17/2007

Once Bush embraces you, it is the beginning of the end.

Dear Dalai Lama: It was nice knowing you. I am sorry you made such a poor decision to meet with an idiot and to acce

[MagisterLudi]

12:47 AM on 10/17/2007

Buddhist eightfold path to enlightenment include on of "Right Speech."

Perhaps some (i.e observer1)could do well to become familiar with it or at least attempt to emulate HH Dalia Lama.

Right speech is the first principle of ethical conduct in the eightfold path. Ethical conduct is viewed as a guideline to moral discipline, which supports the other principles of the path.
Buddha explained right speech as follows:

To abstain from slanderous speech and not to use words maliciously against others,

To abstain from harsh words that offend
To abstain from idle chatter that lacks purpose or depth.
Positively phrased, this means to tell the truth, to speak friendly, warm, and gently and to talk only when necessary.

[zeesean]

03:09 AM on 10/17/2007

Isn't Dalia Lama supposed to stand up to war-mongers and tyrants? Is he supposed to be hobnobbing with somebody who is directly
responsible for so much bloodshed and misery
around the world?. It seems to me that HH couldn't resist a photo-op, and free publicity
just like any other common mortal...
As a grneral rule, beware of anybody who gets
propped up by the mainstream media, and Hollywood.

[Phidippides]

12:03 AM on 10/17/2007

"That always happens." I love HHDL.

[Cautious]

11:24 PM on 10/16/2007

"Edsa:

"I'm not a fan of China, but the Dalai Lama needs to improve his democratic credentials too."

He was planning to do that when the Chinese invaded. And he certainly has since.

"The Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala is far from being democratic. It is a feudal theocracy. The penal practices there is medieval."

The first prime minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile was elected in 2001.

You could say that it was a feudal theocracy before this situation arose, but there's no land to have serfs on now. And as far as the penal practices "is" (sic) medieval- there is now no government to perform these penal practices.

"Lama-ruled Tibetan citizens were serfs. Gender equality and diversity are concepts that will not be conceived there in a thousand years."

First part was true. How can you make those predictions about gender equality and diversity?

"People thought that the Dalai Lama is a "man of God." Toooot! Wrong. He is not human but divine. Period. And he does not exactly think that Jesus' Daddy is the one true God. I'm an atheist, but, come on, Christian fundies, sort out your Lama-Christian theologies.""

And being "not human but divine" is much more complex than you think. Certainly it's too complex for you to say "Period." Tibetans don't think in such strictly categorical terms. Sometimes he's one, sometimes he's the other, sometimes he's both.

You need to remember that this society was cut off from the world for centuries, and for it to have been a medieval, feudal theocracy is no huge surprise. But this Dalai Lama was born into this situation. He had to assume temporal power when he was a teenager. A close and open-minded reading of the history of Tibet shows a tendency toward modernization beginning a generation or two before this man was born.

If he was the leader of a medieval feudal theocracy with crude penal practices, why do you suppose he got the Nobel Peace Prize?

[MagisterLudi]

11:32 AM on 10/17/2007

DL got the Nobel Prize because he never preaches hatred and intolerance, and always preaches compassion even towards his so-called enemies.

You want to know what hatred and stupidity does to people?

Just read the comments in this thread. And this is supposed to be the "liberal" representatives of this country.

[zendem1]

11:00 PM on 10/16/2007

"Heh Heh.I seen that guy comin in here wearin a dress..I figured he was one of them ho-mos.Cheney, what i do next?"

[zendem1]

10:55 PM on 10/16/2007

The President said, "Heh heh..Dolly! What happened to your big bazoombas? And I wanted you to sing "Hard Candy Christmas". And you changed yer name! Dang Dolly..what I call you now?"

[DMcD]

09:44 PM on 10/16/2007

The Dalai Lama best "watch-out" when holding hands or otherwise making personal contact with Bush ---- Bush's sociopathically oriented dementia appears to be contagious ---- look what happened to McCain after he "hugged" Bush !!!!

[SeconLine]

09:29 PM on 10/16/2007

BLOCK THAT METAPHOR!

"We in no way want to stir the pot and make China feel we are sticking a stick in their eye," White House press secretary Dana Perino said.

[Pol123]

09:17 PM on 10/16/2007

Utter example of YING and YANG