China has some seriously evil leaders.
No mate, they are just practical people with pragmatic agendas.
China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet
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Re: China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet
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> ... and still discriminates and kills Muslims on a massive scale, even after partition. As an Indian, I'm shocked to hear this. Did you ever live in India? "Massive scale", my ass. At least India didn't wipe out its population in a "Cultural Revolution"... Do you want to talk about Falun Gong? The harvesting of organs from FG prisoners?
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Acknowledged. Sometimes I get stuck in "reddit" mode after switch from reading reddit to HN. :-/
Re: China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet
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Thanks for sharing the photos. There is one showing a metal rooftop with logs and rocks on top. Why are the logs and rocks on top of the roof?
Not OP but I'd guess they're to help keep the sheet metal from blowing off the roof.
I've seen the same sort of thing in pre-industrial-era Japanese house design. My guess, is that although the roof is fixed down, it helps to have it also weighted down with big rocks when the wind picks up. Japan gets typhoons, and I think Tibet is kinda windy on account of being high up.
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That's a pretty uninformed understanding of US culture and history, the western legal system dates back far longer than just a few hundred years (over a millennium). A more apt comparison is the post cultural revolution government, which occurred during the last century.
> the western legal system dates back far longer than just a few hundred years (over a millennium). But not western democracy. Notable mentions are Greece and Rome, but those cultures also became history.
And the Roman Republic lasted a while, but it was eventually replaced by the Empire.
Re: China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet
#245Allow me to share some of my perspectives. I grow up in Seda County in the late 70 and early 80s, and am intimately familiar with culture there. Tibetan Buddhism is not what people in the west think what it is. It is actually quite repressive and brutal. After 1950s, many regular Tibetans were glad to worship the new religion of Chairman Mao instead. Yes, it was true. Chairman Mao was worshiped as one of major Gods a…
Tibetan Buddhism is not what it seems and is actually very far from true Buddhism. Their culture, rituals/ceremonies are full of black magic and many call upon spirits. Many tourists unknowingly attend such rituals (where milk and other offerings are made) without knowing what's really happening. One should read up more on the history of Tibetan Buddhism, particularly the colored sects.
Tibetan monks are not as innocent, naive or pure as the world think.