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To be a Buddhist in China has NOT been easy. As a Buddhist, and as a Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama has experienced the disintegration of a "Buddhist empire", exile and has been falsely accused of subversion. He has experienced sufferings which could not be experienced by others. In life, he had experienced and embodied "To be a Buddhist in China has NOT been easy". If the depth and scope of the sufferings of the Dalai Lama, for sentient beings, are regarded as the impetus for inspiring and encouraging every Buddhist's practice and spiritual sublimation, then the Dalai Lama fully deserves to be the representative and leader of worldwide Buddhists. At the transient life arena, the one playing the role of the tyrant who forced the Dalai Lama to leave the great snowy mountains, happened to be Mao Ze-dong. Mao Ze-dong left this difficult-to-handle nationality issue, the "Tibet issue" to Deng Xiao-ping. As the overall powerful figure, the chief architect in the reform and opening up of China, Deng Xiao-ping, facing this complicated nationality issue handed down by history, despite applying all his might, treading extremely carefully, hard-working and taking it seriously, being open and lenient, still failed to get anywhere. Facing the instruments of dictatorship: army, police, jail, bullets, electrocuting truncheons etc., some fearless Tibetans and some devout lamas loyal to the Dalai Lama, still, holding high the snowy mountain lion flags, charged onto the main streets of Lhasa. . . . The feeling, the situation, the tragically heroic scene, was no less than when Mao Ze-dong "peacefully" "liberated" Tibet in the fifties. Countless Tibetans, for the sake of protecting their religious and political leader, willingly used their flesh and blood, to tackle the bullets of the Chinese army . . . |
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