[lbo-talk] Letter to Amy Goodman on Dal[a]i Lama

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

>I sent this out once, but under a different subject heading. I was 
>curious if anyone else had heard Goodman's report on "his holiness' 
>yesterday, seth, doug?...
>
>steve

Yeah, I heard it.  Appalling, I thought.  Aren't we supposed to be against 
theocracy?  Tibetan Buddhism may well have advanced from the 
drinking-from-the-skulls-of-slain-serfs mode Carrol touches on, but it was only 60 years ago.  
One can oppose the Chinese actions there and still not get all excited about how 
wonderful things were before, no matter how much people would like to 
fantasize that Buddhism as practiced in Tibet before the Chinese is unrelated to the 
brutal feudalism that prevailed there.

Jenny Brown