Anti-Splittist Harmony

This is the authoritative jargon of China which imposes its voracious appetite upon a sovereign geography to greedily absorb it into its imperialist orbit, repressing a culture, a language and a religion, then insisting that any of the oppressed who resist its rule are harming the state by their 'splittist' ideology, when all China wants to do is create a harmonious relationship between people.

The Dalai Lama is an errant, irresponsible splittist.  He wishes to remove Tibet from China's sphere of influence and geographic ownership, insulting the given that China owns Tibet, an unforgivable sin on the part of a religious leader whose flight from his palace temple and his homeland spared his life. The lives of other Tibetans and their Buddhist priests have not been spared in China's determination to quell dissent.

Sending Han Chinese into Tibet to overwhelm the prevailing indigenous culture, and the military to tamp down dissent, China rules.  Tibetans must be very stubborn people, too proud of their heritage for their own good, for it has cost them dearly.  Their dearly beloved Dalai Lama must live in his compound in India to preserve their heritage and his life.

His gentle benedictions on the world at large, his concern for his people and their welfare under the kindly hobnailed boot of a tyrannical oppressor has gained him and his people huge international support by those wishing justice for Tibet.  But China is a giant among nations and where is there a champion willing to match it for determination and will?

Young Buddhists feel themselves to be that champion, as children are beginning to protest in the only way they know will bring world attention to their plight.  A fever of self-immolations has evinced itself with over 90 people setting themselves alight in areas of Tibet; Buddhist monks and young people.  The latest a 16-year-old schoolgirl, Wangchen Kyi.

Beijing, of course, accuses the Dalai Lama of approving of and instigating these acts of defiance in support of a free Tibet.  For his part, the Dalai Lama calmly corrects Beijing by reasserting his wish to see Tibet given not independence but autonomy, knowing that independence will never become reality, and hoping that autonomy may some day result from conscience pricked by remorse.

Tibetan monks engaging in a traditional monastic debate.

"I am quite certain those cases who sacrificed their own life for sincere motivation, for Buddha dharma, for well-being of the people, from the Buddhist view point, from the religious view point, it is 'positive'.  But if these activities are carried out with full anger, hatred, then wrong.  So it is difficult to judge.  But any way it is really very sad, very very sad."
Dalai Lama