Between surging dragon and suspicious sacred cow Sri Lanka’s choices

[Götterdämmerung]

loss of political autonomy => demographic minority => cultural annihilation
depending on who you talk to you will get a different answer
In my opinion they are in the process of cultural annihilation

Dalai Lama has been kicked out. Scores of monastries and artifacts have been destroyed
200,000 Tibetians have been exiled.

AFAIK, the DL fled with the help of the CIA to India. And long before that, he had a high position in the Chinese gov. IIRC. Do you have documents that shows that the Chinese gov. went to the Potala palace and forced him to leave or a letter of the Chinese gov. asking him to leave or else? BTW, the DL figure is a rather young part of Tibetan culture. Tibetan culture streches back a few thousand years and has been closely connected to other sinitic tribes.

Scores of monasteries, temples, churches, mosques etc. in all over China have been destroyed, so this has nothing to do with targeting Tibetans. Unless you think that Tibetans are more worthy to get mentioned and others are less worthy, that's racist!

200,000 have been exiled? Did the Chinese gov. asked them to leave or drove them by buses to the border of India and asked them to go over to the other side?

Now, I'm asking you the third time, what is the definition of Tibetan culture?

 

[wiseone2]

AFAIK, the DL fled with the help of the CIA to India. And long before that, he had a high position in the Chinese gov. IIRC. Do you have documents that shows that the Chinese gov. went to the Potala palace and forced him to leave or a letter of the Chinese gov. asking him to leave or else? BTW, the DL figure is a rather young part of Tibetan culture. Tibetan culture streches back a few thousand years and has been closely connected to other sinitic tribes.

Scores of monasteries, temples, churches, mosques etc. in all over China have been destroyed, so this has nothing to do with targeting Tibetans. Unless you think that Tibetans are more worthy to get mentioned and others are less worthy, that's racist!

200,000 have been exiled? Did the Chinese gov. asked them to leave or drove them by buses to the border of India and asked them to go over to the other side?

Now, I'm asking you the third time, what is the definition of Tibetan culture?

Culture as defined by ethnic Tibetians

Tibetian monasteries have been targeted for political reasons.

people who have not gone to exile have been tortured, imprisoned and killed. what do you want them to do ? Wait for the police to show up.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Culture as defined by ethnic Tibetians

Tibetian monasteries have been targeted for political reasons.

people who have not gone to exile have been tortured, imprisoned and killed. what do you want them to do ? Wait for the police to show up.

AFAIK, the Tibetan ethnic has been growing rather healthily due to better nutrition and health care and having a longer average life expectancy than Indians. If that is the definition of annihilation, the Chinese gov. has been doing a rather pathetic and lousy job. The Chinese gov. Should probably ask India for advise.

So, Tibetan monasteries have been targeted for political reasons. What reasons were the other monasteries, churches and temples all over China targeted for? Last time I went to China and met quite a lot of lama monks in a two different monasteries somewhere in Qinghai province and in Tibet.

Tortured, imprisoned, even killed, wow, even dead people can go to exile. Either India has some miracle potions that can bring dead people back to life or the killed people were not so much killed.

You still couldn't answer what part of Tibetan culture has been annihilated.

 

[wiseone2]

Well it doesn't have to be a zero sum game, Sri Lanka can be both, Spiritually, linguistically and ethnically connected to the sub continent but in trade and investments connected to the rest of the world, The island isn't new to to it either, Through millennia it has had a very robust trade policy both to the West and the East as a hub in the middle of global trading routes ancient and new

It's only the Indian perspective that seem to have a zero sum game, Which is laughable in a globalized world

Btw similarly to Switzerland used it's mountainous terrain, The island had used ocean as a barrier over thousands of years to keep its territorial integrity against threats, Against massive odds in numbers coming from Southern parts of the sub continent.. So keeping neutrality isn't a major issue as long as other parties involved are mature enough in their outlook in geo politics

Well the biggest question is whether Sri Lanka is going to give China military bases for a few dollars
It does make a difference either way

 

[nature is]

They have lost political autonomy. They will be a demographic minority soon. after that look for their culture to disappear



There are two to three chinese travellers and one greek visitor to India. They recreated our entire history.
You can try this fairy tale on someone else

Indologist took several hundreds & thousands of un-organized records and put them in historical volumes

I never said religious texts are historical records

There were more than just those Chinese and Greek. Indologists reconstruct history, no one can recreate history. Keep twisting!

Most of your texts are religious works, not record with specifics. They were not even written in their era, but were orally passed for many centuries. Yes, India has records and it's merely organizing them, yet it can only be done 2000 years later in the 19th century with foreign archive. keep deluding yourself.

 

[wiseone2]

More than just those Chinese and Greek, there were more. Indologists reconstruct history, no one can recreate history. Keep twisting!

Most of your texts are religious works, not record with specifics. They were not even written in their era, but were orally passed for many centuries. Yes, India has records and it's merely organizing them, yet it can only be done 2000 years later in the 19th century with foreign archive. keep deluding yourself.

You are the delusional one. You never explained how four foreigners can reconstruct 2000+ years of history

 

[hans]

its mutual benefit..
Sri Lanka want economy development and China needs port in India oceans..
trade what you have for what you need.

Well the biggest question is whether Sri Lanka is going to give China military bases for a few dollars
It does make a difference either way

 

[nature is]

You are the delusional one. You never explained how four foreigners can reconstruct 2000+ years of history

I stated what is historiography right from beginning. If India has its own record, you need not wait 2000 years later in the 19th century to reconstruct your history by foreign indologists with foreign archive.

 

[AndrewJin]

Choose India, choose building more toilets and encourage low-skill low-education people to wander around on the street doing disgusting things.

Choose China, choose building electrics bus and high speed railways.

 

[wiseone2]

I stated what is historiography right from beginning. If India has its own record, you need not wait 2000 years later in the 19th century to reconstruct your history by foreign indologists with foreign archive.

There is no foreign archive. What part of it did you not comprehend ?

three chinese writers who lived in India for less than 50 years cannot reconstruct 2000 years of Indian history. they would be hard pressed to document everything of interest that want on. Megasthenes was in India for as little as 5 years and maybe a maximum of 20 years