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Respectfully, to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
Your Holiness,
All the friends
and students in our Buddhist welfare society unflinchingly
support Tibet and our Tibetan friends' righteous cause of asserting
genuine Tibetan cultural and spiritual autonomy under Your leadership.
For us, overwhelmingly
Chinese, racially, in fact, we express our strong
confidence in the pragmatism and wisdom of Your "Middle-Path"
approach of peaceful engagement with China, so consistently delivered and offered
in the European Parliament, the United States Congress and
the world's distinguished bodies.
Defying razor sharp
clarity and acknowledging the disputes of even noted
historians, the convulated controversy, in history, of
Tibet's supposed political independence from or
dependence upon China should, as You advised, be left aside
for settlement first of the present pressing concerns.
We live in a Chinese-majority
Singapore. Our family, whether immediate or distant, are
Chinese. We have received a thorough education in our Mother
Tongue. We speak and write fluently in Mandarin Chinese and many
of us speak and understand not one, but at least two of the extant
Chinese dialects prevalent in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Hainan and other
such southern provinces of China. We are proud of our
Chinese heritage and we honour fully the sacrifices, so many
times in blood and tears, the love and accumulated wisdom of
our Chinese forefathers.
Nevertheless, at
the risk of facing dire or not consequences for diverging
from misguided understandings and opinions due to deliberate
or not manipulations of public access to information, we felt
strongly that we, as Buddhists, have a moral obligation to
stand up and not just to stand but to speak, loud and clear
and fearlessly for truth and for justice.
Your Holiness,
the Tibetans who vandalize and hit out have disobeyed You. They
wanted to die for You and they wanted to fight for You
but You, in the end, as the Buddha's ordained Sangha, can never
acquiese to their acts of violence. We feel their hurt
and pain as disowned children.
For Your integrity
and honour, Your courage and strength, holding firm against
the unspeakable grievances for violence and struggle, the
Buddha Himself shall know and shall rejoice.
We weep for the Buddha's
monks and nuns humiliated and brutalized, we tear for
the valiant warrior slashed and coldly shot, we cry
for the orphaned Tibetan girl, lost and forsaken to
eke out her remaining years on earth, alone.
For our Tibetan friends
who so perished with Your holy picture hidden behind bloodied
amulets, we rejoice that they shall find peace and eternal rest
in Lord Amitabha's Pure Land of Infinite Bliss.
The teenage
Chinese soldier recruited so that his younger sister
could complete her Final Year, cold, scared and confused,
thrown into Tibet's alien blizzards and ordered to shoot
the "Dalai Lama's splittist-clique" and "lackeys" but held
back, for a second, from the trigger, at someone, who, clasping
a bodhi-seed rosary, looked so much like his old mother
in Hunan, so often seen kneeling in their village's shrine
for Guan Yin, the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, the common protector
of the Tibetans and Chinese since time immemorial.
For him and his
comrades with their thousands of stories, untold, side-lined and
forgotten, we offer them into Your fold and protection.
Your Holiness, political
leaders, like all mother sentient beings and the office lady, fear
for their jobs, their families and their names. Surveys have taught
them that economic buoyancies could keep them in their ornate
seats, hence, careful manicure of news and strategic
embraces to rising markets.
Advisors and political
burdens have edged some to ruthless and pitiless decimation,
complete if achievable, to perceived or real dissent and
have blinded out human decency, propriety, idealism and
common sense. For these, they have remunerated themselves
with inexhaustible sins, hell and hell.
The First Panchen
Lama teaches us and says, "Oh, venerable compassionate
Gurus, we seek Your blessings that all karmic debts, obstacles
and sufferings of mother sentient beings may without exception
ripen upon us right now. May we give our happiness and virtues
to others and thereby invest all beings in bliss."
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You have bestowed
the highest tantric initiations to all the highest spiritual heads
of all the Tibetan Buddhist lineages and especially, You
are the Teacher of every spiritual guide of our society.
For all Tibetan Buddhists
without exception, even if just technically, You are the
Divine Lord and King of All Mandalas, Lord Buddha Vajradhara Himself
whose Lotus Feet, the crowns of every Tibetan Buddhist
Heads honour and prostrate.
For all disciples
of Lord Buddha Shakyamuni and in fact, the great majority
of the civilised sphere, You are the Buddha's ordained bhikshu,
the face and speaker for Buddhism in the world, the world's
moral compass and conscience.
Your Holiness, at
Dharamsala, You have looked at us in the eye and told us that
our late Guru's disciples are also Your disciples. You told
us You will take care of us and everyone in our society until
Enlightenment is attained. Please accept everything we can
offer. We give You our hearts. Take care of us, take care
of all mother sentient beings, lost, in this life, the next
and the bardo.
kunga nyima
( bb ) & all disciples-students @ Charitable
Assistance Society
belonging
to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
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