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http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2007/11/29/who-dalai-lama.html
Who Is the Dalai Lama?
November 29, 2007 (LPAC)--In honor of President Merkel subjecting Germany to suicide by meeting with the Dalai Lama, thus undermining German relations with a leading trading partner in China, and President George W. Bush bestowing upon the Dalai Lama the Congressional Medal of Honor in October, and to those in the Congress who led this ignoble effort, we publish here a brief excerpt from a 1997 EIR article by Mike Billington and Paul Gallagher on the history of Tibet. The first section of the article, not included here, establishes the direct connection between the Tibetan tantric Buddhist sex cults and the Venetian-controlled hordes of Mongols who laid waste to Asia, Southwest Asia, and most of Europe in the 13th-14th Centuries. The article concludes:
- The British role -
In the closing days of the Qing Dynasty, with China under the effective control of British opium traders, the British moved into Tibet. A military mission from British India in 1903, led by Francis Younghusband, crushed all resistance, and imposed an "Anglo-Tibetan Convention," leaving a puppet Chinese leadership in command. The British nurtured the 13th Dalai Lama, and later the 14th (the current one), encouraging them to prevent development, to prevent even a single road from being built into Tibet. They wanted Tibet to be a total buffer between republican China and British India -- but, even more, they wanted to retain the "traditional culture" of Tibet, of "Shangri-la," the "Valhalla" of the Nazis, as the last bastion of the ideology of the Mongol hordes....
Before 1949, approximately 2 million Tibetans, an estimated one-fourth, entered the monkhood. The majority of those who were not monks were herdsmen or peasants, working as serfs on land owned by the government or by one of the thousands of monasteries. There was almost total illiteracy among the peasantry, and even, in the monkhood, only a small number were taught to read and write. Life was essentially unchanged from the era described above by the historians of the Tang Dynasty. Wooden plows and yaks were the only aid to a peasant's brute-force labor, and until the 20th century, there were no wheeled vehicles in the country. Justice was entirely at the whim of the nobility and the Dalai Lama, since there was no organized system of courts. Dismemberment was a common punishment for crimes. Polyandry was common, such that a wife was shared with all the brothers of a family. The corpses of the dead were cut up and fed to the dogs and the vultures, while human skulls and bones were used in rituals, as utensils and musical instruments. The art of Tibet reflects the fixation on death, subjugation of commoners by monstrous deities, and orgiastic "enlightenment."
But most revealing is the life of the monks themselves. At the age of about ten or twelve, young boys entered the monkhood. They immediately became the target of fierce competition between organized clubs of monks, fighting over who would get to use the boys for their homosexual pleasures. The clubs, rather like street gangs, with their own "colors" and costumes, were called dob-dobs. To get ahead rapidly in the religious hierarchy, a boy would need the "good luck" to be chosen by an older, established monk as his sex slave. This would assure advancement, although the boy would also have to service the friends of his owner/monk when so instructed.
The higher monks were pledged to celibacy, but that pertained only to restrictions against the penetration of females. Since the land was generally owned by the monasteries, or by the government-priesthood in the Dalai Lama's entourage, the monks would work as supervisors of the peasants and herdsmen, who belonged to their estates. Others ran businesses in Lhasa or in the villages, or were traders. The nation's wealth, although very limited, was entirely in the hands of the religious nobility.
The leading British Tibetan scholar and diplomat through the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Hugh Richardson, took up the cause of "Tibetan independence" from China, after the flight of the Dalai Lama to India in 1959. Richardson cried that "a heavy curtain has descended upon Tibet..., a state of cultural degeneration [!] to which this whole people has now been reduced." What Richardson and the British prize most in the old Tibet, as a model for the world, is captured by the closing statement of his 1968 book, A Cultural History of Tibet: "Apologists [for Chinese policy in Tibet] may point to claims of material and mechanical progress, but even if these benefits ever reach the Tibetan population, the fact remains they were not sought by the Tibetan people themselves, and ... represent the total negation of Tibetan civilization and culture."
