Comments on: The Dalai Lama’s Letter to John F. Kennedy https://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2011/03/02/the-dalai-lamas-letter-to-john-f-kennedy/ Jamyang Norbu's blog Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 By: dolma https://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2011/03/02/the-dalai-lamas-letter-to-john-f-kennedy/#comment-10415 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 07:35:10 +0000 http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/?p=1672#comment-10415 yes justin,how can you proof that it wasn’t JFK signature and of course president of America don’t have time to sit and write reply in his own style of writing.like you think..

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By: Justin https://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2011/03/02/the-dalai-lamas-letter-to-john-f-kennedy/#comment-9422 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:44:43 +0000 http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/?p=1672#comment-9422 This is awful. Not only is this not written in JFK’s style, but it’s definitely not his signature either! Not even close. Sucks.

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By: Covering Letter https://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2011/03/02/the-dalai-lamas-letter-to-john-f-kennedy/#comment-8965 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 08:44:13 +0000 http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/?p=1672#comment-8965 Thank you for a nice Historical document and it is fascinating to see a document like that in the present time.Historical to fate under the British.
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kasey

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By: Tsetan Hishey https://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2011/03/02/the-dalai-lamas-letter-to-john-f-kennedy/#comment-8720 Sun, 15 May 2011 11:23:19 +0000 http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/?p=1672#comment-8720 Thank you Jamyang la for sharing this.

It continues to be evident even today that the Dalai Lama continues to travel and share his heart for this cause and for the tibetan struggle to gain freedom particularly america. It would be unfair on our part to say that they don’t have their interests, what ever it may be. It could always be argued from all aspects but we’d get no where, despite all claims that america is the world’s police. They’re hands are as equally tied as the next countries.

I think every tibetan deep in their hearts feels the same pain and anguish of His Holiness. Every tibetan is trying to do something about this cause in what ever limited capacity they can.

Tibet’s fate is in the hands of God. What we need to do is continue to pray. History records the fate of so many countries being under the British raj. I would like to take particularly india as an example. The British ruled India for almost for 200 years. Like so, Israel was also under ruled by the ancient Egyptains for about 400 to 430 years. My intention to write this today is not to say its ok to be ruled by another nation despite inhumanity, but China’s time will also come. It may not come today, tomorrow, or in our generation, but let us be reassured it will come. Despite a chaotic and disturbed world good has always prevailed. We need to find comfort in this. Our people need to be wise and start loving our own people instead of working for ourselves. We need to respect our leaders and each other and need to be a committed nation with hope that when that day arrives we are ready.

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By: shelly https://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2011/03/02/the-dalai-lamas-letter-to-john-f-kennedy/#comment-8719 Sun, 15 May 2011 02:17:44 +0000 http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/?p=1672#comment-8719 “peace and independence may be secured for Tibet and HER people.”
i thought Tibet was phayul…fatherland

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By: PRC Hiking Team https://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2011/03/02/the-dalai-lamas-letter-to-john-f-kennedy/#comment-8615 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:04:45 +0000 http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/?p=1672#comment-8615 Thank you Jamyang la for the letters.

These PRC hikers are very aggressive for sure. 😉 Look how far and long they hiked to get to Tibet and conquer it. Sad we didn’t get them.

LOL Sonam la.

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By: sonam https://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2011/03/02/the-dalai-lamas-letter-to-john-f-kennedy/#comment-8587 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:02:49 +0000 http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/?p=1672#comment-8587 Hi Jamyang Norbu la,

Tashi Delek!~

I read some of you articles, those are great!
I think you have to save these articles in other place. because PRC Hikers are very aggressive.

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By: dan johns https://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2011/03/02/the-dalai-lamas-letter-to-john-f-kennedy/#comment-8585 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 07:48:01 +0000 http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/?p=1672#comment-8585 This is an amazing piece of history .you can tell the dalai lama has sevoted his all life for that purpose and he is truely a real leader .

i will send this link to all my friends this must be distributed every where possibley .

Dan.j

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By: ganchenpa https://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2011/03/02/the-dalai-lamas-letter-to-john-f-kennedy/#comment-8576 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:14:21 +0000 http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/?p=1672#comment-8576 It is more meningful to read aritcle below than looking at American shit

A STRUGGLE IN TRAVAIL
Dawa T. Norbu

originally published as the editorial of Tibetan Review (Feb.-March 1975)

It is now twenty-five years since the Chinese invasion, and sixteen years since the Lhasa Uprising when China turned Tibet, for all practical purposes, into a Chinese province. During this period Tibet has witnessed the biggest upheavals in her history, and Tibetan response to such challenges has also changed according to changing circumstances and situations.

It is only inevitable that the old-fashioned Khampa-type of resistance should come to an end. For one thing that gallant but cumbersome generation is ageing, but more importantly the Tibetans have acquired in the course of their protracted struggle valuable experience. They have learned new ideas and new techniques of guerilla warfare. Now with the emergence of a new generation of Tibetan freedom fighters both in and outside Tibet, the whole conception of Tibetan nationalism has changed. If the ageing generation fought for the glory of their faith, the new generation is at pains to view the struggle in terms of nationalism as it is prevalent in the third wolrd today. Although there is some confusion at present as it usually happens during a transition, the new conception of Tibetan national liberation struggle has the potential to acquire greater clarity and in due course to crystalise into something concrete.

One of the tragedies of the Tibetan struggle has been the agonising dilemma between a total armed struggle and a ‘peaceful means’. In the past both the nature of the Tibetan leadership and prudence preferred a ‘peaceful means’. As such the struggle has been characterised by a conspicuous lack of hatred against the enemy; at best it is a strange love-hate struggle. It is a monumental tribute to the all-embracing compassion preached by Tibetan Buddhism. But while praiseworthy in the realm of ethics, it has played a significant negative role in the Tibetan freedom struggle.

While Muslim leaders can declare jahed against their national enemies, the Dalai Lama has made no such declaration: he has so far stuck to his belief. His stand is to be defended both on grounds of pragmatism and his non-violent creed. While Arafat forced his way into the UNO and occupy a seat in the world body, the Tibetans in exile continue to petition and pray. It is true the Palestinian Liberation Organisation is being greatly aided and armed by the Arab countries, while the Tibetans are not so fortunate. But unless a movement is at least moving in some direction and unless its leaders can demonstrate their capacity and show promising results, no external aid can be expected.
No power wants to be involved uselessly in a cause that shows no substantive results. It is up to those who are commited to a cause to convince other friendly powers by their demonstrative results, not by pleading.
At the same time to ignore the serious handicaps of the Tibetan struggle would be unfair. In Tibet, for example, although the nature and dialectic of the struggle has changed remarkably for the better, the young freedom fighters face greater difficulties than ever before. The Chinese occupation troops are deeply entrenched and Chinese colonial power is considerably consolidated during the past 25 years. This means that the Tibetan populace is kept under an efficient military subjugation and the chances of revolt are minimised by terror. Added to all this is that the Tibetan population is scattered over a continental area which makes mass mobilisation difficult. All thesepartly explain the phenomena that resistance exists mostly in pockets and generally lacking co-ordination.

But the redeeming feature of the new trend is that it is not the old Tibetans who have now more or less resigned to their fate but the young, many of whom are educated in China, who are now spearheading a more effective, though on a smaller and less colourful scale, resistance against the Chinese overlordship in Tibet. Their perception of nationalism is clear and simple: Tibet belongs to the Tibetan people. And the dialectic of their struggle is that they see an ‘antagonistic contradiction’ between what they have learnt in Chinese socialist schools and what the Chinese actually practise in Tibet.

There is nothing surprising about the emerging new trend in Tibetan resistance against the Chinese. The recent history of Marxism indicates the Marxist ideology in a closed society in which it must necessarily function if it is to paradoxically succeed, has promoted more nationalism and chauvinism than proletarian internationalism. Sadly proletarian internationalism and exploitation-free society remain as romantic and remote as the pious goals of various religions. Such lofty goals are reverendly shelved away in the time future and therefore do not concern much except for occasional invocations. What matters most and hence shapespolicy thinking is what matters now and here: ‘national interest’

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By: shawoe https://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2011/03/02/the-dalai-lamas-letter-to-john-f-kennedy/#comment-8571 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:33:04 +0000 http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/?p=1672#comment-8571 Its was a piece of history that when exile tibet was too young to take a gaint step in deciding the future of our country and as so his holiness .lets not repeat the history and breath a fresh air in our struggle for Tibetan issue.

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