Tenzin Nyidon
DHARAMSHALA, Sept. 17: During the ongoing session of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile on Tuesday, discussions centered around a defamatory video message calling for the assassination of the foremost exiled spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama, which has been circulating on micro-messaging apps. The issue surfaced during deliberations on the activities of the Department of Security.
The issue was raised by MP Mingyur Dorjee, who expressed deep concerns over the malicious remarks being made about His Holiness on various social media platforms. “Whenever I come across such things, I feel deeply disturbed and saddened. We must pursue legal actions against those making such comments,” he remarked.
In her address, the Minister of the Department of Security, Gyari Dolma revealed that the Kashag (Cabinet) is aware of the video message circulating online. She described the content as particularly shocking, given that the remarks did not come from Chinese sources, but from a Tibetan individual. The video advocated for the assassination of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the dismantling of the Tibetan Government in Exile, claiming that only through such actions could Rangzen (independence) be achieved. “This message is completely unacceptable,” Minister Gyari Dolma stated, adding that the Department would take legal action against the person responsible for the incendiary message.
MP Dawa Tsering also raised additional concerns, noting that such incidents have been increasing over time. He emphasised that these individuals, driven by personal political agendas, are calling for the assassination of His Holiness and the destruction of the exile government. “As the Security Minister pointed out, we need to act rather than just investigate. If anything happens to His Holiness in the future, the responsibility will rest on those making such comments,” MP Tsering warned. He urged both the Kashag and the Department of Security to take decisive action, no matter the scale.
Fellow MP Tsering Lhamo echoed these concerns, describing the video as a “direct threat.” She called on the Department of Security to consider the individual a “terrorist”, stressing that the individual aims to intimidate His Holiness, a global symbol of peace for Tibetans. MP Lhamo urged the Department to investigate the person’s whereabouts and take appropriate legal action through the authorities in the relevant jurisdiction, appealing for swift and decisive measures in line with the rule of law.
Minister Gyari Dolma acknowledged these shared concerns, noting that the Department of Security has already gathered information on the individual behind the defamatory message, including his identity, location, and activities. “We have requested the representative from the region where this person resides to monitor his actions and explore possible legal measures, and we are currently awaiting their response,” she explained. The Minister added that once the parliamentary session concludes, the Department will seek guidance from the Kashag on how best to address the situation.
7 Responses
The U-May Lam people have been weaponising the Dalai Lama for a long long time to bludgeon Rangzen advocates by accusing them of disloyalty bordering on physical attacks and smearing their reputation. Rangzen is birthright of every Tibetan. All Tibetans who are advocating Rangzen are loyal to their country ཕ་ཡུལ་ Just like no one would relinquish their home to a home invader who throws you out through sheer force will never give up on his home no matter how powerful the usurper may be but fight with all his might to regain ownership of one’s own home, Rangzen fighters are people who cannot and will not relinquish our country which has been bequeathed to us by our illustrious three emperors known ཆོས་རྒྱལ་མེ་དཔོན་རྣམ་གསུམ་ (the three founding Dharma Rajas). Here is a speech of the Dalai Lama to the Tibetans in New York sometime in June 1997 reported by Tibet Times issue 11 2nd year ལོ་༢ གྲངས་༡༡
རང་བཙན་སྐོར་ལ་མཐའ་གཅིག་ཏུ་རྩོད་མཁན་དང་ (those who are determined to fight for independence),
རང་བཙན་གཙང་མ་ཤོད་དགོས་ཀྱི་འདུག་ཟེར་བའི་བསམ་ཚུལ་མང་པོ་ཡོང་གི་འདུག་ (there are those say, we must speak of independence-there are a range of opinions).རང་བཙན་རྩོད་ན་་ཡག་པོ་རེད་ (it’s good to fight for independence). ང་ཚོས་ཐོབ་ཐང་ཤོད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་ (we are talking about our rights). ཁྱེད་རང་ཚོའི་བསམ་ཚུལ་དེ་ཧ་ཅང་ཡག་པོ་རེད་ (your thoughts are highly commendable). ཡིན་ན་ཡང་་ང་ཚོས་རང་བཙན་སྒྲུབ་པ་ལ་ག་འདྲ་བྱས་ནས་སྒྲུབ་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་ (However, how are we going to achieve independence). རྒྱ་མི་ག་འདྲ་བྱས་ནས་ཕུད་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རེད་ (how are we going to remove the Chinese). Then he goes on to say, བོད་ནང་གི་དངོས་ཡོད་གནས་ཚུལ་ནི་ད་ལྟ་ཟུངས་ཟད་ཀྱི་ནད་པ་སྨན་པས་བོར་བ་ནང་བཞིན་གྱི་དཀའ་ངལ་ནང་ལ་བསྡད་ཡོད་པ་དང་ རྒྱ་མི་ཤིན་ཏུ་འབོར་ཆེན་ཞིག་བོད་ནང་ལ་སླེབས་བསྡད་ཡོད་རེད་ བར་སྐབས་ཤིག་ནས་རྒྱ་མིའི་དཔོན་རིགས་ཁ་ཤས་ཀྱིས་ བོད་རིགས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་དང་རིག་གཞུང་དེ་ཇི་སྲིད་གནས་པ་དེ་སྲིད་དུ་རྒྱ་བོད་ཁ་བྲལ་དུ་འགྲོ་བའི་ཉེན་ཁ་འདུག་ དེའདྲ་ཡིན་ཙང་བོད་ཀྱི་ཆོས་དང་རིག་གཞུང་དམིགས་གསལ་་ཅན་ཞིག་ཡོད་པ་འདི་མེད་པ་བཟོ་དགོས་་ཀྱི་འདུག་ཅེས་དངོས་སུ་བཤད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པ་རེད་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཛ་དྲག་དེ་འདྲ་ཞིག་གི་འོག་ཏུ་ང་ཚོས་ལོ་ལྔ་ལ་ཁུངས་འཁྱོལ་བ་འདུག་གམ་ ལོ་བཅུ་ལ་ཁུངས་འཁྱོལ་བ་འདུག་གམ་ ལོ་ཉི་ཤུ་ལ་ཁུངས་འཁྱོལ་བ་འདུག་གམ་ ལོ་སུམ་ཅུ་ལ་ཁུངས་འཁྱོལ་ཞིག་ཡིན་ན་གནས་ཚུལ་ཐ་དད་རེད་ (the reality is Tibet is suffering like a deserted frail patient. There is a large Chinese population. Recently, some Chinese officials have been openly saying unless Tibetan Buddhism and its linguistic unique heritage is destroyed, China and Tibet will seperate from each other. In such an urgent situation, can we survive five years, ten years, twenty years- if we survive thirty years, IT’S A DIFFERENT STORY. From this speech, we can deduce that the Dalai Lama saw a very bleak picture of a Tibet that is stripped of its religion, culture, language and identity if Tibetans seek independence but if the Tibetans assure them of Tibet’s intention to remain in association with China, the Chinese communists will stop the wanton destruction of Tibet’s religious, cultural and linguistic heritage but as we know it, no matter what the Tibetans did to assure the Chinese communists by envisaging the U-Mey Lam and clarification of what it entails, THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS HAVE IN FACT ONLY HEIGHTENED SURVEILLANCE, SUPPRESSION AND TOTAL BAN ON THE LEARNING OF TIBETAN LANGUAGE, RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES AND A MILLION CHILDREN FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM THEIR HOMES AS YOUNG AS 4-5 YEAR OLDS TO BE HAULED INTO COLONIAL BOARDING SCHOOLS TO BE INDOCTRINATED INTO COMMUNISM, HAN CULTURE AND LANGUAGE! The autonomy package which was to instil assurance in the mind of the Chinese communists has had ZERO IMPACT! This is because the Chinese communists had decided right from the beginning that Tibetans have to be assimilated into the Chinese Han melting pot like the Manchus. The Manchus also had their culture and language and ruled China but today, their language is dead and they have disappeared as a people! Therefore, there is no survival of Tibet’s distinct identity under Chinese occupation. Hoping and investing in a so called autonomy is killing ourselves slowly like the parody of the burning frog. The Chinese communists will incrementally destroy every vestige of Tibet and make the Tibetans totally disappear like the Manchus. Look at the what happened with the 1951 so called “17 Point Treaty” where all the monasteries and religious traditions were supposed to be respected but they systematically destroyed every monastery and killed the monks and finally dismantled the Dalai Lama’s Government. They did the same to Hong Kong. Promised autonomy under the “one country-two systems” but has been completely reneged upon all pledges made to the British Government in the 1988 Sino-British Declaration! Today, Hong Kong is a police state with the best and brightest having fled the territory to free countries. Under such circumstances, it’s absurd and foolhardy to think the Chinese communists will behave otherwise in another episode. They have proved themselves to be utterly untrustworthy beyond redemption. The geopolitical situation has changed since the time, the Dalai Lama announced his autonomy bit. Today, communist China is the enemy of most of the western democracies and they are robustly challenging Chinese aggression and expansionism across the world. In the event of a war with the US either in Taiwan or Phillipines, the Chinese will suffer great loss and will not be able to take Taiwan by force. The US has cobbled up a string of like-minded allies who will prevent the capture of Taiwan by any means. Taiwan is America’s front in Asia and will not allow to be swallowed by communist China. Such a war will weaken communist China and even cause the overthrow of the CCP. Tibetans will have to wait for such scenarios. India and China during the Nehru era was Chini-Hindi Bhai Bhai but today in Modi’s era, it’s Chini-Hindi Bye Bye! India realises it has lost a peaceful neighbour in Tibet owing to Nehru’s deranged phantasy. India has also become a powerful country and has ambition to achieve super power status. It is in India’s national interest for an independent Tibet to secure its northern borders for perpetuity. That is why an independent Tibet is in the interest of the Tibetan people, India’s national security and peace in Asia. The US has helped Tibet and continues to help Tibet and will do so in the foreseeable future.
Coming to the most important part of the Dalai Lama’s speech, he states very clearly: ལོ་གསུམ་བཅུ་ལ་ཁུངས་འཁྱོལ་བ་ཞིག་བྱུང་ན་གནས་ཚུལ་ཐ་དད་རེད་ He had proposed the U-Mey Lam as a temporary fixture to save the Tibetan cultural, religious and linguistic heritage of Tibet from Chinese communist destruction and if it survives the Chinese onslaught for thirty years, we can then change the course!!! Therefore, since it’s more than thirty years since the U-May Lam policy was announced, it’s time to change its course of Tibetans freedom movement as the Dalai Lama had envisaged and stated aloud during a talk in New York in 1997. No independence advocate should blame the Dalai Lama because it is clear from his statement, that the Dalai Lama was never against independence advocates and in fact praised their stand as “highly commendable”!
What a true warrior? Coward and a shameful act, hiding behind a computer if it is Tibetans who have been saying this. These people need to be caught and publicly lashed 10,000 times butt naked and handed over to the Indian police for a new treatment.
I haven’t come across any information on this case, but if true, it’s absolutely condemnable. His Holiness is the revered spiritual leader and symbol of unity for Tibetans worldwide. Any attempt to harm His Holiness’s reputation is deeply disturbing. The individual responsible must be brought to justice in accordance with the law, and we must remain vigilant against such malicious attempts to undermine our unity. This could be another CCP ploy to divide our community; let’s remain united and vigilant.
I disagree with His Holiness on a few issues, I believe the Middle Way approach was a mistake as our adversary has consistently shown the world that their approach to negotiating is offering nothing and taking everything.
We have therfore diluated our aims for nothing?
I also disagree with His Holiness on the issues of the deity, this issue has ripped our people apart and has achieved everything the Chinese would want to see.
But most importantly, I believe that His Holiness has been a blessing for our people, we are fortunate that his presence has given our people refuge across the world,the institutions that he has built to preserve our culture & religion will keep the Tibetan identity alive.
I applaud any Tibetan voicing their opinion, but I condemn those that advocate violence against His Holiness.
This is the typical well-meaning but half-baked opinion of a few deluded smartalecs who think they know better than the HH. For those who think that it was ever at HH’s or our discretion to choose Rangzen or Autonomy, as if picking between gulabjamun and rasgula at the dessert table, are unaware that we were never in a bargaining position to do so. Right from 1949, when the first Tibetan delegate went to the UN, the world has rebuffed our claim of nationhood. Apart from these token diplomatic stands, even as their ingrained geopolitical strategy, the West, India et al. have ALWAYS maintained China’s authority over Tibet. The West alias the world didn’t even dare to touch China in the 1950s-60s when it was crippled from a decade-long civil war, Korean War and a famine. The 1960s was the golden window to free Tibet , but the West did diddlysquat and instead reaffirmed China’s claim on Tibet. Inspite of all that, HH summoning great personal courage asserted the sovereignty of the Tibetan government and finally adopted the MW path at the West’s behest. And rubbing two brain cells together, your types need to think a lil harder. China stands to gain everything if they agree to MW, and get HH into Tibet. By appeasing the HH they calm the biggest thorn in their side and by giving autonomy to Tibet they can toot their horn as being a true non-Hanchauvinistic multi-national peoples republic. Despite their gruff rebuffs on the surface, it’s not China but some other players who are holding us hostage from reaching that deal now.
Two-bit Rangzen whisperers like you think you know better than HH who’s roiled day and night in the struggle. There’s a word called greenhorn in English, which fortuitously means the same as ‘green brains’ in Tibetan, you reveal yourself as one with your take on the deity when you talk as if the present DL raked up the issue unnecessarily. It’s an old issue and even the 13th DL had proscribed that deity. The 14th was compelled to disown it when some hard line Gelug supremacist lamas slighted the HH for receiving teachings from some Nyingma lamas. As the ecumenical leader of Tibet, HH rejected the deity as it stands for Gelug Puritanism, he did this after great thought and consideration not out of a whim as you think. If some don’t understand the Buddhist tenet of faith in the root guru’s command and relinquishing spirit propitiation for worldly gain, then they can continue with their cult. But they wreaked fatal violence and wasted no time in completely selling themselves to CCP, and consequently have been rightly ostracised from the Tibetan public. Don’t use hyperbole like it has ‘ripped our society apart’ to exaggerate a minuscule violent dissenting group. At least those cultists are blindsided by entrenched religious faith, but smartalecs like you’re even more ridiculous as you proclaim to know better despite your glaring ignorance.
Your name calling just explains everything about you.
Typical wimp copout. Ignore the substance of my argument and cry about the well-justified namecalling. This is not about what my somewhat haughty tone tells about me, or what your lameduck uninformed half-witted blabbering says about you. It’s about your uninformed takes on Rangzen and Shugden versus me stating the actual facts to demolish the holier-than-HH attitude you take as if you know better than HH.