So, what’s going on in Tibet? I have heard that China is erasing Tibetan culture. What is a good response to that?

  • @jazzfes
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    13 years ago

    You can quote with a > symbol on a new line followed by a space.

    Thanks!

    No, I said that sex was a part of Tibetan Buddhism. I never said it was focused on sex – explicitly so – or that it was a bad thing, just that the possibility of sexual abuse in the temples existed.

    Sorry, but this still follows the same logic. The possibility of abuse exists in real life. So you alluding to it as a practice of a minority is sort of racist.

    Because it’s not a clear answer either way. I made sure not to authoritatively state that these body parts were taken from sacrifices, but that the question was open.

    It’s not really “open” from a Buddhist point of view. Sacrifices aren’t ok from a Buddhist POV.

    We’re talking about a nobility that gouged eyes out and amputated limbs as legal (not clerical) punishment.

    Or are we talking about a society that commits about 50% of “legal” murder through corporal punishment?

    I’m sure you’ll understand that I don’t feel like going through 3-4 lengthy Wikipedia articles and look through their whole list of sources.

    Not today. Take your time. Don’t bash groups in the meantime.

    all those practices that were abolished under the PRC

    I do still point to the exceptionally large amount of people killed by the PRC as part of the legal process. How are those justified?

    • Again I take issue to the fact that you claim I am bashing groups as a whole. I am exposing the Tibetan (ex-)nobility, the oppressors. Nobles and bourgeois are oppressors, serfs and proletarians are oppressed. I am not conflating the two classes.

      Amounting both to a single group, as if they shared the same interests and goals, is liberalism. And trying to bring it back to China’s capital punishment numbers – by linking to a Wikipedia page even – is really strange.

      Cheers.