Kailash und Tourismus - wo bleibt die Würde Chinas?

 

Versuch der chinesischen Verwaltung, 

den Kailash für den Tourismus auszubeuten.

 

... aus http://www.igfm-muenchen.de/tibet/ftc/2011/Woeser-Kailash.html

 

“Bitte gebietet der ’Entwicklung’ des Berges Kailash und des Manasarovar-Sees zu Profitzwecken Einhalt“ von Frau Woeser.

"High Peaks Pure Earth" *)  übersetzte einen Aufruf der tibetischen Schriftstellerin, Dichterin und Bloggerin Woeser, der am 10. Juli 2011 auf ihrem Blog erschien. Der dringende Appell bezieht sich auf die geplanten Entwicklungsvorhaben für die Förderung des Tourismus in der Region des Berges Kailash und des Sees Manasarovar in Westtibet. Auch der amerikanische Tibetologe Elliot Sperling verfaßte kürzlich einen ähnlichen Apell.

 *)   www.HighPeaksPureEarth.com

 

 der Berg von Süden,
tibetisches Kloster

 

 der Berg von Norden

 

 der Berg von Südwesten

 

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Fire extinguishers on the backs of chinese police in Tibet

by the Tibetan author Tsering Woeser living in China


 Fire Extinguishers and “Apartheid”


found here:
http://highpeakspureearth.com/2012/fire-extinguishers-and-apartheid-by-woeser



Quite peculiar scenes have been occurring in the old town of Lhasa, all military police patrolling the streets have been carrying fire extinguishers on their backs. This is related to May 27 when two Tibetans self-immolated between Jokhang Temple and the Police Station in the Barkhor. In fact, already back in 2009 after Tapey, the monk from Ngaba, self-immolated, military police stationed in Tibet were equipped with fire extinguishers. Along with the number of self-immolation cases rising to 39, nowadays, at least two people out of each military police group consisting of five people, carry a fire extinguisher.

Doesn’t this show that the authorities are empathetic, preparing fire extinguishers readily available to rescue people? Exactly the opposite is the case, this has, in fact, become the greatest irony. If the truth in the Tibetan region is really as they say, that there is “never seen before happiness”, how is it possible that Tibetans continue to dauntlessly bathe their bodies in flames? Hence, the scene of fire extinguishers flooding into Tibet is not one that the authorities are happy to present to the people. Quite obviously, this scene conveys the following message: on the one hand, they mercilessly start a fire, on the other hand, they assume the pose of extinguishing the fire, to the extent that they appear to start a fire while shouldering a fire extinguisher.

The case of the two people from Amdo self-immolating in Lhasa has been viewed as a big matter and gave the local authorities more reasons to deport any non-Lhasa residents. In March 2008, monks from Amdo and Kham who had been studying at Lhasa’s three main monasteries were deported; subsequently, many ordinary people were deported in the same way. Some Tibetans said on Twitter: “regardless of how long Tibetans from Amdo have been residing in Lhasa, no matter whether they have a temporary residence permit or whether they do business, it is impossible for them to stay there. The only exception is if they have a guarantor’s letter issued by the local security bureau and the regional county government (which is extremely difficult to obtain). Every day, the police are checking residential areas and many people have already been driven out.”

Chinese people who are travelling through Lhasa wrote on Twitter: “at all of the entrances of roads leading to or crossing the Barkhor, safety checks have been set up, at least eight in total.” “On a blackboard in one neighbourhood it said, people from all four Tibetan regions have to possess an identity card, a temporary residence permit, a certificate of the county security bureau, a job contract, the permission to look for employment, a guarantor’s letter (if not, security has to be given by the local government or official agency) or else people will be sent back to their birthplace without exceptions.” “Overall, the land is divided into prisons, it is divided and dominated. The tiny old town of Lhasa has already taken on the characteristics of a ‘Jewish Quarter’.”

Rather than saying, however, that the situation in Lhasa resembles that of “Jewish Ghettos” set up by the Nazis, it may be more appropriate to say that the situation is similar to the “Racial Quarters” installed during Apartheid in South Africa in the 20th century. A Tibetan wrote on Sina Weibo: “in the city of Lhasa, the many Amdo Tibetans that do not have temporary residence permit all have to leave, they are not allowed to remain in Lhasa; but Han Chinese and other ethnicities who don’t have any temporary residence permit are allowed to stay, what kind of policy is that?”

Another Tibetan wrote on Sina Weibo: “These days, all Tibetans have to notify the local police station when they want to check in at a hotel, the police officers have to register names and carry out inquiries on the spot; five-star hotels are no exception, I am waiting for the police to arrive right now. For Tibetans, Tibet is really the most inconvenient place. How ironic!”

A Chinese tourist recounted on Twitter: “Today I went to Jokhang Temple and when I passed the security check, Tibetans had to register their names while Han Chinese could go right through; as I was about to pass through, I was grabbed by a police officer who insisted that I register my name! I said that I was a Han Chinese but he absolutely refused to believe me and kept insisting on seeing my ID card.”

From these stories and personal experiences it becomes clear that the aim of the security checks is to see who is Tibetan and who is Chinese. As long as one is Tibetan, life in Lhasa presents itself as quite inconvenient, but as long as one is Chinese, Lhasa turns into a fun theme park. This differentiation between Tibetans and “Han” can also be observed in the relationship with the military police; while Tibetans try everything to avoid them and are full of loathing, Han Chinese regard them as a symbol of security, they have even been invited by police officers to take a ride on the back of a armoured vehicle to get some fresh air.

Back in the 1970s, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution in view of the harsh situation in South Africa, which stated that policies of apartheid are “crimes against the conscience and dignity of mankind.” However, facing the situation in the entire Tibetan region, facing the situation of Tibet’s capital city – Lhasa – hasn’t the world forgotten about the boycotts that it imposed in the past upon countries and governments that implemented and practiced apartheid?

The authorities use the methods of racial segregation to check upon and clean up Tibetan people, but can they really put an end to the self-immolations in this way? In fact, the monk, Chime Palden, who self-immolated in Ngaba Prefecture, Barkham County on March 30 this year, had been arrested for over one month when he was on a pilgrimage in Lhasa last year because he had saved a picture of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, in his mobile phone.

June 13, 2012

 Tsering Woeser, the courageous poet

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Kunst aus Tibet - arts from Tibet - my collection

chapter 2) 
 The Buddha from Ladakh

The Buddha -
 the background painting by Judith Horvat.

"You see Gautam Buddha sitting in the lotus 
posture, that is from the outside, a photograph. 
I see him from inside, he is not sitting in the lotus 
posture, he is dancing madly. From eternity his 
dance goes on and on becoming more and 
more juicy. More and more flowers start 
opening in the innermost being - even
the silence is fragrant."
(says Osho in "this, this, a thousand times this", 
p. 114)

height 22 cm

chapter 3) 
Tibetan dogs (copper) 

chapter 4) 
Nepalese lion (copper)

chapter  5) 
the Tibetan locket - semi-precious stones neck lace

Locket with a sculpture (3 cm) of
Manjushri,
a gift from Madame Tsekyi.
Manjushri carries a sword to cut the untrue "knowledge",
and a book containing the truth.

chapter 6) 
bangle

 "Om mani padme hum"

chapter 7) 
singing bowl

a "singing bowl",
bronze, diameter 19 cm, height 10 cm.
while moving the wood along the margin,
the bowl sings

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Lhakar movement

Die Lhakar-Bewegung der Tibeter


aus der Zeitschrift TIBET UND BUDDHISMUS *) 2/2013, Seite 40.

„Die Lhakar-Bewegung besteht aus Aktivitäten, die Tibeter an jedem Mittwoch tun - als subversiver Protest gegen die chinesische Herrschaft“


Tibeter in Tibet und anderswo üben gewaltfreien Widerstand im Sinne von Gandhi und Martin Luther King jr. - eine schweigende Graswurzel-Revolution, die das tibetische, nationale Kulturgefühl stärkt und die Struktur des chinesischen Kolonialismus´ untergräbt. Ich meine, auch die chinesische Kultur könnte großen Nutzen aus der freundschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit mit der tibetischen haben - wie es auch früher schon war. Das gilt gewiß auch für das Zusammenleben mit den anderen kleineren Kulturen im chinesischen Machtbereich.


Die stärkste Form des tibetischen Protestes ist Lhakar, das jeden Mittwoch gefeiert wird: sie sprechen dann nur tibetisch, tragen tibetische Kleidung, essen nur in tibetischen Restaurants. Hierzu mehr unter www.lhakar.org . Im Lhakar begeistert mich besonders das Mittel, die eigene Kultur als Waffe zu benutzen - nicht als gefährliche Waffe sondern als liebevolle Waffe. Mit offenen Gesichtern und friedvollen Augen. Vielleicht eine neue Definition des Wortes „Waffe“.


Ich habe mal geschrieben:

Vom Chinesischen erhoffe ich ein Wieder-Zugehen auf das Tibetische, damit es sich erholen kann von den Qualen und Abwehrkämpfen der jetzigen Zeit und uns Menschen ein freies spirituelles Vorbild bleiben kann. Ich erhoffe für uns, daß das Chinesische wieder leichter wird und den Völkern unter seinem Schutz Gelegenheit gibt, der Menschheit aus ihrem kostbaren, alten Schätzen der spirituellen Erfahrungen abzugeben. Das wäre eine wirklich große Aufgabe für China! 


Mein kleiner Beitrag zu Lhakar ist eine längere, fiktive Zukunfts-Geschichte "Mein Weg in den Norden über die früh gealterten Himalayas — die Schneeberge", die Ihr hier lesen könnt: http://mein-tibet-organisation.blogspot.de/  -  eine Wanderung durch Tibet in ein oder zwei Tausend Jahren.

Weitere Links zum Thema: http://lhakardiaries.com/ , 
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy:  www.tchrd.org