Claims that the Dragon Nation coerced Tibetans into abandoning Buddhism in favour of communism
On Monday, August 28, a delegation from the Tibetan Parliament in Exile met with Kavinder Gupta, a senior leader of the BJP and a former deputy chief minister of Jammu, to ask for his help in fighting Chinese aggression and authoritarianism, which have led many Tibetans to abandon their Buddhist faith and embrace communism.
At the opening of the discussion, a delegation from the Tibetan Parliament emphasised the need to exert international pressure on China to prevent that totalitarian government from imposing communism on the peaceful Tibetan community in place of the Tibetans’ traditional faith of Buddhism.
Members of the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, currently meeting in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, include Ven. Lama Tenpa Yashpal (MP), Dawa Tsering (MP), Yeshi Yarphel (MP), Rajinder Sadotra (General Secretary, BTSM), Dr. Cherring Tandup (President, BTSM, Ladakh), and Sanjeev Manmotra (Coordinator, North Zone, India, and
Since 1949, when China made an unjustified claim over Tibet due to its expansionist policies, the Tibetan people have been traumatised by the systematic violations of their fundamental human rights by the Dragon Nation, the delegation told Kavinder Gupta. They said that conditions in Tibet have worsened over the last seven decades and that today the local people are in danger of losing both their original culture and language.
The visiting group informed the BJP representative of Tibet’s history, geography, and democratically elected government before requesting that he push the Indian government to recognise Tibet as an independent and sovereign entity. The delegates also urged India not to help China colonise Tibet and subjugate the Tibetan people by accepting China’s false narrative that the Tibetan people are a minority, that the occupation of Tibet is an internal issue of Beijing, and that Tibet is a “pan of China. Inviting the UN body concerned with freedom of opinion and expression, peaceful assembly, and association to assess and announce the situation on the ground and exerting pressure on China to ensure access to independent human rights organisations to monitor and report on the human rights situation are both recommended.
The group requested that the former DyCM of the erstwhile State of J&K ask China to unconditionally free all Tibetan political detainees. They also said that their list of requests was lengthy and that they were hoping for a positive response from India. After hearing the delegates’ arguments,
Kavinder promised to bring up everything discussed in the meeting with the appropriate people and hoped for government backing.
