12/11 A Week in Review
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| My Tibetan Teacher (Dawa) and I |
My past five days have been a whirlwind of adventure, excitement, and thinking. I spent most of this week writing a personal journal that I don’t plan to share. I have nearly finished all the work the Tibet Theatre has for me, and I am just going to polish it up in the next few days then talk to Glynnis and Ginni about what to do next. The week itself was fairly regular in its structure. As noted I found a teacher, so we met on Tuesday at 7:00 pm and from Wednesday on at 7:00 am to begin learning. For one hour it is all Tibetan, and I am struggling a bit. Some of the sounds and differences between sounds are so utterly foreign and I have very little language training or knowledge to draw upon. From there it is off to breakfast and a lecture. The lectures were incredible. One was rather boring, but that is to be expected, everyone has different interests. I will highlight the main points of each at the end. The afternoons were good. I was able to complete all of the work and research that the theatre wanted, and I am trying to get access to the website to add all the information I have. I am much happier with the placement after a full week because I have seen their goals and seen their personalities come out. I got to work in their office a few times and they are great people! I wish them the best of luck in their efforts because what they really want to do is share the human spirit.
Monday 12/5: Norbulinka! (Already talked about)
Tuesday 12/6: Himachel Pradesh
-Folk/village life: People still hold their own culture within a larger area
-New Year is celebrated in March
-Buddhist and Indians share temples
-The people accept other cultures, but cherish what they have
-Students learn about culture and write about how the ideas work and how the culture works
-Holidays are when the real tradition comes out
Wednesday 12/7: Lhang Tsering: The Strategy of the Mosquito
-The Tibetan way forward by means of the What, Why, and How
-The “What” is being clear on what you want
-The “Why” is faith in your own reasons
-The “How” is the action, how it will be done
-Tibet 2/3 size of India, but by new lines is small
-Strategic locations along its borders
-Tibetan Plateau with its effects on the monsoon season of Southeast Asia
-Doesn’t believe a mutual peace agreement will work because China won’t gain anything by giving up Tibet
-Tibet holds the greatest resource in the world: water
-How to win back Tibet:
Two fold campaign
1. Global Political Pressure on environmental treatment and genocide
2. Mosquito warfare by causing disruptions in China
-Knocking out power in major cities and other dysfunctional activities in order to spark the unrest that is in China after 60 years of one ruling power
Thursday 12/8: Students for a Free Tibet
-Chapters in over 60 countries with Headquarters in New York
-Their goal is to reflect the voices from inside Tibet to the world
-Their campaigns about Tibet:
1. Human Rights
2. Economic
3. Water control
4. Nomadic Rights
-2.5 million nomads being forced to resettle
-1.4 million have already been resettled
-White Wednesday: A movement started within Tibet to wear traditional Tibetan clothes every Wednesday.
Friday 12/9: Tibetan Center for Human Rights
-The Self-Emulations
-A public act of non-violence to show the deep extent of the problems being experienced
-Show the desperate state of human rights for the Tibetans in Tibet
-1998 was the first self-emulation
-Chinese report on one self-emulation: he was upset about a theft
-Chinese Policies are creating Anti-Tibetan actions
-Destroying the Tibetan way of life and all hope of rebuilding it
-Criminalizing acts of individualism.
-Expression of economic ideas are ok, but expression of self is criminal
-Gain information from within Tibet by interviewing new arrivals and online resources
-950 known political prisoners and 200 disappearances
-Tibetan woman had surgery in Tibet by a Chinese staff, and while she was anesthetized she has a birth control put in without her consent, later caused health issues.
-Tibetans discriminated in business because they don’t have “polished” skills like the Chinese
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