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Suite : Et plus récemment, en 2001, en visitant la Californie, il a fait remarquer que "le Tibet, matériellement, est très, très en arrière. Spirituellement, il est tout assez riche. Mais la spiritualité ne peut pas remplir nos estomacs."48 Voici un message qui devrait être pris en compte par les prosélytes bouddhistes bien alimentés en Occident qui dissertent avec nostalgie sur le vieux Tibet.
Ce que j’ai essayé de défier, ce sont le mythe du Tibet, l’image du Paradis perdu d’un ordre social qui, en fait, nétait rien de plus qu’une théocratie rétrograde de servage et de pauvreté, où une minorité privilégiée vivait richement et puissamment au prix du sang, de la sueur et des larmes de la majorité. On est loin du Shangri-la.
Notes :
1. Melvyn C. Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon : China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995), 6-16.
2. Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God, (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000), 113.
3. Kyong-Hwa Seok, "Korean Monk Gangs Battle for Temple Turf", San Francisco Examiner, December 3, 1998.
4. Dalai Lama quoted in Donald Lopez Jr., Prisoners of Shangri-La : Tibetan Buddhism and the West (Chicago and London : Chicago University Press, 1998), 205.
5. Stuart Gelder and Roma Gelder, The Timely Rain : Travels in New Tibet (New York : Monthly Review Press, 1964), 119, 123.
6. Pradyumna P. Karan, The Changing Face of Tibet : The Impact of Chinese Communist Ideology on the Landscape (Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 1976), 64.
7. Gelder and Gelder, The Timely Rain, 62 and 174.
8. As skeptically noted by Lopez, Prisoners of Shangri-La, 9.
9. Melvyn Goldstein, William Siebenschuh, and Tashì-Tsering, The Struggle for Modern Tibet : The Autobiography of Tashì-Tsering (Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 1997).
10. Gelder and Gelder, The Timely Rain, 110.
11. Anna Louise Strong, Tibetan Interviews (Peking : New World Press, 1929), 15, 19-21, 24.
12. Quoted in Strong, Tibetan Interviews, 25.
13. Strong, Tibetan Interviews, 31.
14. Melvyn C. Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet 1913-1951 (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1989), 5.
15. Gelder and Gelder, The Timely Rain, 175-176 ; and Strong, Tibetan Interviews, 25-26.
16. Gelder and Gelder, The Timely Rain, 113.
17. A. Tom Grunfeld, The Making of Modern Tibet rev. ed. (Armonk, N.Y. and London : 1996), 9 and 7-33 for a general discussion of feudal Tibet ; see also Felix Greene, A Curtain of Ignorance (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1961), 241-249 ; Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet 1913-1951, 3-5 ; and Lopez, Prisoners of Shangri-La, passim.
18. Strong, Tibetan Interviews, 91-92.
19. Strong, Tibetan Interviews, 92-96.
20. Waddell, Landon, and O’Connor are quoted in Gelder and Gelder, The Timely Rain, 123-125.
21. Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon, 52.
22. Heinrich Harrer, Return to Tibet (New York : Schocken, 1985), 29.
23. See Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison, The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet (Lawrence, Kansas : University of Kansas Press, 2002) ; and William Leary, "Secret Mission to Tibet", Air & Space, December 1997/January 1998.
24. On the CIA’s links to the Dalai Lama and his family and entourage, see Loren Coleman, Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti (London : Faber and Faber, 1989).
25. Leary, "Secret Mission to Tibet".
26. Hugh Deane, "The Cold War in Tibet", CovertAction Quarterly (Winter 1987).
27. George Ginsburg and Michael Mathos, Communist China and Tibet (1964), quoted in Deane, "The Cold War in Tibet". Deane notes that author Bina Roy reached a similar conclusion.
28. See Greene, A Curtain of Ignorance, 248 and passim ; and Grunfeld, The Making of Modern Tibet, passim.
29. Harrer, Return to Tibet, 54.
30. Karan, The Changing Face of Tibet, 36-38, 41, 57-58 ; London Times, 4 July 1966.
31. Gelder and Gelder, The Timely Rain, 29 and 47-48.
32. Tendzin Choegyal, "The Truth about Tibet", Imprimis (publication of Hillsdale College, Michigan), April 1999.
33. Karan, The Changing Face of Tibet, 52-53.
34. Elaine Kurtenbach, Associate Press report, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 February 1998.
35. Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon, 47-48.
36. Report by the International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet, A Generation in Peril (Berkeley Calif. : 2001), passim.
37. International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet, A Generation in Peril, 66-68, 98.
38. Jim Mann, "CIA Gave Aid to Tibetan Exiles in ’60s, Files Show", Los Angeles Times, 15 September 1998 ; and New York Times, 1 October, 1998 ; and Morrison, The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet.
39. News & Observer, 6 September 1995, cited in Lopez, Prisoners of Shangri-La, 3.
40. Heather Cottin, "George Soros, Imperial Wizard", CovertAction Quarterly no. 74 (Fall 2002).
41. The Gelders draw this comparison, The Timely Rain, 64.
42. John Pomfret, "Tibet Caught in China’s Web", Washington Post, 23 July 1999.
43. Kim Lewis, correspondence to me, 15 July 2004.
44. Kim Lewis, additional correspondence to me, 16 July 2004.
45. Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon, 51.
46. Tendzin Choegyal, "The Truth about Tibet."
47. The Dalai Lama in Marianne Dresser (ed.), Beyond Dogma : Dialogues and Discourses (Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, 1996).
48. Quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2001.
Ce que j’ai essayé de défier, ce sont le mythe du Tibet, l’image du Paradis perdu d’un ordre social qui, en fait, nétait rien de plus qu’une théocratie rétrograde de servage et de pauvreté, où une minorité privilégiée vivait richement et puissamment au prix du sang, de la sueur et des larmes de la majorité. On est loin du Shangri-la.
Notes :
1. Melvyn C. Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon : China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995), 6-16.
2. Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God, (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000), 113.
3. Kyong-Hwa Seok, "Korean Monk Gangs Battle for Temple Turf", San Francisco Examiner, December 3, 1998.
4. Dalai Lama quoted in Donald Lopez Jr., Prisoners of Shangri-La : Tibetan Buddhism and the West (Chicago and London : Chicago University Press, 1998), 205.
5. Stuart Gelder and Roma Gelder, The Timely Rain : Travels in New Tibet (New York : Monthly Review Press, 1964), 119, 123.
6. Pradyumna P. Karan, The Changing Face of Tibet : The Impact of Chinese Communist Ideology on the Landscape (Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 1976), 64.
7. Gelder and Gelder, The Timely Rain, 62 and 174.
8. As skeptically noted by Lopez, Prisoners of Shangri-La, 9.
9. Melvyn Goldstein, William Siebenschuh, and Tashì-Tsering, The Struggle for Modern Tibet : The Autobiography of Tashì-Tsering (Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 1997).
10. Gelder and Gelder, The Timely Rain, 110.
11. Anna Louise Strong, Tibetan Interviews (Peking : New World Press, 1929), 15, 19-21, 24.
12. Quoted in Strong, Tibetan Interviews, 25.
13. Strong, Tibetan Interviews, 31.
14. Melvyn C. Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet 1913-1951 (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1989), 5.
15. Gelder and Gelder, The Timely Rain, 175-176 ; and Strong, Tibetan Interviews, 25-26.
16. Gelder and Gelder, The Timely Rain, 113.
17. A. Tom Grunfeld, The Making of Modern Tibet rev. ed. (Armonk, N.Y. and London : 1996), 9 and 7-33 for a general discussion of feudal Tibet ; see also Felix Greene, A Curtain of Ignorance (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1961), 241-249 ; Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet 1913-1951, 3-5 ; and Lopez, Prisoners of Shangri-La, passim.
18. Strong, Tibetan Interviews, 91-92.
19. Strong, Tibetan Interviews, 92-96.
20. Waddell, Landon, and O’Connor are quoted in Gelder and Gelder, The Timely Rain, 123-125.
21. Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon, 52.
22. Heinrich Harrer, Return to Tibet (New York : Schocken, 1985), 29.
23. See Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison, The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet (Lawrence, Kansas : University of Kansas Press, 2002) ; and William Leary, "Secret Mission to Tibet", Air & Space, December 1997/January 1998.
24. On the CIA’s links to the Dalai Lama and his family and entourage, see Loren Coleman, Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti (London : Faber and Faber, 1989).
25. Leary, "Secret Mission to Tibet".
26. Hugh Deane, "The Cold War in Tibet", CovertAction Quarterly (Winter 1987).
27. George Ginsburg and Michael Mathos, Communist China and Tibet (1964), quoted in Deane, "The Cold War in Tibet". Deane notes that author Bina Roy reached a similar conclusion.
28. See Greene, A Curtain of Ignorance, 248 and passim ; and Grunfeld, The Making of Modern Tibet, passim.
29. Harrer, Return to Tibet, 54.
30. Karan, The Changing Face of Tibet, 36-38, 41, 57-58 ; London Times, 4 July 1966.
31. Gelder and Gelder, The Timely Rain, 29 and 47-48.
32. Tendzin Choegyal, "The Truth about Tibet", Imprimis (publication of Hillsdale College, Michigan), April 1999.
33. Karan, The Changing Face of Tibet, 52-53.
34. Elaine Kurtenbach, Associate Press report, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 February 1998.
35. Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon, 47-48.
36. Report by the International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet, A Generation in Peril (Berkeley Calif. : 2001), passim.
37. International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet, A Generation in Peril, 66-68, 98.
38. Jim Mann, "CIA Gave Aid to Tibetan Exiles in ’60s, Files Show", Los Angeles Times, 15 September 1998 ; and New York Times, 1 October, 1998 ; and Morrison, The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet.
39. News & Observer, 6 September 1995, cited in Lopez, Prisoners of Shangri-La, 3.
40. Heather Cottin, "George Soros, Imperial Wizard", CovertAction Quarterly no. 74 (Fall 2002).
41. The Gelders draw this comparison, The Timely Rain, 64.
42. John Pomfret, "Tibet Caught in China’s Web", Washington Post, 23 July 1999.
43. Kim Lewis, correspondence to me, 15 July 2004.
44. Kim Lewis, additional correspondence to me, 16 July 2004.
45. Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon, 51.
46. Tendzin Choegyal, "The Truth about Tibet."
47. The Dalai Lama in Marianne Dresser (ed.), Beyond Dogma : Dialogues and Discourses (Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, 1996).
48. Quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2001.
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