tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304792190086448127.post7862177698155107077..comments2024-02-04T01:37:53.246-08:00Comments on Mountain Phoenix over Tibet: When The Snowlion Descends From The MountainMountain Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01726933027905675503noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304792190086448127.post-4143487690492207332010-10-27T10:20:50.199-07:002010-10-27T10:20:50.199-07:00Agreed and agreed. Another reason though, why we a...Agreed and agreed. Another reason though, why we as a society might be so easily willing to forget the fact that Tibetans fought hard for 10 years in Tibet and continued the skirmishes from Mustang for another ten years is because while we’ve been relatively successful in preserving many things in exile, we have let a critically important cultural and historical legacy slide by the wayside; our love and respect for Ling Gesar and his heroes, their code of conduct in battle and their clarity of vision and purpose in defending the realm. I grew up listening to the stories and battle songs of Gesar as a child and feel that they are what gives our culture its vertebrae. But today, Tibetans in exile have come to see themselves either as helpless refugees in a perpetual state of ‘regug’, or even worse, have talked themselves into being zombie keepers of ‘jham nyinje’ and ‘yarab sangchoe’, but who are unable to process the fact that these need to be defended sometimes with more than mantras. We’ve become a lobotomized society, where a vital component of being a society that is able to extend its existence into the future has been voluntarily jettisoned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com