About Dalai Lama

The other day I joint a radio programme and was asked, “Why are Chinese people upset for the news that ’ Barack Obama is to meet Dalai Lama’?”

The live radio did not allow me to have more than one second to delay my response.

I answered instinctively, “ Dalai Lama’s demand is to free Tibet. It is like in your family, one of your children is trying to get rid of you. How do you feel?”

Pretty sad, I do not have a strong political standing for any side.

When I was in China, the information I got was Tibet was one part of our territory.

When I asked the westerners, they told me that our government took over this country.

That is where our main problem lies.

Our information about this story is totally different. So what is the point talking about this?

Where is the truth?

Truth lives nowhere.

Both Chinese and western worlds have their media for their own purpose. It does not necessarily mean they are telling a lie. They just dig one part of the truth and show part of the truth as a fact to play their citizens.

One of my lecturers told me to read more information in London because she believed too much censorship in mainland. She was so eager to teach me that Dalai Lama was a spiritual leader in Tibet. Our government should not have taken over this land.

But I asked her, “How do you know your media tell the truth?”

Then I asked her, “ How do you think about the conflicts between the North Ireland and England? Are you going to free it?”

She became silent.

And I said, “ We are not making decisions. Just express ourselves because we do not have the truth.”

Back to my programme, I said there was no problem to meet Dalai Lama in Whitehouse, but not treat Tibet as an independent country.

It hurts our relatives feeling if we lose any child.

I would like to find a best way to develop Tibet. So far, nobody has got the answer.

The programme presenter asked, “Dalai Lama did not allow the Tibetans to celebrate Chinese Spring Festival. Will Tibetans listen to him?”

I did not know this piece of news.

My answer was “ his religious followers may not celebrate. But why does he have the power to decide for Han people, another ethic people in Mainland. ”

My words fail me.

My feeling is just overwhelmed.

I will wait until Barack Obama finally meets or does not meet Dalai Lama and say something.

If I still have words to say.