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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago

Cool, good luck with that demand.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

With utter disregard, bordering on contempt, for biology and physics.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think the Chinese government really gets Buddhism.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago

Oh they get it, they just know that the Tibetan form, which involves venerating a Tibetan individual higher than the Han Chinese ethnostate, is a threat.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Didn't China like hijack the future Dalai Lamas for political reasons or some shit?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

Yes, they literally kidnapped a 7 year old child and continue to hold him hostage, over religious woo they do not officially believe in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

They made reincarnation a crime so they can arrest anyone who claims to have done so.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

I’m sure he’ll consider their demand thoroughly, and with compassion.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

I didn't realize this was an option. I'm going to start putting together a similar letter for the pope.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To be like their own? Uh-huh. Because they're so well known for the compassion and understanding. 🤣 🪷☸️📿🤲🙇

Let's do a check in with Tibet and also the Uyghurs.. Or their own people.. Or Taiwan.. Or..

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Going to be real interesting the day China learns how to read the room.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

If China can't read the room, it is the room's fault for being counter-revolutionary.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

fuck off china, russia, syria, north korea shitlands

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Which political views? Hmm?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Obviously the incorrect ones.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Tibet is part of China and brooks no interference from external forces.

I'd like to see Putins face when the Chinese start say things like "Russia is part of China and brooks no interference from external forces."

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

He should definitely stop asking young children to suck his tongue

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tibetans told VICE World News that the meaning of this common expression used to tease and teach children is completely lost in cultural interpretation and its English translation. The correct phrase in Tibetan for this joke is “Che le sa”, which roughly translates to “Eat my tongue.” English is the Dalai Lama’s second language and Indian news outlets have previously reported that the leader speaks in broken English at public events.

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In a Youtube videoJigme Ugen, a second-generation Tibetan refugee living in the U.S., explains how this display of affection was born out of a game played between the Tibetan elderly and children. Kids who go up to their grandfather, for instance, are asked to kiss their grandfather’s forehead, touch their noses and kiss them. 

“Then [the grandfather] says that I’ve given you everything so the only thing left is for you to eat my tongue,” Ugen said. “The child probably never gets the candy or money but gets a beautiful lesson about life, love and family.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5854/tibetans-explain-what-suck-my-tongue-means-dalai-lama-viral-video

tl;dr: A harmless translation issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Wow, jealous much?