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To: TobagoJack who wrote (24060)	10/14/2007 5:02:19 AM
From: Gib Bogle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217698

The romanticization of Tibet by the so-called West is certainly an odd phenomenon. I first developed an inkling of the truth when I read Seven Years in Tibet. There I learned that because the Tibetan Buddhists abjured the taking of any life, criminals were not executed, but were merely beaten to within an inch of their lives, so that they would then die a few days later (after suffering in agony). This way the inflicters of the punishment could claim that they hadn't killed the victims. Doubly nasty, both for the cruelty and for the hypocrisy. But why the italics?