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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (2525)	3/4/1998 11:19:00 PM
From: Bosco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Dear Mohan - your payment request is indeed reasonable, not that this clueless individual can afford it <VBG>. Anyway, maybe I can leverage <G> whatever left in this cobweb brain of mine: Not knowing whether you want chinese or tibetan cultural & historical enlightenment, I may as well dish out both. 1st, considering there were 120,000 exiles and 6 million tibetans overall, I really hope that it won't come down to the possibility of having more tibetans in India than in Tibet. In a way, you are right. The tragedy seems to have benefitted the west, in the sense that the tibetans are more than eager to preserve their culture by a conscious [and conscientious] of disseminations. I suppose this irony is more a norm than a exception throughout human history. If one is to look at chinese history, she has had her moments of enlightenment. I notice that you are quite knowledgeable about the the near east affairs, maybe you have already known, for instance, there have been jewish settlements for a long time. Accordingly, they ve settled in China for 300 [? somehow, this number sticks in my mind] yrs, they ve been freed from persecutions. Tibet used to be a barbarian state [like the mongols of the Kublai Khan era.] The tibetans were so fierce that the chinese and the nepalese emperors have to send their respective princesses [I suppose they had a few hundred to spare] to be the queens of the tibetan king. Well, I guess the chinese and the nepalese emperors had the last laugh, since these two princesses turned out to be a trojan horse of sort. They brought with them a religion called "Buddhism." In about 200 years, it has become a relative pacific theocratic state. Sure, there were - still are - politics and intrigues, but her once feared aggressiveness [against her neighbouring states] was gone. Incidentally, the contemporary chinese words for Tibet literally means the "Western Repository." To the buddhists, it is because it has the greatest collection of buddhist scriptures after the muslims sacked Nalanda Monastary in India in the 5th C. To take the time machine back to the present, I don't know if the Dalai Lama's offer is enough for the PRC. Call it foresight or pragmatism, he has actually dropped the idea of Tibet Independence 10 years, against the disapproval of some groups of tibetan exiles. You see, AFA the PRC is concerned, there is another meaning of "western repository." While Tibet region is arid, it has a lot of natural resources. So, I suppose, the PRC has both geopolitical as well as economic reasons wanting to control every facet of Tibet. Still, hope springs eternal, maybe the PRC will have a change of heart, as new - and hopefully more enlightened - leadership takes the reign. regards, Bosco