Dalai Lama would be 'happy to die in India'

Dalai Lama

would be 'happy to die in India'

London: Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama has said, he would be happy to die in India, as he felt comfortable staying in the country.

He said he believed in the Tibetan saying that home was where one felt the most comfortable staying, and family, the people who showed the greatest kindness and comfort. It was in this respect that he believed that India was his home.

"The Tibetans always say: Wherever you feel most comfortable, that is your home. Whoever shows you greatest kindness and comfort, they are your family. So, I am happy to die in India," said the Dalai Lama. He said he believed in a frugal life, but not punishing, and got only Rs. 25 from the Indian government, while his senior officials got Rs. 75, said reports in a newspaper.

"The money goes to the Tibetan cause for refugees. I get 25 rupees a day from the Indian government. My senior officials get 75. We don't get fat," he said. "If I fly abroad, I fly business class -- or my robes engulf everyone. But first class is an outrageous luxury," he said, adding that watchstraps were however, one luxury he indulged in, very often.

I love them. My glasses, my shoes, my robes are always the same. The watchstrap, I change -- I collect them," he added.

Meanwhile the Dalai Lama said anyone killing Al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden would effectively create 10 more like him. Speaking in an interview with a British newspaper, the Dalai Lama siad that it would be better if terrorists were treated in a more human manner.

"Fundamentalism is terrifying because it is based purely on emotion, rather than intelligence. This new terrorism has been brewing for many years. Much of it is caused by jealouusy and frustration at the West because it looks so highly developed and successful on television. Leaders in the East use religion to counter that, to bind lthese countries together," the 70 year old monk said. ANI

I'm extremely grateful to the Taala'i Lama that he actually spends time reading my postings.

Yes, it is true that he is extremely comfortable in India where he lives the life of a de facto king. No other country would ever permit him to fly his national flag at his residence. Nor would any except India permit him to run a patently illegal Govt of Tibet in Exile from its soil, together with its parliament and so on. He does not pay a penny in taxes and survives entirely on the largesse of his devotees!

He is excused from security checks at airports; they are superfluous in any case for him. He has many to do his bidding for him with exceptional discretion!

In actuality he has no choice but to die in India or the North Pole if he choses. The govt of the PRC will have nothing to do with him except to brand him as a traitor!

One needs to ask him about the sprawling palatial complex which has been built by him in Panchakula, Haryana near Chandigarh. Perhaps that was built on the Rs. 25 given to him by the Govt of India per day as his allowance! The millions of dollars spent in its construction together with state of the art surveillance and other electronic equipment, has surely come from the hard earned money of believing westerners who have cherished the concept of Free Tibet, now a mere chimera!

And what about the bullet proof Mercedes and personal helicopter he has asked the Govt of India for. Then who is it who pays for the US trained security which protects him night and day. To paraphrase Winston Churchill on Gandhi -- it costs a fortune to maintain the Dalai Lama in poverty!

Moreover there is no other country in the world that I know of,which would forcibly take into custody some 13 of its own nationals -- unarmed Indian Buddhist monks breaking into their room in Bodh Gaya after midnight Jan 2003 and throw them into prison, simply to keep you in good humour. And that too, when they were merely exercising their democratic right to protest against you.
On an earlier occasion Dec 12, 1998, shortly after noon, inspired by your august charisma, some twenty Tibetans had attacked three unarmed demonstrators. These three Indian residents of Bihar were yet again exercising their democratic right to create an awareness in front of the statue of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar adjacent to the Patna High Court concerning your diabolic plan to hand over the State of Sikkim to the PRC on a platter, through your recognition of the fake Karmapa.
Even the police had kept me constrained at the police station, leaving the Tibetans free. My FIR was torn and thrown away, while that of your representative treated with amazing sanctity. This took place at the bidding of the person who now calls himself Acharya Kishore Kunal, the founder of the Mahavir Charitable Trust, Patna and a good friend of George Fernandes. You were then landing at Patna airport to inaugurate the cancer treatment segment of its hospital.
But then of course, this is to be expected -- after all you feel at home in India!
As far as fundemntalism is concerned, the Taala'i Lama is certainly the best person to know about it, given that he has inherited the mantle of Gelugpa Fundamentalism through a long line of illustrious Gelugpa Masters. He certainly knows that the people who worship him, do so out of pure adoration -- and unexplained emotion at best, without the application of wisdom, be they easterners or westerners. The added aspect in the east is money which is capable of buying anything in India as has been repeatedly proved.

The Asian Age, Mumbai April 3, 06 carries an article at the bottom of the first page concerning a soiree held in Lucknow the evening of All Fools' Day. One of the quotes concern a lady who has developed the habit of offering milk to her neighbour, a local politician, on Naga Panchami Day. Her contention is that political leaders are far more venomous than snakes!

It would appear that Mr. M. J. Akbar, editor, had missed the obvious reference, otherwise he would have had it edited out immediately!