What the F***??!! Dalai Lama Accepts Bush Award
I googled in these exact words expecting to run into hundreds if not thousands of outraged blog citizens registering their dismay that the Dalai Lama accepted an award from George Bush.
I found two: a woman who was clearly distressed about DL´s acceptance of such a dubious award from such a -- how do we say this -- problematic leader yet apologetic to having doubts about the Dalai Lama´s underlying reasons for meeting with Bush at all. The other blogger reminded all that there are two other dalai lama pretenders who might have different views on accepting awards from 'evil doers.´
CAN THIS BE SO?!?
Is this not akin to accepting an award from Hitler, Pol Pot, or Idi Amin and if so, how can this enhance the position of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people who he so earnestly and smilingly supports?
the world has indeed gone mad.
Talk to me, explain to me what this really is, tell me it isn´t some moral failure on the part of the Dalai Lama, that what seems to be a photo op maybe really is something else, something better, but please tell me WHAT.
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1 comment:
The link leads to a dead end, may want to update.
I am not sure on the Dalai Lama thing. It may be that he wants to exude peace so much that he won't even go so far as to refuse an award from, well, anybody who wants to give one because he so much wants to maintain this persona of love and patience.
He may be able to easily separate how he feels about Bush personally from the idea behind the award itself. The giver may be seemingly disingenuous but maybe the award is seen as honest.
I don't know anything about the situation...but you asked readers to try and explain how this could happen so that is my best late-night attempt.
:) Miss you!
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