Russians Rally Support to End Tibet Oppression

The 12-hour symbolic fasting and prayer service for global peace, happiness for all humanity, relieve Tibetans suffering torture and oppression under the Chinese government, was observed across many regions in Russia.
Tuva: In Tuva republic, abbot of Gaden Shartse, Geshe Lobsang Thupten presided over the 12-hour prayer service and symbolic fasting, attended by around sixty local Buddhists at the city center hall. Moscow: The local Buddhists including a very few local Tibetans in Moscow have gathered at the prayer hall of Lama Tsongkhapa Buddhist Center from 10:00 hrs to 22:00 hrs. A total number of around fifty people have joined the fasting and prayers.
Taking a keen interest on the event, the local journalists from Novaya Gazeta and Portal Credo spoke to Representative Tashi on the objectives and importance of the fasting and prayers. They were also interested on the present situation inside Tibet and the dialogue process between the envoys of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and representatives of the Chinese government. The local dailies on day after published reports on the non-violent campaign.
As a mark of gratitude, the office of Tibet offered hot Tibetan tea to all the participants after completing the prayers and fasting.
On that day, a group of five Tibetan monks from Drepung Gomang monastery who were on religious visit to Russia, dedicated their prayers and Mandala offerings for world peace and long life of His Holiness, held at Roerich Museum in Moscow.
Kalmykia: Geden Shedrub Choekhorling Buddhist temple in Elista in close cooperation with the local Tibetan Buddhist monks and TSG, observed a 12-hour fasting and mass prayer for world peace from 9:00 hrs to 21:00 hrs (local time).
More than five hundred people participated in the event. Later, the local people led by the Tibetan monks also organised a candle light procession in the city of Elista.
The whole event received an extensive coverage in the local media, including Kalmyk State Television Company.
Buriatya: In Ulan Ude, around three hundred local Buddhist followers of Reverend Tibetan Lama Yeshe Lodroe Rinpoche, gathered at the Rinpoche's Culture Center and sat for fasting and prayers for world peace and happiness.
Lodroe Rinpoche offered prayers for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama by conducting Dolkar Yeshe Tsewang initiation.
Similarly, between one hundred fifty to two hundred people, consisting of students and the Buddhist followers of Geshe Jampa Thinley joined in the non-violent action at Green Tara Buddhist Center in Ulan Ude.
Before sitting on fast, they held a brief religious procession in the city center of Ulan Ude to draw the attention of the people for world peace and to support the Tibetan cause. The local media gave wide-coverage of the Tibetan people's non-violent initiative for world peace.
Aginskyi: Some thirty local Buddhists along with two Tibetans observed the 12-hour-long worldwide prayer and symbolic fasting in Aginskyi.
Apart from the above-mentioned places, the Buddhists in Serbian cities of Novasibirskyi, Omsk, Ufa and Irkutsk also took part in the worldwide prayers and fast for peace and non-violent fight against oppression.
Geshe Jampa Thinley took the initiative in leading around hundred sixty people in these region to commit them to this important non-violent action.
More than seven hundred people have given positive response to an appeal to join this non-violent campaign posted on the office of Tibet's official website, www.savetibet.ru.

#1 written by veracity
19 September 2008 16:51   |   Registered on --
	The Tibetan non-violent approach is a shining light of Buddhist magnanimity and compassion for the oppressor. The world could learn a lot from these most remarkable people, who have been abused and oppressed for over fifty years by a barbaric regime. In light of the gross, abhorrent Human Rights abuses, and the obstinate intransigence and brazen arrogance on part of the Han Chinese occupiers, it is plausible that a serious armed uprising will take place sometime in the foreseeable future. The Tibetans have shown unbelievable forbearance and tolerance towards their craven oppressors, who have not ever once shown the least discernable human traits in their oppression of the Tibetan Nation. If the younger Tibetan generation should take up arms, then it is in the light of this inhumane barbarity by the Han Chinese, and the craven abandonment of the so called civilized world, which has chosen the pursuit of the Dollar over noble principles they only ever pay scant lip service to. Freedom fights are an oppressed people’s legitimate means to an end; the cessation of the brutal oppression and exploitation of their People and Nation. http://one-just-world.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-real-shangri-la.html  http://one-just-world.blogspot.com/2008/07/letter-to-hu-jintao.html .

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