Mensagem de Esperança e Solidariedade aos Irmãos Tibetanos

Pelo Publicista, pelo Dalai Lama e ... pelo Tibete! Com evocação musical de Yungchen Lhamo!

Há já uns tempos que recebo e-mails da ICT - International Campaign For Tibet - mas, com a notícia da condecoração do Dalai Lama pelo congresso norte-americano, decidi dedicar esta Musicologia da Libertação em memória desse sagrado canto do Mundo, com o fundo musical de uma cantora tibetana que, desde pequena, se viu forçada a fugir da sua terra natal e cujas músicas traduzem a influência da violência dessa separação!

The US House of Representatives today passed a bill to award the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled leader, the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation's highest civilian honor. The award is in recognition of the Dalai Lama's advocacy of religious harmony, non-violence, and human rights throughout the world and for his efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Tibet issue through dialogue with the Chinese leadership.
The bill enjoyed broad bipartisan support, with 387 cosponsors drawn from both sides of the aisle in the House and Senate, representing more than two-thirds of Congress.
Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari, Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, said: "As a Tibetan, I am deeply touched by this gesture from the United States Congress. Together with the Honorary Citizenship recently bestowed upon His Holiness by the Canadians, this award is an indication of continued international admiration and appreciation of his contribution towards making ours a more harmonious world."

Yungchen Lhamo - Happiness is ... (Coming Home)


Assim, passa a figurar no sidebar deste blogue a respectiva etiqueta, alusiva a uma causa com que me identifico, pelo que o faço com muito gosto. Para saber mais sobre esta realidade está lá o link.

For centuries Tibet, a vast high altitude plateau between China and India, remained remote from the rest of the world with a widely dispersed population of nomads, farmers, monks and traders. Tibet had its own national flag, its own currency, a distinct culture and religion, and controlled its own affairs. In 1949, following the foundation of the Chinese Communist state, the People's Liberation Army invaded Tibet and soon overpowered its poorly equipped army and guerilla resistance.
Tibet is important to China for strategic and economic reasons and because of the Communist Party's imperialist ambitions. In China today, it is a serious offence to say that Tibet is separate from China.
In March 1959, Tibetans rose up against the Chinese occupiers. The uprising was brutally crushed and the Tibetan leader, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, escaped to India, followed by more than 80,000 Tibetans. Tens of thousands of Tibetans who remained were killed or imprisoned. Untold numbers, but at least hundreds of thousands, of Tibetans have died as a direct result of China's policies since 1949 - through starvation, torture and execution.

'Tibet is a human rights issue as well as a civil and political rights issue. But there's something else too - Tibet has a precious culture based on principles of wisdom and compassion. This culture addresses what we lack in the world today; a very real sense of inter-connectedness. We need to protect it for the Tibetan people, but also for ourselves and our children.'

- Richard Gere, Chairman of the Board of the International Campaign for Tibet