摘要
The author presents an eyewitness testimony to the pre-1959 old Tibet of feudal serfdom and to the sea change in the post-democratic reform new Tibet over half a century.With the huge gap in interpretations of the same thing in Tibet between China and the West in mind,he tries to explore the source of the current Dalai Lama fad in the West,clarify the false notions prevailing in the West about China practicing"colonialism"there,Tibetan culture facing extinction in face of modernity and Tibetan Buddhism threatened to be lost forever and ecological degradation.He tells the truth of the Shangri-La fantasy,of the Dalai Lama’s"genuine autonomy,"his self-styled Middle Way—all for bridging cross-cultural misunderstandings.Finally he attempts to explain the global relevance of China’s successful ethnic-religious policy in the current world threatened by widespread ethnic-religious separatism.
The author presents an eyewitness testimony to the pre-1959 old Tibet of feudal serfdom and to the sea change in the post-democratic reform new Tibet over half a century.With the huge gap in interpretations of the same thing in Tibet between China and the West in mind,he tries to explore the source of the current Dalai Lama fad in the West,clarify the false notions prevailing in the West about China practicing'colonialism'there,Tibetan culture facing extinction in face of modernity and Tibetan Buddhism threatened to be lost forever and ecological degradation.He tells the truth of the Shangri-La fantasy,of the Dalai Lama's'genuine autonomy,'his self-styled Middle Way—all for bridging cross-cultural misunderstandings.Finally he attempts to explain the global relevance of China's successful ethnic-religious policy in the current world threatened by widespread ethnic-religious separatism.
