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23 April 2010
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A Tibetan Grandpa's Treasure Hunting

After the earth in China's Qinghai Province quaked ferociously, the house of Tibetan grandpa Buzhou (布周) was badly damaged. Fortunately, he was not hurt. The earth was still trembling and the damaged house could further collapse at the any moment, yet Buzhou refused to leave the site but kept digging in the pile of rubble. His hard labour yielded no positive result, apparently, so he sought help from PLA soldiers.

The soldiers performed treasure hunting for him and eventually retrieved an item that he was looking for. It was not a piece of gold, not a pile of money notes, and not family albums, but a hand-made woollen tapestry with the portrait of the founding father of the People's Republic of China and the late chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong.

Buzhou was a serf when the 14th Dalai Lama and the privileged lama class ruled Tibet and the Tibetan communities in other parts of China, including Qinghai. It was after 1959 when Dalai and his lama aids fled China following their failed armed revolt orgastrated by the U.S. government through CIA, the Communist government under the leadership of Mao finally succeeded in abolishing the serfdom and freed all Tibetan serfs, including Buzhou. Like millions of his fellow former serfs, to Buzhou, Mao and the PLA are the only Buhhasettivas in the Tibeten community who liberated them from the Hell based on a lama dominated political and social system, and thus he had Mao's portrait on his bedside for over half a century. Buzhou's other treasures include several boxes of Mao's badges. "Without Mao, I would still be a serf," said the Tibetan grandpa.

A Tibetan's home in 2009

Another Tibetan home

Cirenzhouma (次仁卓嘎) (the left) pointed at Mao's portrait on the wall and said, "We shall not lose our conscience after gaining wealth." (“富了心中还要有杆秤。”)

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The following are the comments left on wforum.com:

梅朵 (Ethnic Tibetan):

We also have Chairman Mao's portrait in our home.

毛主席像俺家就有。

yehe:

But you know, some Tibetans were digging through the rubble for Dalai's portrait ....

也有挖到不少达赖喇嘛像的。。。

梅朵 (Ethnic Tibetan):

But Tibetans all know, if there is anything happened, you should always go to the PLA for help. What Dalai can do for you? Can he use his magic to get anyone out of a collapsed building? No! Only PLA soldiers will dig through the rubble with their bare hands and pull you out.

藏人都知道，求达赖不如求金珠玛米。达赖只会念念经，救灾是不行地。念经不会把埋在废墟里的人念出来，还得靠金珠玛米用手刨出来。

PLA老兵:

If all Tibetans think that way, there would be no troubles in Tibeten communities. But how many Tibetans still remember that it is the PAL who liberated them from the cruelled lama rule?

政战主任: 

Don't blame on those Tibetans. It only has the Communist government itself to blame.

The majority of Tibetan people view Chairman Mao as the reincarnation of Wenshu Bodhisattva (Manjusri). But later xxx and Hu Yaobang began to denounce Mao, and bow to the "elite class" and invited the former serf owners and ruling lamas to return to Tibet and to leadership ... and turn China into a money-worship society, which have confused Tibetan people awfully.

The hostile international forces are the external causes, the unwise government policies are the internal causes. Without sorting out the internal confusions, the problem just won't go away.

问题不在藏族群众，在TG自己。 

在藏族广大人民群众中，毛主席就是文殊菩萨转世。后来，xxx和胡耀邦xx 否定毛泽东, 开始走上层路线，邀请达赖回来。于是，达赖就说了，连汉人都不信毛泽东了，藏族为什么还要信。加上，社会的贫富差别，人欲横流，骗子得道，公平失准，没有经历过农奴社会的年轻一代，对现在的社会失去了认同感，失去了理想和道德的引导，只有转向xx，转向达赖的。

达赖的外部势力是外因，tg的问题才是内因。不解决内因，问题还会不断出现。

大花猫:

How many Tibetans side by the sepratist force? Judging from the bloody riot in 2008, I saw quite a number of young people there.

西藏到底有多少人是闹分裂的？从上次骚乱看，还是颇有一批人。而且是年青人居多。

梅朵 (Ethnic Tibetan):

There are only two or three thousand in the total of eight million Tibetans.

8百万分之两三千人。 

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