Category: Buddhism

Exploring the philosophy (and practice) of Early and Later Buddhism.

Email: Torquay Museum – Japanese Battle Kite! (29.8.2023)

At the above link I have added a blog post to our family martial arts website regarding this medieval Japanese battlefield ‘kite’! It resides in the Torquay Museum in South Devon and even when we visited – there was not the usual plaque giving the provenance of this piece – other than a description of what it is. I have written to the Museum to see if I can clear-up the mystery as to the origins of this artefact. As maters stand, this is a bamboo and material device that acts as a ‘kite’ able to lift a grown man of the era into the air whilst carrying a bow and supply of arrows! He is barefoot and stands on a single bamboo pole whilst his body is held in place by two crossed baboo poles in the centre of the device!

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China Urges US – Stop “Racially Profiling” Chinese Students for False National Security Reasons! (29.8.2023)

“This seriously harms the lawful rights and interests of the Chinese students and undermines normal people-to-people exchanges and educational cooperation between the two countries,” Wang said.

“We urge the United States to genuinely welcome Chinese students as it has said, withdraw the biased and discriminatory Proclamation 10043, and stop going after Chinese students in the United States in the name of national security,” Wang said.

China will continue to take necessary measures to defend Chinese citizens’ lawful rights and interests and remind its students heading for the United States to be mindful of such risks, the spokesperson added.

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Tibet: US Racism Continues To Disinform and Encourage Pro-Tibetan Movement! (24.8.2023)

In high-altitude regions where people are scattered across large areas, including in Tibet, boarding schools help solve the problem of students who have to travel long distances to get to school, Wang said.

It is a practical way to centralize education resources and ensure children’s equal rights to education, he said.

He said the students are free to return home during holidays and weekends and parents can visit their children or take them home according to their needs at any time.

Traditional culture courses including Tibetan language and dances are also set up, he said, adding the students are free to wear ethnic clothes at school.

Boarding schools in Tibet are vivid examples of ways to protect human rights and cultural traditions in the region, the spokesman said.

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WWII: Non-White Recruits in the Imperial Japanese Army and Nazi German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS! (19.8.2023)

I know that the Japanese Military possessed Korean, Taiwanese and Manchurian Military Units (Units that reflected Japan’s colonial presence throughout Asia) – but as far as I know – the Japanese Military never recruited any White, Black or Arab soldiers. This just goes to show how ‘racist’ the Japanese Imperial System actually was – with even ‘Chinese’ derived Okinawan Units being deemed ‘Japanese’. When the Imperial Japanese captured large numbers of ethnic Indian POWs serving in the Indian British Army – around 10,000 ‘volunteered’ to join the so-called ‘Indian National Army’ Commanded by Chandra Bose – and armed by the Japanese. Chandra Bose was a despicable racist, a good friend of Hitler (although he never quite saw eye to eye with Hitler – as Hitler thought India needed another 100-years of British Colonial dominance to bring the poverty-stricken country into modernity), and an ardent anti-Soviet and anti-Socialist. His ‘INA’ proved virtually useless on the battlefield – with the majority of Indian POWs remaining loyal to the Indian British Army (a separate entity to the ‘British Army’).

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Neo-Nazi Ukraine: US “White” Man Pretending to be “Woman” – Calls Russian People “Sub-Human”! (15.8.2023)

This outburst follows in the sinister shadow of the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council for Neo-Nazi Ukraine – Danilov – an individual the US 2SLGBTQN+ community seems to be following and accepting guidance and instruction from. Perhaps with a future change of governments, Neo-Nazi degenerates such as this will stand trial for their crimes. Although 41 million Soviet men, women and children died during WWII fighting against the Nazi Germans (and their allies) – this is what this White American chooses to do with the freedom the Soviet Red Army granted to him.

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Neo-Nazi Ukraine: Buddhists in the Russian Army! (15.8.2023)

The Kalmyks are of Mongolian ethnic origin and originate from North Xinjiang – an area invaded by the Tibetans. As the Tibetans converted to Buddhism – this philosophy was spread through the empire they had carved out for themselves as barbarians. As Lamaism is a corrupt form of feudal (landlord) Buddhism – there is evidence to suggest that various ethnic groups living within Tibetan-controlled territory (which included West China) were ‘forced’ into adopting Buddhism. This is how I suspect the Kalmyk people became ‘Tibetan Buddhist’. Indeed, it is how most Mongolians living in South and West China were originally ‘converted’ to this Indian religion.

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