Author’s Note: Whereas the 14th Dalai Lama once pontificated that Communist China would collapse due to what he mistakenly considered to be its ‘internal contradictions’,
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Author’s Note: Whereas the 14th Dalai Lama once pontificated that Communist China would collapse due to what he mistakenly considered to be its ‘internal contradictions’,
Master Xu Yun patiently listened to the argument of these monks (that he viewed as ‘heretical’), and then banged his hand on the table and firmly stated that without the following of the Vinaya Discipline of Indian Buddhism, there can be no authentic ‘Chinese’ Buddhism.
It is often left-leaning capitalists in the UK that criticise Communist China. This type of bourgeois often supports the Labour Party, and whilst living within, and supporting the capitalist system – openly attack non-European countries that have thrown-off the capitalist yoke. My view is that this is anti-Chinese racism as manifested on the left of the political spectrum.
China does not support the US dropping of nuclear weapons upon Japan.
Of course, as soon the Chinese people chose Communism as part of their expression of democratic self-determination, the US resorted to ‘type’, and simply re-instated anti-Chinese racism throughout their nation – instead converting their former fascist enemy of the ‘Japanese’ into their ‘new’ best friend against China (and using similar pro-Japanese propaganda to convince a more or less ignorant population that the Japanese atrocities against the West and Asia nolonger mattered):
However, perhaps the greatest omission of them all was the fact that Inside Kung Fu refused to publish any articles presenting the Nationalist regime’s attack upon the famous Shaolin Tempe in 1928, which saw the temple destroyed and many of its monks murdered.