晚上和G,H同学吃饭时又谈到最近西藏的事情，尤其是G同学特别愤慨，境外媒体的无知非常让人无语，强烈要求我把昨天的文章翻成英语以供转载。回到家发现好几个海外的朋友都已经在facebook上邀请加入“反西藏独立群”，想不到还能赶上如此有民族气节的活动，真是可歌可泣呀。虽然韩公子我是好久不做翻译啦，更何况是翻自己的文章，但想想么也该做点贡献，格就试着翻一下吧。

 

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哦，还有几个小问题答疑一下。第一，宗喀巴是谁？这个自己google，他的地位大致可以这么说，没有他就没有现在的藏传佛教，还有补充一点，宗喀巴大师修的是文殊法门，据说现在还活在五台山，不光是他，释迦牟尼有四大弟子也是留形驻世（注意：这不是长生不老），因此在我们看来可能稀奇古怪，但并非是很不寻常的事情（事实上也不只是佛教，道教很多神仙现在仍旧驻世，不过这里就不多说了，不关正题）；第二，是我自己犯的错误，佛陀，菩萨和神是两个概念。大二的时候我曾经和复旦一个国际政治系的同学讨论过这件事情，这位同学各位高中校友想必很熟悉吧，很会吹的那个，呵呵知道是谁了吧。不过我觉得他还是挺有insight的，那时候他在研究如何把佛教，道教和儒教与共产主义相结合进行推广。这是个很有意义的话题，如果共产主义真要流行，那就要向佛教学习。那时候他的观点是，佛教没有神，佛陀和菩萨都是人，换句话说，我们都是因地上佛陀和菩萨，要成就果位是要一定因缘的，但这个因缘是能够通过自身努力和对环境的利用完成的。他觉得佛教在这点上非常impressive，非常高明，正好符合国人“熬年头”或者“练级”的思想观念。不过得到佛果可能是今生的事，也有可能是来生，或者下几辈子的事情。这样反观西藏的活佛也就是取得即身成就的人，您就知道这也是为什么密宗这么popular的原因，今世教些法门就成佛了是多么attractive啊，但这样就有了分别心，也谈不上什么修炼了。佛教的真正核心并不是几个咒语，而是“诸恶莫作，众善奉行”。真正的大菩萨就在我们身边，也许是你的父母，也许是你的admin，这是我们汉地佛法的核心思想，是非常提倡入世普度众生的。反而我觉得是密宗把一些事情搞得神秘兮兮得，让人产生分别心。当然人家那也是因材施教，弄出个活佛来管管，达到效果就行，我们也没有必要去comment什么。

 

接下来干干活，翻翻自己的文章

 

Just then I talked to Grace about the recent events in Tibet. I was deeply shocked to learn how biased foreign media are about this story. Prejudice always comes from innocence, therefore I have to share my perspective about Dalai.

 

It begins with his attitude and will surely end with his age. He will die, but shortly after that His people have to find a boy, who is believed to accomodate His soul. This is Tibetan buddhism, so the selected boys have to be, at least, in Tibet. Of course he won't be in India or in Hong Kong: he must be in Tibet. Or, the descendance of Dalai would be forever lost, for the first time in 700 years, and the current Dalai would be the one solely responsible for this result.

 

Does that matter? Yes. Does that matter a lot? To him, yes; to China, no. In buddhism, Dalai is the flesh body of Avalokitesvara（观世音菩萨）, or the buddhisattva of mercy, who is an assistant to Amitabha（阿弥陀佛）, the buddha of eternal light and life, also the president of the World of Extreme Happiness in the West（西方极乐世界）. Unfortunately, Amitabha also has a flesh body: Banchan. Literally he is Dalai's boss. What's worse, our current world is not the one of Extreme Happiness, it's a World of Misery and Toleration（娑婆世界）. Our headmaster is Mr. Sakyamouni. Maybe we could view as Bachan and Dalai's region as a representative office of the world of Extreme Happiness in the world of Misery and Toleration. When some staff is underperformed, he has to be out. Now this guy seems to be Dalai.

 

Why Dalai is so influential? In the past 700 years, his capital, Lhasa, is in a better position for trade and economy in Tibet than Xigaze, Banchan's capital. Street surviving law tells us: the one with dollar wins. It's also the case in Tibet's history. His monopoly in Tibet was finally broken down by PRC in 1950s, when thousands of his slaves were forever liberated. He began with more, and sadly to lose more. In the past 40 years, he has made very efforts to fight them back: his land, his slaves, his dictatorship, and his country.

 

Anyhow, China welcomes him back. We are responsible for the future of Tibetan buddhism. A new Avalokitesvara must be selected in Tibet, in a Tibet under peace and prosperity, not under religious and economic monopoly. But if he could not be selected, Tibet's peace and prosperity would also be secured, as the true buddhism lies in the heart of the people. As Sakyamouni himself said: Everyone is born to be buddha, but only those with tranquil and enlightened souls prove themselves to be.（一切众生皆具如来智慧德相，只因颠倒梦想，不能证得） Tranquility never belongs to guys bringing chaos, is it?