The Dalai Lama: "son of India" followed by a squad of "grandsons of India"
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In the Western world, there are numerous Christian followers, none of whom thinks he is son of ancient Pakistan, headstream of Christianity. The Dalai Lama has met the US presidents for many times. If he had praised the president as "son of Pakistan", the Dalai Lama would have been deemed as insane even if the president didn't criticize him in his presence.
Therefore, the smart "son of India" has not dared to address the American presidents this way so far.
The "grandsons of India" were quite dissatisfied that Yi Duo pointed out the fact that no Indian responded positively to the Dalai Lama, "son of India". On the contrary, they felt disrespected.
They specially quoted some reports to show India had admitted the Dalai Lama was "son of India", such as the report of "Voice of Tibet in Norway" that Indian scholars and philanthropists met personnel of "Tibetan government-in-exile" on April 29th as well as the report that Indian officials attended the ceremony hosted by the Dalai Lama clique to express gratitude to Himachal Pradesh while inciting a long talk of an Indian.
However, although Yi Duo read the quotations word by word, he did not find any sentence implying that these Indians admitted him as "son of India" or "son of Himachal Pradesh" except that these words were full of praises.
If one wants to be a son of someone, the precondition is that the former is willing and the latter claims him; it doesn't work if only one side agrees. The first precondition has been met, but with regard to the second, the Dalai Lama has to strive for it.
A "grandson of India" snuffed at the writer's comment on the Dalai Lama's accompanying Indians for a cricket match, saying: “It's amusing to see how childish the Chinese can be, even about his attending an IPL match in Dharamsala, where he has lived for 50 years now. But he deliberately "ignored" the core of the issue: the writer is not blaming the Dalai Lama for watching a match, not to mention that it is a kind of filial piety for a son to accompany his daddy for a match; the kernel of the writer's comment lays on the timing that it was just the fourth day after the earthquake ravaged Yushu of China's Qinghai Province on April 14th when on April 18th the Dalai Lama buoyantly and gaily accepted Indians' invitation for the India's Premier League cricket game.
One should know that April 18th was not even beyond the soul releasing "first seven days" according to the Buddhist rules, and just one day before on April 17th the Dalai Lama had publicly told reporters that he was "deeply sorry" for the disastrous earthquake in Yushu. What's more, just months ago on February 14th, the Dalai Lama made his Tibetan new year's speech telling the Tibetans both home and abroad: "Tibetans in many areas at home think it is a time to yearn sufferings, so it is inappropriate to hold any celebration of the New Year like before."
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