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 Sponsored
by kings and ministers the colonialists
sent out a great army of bandits, calling them traders. They
introduced new forms of living, but their laws were only good
for the educated and wealthy. As for the poor, their small
livelihoods are sucked like blood from all their offices.
It is in this way that the so-called wonders of the world
were built, such as railroads and high buildings.
I am an astute beggar, who spent his
life listening. I know what I'm
talking about.
On British colonialism, Calcutta
1941
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In
Tibet, everything
that is old
Is a work of Buddha
And everything that is new
Is a work of the Devil
This is the sad tradition of our country
Poem, Tibet 1946
In olden days, even in Europe, the world was
thought to be flat. And when some intelligent people claimed the
opposite, they were exposed to various difficulties, such as being
burnt alive. Today, even in Buddhist countries everybody knows,
that the world is round. However in Tibet, we still stubbornly state
that the world is flat.
Newpaper article, Tibet Mirror,
Kalimpong, 1938
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