资深议员噶玛群培声明：将在议会阻击中间道路

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背景：第十五届西藏人民议会第五次会议，2013年3月27日
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原标题：Translation of Karma Chophel’s intervention at Parliament

Translated and edited by Tenzin Nyinjey, with permission from Karma Chophel.

In 1991, I was elected, for the first time, as a member of Tibetan parliament. On 29 May 1991, I took my oath and responsibility [as MP]. Since then until today, for almost twenty-two years, I have been consecutively elected as a member of Tibetan parliament and purported to have made some modest contribution to our common cause. During these years, I served as a speaker of parliament twice, and also once as pro tem speaker of the parliament.

As a matter of clarification, I would like to express to the parliament with special emphasis that from the perspective of Dharma (Chos) His Holiness the Dalai Lama is my undisputed, noble protector, my source of spiritual refuge both in this and the next life. I believe [from the depth] of my heart that not only for the Tibetan people in and outside Tibet, but also for the whole world, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a noble leader, and I love, respect and admire him [accordingly]. This [my love, respect and admiration for His Holiness as a noble leader] will never ever change.

From the perspective of politics, in 2011, His Holiness the Dalai Lama issued many statements [to the effect that] his political and administrative leadership and responsibilities shall be handed over to a directly-elected leadership of the Tibetan people. Therefore the structure [provisions] of the charter of the Central Tibetan Administration was amended for the 25th time resulting in tremendous changes. Based on this [such changes], His Holiness the Dalai Lama doesn’t hold the political and executive power of the Central Tibetan Administration anymore; nor is he the nominal or titular head of our nation [Tibet].

Before the above changes occurred, to resolve the Tibetan issue truthfully, His Holiness the Dalai Lama — the undisputed spiritual and temporal head of the Tibetan people — implemented the Middle Way policy in the Tibetan parliament. Although I do not agree [with the Middle-Way], I supported it and the resolutions related [to the Middle-Way] were passed unanimously in the parliament. The main reason I supported [the Middle-Way] is because I respect His Holiness the Dalai Lama from the depth of my heart, and [also] because I took a series of oath to [sincerely] follow the words of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Now under different circumstances, [exercising my] democratic duties and rights, and in accordance with my earlier [political] stand, from today onwards I am going to support the restoration of Tibet’s complete freedom and independence, and withdraw all the support that I have given in the parliament to the Middle-Way till date. I request the parliament to acknowledge this. I have three important reasons to make my [political] stand clear:

    For the past 64 years, China’s policy on Tibet—let alone undergoing positive changes—has worsened [in terms of its] barbaric and oppressive actions. Now the Tibetan people have lost every faith in the Chinese government [to resolve the Tibetan issue through dialog].
    Based on above reasons, our fellow Tibetans inside Tibet are engaging in diverse non-violent protests, including the act of self-immolation, and through [these protests], they are making clear that they don’t want to live under the Chinese communist government and aspire for Tibet’s complete freedom and independence. Therefore, I am going to show my support and solidarity [to them].
    This year is the 100th anniversary of the Great 13th Dalai Lama Thubten Gyatso’s declaration of Tibetan independence in 1913. I commemorate and express my respect [to this great event]. I pray to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha—the three sources of ultimate refuge—that this clarification will advance the unity and patriotism of the Tibetan people in and outside Tibet, resulting in the restoration of Tibet’s complete freedom and independence. I [hope] my prayers would be answered accordingly.

Honorable speaker let me express a few more words. I consider my clarification significant, which is why I presented it in writing. Since the 11th session of the Tibetan parliament, it is not that our members of parliament and observers from outside do not know what my [political] stand is. Therefore, while making this clarification, I have done it with full modesty considering it as my duty. I have made the clarification not out of pride, resentment or to impress others. I have never had such [desires]. Moreover, inside and outside parliament, and everywhere, although this [independence] is my fundamental political stand, I am a person who have always tried, if necessary, to avoid speaking and making clarifications about it.

I am not a person who always wave the [flag of independence] and [disrupt] our internal unity; our internal unity is strong generally, but it [raising the independence stance] might hurt some individuals, which is not nice. And in democracy, all of us, bearing our responsibility and using our intelligence, primarily taking responsibility for our nation, can have our own [political stand]—that each one of us has the right to free expression and free thought. Acknowledging and respecting this right to free expression and free thought, I have been a person who always made efforts not to raise the [independence] stance all the time. However, for the ultimate [struggle] of Tibet—be it Tibetan people’s polity, religion, culture, or any other matter that one considers—I have always felt that what we really need is freedom and independence.

This feeling and stance I have arrived at out of strong conviction and belief. Such is the case. For instance, in 1970, after graduating from Mussorie School I joined the university; it was as if I had now begun to stand on my own feet, to have my own self-sufficiency [autonomous existence]. In that year, in Dharamsala, I participated in a conference organized to found the Tibetan Youth Congress. It was an important milestone for this [independence] stand. In 1979, generally from 1959 to 1979, the policy implemented by both the Tibetan government and public was [restoration] of freedom and independence. Since 1979, the policy underwent changes—1979 is generally considered the turning point. Even at that time, my [political] stand didn’t undergo any changes. In 1979, I was a [member of] Central Executive Committee of the Tibetan Youth Congress. I was serving as a teacher in Bylakupee Tibetan school. Then in 1987, His Holiness the Dalai Lama presented the Five-Point Peace Plan in the United States. In 1988, His Holiness presented the Strasbourg proposal—the essence of which is how to conduct negotiations in stages with the Chinese government through the Middle-Way approach—thus making it all clear through this proposal.

While making all this clear, I was simultaneously serving as the principal of the Central Tibetan School in Mussorie and Vice-President of the Central Executive Committee of the Tibetan Youth Congress. Even then also, my stand did not undergo any changes. Since then keeping a firm stand, without undergoing any changes, in my heart I have felt that the short and long-term need, the ultimate need, of the Tibetan people is freedom and independence. As far as my knowledge is concerned, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, considering the urgent circumstances and implementing thousand strategies and hundred tactics, proposed the Middle-Way, but I think that what we needed was independence, that was in His Holiness’s mind, I felt. Therefore, from 1959 to 1979, the policy of Central Tibetan Administration was to [restore] Tibet’s freedom and independence. As such the prayers that I recite regularly, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s composition of prayers for Tibet’s spiritual and temporal cause, these prayers I recite regularly, everyday, without any break. For us Kagyu followers, there’s a prayer-text called Chags Med De Mon (literally: prayers for welfare to be recited regularly) that we are advised to recite regularly, but we could not recite it regularly. However, the prayers composed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama during that time, for instance on 29 September 1962, His Holiness composed the prayers Dentsig Monlam (Words of Truth) that we today recite with lots of importance.

    “May this heartfelt wish of total freedom for all Tibet,
    Which has been awaited for a long time,
    be spontaneously fulfilled;
    Please grant soon the good fortune to enjoy
    the happy celebration of spiritual with temporal rule.”

The above verse from the Words of Truth is the prayer that we offer to Avalokiteshvara Chenresig, the patron deity of the Land of Snows. Then on 5 February 1962, His Holiness composed, Deshek Riknga (five kinds of enlightened beings), a prayer meant to propitiate the Nechung deity. In this prayer, His Holiness propitiates the Nechung with the [following verse]:

    “For the welfare of Dharma and sentient beings
    Propagate the noble deeds of Tenzin Gyatso
    Pacifying the harm that causes the degeneration of Tibet
    Fulfill the joys of political and spiritual freedom.”

Then on 5 March 1973, His Holiness composed two very important prayers to propitiate deities. The one is the prayer to propitiate the female deity Palden Lhamo, in which he wrote:

    “Defeated by the enemy hordes
    The living beings of the Land of Snows
    Despite having been subjected to unbearable suffering
    With courage if they cling to the grand [struggle for] freedom
    How could you abandon your noble blessings?”

Thus, His Holiness, with a bit of lamentation, propitiated Palden Lhamo with these words. Then on the same date, His Holiness composed the important prayer that we recite regularly, Ma med Sonam (Fortune not undermined). In this prayer, His Holiness wrote:

    “Dispelling the darkness [caused by] the degeneration of times
    The victory of the spiritual and political freedom of Tibet
    Is sure to emerge, [so you] should not feel discouragement.”

Such propitiations were made to the deities of Tibet. Therefore, based on such awareness I stood firm with my stand, and will do so in future. Since it has significance for the parliament, I have tried to clarify and clear it up.