རྒྱ་དམར་གྱི་བཙན་འོག་ཏུ་ལོ་བཅུ་བསྡོད་རིང་གི་མྱོངས་ཚོར།
ཚེ་རིང་རྡོ་རྗེ་དགའ་བཞི།
The Four Loves of Phari by Tsering Dorjee Gashi
Pig Mountain Publication, Toronto
The book is an important testimony of a young Tibetan who
was sent to China along with many others in 1950s to study. The author has very
precisely written about what exactly happened during his six years of study in
China, and what he saw in Tibet after coming back from China. The book is
divided into three sections: the first section is a welcome reprint of author's
"New Tibet", a copy of which is no more available. It was first
printed in Tibetan and later translated into English. The second section is
important that it contains many articles that the author has contributed in
various media on Sino-Tibetan relations around that time. The third section is the
author's research paper on Uighur, known by Liyul by Tibetans and as Xinjiang
by China, another minority under Chinese occupation.
The book documents the event unfolding the Chinese invasion,
education of young Tibetans in China, and Tibet under Chinese occupation. The book
has laid bare the China's devious plan of communist indoctrination behind the
garb of education opportunity for minority nationals. For a young boy from a
remote region of Tibet, opportunity to study and see Peking city came as a great
adventure and joy. Many Tibetans from other regions also had the same feeling.
But their enthusiasm soon turned into disillusionment when they came to know
that the purpose of their education was to indoctrinate them to defy their culture
and to kowtow to the Chinese claim that Tibet is a part of China, and that they
were trained to become the running dogs of the Communist China.
The book shows how the Tibetan students reacted to this insidious
plan of the China, and how despite at the risk of their lives, they challenged
the Chinese claims. How even under great pressure and torture through thamzing,
they stood firmly by Tibetan independence. Our belated salute to the students
like Wangdu, Yarphel, Amdo Gyakok, Kesang Dekyi, Tsewang Samphel etc, who
endured the torture and humiliation, but remained patriotic and never let the
Chinese authorities have the satisfaction of having subjugated the Tibetans'
spirit of freedom. Through this book, the world will remember them for their selfless
heroic deed. Unfortunately, just like some gyaltsongpa, betrayers today,
some Tibetans stood with the Chinese claims, and came heavily on the patriotic
Tibetans. It will be an interesting to study where these Tibetans are right
now.
The book is also an eye opening for the students here in
India and abroad, how the early young Tibetans, even at the risk of their lives
voiced for freedom in Tibet while studying in Peking. Our youngsters studying
in free countries need to take inspiration from students like Gyakok, Yarphel,
Kesang Dekyi etc. and take our national issue more seriously.
The author escaped Tibet and worked in Tibet Information
Monitoring Center in New Delhi. From the number of articles written by the
author on Sino-Tibetan issue, it can be said that he has contributed greatly in
unraveling the dubious policies of the Chinese government, and informing the
world about what has expired since the Chinese occupation of Tibet. How the
Tibetans and Tibetan plateau is being used by China to contain India during Sino-Indian
war.
The book is a good source of information to fill certain
gaps in the history of Tibetan struggle for freedom and independence. It is a
good reminder to all the Tibetans how we lost our land, and why we should
continue our struggle, and not to forget those unsung heroic youngsters who
died for us. Reprint of the original Tibetan would also be helpful.
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