Fifth Dalai Lama, Make the children and grandchildren like eggs smashed against rocks

August 19, 2007 Tibetan Resistance to Chinese Occupation, Buddhism and Violence, Religion and Genocide No Comments

 

Fifth Dalai Lama’s instructions to repress Tibetan rebels, issued in 1660:

Make the male lines like trees that have had their roots cut;

Make the female lines like brooks that have dried up in winter;

Make the children and grandchildren like eggs smashed against rocks;

Make the servants and followers like heaps of grass consumed by fire; …

In short, annihilate any traces of them, even their name

 

(Kiernan, Blood and Soil, 6)