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

August 19, 2007 5:52 am henrymunsonjr Tibetan Resistance to Chinese Occupation, Buddhism and Violence, Religion and Genocide

 

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)

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