tibet

Tibet, the roof of the world, is lying between Central, East and South Asia. Tibet is a peaceful country, which has never caused any threat to any other nation even though Tibet had been conquered many times before the Chinese invasion. Religion takes a huge place in Tibetans life. Tibet is considered as a strictly religious country due to their strict Buddhism practice. Indeed, some statistics say that almost 1 out of 6 Tibetan men is a Buddhist monk. Tibetan Buddhism is a religion in exile, forced from its homeland when Tibet was conquered by the Chinese. The best known face of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism is the Dalai Lama, who has lived in exile in India since he escaped Chinese occupation at 1959. Tibet, besides being important as one of the most important spots for Buddhism, it is also one of the most controversial countries in the world as Tibetan been living in Diaspora since 1950.

The conflict between China and Tibet isn’t political at all. Indeed, it was never political. The dispute between China and Tibet is mainly an ideological dispute. The Chinese government started to eliminate everything religious around them since the revolution of 1911. The Chinese revolution was based on communism. Two important parts in communism are separating the state from religion and expanding the states. Frankly Chinese did both parts; first they started the culture revolution along with lots of trials to conquer their neighbors.

In 1906, the British (which used to rule Tibet until 1911) and Chinese signed a peace treaty that gave Tibet to the Chinese after the fall of the Qing dynasty; however, five years later, the Tibetans expelled the Chinese and declared their independence, which lasted until 1950 when Mao...

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...atter, to scatter as a victim of militant occupation, or to scatter to get a better life. Since the Chinese invasion of Tibet, Tibetans’ Infrastructure has been improving; besides, Tibetans get the right to protest and march and they don’t face any extreme violence from, the Chinese government.

It is completely difficult to reach an agreement in the near future that ends Tibetans-Chinese dispute. It’s even impossible to judge the case based on some historical events that even Historians can’t fully agree on. The only two facts are that Tibetans economical life is so much better after the invasion and the Tibetans religious life is completely chained by the Chinese government. The one and only possible solution for this dispute is an absolute religious freedom to the Tibetans under the Chinese supervision; else, both sides will keep fight to what it seems forever.