We Stand With You

April 26, 2011

It has been a couple of weeks since the whole Tibetan communities in exile began expressing our firm solidarity with what has been going on in Ngaba and Kirti Monastery in Tibet by staging relay Hunger Strike, peaceful Candle Vigil demonstrations and dedicated prayers for the oppressed deceased and live ones under the tyrannical atrocities of Red Chinese Forces, those senseless snub-nosed robots. And here at Mundgod Tibetan settlement such candle light vigil gathering participated by the whole Tibetan settlers was staged last evening as organized by RTYC, RTWA and RTFRC. I was at my quarter when someone next door called me the program is about to begin. Almost twenty minutes later I heard the familiar choir singing in chorus, a benediction for coming out as better being, praising the flourishing of Bodhichitta, the sublime altruistic jewel-mind:

Jangchup Semchok Rinpoche

Ma Ke Pa Nam Ke Gyur Chig

Ke Wa Ngyam Pa Me Par Yang

Gong Ney Gong Dhu Phal War Shog!

It’s for better world, World Peace. It’s what we get only through peace and compassion we can wade through every challenge, not through bigotry, discrimination and force.

I was quite absorbed in the mellifluous melody coming across the short distance, when I happened to get an angle glimpse of outside through the narrow opening of the window: It’s just at the time when the golden sun was about to fall behind the horizon tingeing with sepia grandeur as like supporting the flickering candle flames cause. I found yonder like an alien liberated landscape. I prayed hard for my fellow Tibetans in Tibet.

Later after dusk, as I passed by the monastic roadside canteen, I found a big glossy poster of the hero martyr, the young monk of Kirti monastery who committed self-immolation by putting himself on fire as to show his gravest protest against the Chinese such inhuman brutal clampdown on peaceful Tibetan protesters all over Tibet in 2008, was hung down from the iron railing of first floor veranda. Two pictures: one profile view and the other smiling one holding a mug in his hand. It’s almost patent the whole unrest ensued thereafter at Ngaba Kirti monastery had been triggered by his brave act that attracted such sensitively bigotry-propelled Chinese barging and using force.

And like on many previous nights I found those half burnt candles placed on the walls on either side of the roads.