Should The Anniversary Of The 1951 Peaceful Liberation Of Tibet Be Commemorated?

How Should the Anniversary of the 1951 “Peaceful Liberation” of Tibet be Commemorated?
Tibetans and Chinese have encountered issues with each other since almost half a century ago, the 67th Anniversary of China’s “Peaceful Liberation” of Tibet will shortly be here. Tibetans are Buddhists, believing in living life with little to no attachment and as a result, minimal suffering. In order to do this, they follow the 8-fold path, which explains how to live a joyful and untroubled life, through behaving and thinking the correct way. Within the religion, there are monks, who have better opportunity and education. However, China is a Communist country, which means, on a basic level, that they believe in equal economic and social opportunity for everyone

Tibetan culture is being destroyed by China’s interference. A culture involves a society’s social organization(classes), traditions, religion, language, arts/literature, government, and economy. For Tibetans, the culture is largely based off their religion. They are organized into ordinary people, like farmers, and monks, who produce language and structure. Art and Literature also come from Buddhism, as a way to pray and meditate, as well as because only monks are educated. This is the same reason monks and lamas also make up the government. The last two are influenced mostly by Tibet’s harsh, limiting environment. All of this is being replaced by China’s culture. This will continue to happen more and more as people from China move into

Now, everyone is allowed to be educated, even if they do not become a monk, and it is required to receive an education before entering monkhood. This allows for better jobs to be available allowing for a better life. However, the schooling is in Mandarin, not Tibetan, and teaches Chinese culture, again, not Tibetan. In addition, the so called equal rights that China say they are giving, are only upheld when they are in China’s favors. When they are not and information harmful to China is released, strange disappearances occur or people have been and still are made public enemies with little provocation or proof. For example, this happened to the Panchen Lama. He is an important figure in Buddhism, as he is considered second in spirituality behind the Dalai Lama. However, sensing that he could be perilous to their authority, the Chinese government kidnapped him and substituted him with a new “Panchen Lama”. This man was chinese and could be used as a pawn. Tibetans do not know this, because they have limited access to the internet or incriminating sources. Also, even if they did know, speaking about it would result in the same happening to