Tibetan Life During the Dalai Lama's reign.

[@Qingling]

I have two very close friends areTibetan monks.these two were born in 80's,and became monk as a minor before graduating middle school ,in that time they didn’t have bilingual education in school.only learn Tibetan language.So until he was 25years old ,they always traveled different cities and also temples in China, But it is pretty difficult for Tibetans who have never learned Mandarin to travel on the mainland ,At last both of them have to spend time and tuition to study mandarin in Chengdu.There is a private language training school in Chengdu, where a large number of adult Tibetan monks learn Mandarin and English there. Who would question the intention of implementing trilingual education in Tibetan schools as cultural extinction?MyTibetan monks are all descendants of serfs. At present, the sister of one of the monk runs a local restaurant in Tibet, and his brother is grazing yak in the meadow. ​​Their family has more than 150 yaks in total, and their annual income is higher than most of Chinese.I often talk to these two monks about the Dalai Lama, as they said, the Dalai Lama is their center of spiritual belief, but returning to real life, no one wants to go back to the former serf system and suffer a life without freedom.

[@jadewang7287]

I went to Tibetan people’s home in Sichuan, and they but both Dalai Lama and Mao Zedong’s profile photo in their shrine. I kind of get the logic but I can’t describe it

[@topixfromthetropix1674]

My wife is Tibetan, born in Lhasa. Missionaries and explorers in the 1950's described Tibet as an "open sewer." There were no roads, bridges, schools, airports and the life expectancy of Tibetans was 33 years under the DL. The Chinese disapproval of the DL started when the DL was helping the CIA smuggle spy documents out of Russia, across Tibet, the DL was warned 3 times before China took over. Now life expectancy is 55 years under the Chinese which isn't bad for a country whose lowest elevation is 13,000 feet above sea level. My wife's mother had bad altitude sickness and my wife's family had to walk to the Chinese border to catch a train to Chengdu since there were no medical facilities in Tibet at that time. Since Tibetans couldn't own land under the DL, they were all functionally slaves. If you dig around on the US State Department website, you can discover the DL gets money from the CIA to be a "China irritant." The DL scurried out of Lhasa after being invited to a ballet by the Chinese governor, there was no threat, no pursuit. It is also documented that angry mobs chased a number of the DL's functionaries out of Tibet after the DL went to India.

[@dorjeedamdul5589]

do you know whose america it is? america is part of tibet

[@ImpactofAsia]

Must read written by Bill Purkayastha: As an Indian, let me say what I think about this article and this issue. First: the border between India and China had been repeatedly redrawn by the British during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The historical Kashmir territory had been a Mughal Empire possession, then been taken from it by the Sikh Empire, which in the early 1840s was in turn annexed by the Brits and Kashmir put under a puppet Hindu Dogra dynasty. The basic importance of Kashmir to the Brits was that it was a frontier state against “Russian expansion” like Afghanistan, which was not at the time (until the Afghan Independence War of 1919) permitted by the Brits to have a foreign policy. The space between Kashmir and Afghanistan was left to Tibet, which in turn was under the control of the weak and powerless Chinese Empire. After the Chinese Revolution of 1911 the Brits - who had invaded Tibet in 1903 - decided to cut away Tibet from China before the latter could get strong. They therefore called a “Simla Conference” in 1913 at the Indian city of Simla, now Shimla. The participants were the Dalai Lama’s people, the British under one Henry MacMahon, and one single Chinese representative, Ivan Chen. At that conference the Brits unilaterally divided Tibet into two - an Outer (southern) Tibet that was to be under Chinese “suzerainty” but with no Chinese “sovereignty”, and an Inner (northern) Tibet under both Chinese suzerainty and sovereignty. That is, South Tibet would be explicitly Chinese in name only. MacMahon also redrew the border between the two entities of British India and Outer Tibet, claiming what is now the Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh in the east, calling the new border Britain unilaterally imposed the MacMahon Line. At the same time it explicitly relinquished a large part of its claimed borders of Kashmir in the West, leaving the plateau of Aksai Chin in Ladakh to Outer Tibet. The Dalai Lama’s regime eagerly agreed, but the Chinese did not. *No Chinese government, Nationalist or Communist, has ever at any time recognised the validity of the Simla Conference or the MacMahon Line.* This is essential to remember. And it did not happen during the Chinese Civil War as this article claims, it happened long before that. In 1947 India became “independent”, though its military was still equipped and led by British officers. When they left, Nehru began a policy of deliberately promoting incompetent yes-men to the Army’s top ranks so as to not have a military coup. China was still weak and just recovering from the Civil War and was embroiled in Korea, and, seizing the opportunity, in 1951 India invaded Tibetan territory that was explicitly left to Outer Tibet in the east by the MacMahon Line, the monastery town of Tawang, and annexed it. On 1 July 1954 Nehru also unilaterally extended the Indian claim line in Kashmir to re include Aksai Chin, which had been left to Tibet by MacMahon. My father, a young man at the time, himself confirmed to me that before 1954 Indian maps always depicted Aksai Chin in China. *India cannot simultaneously claim the MacMahon Line in the east and Aksai Chin in the west.* The two are mutually exclusive. It cannot be legally done. China had repeatedly suggested through the 1950s a straightforward swap - Aksai Chin for the MacMahon Line. India refused every time. During the late 1950s to mid 60s, too, India hosted CIA listening posts in the Himalayas to spy on China. India and the CIA armed and trained Khampa rebels and parachuted and infiltrated them into Chinese Tibet. India - violating its own promise to China to not permit political activities - allowed the fugitive Dalai Lama regime to set up a “government in exile” in Dharmashala near Shimla. American engagement with India against China is nothing new. As for the current crisis, it’s entirely manufactured by the Modi regime. The regime is desperate to distract attention from a collapsed economy, a ruinous failed lockdown, surging COVID-19 numbers, ravaging locusts, financial criminals who were permitted to escape abroad, rising popular discontent, and no idea how to fix things. It therefore chose to pick a fight with China, which boomeranged badly. The regime media has suddenly fallen silent on the topic while those media not under the regime claim massive further Indian territorial losses in Aksai Chin. It’s not going to end in war anyway. The Indian army is too weak to take on the Chinese alone, and America is not going to commit suicide for the greater glory of Narendrabhai Damodardasbhai Modi. All Politicians are skilled in the Art of War (声东击西）the best distraction for internal problems is to find a common external enemy... It’s done by the West, by the East... in all such cases needless lives are lost...

[@youfeerich540]

D Tan .........thanks for a very insightful posting. I agreed the recent border clashes were created to divert attention from the covid 19 damaging effects on India’ economy and the potential high number of deaths. I remember Modi also sent his war planes to attack and killed several Pakistanis just before recent India’s general election. Politicians that resorted to killing to remain in power are evil and should be charged with murder.

[@lwcng7185]

Thanks for this. It's informative and by tracing the origin of how the border was drawn up highlights the intervention of Britain, who's cunning enough to leave the border region as a possible flash point for future conflicts. Western powers planted seeds of possible disputes in other countries and if war ever broke out, they would further destabilise the region.

[@saraman1231]

So informative and insightful. Just learned a great deal in a few well articulated and written paragraphs. Great thanks.

[@edhiepitz]

Indian troll will never accept that narrative, lol

[@ImpactofAsia]

edhie pitono The most important the truth and facts must be told. It’s up to that person to except it or not.

[@johnathanhong2550]

I lived And worked in CHINA over 10 years as an Expat this Tibet historical facts were certainly never publicly told... That's explain why those Tibetans diaspora in Oversea are so Antichina because they were all Rich And privilege ruling Class of the very small minority Tibetan that loss their lands When Tibet was liberated. Great content Daniel... Greeting from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

[@gekkanshounen5112]

It's actually very similar to why Cubans in America hate Fidel Castro they were all Elites in Cuba before the Communist Revolution. They had a lot of wealth and owned a lot of land. it's always about money and power.

[@justawesome9443]

so where are you from with your English as a second language? I mean, what part of China are you from? and how come you have VPN access?

[@justawesome9443]

anda juga orang malaysia? hebat, sekarang beritahu saya mengapa anda berbohong di youtube.

[@johnny_ng]

@@justawesome9443 Don't you see the last 'greeting from Kuala Lumpur' ?He is Malaysian.

[@johnny_ng]

@@justawesome9443 It easy to get VPN🤢🤢🤢

[@serenam4490]

Thank you for shedding light on the fabricated falsehoods of the lama priests and associates now living in the Western countries.

[@Qiyunima]

Daniel, you are the king. My family was slaves for generations in Tibet. It's the Communist Party of China release my family and send my father to school. So my father has changed his life and I have chance to do what I want to do. I don't know why all Tibetans outside China are all refuse to admit this. Love from Australia! A Tibetan Chinese.

[@tinawu7146]

Because they used to have everything and fled away and lost them.

[@justawesome9443]

why is your name Han Chinese? Tibetan 'slave' families have Tibetan names, personally I call BS on your whole story.

[@Qiyunima]

@@zzzz-fb5vs You are right. All my family in Tibet, they are enjoying their life in Tibet. And I like to visit them. But I think most of Tibet outside China, they all think their own problems in life were caused by the Chinese government. So they hate the Chinese government.

[@zweibo]

@@justawesome9443 you are not so awesome, i call bs on your name.

[@jxmai7687]

@@justawesome9443 Even if they are Tibetan, their travel documents are pronounced in Chinese.

[@nancylee9635]

Thanks. I just started to discover the truth about Tibet. I always think Dalai Lama is a Saint religious figure being forced to exile . But from what is happening with Hong Kong, Xinjknh, Burma.... i started to discover the truth and what China really is. I am proud to be Chinese. I just started to find out the truth about tibet and want to know more about the truth. Even this video is 7 months old, its inspiring. Thanks again.

[@peterchang58]

@Nancy Lee - How dare the Dalai Lama call himself a Buddhist.

[@kiwitalkspodcast]

The Dalai Lama chose to leave which is understandable and china even allowed him to come back to Tibet but he said he rather stay in India...

[@TXSH220]

I also spent almost a month (28 days) driving through Tibet 4 years ago. Before I went there I had the pictures of devastating conditions in my head. While travelling through the majestic land, many places were extremely hard to get to, I spent time with the locals including the those raising the life stocks in the wildness. The entire trip completely changed my view of Tibet which I had got primarily from the western medias for the 30+ years in USA. I am looking forward to going back there again once all of the travel restrictions are lifted.

[@julietzhang]

I went to an Tibeten area back in 2015, and the monk guide in the second biggest temple there was still boasting the class difference, telling that some higher level monks lives in a luxury quarter while the others have to share a room with several families. He kept reminding us that we are materialistic people and we are all about money, meanwhile he was the only person talking about money the whole time. Of course there was also some other monks who just smiled and let us look around. But after that trip, I won't have any fantasy of the peaceful spiritual image that was portrayed of there anymore.

[@ozsharpener]

Unfortunately they still enjoy their wealth even though the slavery is long gone. I believe they receive government funding. They also jointly created an online system to authenticate Lamas around Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan and other provinces. They use their identities to make money from rich people around China by worshipping on behalf of those rich clients, granting them sacred Tibetan names, etc.

[@peterwang5660]

All a part of modernization and reform and not sticking to communist principles

[@asw654]

Let me say, in the Dalai Lama's defense, he was initially very supportive of the Chinese gov't and even went to Beijing to meet with Mao personally. Just take a look at the photos he took with Mao. Those smiles were genuine. There was certainly trust during that time. Regardless how we might feel about communism and its practicality, he fully believed in communist plans to modernize Tibet. He was progressive for his time. (Note: A lot of Tibetans, including Tibetan communist Phuntsok Wangyal who led the Chinese to Lhasa, believed in "the ComIntern", and the dream of a worldwide communist movement.) The problem was that he's basically been put into difficult situations and taking bad advice from bad actors throughout his life. The fact that he is now so critical of the Chinese gov't has more to do with: 1. He was put into a difficult situation when a group of Tibetans were trained by the CIA to rebel and secede from China. The CIA wanted to stir up troubles. Most Tibetans themselves say the Dalai Lama's brother worked with the CIA on this, without the Dalai Lama's knowledge. This is something ex-CIA readily admit to now, and it's even declassified by the CIA. No point denying it. 2. Even as PLA were marching on Lhasa, he was GOING to stay until his Dorje Shugden "oracle" told him to flee. Note that dorje shugden is banned by the Dalai Lama today. lol. So after he flees, it pretty much guarantees to the Chinese army that he was behind the rebellions. Now he's basically screwed himself because of the advice of someone else. Not even his own decision. An "oracle's" lol. 3. He's been funded millions by the CIA and has had their agents by his side. Again, declassified so no point denying it. 4. He was given an opportunity before 1990 by the Chinese gov't to come back and head the Tibet Autonomous Region. He was told by "associates" at his side (likely CIA influenced) to wait until the collapse of the Soviet Union, and that he'll have more leverage when the Chinese gov't collapsed soon after. We all know the story. China, unlike the USSR, did not collapse, and he ended up with LESS leverage. I could go on and on, but basically, he's not "evil" (unlike what Chinese gov't and ultranationalists keep stubbornly/stupidly repeating). He just has a history of uncritically taking the bad advice of others and not making his own decisions. He was being way too much of a pushover to people he perceives as his allies. Like Patrick French commented, "He may be a god, but he's no politician." (French was an ex-director of the Free Tibet Campaign in London for multiple decades, so clearly he tries to side with Tibetans, but even he questions the decision making of HHDL.) (Please feel free to research the name drops I used above to verify this information for yourself. Don't feel like you need to take my word for it. I strongly encourage you to do your own research, own due diligence, and come to your own judgment.)

[@DanielDumbrill]

Thanks for your excellent comment. The book Battleground Tibet really gives a good feel of this as well. Even the Dalai Lama's brother said he regretted working with the CIA and if they got their way, they'd have just turned Tibet into another Iraq/Libya/Syria

[@asw654]

​@@DanielDumbrill thanks for your response. I'm a fan of your content and I respect the knowledge you have and the effort you put in. To clarify, my comment and defense of the Dalai Lama was directed more towards the others in the audience. I was pretty confident you already knew enough of the subject yourself. Thanks for your recommendation! I've actually read a bit of it, but then stopped because I kept being told I was wumao for even considering it (one guy literally went to Amazon searching for negative reviews and used the criticisms word for word against me). So most of my thoughts are actually based on records that Westerners couldn't possibly accuse of being CPC propaganda. E.g. the biographical "Tibetan Revolutionary", since Wangyal himself was actually a victim of Chinese gov't paranoia (he was imprisoned for a while during the USSR collapse and Chinese near-civil war during that period). yeah it's a bit sad that i basically self-censor because of how often I get called wumao (with no hint of irony from the accusers), but it is what it is. But even with those sources I've let through that self-censorship, it's still pretty obvious that there wasn't a planned "invasion". The most we could say against the Chinese communists at the time was there was a lot of miscommunications and chaos... which is pretty understandable considering the ravages of WW2 and civil war, and the fact that most of them were just peasants.

[@jimmychen576]

the “democratization reform” that the central government planned to perform in Tibet were strict. The privileged class were going to lose their privileges, land, even wealth. From the stance of them it’s violent revolution, but from the stance of serves it’s liberation. it’s natural some of the privileged class would rebel, and only Dalai himself knows whether he agreed to rebel or just affected by his surroundings. Nevertheless, Dalai’s flee made the democratization reform ended with war and blood, even the central government intended to buy out their privileges.

[@yili9725]

I dont' know how you can defend the human rights of serf during theocracy period? When dalai lama portrait himself as human rights fighter, what about the human rights of the serfs? do they have rights to keep their bones, skins, skull and light?

[@freeworld88888]

you can't defense on historic fact. He is 100% a politician. He had 6000 serfs etc. no excuse. karmic law will do it job, like everyone else

[@endeliggnist5066]

Truly eyeopening. To claim to advocate for "Tibetan freedom" is to advocate for a return back to the status quo - a society where the majority lived like slaves.

[@autumnfar3114]

You are right!

[@Sam23719]

This Video is about Chinese narrative on Tibet with business minded Americans doing for money . We Tibetan are almost lost our identity in this blind world. China and India are fighting on claiming Tibetan medicine are there own and we Tibetan no country to fight against. Chinese is doing everything to show the world that they are improving Tibetan life with lies.people who are in free country believing communist propaganda is unbelievable. FREE TIBET AND TIBET BELONG TO TIBETAN .

[@AaronGarton666]

Or, it means that Tibetans can run their country free of Chinese imperialism.

[@SN-bf8wr]

@@Sam23719 where are you sir? Not in Tibet, right? That explains why you want to free Tibet. You are the top 5%. CCP made your cheese disappear.

[@Shenzhou.]

@@Sam23719 Why can't Chinese teach our ideology to Tibetans since Tibet is part of China? You as overseas Tibetan learn Western Democracy system, then why can't China teach communism in Tibet?

[@dejavue3013]

Thank you so much for making this video. It's been long overdue someone from outside China tells the West what their Shangri-la was really like.

[@passer2by]

"Free Tebit" means more freedom for the ruling class, not the majority of tebitan people. But the life of tebitan people was never the interest of western media, they just needed an excuse to blame the CCP.

[@passer2by]

@david chan exactly, I'm glad there are people who really do research before they judge things.

[@leizang5197]

Exactly!

[@autumnfar3114]

Your comment on the Western medias are very true! They are all political motivated.

[@jimmyhu7606]

Just like Trump and the rich . We the slaves work for the top 1% for the rich. Their 5% will work for top people. The rich in Tibet import goods like the American rich while they get basically nothing.

[@sahya9580]

@Mi Mi joker.

[@silentwatcher1455]

Thank you for presenting facts about Tibetan life during Dalai Lama regime.

[@lwcng7185]

Thanks Daniel. As your travel unfolds the historical and current conditions of Tibet, it helps to generate interesting and honest accounts of then and now, exposing Western lies and media misinformation.

[@jameslee2465]

The system in Tibet was serf system before PLA entered Tibet and liberated it.

[@michaeljojosama4972]

No doubt, CCP and PLA is liberator of Tibet. And if you know China well you will find to develop Tibet the center government gives Tibetan many preferential policies and privileges, also bulid many infrastructures in Tibet

[@zhangjohn7676]

this is exactly correct. Feeling you heard of this. I am from the southeast of China, my hometown is more developed so we have a sister city in Tibet called Lingzhi. Every year the local government sends high quality local officers to assist Lingzhi city, they stay there for 1-3 years on shifts. Helping Tibet building infrastructure such as hospital, highway, etc. spending tons of money there. I have a classmate he is out local officer and he stayed there for 3 years helping Tibet building their highway. He told me a lot of stories over there. Actually, a lot of inland cities have a sister city in Tibet under the organizations by the central government. No doubt, CCP has fully committed to improving people's life quality, while western medias have always interfere or slander CCP.

[@questworldmatrix]

Yeah let's not frame it like those people who pride themselves of giving black people a subjective "better life" compared to the African plains. Not that I'm aware of any enslavement of Tibetans under Chinese rule.

[@thisiskevin1000]

@@questworldmatrix They were spies for the US-backed and Nazi Germany sympathizer the 14th Dalai Lama, now in exile in India.

[@jameslee2465]

The system in Tibet was serf system before PLA entered Tibet and liberated it.

[@malakatan3235]

Western countries support slavery, the last one they do is in Africa

[@ilovejingle]

I still remember when I visited the museum I saw a human skin lamp from a Tibetan noble class made from the skin of a slave, that’s before 1949 when China took over. What you saw on media is how China is influencing the religion of the Tibetan people, but what China brought to Tibet is more than that.

[@thisiskevin1000]

Even under the Republican era, Tibet, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia has been fully incorporated into the rest of China

[@vibinginmybedroomrn9948]

What the hell? Human skin lamps do not exist in Tibet. You’re probably lying, or that museum is funded by the CCP

[@lilychandelie4088]

@@vibinginmybedroomrn9948 “probably lying” LMFAO Poor you old slave owners, can’t even ensure that your ancestors didn’t do those anti-humanistic, cruel, blameworthy things before. LMFAO

[@ilovejingle]

@@vibinginmybedroomrn9948 everything in china is funded by the government (or you may prefer to call it CCP) including history museum, do your research, and there are plenty of documentation by western reporter, not only lamp, there are drums and all kinds of toys made by human skin and bones. those times are slave era. if you trust human being, they can do all kinds of crazy stuff to slave regardless of race and culture. If you picture those history in Tibet as peace and love times, then you need pray if you went back in time, you will become a slave owner

[@vibinginmybedroomrn9948]

@@lilychandelie4088 I meant that the guy was probably lying as in he was probably lying with what he said. I don’t doubt what I said in that comment. Learn how to read.

[@ebmserviceservice7492]

the average tibetan enjoy much more human right and dignity under CCP than they did under Dalai Lama. That is fact.

[@vibinginmybedroomrn9948]

No, that is not fact

[@C-eo1rt]

​@@vibinginmybedroomrn9948 objectively it is.

[@leeliu6867]

@@vibinginmybedroomrn9948 yes it is the fact

[@jiggynyc9703]

As if u were there ..shhh little knowledge is dangerous

[@酷拉皮卡-s7d]

@@vibinginmybedroomrn9948seems like u enjoy “meat lotua”and tanhka，disgusting

[@littlestone1541]

When I told my hippy girlfriend that her "Free Tibet" poster she had in her room when we were students was some what a redundancy in my opinion, she looked at me quizzically and said "what do you mean?" I answered "Well, they've already been freed, they had a socialist revolution led by the CPC, remember?" She thought I w&as joking or something, but i asked her "So you w&ant to c"free them" by reinstating a theocratic feudalistic dictatorship?" -"Brutal?!?!" she cried, "They're Buddhists!" as if that trumped everything. "It was the communists that were brutal, they expropriated all the monks..." -"You mean they freed all their slaves?" I retorted, "And gave the people land?" I asked her if she thought that the northern Union was wrong to have "expropriated" all of the plantation owners southern Confederates in the US too. Of course she didn't...

[@xz1891]

Basically a variation of the Indian caste system in a darker way. People often want to compare modern day India with China, I say, no, compare India with Tibet first. ~70 years after fully getting rid of the ugly, towering criminal serfdom system, see how far Tibet has moved forward in many aspects, from social development to life quality to infrastructure, while India... Conclusion: India needs a Mao Zedong.

[@ykthang]

Well said!

[@autumnfar3114]

Fully agree with your comments. Indians are too diversified. They still live in the past with the cast system. Very unfortunate!

[@justjacqueline2004]

He is coming.

[@rajdeepvijayaraj4243]

Absolutely, comrade.

[@Mhow-ib6kq]

India? My conclusion......... 99% people illusional And lazy. Often carry a head bigger than their shoulders too. China? Majority people are progressive, ambitious and greed. Whole family go to Restaurant and casino are usually part of their life.

[@AlmightyAaron0423]

that's classic, all of those noble families immigrated to Switzerland and America and enjoying huge donation from global, rest of poor Tibetan still struggling in India.

[@brandtlai1247]

The latter part is obscure, why the Tibetan are in India, aren't they living in China, enjoying the development brought by CCP.

[@xz1891]

@@brandtlai1247 1959 DL and followers rebelled, theses are probably the offspring

[@pemagyaltsen8492]

When 1.2 million were killed, over 6000 monasteries and shrines have been destroyed, over ten thousand have been imprisoned, imposing of Chinese as official language all are thinking that the identity of Tibetan was now eradicate once for all. But hello my friend China, our civilization is as old as yours civilization. Tibetan Exile government known as most effective and efficient government in any of exile government in the world. How many the generation evolve but Tibetan will not stop their right. Now you cannot make us silence 😂🤪😛😜😂🤪😝🤪🤣🤪🤣🤣🤗😚🥰🤭😜😤😤😤😤🙄🙄🙄🙄🤔🤔🤔🤔😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@route55qatar]

@@pemagyaltsen8492 So basically the whole video is true. Dalai Lama exposed!

[@lobsangwangchuk9315]

WILL YOUNG that’s you and your CCP regime statistic

[@aerodog121]

You can tell how local people feel about their life in Tibet today from the laugh of two cute girls. I really want to visit it by myself!

[@diggingmystyle]

You better get in shape first. That elevation is no joke.

[@Ahoooooooo]

Kids laughter is the best evidence that things are going well .

[@uhu597]

That Tibetan guide explained things very clearly, but he would be branded a sheep for the CPC no doubt by the West.

[@zweibo]

Who care what west thinks. Period

[@mrmao3319]

Old Tibet was bad, yes... But that does not mean that Mao and his CCP can claime Tibet. Tibet will be independent when Xi Jinping and his Wuhan virus spreading regime falls.

[@shmeckle666]

@@mrmao3319 well, dont hold your breath for that one, mate.

[@mrmao3319]

@@shmeckle666 I am not your mate. Australian traitor ;)

[@zweibo]

@@mrmao3319 Tibet was and is a part of China since the beginning of Chinese civilization. For your petty little knowledge of history, Chinese civilization has never fallen once for the past 3000 years. Now, it's stronger than ever. On the other hand, your slave master, the Dalai Lama's day is numbered.

[@saraman1231]

To some in the West Tibet is and should have remained that relic of the past, a folklore, a giant remote and exotic museum of feudalism unaltered by modernization, that they’d be visiting now and then to kind of live and satisfy their fantasies of the life or experience in an old Buddhist civilization. Nothing to do with so-called defense of freedom.

[@thirdvect0r]

Absolutely spot on.

[@xz1891]

DL: Free Tibet. Mao's PLA: We already did.

[@xz1891]

Yt keeps decreasing the 👍 number

[@gangsterdead6352]

Actually!

[@junkee2511]

Awesome quote. I'm going to steal that and make a bumper sticker.

[@xz1891]

@@junkee2511 by all means 😁

[@xz1891]

@Tenzin Tsering 又来了？If you really do it, you will only have s het to eat.

[@Jebusjoose]

All the Americans screaming "Free Tibet," don't realize that China beat them to it.

[@explorejigdor1119]

Jebusjoose Tibet freedom is essential for peaceful China. China is ancient rich in cultural and heritage but under this regime is it lost the trust and respect of the world 🌎 people. The regime propaganda using tourist, blogger to KZbin, Facebook and social media t

[@becoolenough]

Westerners screaming "Free Tibet" Chinese answered "We did it in 1951"

[@AaronGarton666]

You mean like Hitler freed Europe? HAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAha!!!!

[@benbentan4005]

@@AaronGarton666 ignorant as fk

[@becoolenough]

@S a Tibet belong to China since Qing dynasty, every new Dalai have to be confirmed by central gov, what makes you think Tibet "wasn't China's place"? And that so called "massacre 1 million people", Really? You serious? In 1950, total population of Tibet was even less than 1 million!

[@pohkhui]

Finally some people brought up this topic. I knew this more than 40 years ago when my parents told me about serfdom in Tibet. Dalai lama wanted his slaves back by so called " liberating " Tibet..

[@pohkhui]

@Zidon Wangyal you know the difference between the slave labour vs slaves. If don't know, don't comment, making a fool of yourself.

[@tseringdickyi7852]

@@pohkhui oh dude my parents also use to tell me lots of tales

[@gmansingh4916]

Basically the Tibetans were living the same as India Caste System before liberated from Dalai Lama by the CPC in 1959. That's why you see all the serf owners and their descendants are advocating "Free Tibet" so they can go back and re-establish the serfdom to enslave the Tibetans again. The IRONY.

[@palmtree1014]

AGREED

[@edhiepitz]

@@palmtree1014 thats what oligarchs do. Cheating, lying and stealing

[@tl1539]

True. I was outraged first time in a Tibet museum when a local serf descendant showed and explained the monks peel off little serf girl's skin to make decorations, it was disgusting and heartbreaking seeing the skins of a little human shape hanging on the wall.

[@windhorse8688]

Initially I thought you guys are innocent but now I realised that you guys are doing it deliberately at CCP Instructions.

[@gmansingh4916]

@@windhorse8688 Tell your boss to get you another job 😂

[@mangosorbet768]

Thanks for the good piece of history. It is eye opening again.

[@TIENxSHINHAN]

As a descendant of similar atrocities in the US, these buildings have very dark energy 😃😃😃

[@iknowu6068]

West: let's bring back Dalai lama and free all Tibetans. Tibetans: but we were his slaves before CPC came...

[@edhiepitz]

Indian troll loves that narrative, lol

[@kenso888]

​@@edhiepitz those democratic slavs are so jealous of theocratic slavs. much better life. LOL

[@rickr9435]

most tibetans still respect dalai lama though, but they just like the lives they have right now at the same time.

[@_dokha9386]

Millions of Tibetan inside Tibet are requesting and waiting for Dalai Lama to return back to Tibet . But chinese government won't let him to return back to his own land . So thousands of tibetan escaped from Tibet per year to visit him . Many Tibetan inside tibet secretly keep Dalai lama's photos without knowing chinese police . If chinese police know about keeping the dalai lama photos . They arrest that families and prison for many years. After 1959 china invaded Tibet and Tibetan don't have aloud to sing patriotic songs , no aloud to keep dalai lama photo and many others . Many tibetan singers who sang patriotic song were arrested and prison for whole life . If u don't believe go to Tibet and do whatever u like . I think chinese police will arrest u . So think before u analyse the condition . U will know if u once visit Dalai lama in india . U r watching fake history of Tibet which was remake by chinese government after 1959. So don't change quick .

[@iknowu6068]

@@_dokha9386 are you saying they weren't slaves previously?

[@jzeng2022]

When China was in a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, this was a completely dark era for the whole of China, and Tibet was in a closed slave society. At that time, did Western society care about the lives of Tibetans? Do they care about the human rights and freedom of Tibetans? When Western society needed to attack the Chinese government, Western society began to show great enthusiasm for the lives and human rights of the Tibetan people. The Dalai Lama is used as a tool, and human rights and freedom are the cheapest tool to attack the Chinese government. Regardless of whether the Chinese government is kind, at least for now, Tibetans will not starve to death because of lack of food. They can walk freely anywhere in Tibet, and children can receive nine-year compulsory education. Go to the most remote place in Tibet. The best building there must be the school.

[@tenzindolkar1039]

J Zeng Wait..so you telling me ‘a country who see human right as an existential threat’, is treating the Tibetans who have been oppressed under them like this ??

[@billfung3422]

Thanks Daniel again for another eye-opener video of Tibet!

[@rayeo128]

Those who seriously concern about Tibet should also read "The untold story of my struggle for Tibet" by Gyalo Thondup, the brother of Dalai Lama. He confessed being used by CIA, a decision he later regret

[@jessicaw8682]

That's an incredible tour of the place! The nobles built that entrance very low to prevent those dead serfs coming back to haunt them... It says a lot about their lives!

[@abcxyz6606]

Exactly. And guess which countries want to put these horrible people in power again. Goes to show the whole Tibet agenda against China

[@Wann-zo7rn2qn4i]

Haha. It also shows that the 5% knew they were in the wrong. Otherwise, why would they fear retribution from the dead?

[@lipincheng]

@Mi Mi The world? Is that why Vietnam had 0 death for the first 7 months? Shanghai 1 death? Fujian province 1 death? What an idiot!

[@Wann-zo7rn2qn4i]

@Mi Mi What has my joke got anything to do with Covid-19? But if you must throw some mud on China, I suggest you find something fresh . Nobody with any modicum of brains even believe that anymore.

[@CL4KFL]

The girls are so adorable. Man, the road there is just beautiful! Everything is so clean!

[@yincheung5170]

Daniel, you are getting to the core point of all western propaganda, that the Tibetaans lived a very happy life and people's libération army came destroyed their 'happy life' they were suffering. Thank you Daniel to help the real tibet people speak to the world 👍 👍👍🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

[@lxjilyfe]

anwers can be easily found on the faces of the 2 cute girls.

[@chrislove4851]

Poor girl...she doesn’t have any knowledge about the Tibetan history or her ancestors...she is just living in the bubbles and has been brainwashed from the childhood

[@yeshiyangzom8532]

@@chrislove4851 Your exp is not theirs. Everyone has unique exp. Dont bandage them with u

[@vibinginmybedroomrn9948]

@@chrislove4851 Exactly! These people are uneducated

[@darrishawks6033]

@@vibinginmybedroomrn9948 says who? Uneducated about what?

[@user-qt8tj3oo1b]

Wonderful video to show us how people lived in Tibet in the past. I hope these sites can get better protection so more people can visit and learn in the future.

[@jameslee2465]

The system in Tibet was serf system before PLA entered Tibet and liberated it.

[@york4315]

Finally!!! finally, someone told the truth of Tibet. What CCP has done in 1951 in Tibet was not the annexation of Tibet, but the liberation of Tibetan common people.

[@windhorse8688]

Read here to enrich your knowledge: WHAT IS CHINA’S ARGUMENT ON TIBET? China is very aware of the strength of the movement for Tibet's freedom. Inside Tibet, it uses repression and violence against that movement. Outside of China, it uses propaganda. These are the six key arguments in the Tibet sovereignty debate, which China relies on to justify its continued occupation of Tibet. Read on to discover what China says versus the truth. 1. CHINA SAYS: TIBET IS PART OF CHINA China's argument: Tibet was absorbed about 800 years ago during the Yuan Dynasty, becoming an inseparable part of China. It has not been a country since and no country has ever recognised Tibet as an independent state. The facts: It’s true that whilst Tibet maintained a unique culture, written and spoken language, religion and political system for centuries, it has never been a nation-state in the modern sense of the word. At times in its long past, Tibet has influenced and been influenced by various foreign powers, including Britain and the Mongols, as well as China. However, the Chinese government’s claim that Tibet has been part of China for around 800 years isn't supported by the facts. Tibet was not ruled by the Chinese government prior to the 1950 invasion. In 1912, the 13th Dalai Lama - Tibet's political and spiritual leader - issued a proclamation reaffirming Tibet’s independence and the country maintained its own national flag, currency, stamps, passports and army. It signed international treaties and maintained diplomatic relations with neighbouring countries. From a legal point of view Tibet remains an independent state under illegal occupation, a fact that China wishes it could whitewash from history. Read more on our page Is Tibet a country?. 2. CHINA SAYS: OLD TIBET WAS BACKWARDS AND NEEDED CHINA TO LIBERATE IT China's argument: From 1950 to 1959 China peacefully liberated and democratically reformed Tibet, ending the old feudal serfdom where brutality was rife; a hell on earth with the backwards masses enslaved by landlords and priests. This culminated in Serf Emancipation Day in March 1959 when the Tibetan government was declared illegal. The facts: In 1950, the newly established Communist regime in China invaded Tibet, which was rich in natural resources and had a strategically important border with India. With 40,000 Chinese troops in its country, the Tibetan government was forced to sign the "Seventeen Point Agreement" which recognised China's rule in return for promises to protect Tibet's political system and Tibetan Buddhism. Far from welcoming the Chinese as liberators, Tibetans across the country continued to resist China’s armed forces and China responded with widespread brutality. Resistance culminated on the 10th of March 1959, when 300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace to offer the Dalai Lama protection. This date is commemorated as National Uprising Day by Tibetans and supporters. In 1950, many states that are today stable democracies were undemocratic and did not respect human rights. The 14th Dalai Lama was a teenager when his country was invaded and was never able to govern Tibet independently. In exile, he has won the Nobel Peace Prize and has entirely democratised the exiled Tibetan government. In contrast, the Chinese government continues to have no democratic authority. China claims that its vision of a brutal past justifies its occupation. But Tibet under Chinese rule has experienced brutality on a massive scale - from the destruction of thousands of monasteries and the deaths more than one million Tibetans in Mao’s era, to torture, arbitrary arrests and the denial of fundamental freedoms today. Read an overview on our Tibet’s history timelines. 3. CHINA SAYS: TIBET ALREADY HAS AUTONOMY Map of Tibet under China China's argument: Tibet already has autonomy as the Tibet Autonomous Region of the PRC. Tibetans are free to follow their traditions and Tibetan Buddhism is protected. The facts: This map shows historic Tibet - the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) is only part of this and millions of Tibetans live outside it. The TAR has autonomy in name only. In reality, the most senior political position in the region, the TAR Communist Party Secretary, has never been occupied by a Tibetan and Beijing is in charge. The official language is Chinese, with many Tibetan children losing their ability to speak and write Tibetan. Resistance to China's rule - from singing to environmental protests - is met with repression and brutality. As for the right to follow Tibetan Buddhism freely, monasteries are subject to monitoring and control by the Communist Party and monks and nuns are feared and often persecuted by the Chinese regime. Any Tibetan possessing an image of the Dalai Lama risks imprisonment. 4. CHINA SAYS: TIBETANS ARE PROSPEROUS AND HAPPY UNDER CHINA’S RULE Image of happy Tibetans in Chinese state news China's argument: Since China peacefully liberated Tibet it has seen glorious development: there’s almost zero poverty, disease and hunger; life expectancy has doubled; literacy has risen from 5% to 85% and former slaves have been given land. There has also been huge investment in infrastructure, jobs, housing, schools and hospitals. The facts: China’s propaganda images, like this one, are designed to show how happy Tibetans are. This couldn't be further from the truth, with Tibetans left disadvantaged in their own country. For example: Infrastructure projects enable the movement of China’s military, mass immigration of Chinese workers, Chinese tourism and access to Tibet’s rich resources. They enforce China’s control. Economic growth benefits Chinese businesses and workers, and the booming tourism industry aims to legitimise the Chinese government’s occupation. Millions of Tibetan nomads have been forced from their lands, ending their centuries-old way of life and leaving them dependent on the state as second class citizens in their own country. Education is primarily taught in Chinese, disadvantaging Tibetans who can only learn their mother tongue as a second language. The United Nations has repeatedly challenged China on human rights abuses in Tibet, including finding Tibet the worst area for child malnutrition in China. Since March 2011, more than 150 people have set themselves on fire inside Tibet in protest against China's repression. From shouting “Tibet needs freedom” in the street to attending a mass protest, Tibetans resist China’s policies daily. Despite 70 years of occupation this resistance to China remains undiminished and widespread. Tibet has seen economic progress, as have most countries in the last seventy years, but Tibetans have benefited less than Chinese immigrants. Economic progress has not deterred them from rejecting Chinese rule and the evidence shows that Tibetans are far from “happy” under China’s control. 5. CHINA SAYS: THE DALAI LAMA WANTS POWER, NOT PEACE Tibetan woman holding the Dalai Lama's image China's argument: The Dalai Lama is the latest in a line of "God King Dictators" - he is a politician in monk’s clothing whose agenda is to secure an independent Tibet which he can rule again. Global Tibet supporters - and some Tibetans inside Tibet - naively buy into lies created by the "Dalai Lama clique". The facts: The Dalai Lama is respected by people the world over. In exile, he has devolved his political power to a democratic institution and is a consistent advocate of friendship with the Chinese people and dialogue with the Chinese government. He does not seek an independent Tibet but a "Middle Way" approach which seeks greater freedom for Tibetans without independence. Much of the global support Tibet has today is thanks to the Dalai Lama’s popularity. Despite persecution, the Tibetan people inside Tibet remain dedicated to him. Desperate to maintain its grip on Tibet, the Chinese government is intent on undermining the Dalai Lama’s credibility. 6. CHINA SAYS: FREE TIBET SUPPORTERS ARE ANTI-CHINA Tibet supporters marching in the UK China's argument: The Free Tibet movement is supported by Western anti-China forces. Human rights are China’s internal affair and Westerners who have never been to Tibet have no right to speak against China’s policies. The facts: Free Tibet supporters have no argument with the Chinese people. They support Free Tibet because they see Tibetans as victims of the undemocratic Chinese government and see Tibetans’ unwavering struggle for freedom as a just cause. Chinese people are also victims of the Chinese Communist Party’s rule and many also face severe punishments in resisting its policies. When they learn the truth beyond their government’s propaganda, many Chinese people also support Tibet. At Free Tibet we share the stories of Tibetans who resist China's rule and who are victims of China's human rights abuses. These voices are hidden from the Chinese government’s official communications. We receive no support from any government or political organisation. We expose the truth and many people around the world choose to support Tibetans. CHINA IS DESPERATE TO SMOTHER THE TRUTH The truth is not on China’s side, so it must continue to lie. The Chinese government continues to spread its arguments on Tibet through official statements and propaganda, paid online commentators and even fake social media accounts. But Tibetans won't give up until they have freedom. Until they do, our work - exposing China’s lies and sharing the truth - must continue.

[@york4315]

@@windhorse8688 You support Tibet because you were supported by the Tibetan landlords or people that are on the top 5% in Tibetan society during the old days. During that time, common Tibetan people were living in hell, under the 5%'s harsh suppression. Why these so-called "Free Tibet Supporters" never want to talk about how common people (95%) were treated under the Dalai Lama's rule? Are these "Free Tibet supports" really stand with the 95% of common people? Why don't we let the video tell the truth, the one just like Daniel did? Why the voice of 5% has to represent the voice of 95% in Tibet? As far as I am concerned, these free-Tebit supporters are just a bunch of political extremists, old Tibetan landlords, and CIA spies, who were all supported by US, intended to wage a "Color Revolution" in Tibet, China, just like they did in Eastern Europe.

[@windhorse8688]

York There is no logic in disclosing with you guys because you guys are not using your common sense. Don’t fall under trap of CCP, use your intellectual. Since you got the KZbin access so try to get informations from other side too... after all what to say, Chinese have no rights in decision making of Tibet . You are Chinese so stay happy in China and if possible mobilise your fellow Chinese people and speak up for your rights with your CCP! Don’t worry about Tibet, we will make sure Free Tibet happens soon some day!

[@york4315]

@@windhorse8688 If you really support Tibetan people, why don't you just go there and ask people who live there how they think of CCP? Would they want to go back to the old days, and be a slave? You want to "Free Tibet"? Shot a video in Lhasa or any other places in Tibet and let us see how much "freedom" you could get Tibetan people? I highly doubt that most of the "Free Tibet" supporters haven't been to Tibet yet.

[@tsssta6664]

@@windhorse8688 The best way to help Tibetans is giving the money to release poverty. As a well-hearted person, you would like to help them, right? Just do it, then we can talk about what is freedom.

[@TheTraveler2222]

To those that disliked this video, "You can't handle the Truth!"

[@TheTraveler2222]

@Michelle I Exactly, the world must know that the average Tibetan enjoy much more human rights and dignity under CCP than they did under Dalai Lama. That is fact.

[@steamsearcher]

We would have long translated conversations with my Chinese Father in Law who died in 2017 aged 85. His first POSTING as a Young Soldier was Tibet he coming from Chongqing so it was relatively close. He spoke of the TOTAL HAPPINESS OF THE LOCAL POPULATION WELCOMING THEM AND GIVING SUPPORT TO WHAT THEY WERE DOING. Dad went on to tell of songs made up by the Tibetans celebrating this time. David and Lily. We stood in Tibet 2017.

[@thisiskevin1000]

Send him an email or WeChat message for contribution

[@lamwilshangdhi612]

Yeah, before CHINESE invasion( 1949), All TIBETANS were happy and even welcomed Strangers in their home in their country,that's why CHINESE TROOPS came as a GUEST in THE.. form of CRUSADER or SAVIOUR who gradually controlled from South EAST - Kham Prefecture and started arresting and killing, mass genocide executed by CHINESE DICTATOR. Since they lived and occupied Tibet and changed everything even History was REWROTE and NEW Constitution was Reformed and even Chinese National Holidays are celebrated on the same day as TIBETANS.The CHINESE GOVT ARE Secular and believes RELIGION are POISON but they interfere in even REINCARNATION MATTER of TIBET which is a SACRED RELIGIOUS matter. You are hiding behind your own pants.

[@andrewsickler8466]

Your work to show aspects of China and Chinese history is really helpful Daniel! Thanks so much.

[@stephenc6955]

My takeaway from this series of videos is that serfdom and feudalism do not belong in the 21st century. Politics aside, the Tibet of today is encouragingly better than the past. If I were a Tibetan, I would be content to see my fellow citizens prosper. Human history is far from perfect for every nation, race, tribe, sect, etc, right down to each individual. You can't change the past, but you can make the future a *better* place. (edited, realized I left out a word)

[@benbentan4005]

The ones who escaped Tibet have never stopped thinking of coming back to rule again. So they aren't very happy for sure.

[@fengqifly]

Yes, I hope the world will unite and become a better global village. Instead of pointless recriminations

[@user-kz3eo6lz5o]

@@benbentan4005 who told you, tibetan in diaspora?

[@happywhale1786]

I almost throw my stomach out the first time I saw a real human skin drum the first time in my own eyes. I mean I read about it and even saw some pics on the history book but still, it caught me instantly. A little yard surrounded by the building with dead specimens of horses, eagles, monkeys and etc on the 2nd floor staring at you. And the only place with light is where you stand. A monk was beating the drum with a human-skull-headed stick restlessly for months(several of them did the job to make sure the beats wouldn't stop during months-long religious rituals ). The evil atmosphere suddenly got me to understand the meaning of "cult" and the reason Zhang Tianshi start the war against witches and shamans 2000 years ago. That is, this kind of s**t shall not exist for one more second under the daylight.

[@waryaamoxamad3115]

What stuck the most was the fingerprint of hatred towards the poor that develops in a society structured as such. You can see similarities to anti-union, anti-native, anti-black sentiments in imperialist western countries.

[@cliang1999]

I was visiting lhasa tibet many times 15 years ago and still missing the life there. amazing place.

[@souka720]

Awwww, now i know who fled tibet. The nobles, monks and gov officials.

[@rickr9435]

at least the 10th banchen was the kind one and stayed for his people.

[@phurbudolma2250]

Souka? Don’t judge a book by its cover. Even China don’t allowed to reveal truth how come he could believe to such a guide. This isn’t true at all. That won’t happen at all.

[@sonofyoutube6248]

@@phurbudolma2250 are you one of the noble descendent? hope you life a good life in india

[@dans.7651]

Yes, and they were replaced by CCP nobles, monks, and government officials who took the money for themselves.

[@partyhu]

@@dans.7651 你脑子生痔疮了吧？

[@cheongchoi8217]

serfs are pretty similar to what is called the untouchables in india, they are labelled as low class citizens and remain as such generations by generations, mobility to an upper class is almost impossible

[@xz1891]

India needs Mao

[@cyclone27ocl]

India need to be freed

[@gekkanshounen5112]

@@xz1891 interesting the enough there are actually Indians who actually respect now and wish for a communist do over of India so that they may get rid of the caste system.

[@iknowu6068]

@@gekkanshounen5112 i thought there was a state/province ruled by the communist party...

[@aonaga8657]

There is no government in central India in what is popularly known as the red corridor. Infact Delhi's rule only extends up to the chickens neck and beyond that is all under martial law. Look up the Naga fight for Independence.

[@jiandou1]

actually one of the condition dalai lama asked for his return is to keep his slaves. and chinese government refused him.

[@LondonCultureWar]

Please could you post a link to a source?

[@tenzinrigthen2173]

U can contact Chinese CCP for the links

[@qinwang6250]

Dalai Lama's family (from his mother and father's side) and those old aristocrats in his cabinet would never allow him to return to China. Living in India they receive donations of billions of USD from the west every year for them to maintain their lords' luxurious lifestyle and work againt China. If they return to China, they will lose the money and become commoners which they will never want to be. Politics, if you see it through, it is all about money.

[@_dokha9386]

if u visit Dalai lama once. I know ur bad views and ur bad thinking for dalai lama will be e definitely go 🙏 So don't judge quick 🙏

[@justawesome9443]

@@tenzinrigthen2173 yes, it should be noted here that Tibet tours are by invitation only..The CCP is funding this video

[@kickassgoat]

Thank you Daniel for your super well constructed videos and thoughtful commentary. It is always more refreshing to see places through others' perspective that isn't already infused with hate and political biases.

[@khoopuayguan9648]

I went to Lhasa in 2016 visited the Potala Palace and was amazed by the place. Buddhists were free to practice their faith freely.

[@hugowoods1986]

For most westerners the China and tibet relationship started in 1959. For starter people should read about British invasion of Tibet of 1903 and The Treaty of Lhasa between Great Britain and the Qing dynasty China in 1904. For more ancient history ( 600 AD ) between Tibet and China people read "Old Tang Dynasty Book" and "New Tang Dynasty Book" .

[@benbentan4005]

@Mi Mi but definitely no one can trust loser like you.

[@shakyatenzin2547]

​@@benbentan4005 there were Tibetans kings who ruled in Mongolia and in china they were massacered by the PRC

[@sybelyan2535]

Mi Mi you are so typical. Trying to blame China for the virus and dog eating. I mean, seriously gather more info and put on some new tricks next time.

[@arewealone9969]

@Mi Mi You must be Indian, I see the similarities in your words to many comments going around.

[@chinanhuang4870]

@@shakyatenzin2547 Give names of those Tibetans kings who ruled China and Mongolia.

[@stevenchow5684]

Thanks Daniel for this beautiful road with the mountains and open sky blend with right music to match

[@GtsZeG]

these road networks are amazing

[@abdeenn3]

Thank you Daniel! What a beautiful journey! You have always done a super job, either interviewing your guests or traveling.

[@付宽-x2q]

I suggest anyone in the comment section who can read Chinese to search and learn about the folksong Sister Drum/阿姐鼓 especially the story behind its lyric. Serfdom? That was only the daily routine of normal Tibetan people before CPC freed them.

[@xz1891]

@@justawesome9443 Tell us u r on whose payroll, u bastard?

[@squallp]

@@justawesome9443 read the song

[@Vostadues]

Errr... My family actually have a Human Skin Drum from Tibet, got it from a Lama long times ago...

[@mpkkkukkk5945]

@@xz1891 Whose payroll are you on? China must be so rich to pay anyone who has a different opinion from you.😅

[@xz1891]

@@mpkkkukkk5945 我曰尼玛，是那个人先accuse我。来，我俩赌一把，谁拿钱发帖，他妈卖B

[@godessworshipper4663]

The two Tibetan girls are so cute and energetic. I can tell they took basic English education in primary school like anywhere else in China, that's a really good sign IMO.

[@domlaukemp2772]

What do you think about the fact that they seem to learn English but no Tibetan language? Based on what the one girl says at around 11:30

[@godessworshipper4663]

​@@domlaukemp2772 They definitely learnt the Tibetan language, that's mandatory for Tibetans in those regions. They may not use it frequently like the Chinese Singaporeans who are better in English than Chinese. Also, one of the girl actually can read the Tibetan

[@domlaukemp2772]

@@godessworshipper4663 The girl says in Chinese that she does not speak Tibetan

[@domlaukemp2772]

@Ben Louis if this is so, I would also critize the US and Australia then. Especially Australia is known for its poor treatment of their native people for sure. But that does not change anything about my question.

[@ahuang5044]

If you ever been to Tibet or even just watched these vlogs on KZbin, you'll find that most Tibetans speak Tibetan way better than Mandarin. Tibetan language are taught in schools along side with Mandarin. Don't know what the little was referring to. I seriously doubt English is being taught.

[@isabelma4225]

Those little girls are just so cute and nice❤️

[@winters4960]

Love the interaction

[@winters4960]

10:57 LJJ : you guys SEE , the girls are starting (to play with Daniel) 11:04 Daniel : can you guys speak/understand english? Girl 1(pink) : can, but a little bit. You (just?) said 'yellow' D : yellow? no. I said 'hello' 11:13 Girl 2( light pink) : can you do this? (raising her leg) G1: can you do a twist like this? D : ooo, i am not as good as her G2 : here2x (pointing the door) D : here? Almost pass it. 11:22 G2 : life is very goood G1 : you cant speak Chinese （华语 huăyu, sometimes it means local dialect/language) D : i cant speak your Tibetan language, that local language. So, can you speak it? G2 : (mumbling) i can't. (dont know whether she is joking or not) 11:33 G1 : so, can you speak mandarin (汉语hanyu)? D :mandarin? I am using it, isnt it? G1 : can you speak.... (yijiujiu? ) (inaudible)? 11:37 G2 : this is the head of mo2niu2 (indaudible; kind of animal maybe?) (pointing upward) 11:45 G2 : .... (some bts conversation). Where is you wife?? D : she is at 江西jiangxi. G2 : Jiangxi? What kind of word is jiangxi?? G1 : Jiangxi is a place name. G1 : i am sorry, i am sorry D : aaa, noprob 12:00 D : i will take a shoot there Girl : (yes, you) can. 12:45 D : thankyou

[@Shenzhou.]

@S a On the comment section, there are many *overseas Tibetans speaking English,* then can't China teach Mandarin Chinese to Tibetans in Tibet? Mandarin is the national language of China after all and the Tibetans in Tibet are Chinese citizens by birth (it says so on their Resident Identity Card) so can't China teach Chinese citizens Mandarin?

[@10om99]

@@Shenzhou. china can teach Chinese but what goes wrong is that u can't ban Tibetan in school and try to make mandarian compulsory and must requirements of mandarian in job application is making the new generations of Tibetan to forget their own language is unacceptable.

[@gmansingh4916]

@@10om99 you guys are too much bullshit with hypocrisy and virtue siganlings 😂

[@yili9725]

Thank you for the excellent documentary!

[@王龍-t1o]

before: 95% misery, 5% paradise. now: 95% good, 5% bad.

[@markxueyuan]

Daniel 给我的感觉就是可靠，让人安心。这样的人成就不会小。我一个地道中国人祝你在中国幸福安康，事业长红！

[@dj__karma]

TIBET CLIMATE CRISIS The Tibet Climate Crisis refers to the rapid rate of climate degradation in Tibet. Tibet is experiencing temperature increases caused by climate change at a rate of three times faster than the global average. Tibet holds the largest reserve of glacial freshwater outside of the North and South Pole with 1 in 5 people in the world relying on Tibet’s rivers for survival. But China is polluting these waters.

[@user-wl7mm9nj6q]

Fact: The extinction of dinosaurs hundreds of millions of years ago was caused by C H I N A！🤬

[@jazz18273645]

Even though I have never been to Tibet, I still want people to go visit there in person then interact with the people and enjoy the land! I mean just look at that sky! Can’t wait to be there in person one day!

[@petercua6158]

Didn't know thatTibet like India has difference class of people.

[@jasminwu3353]

* "had" *

[@LarryWu-es7nc]

Just like India caste system. The lowest classes are suffering.

[@thisiskevin1000]

The creation of the serfs

[@bananapeeler8797]

It seems Dali Lama is a sanctimonious hypocrite. What a shock. Good report. Keep up your good work. Thank you, Daniel.

[@sidi9009]

I have worked in Tibet for 2 years, I had been to almost every place in Tibet. No one love to restore the dalai lama system. During dalai lama's age, slave owners chop off slaves' arm just for a sword testing. There were no human rights for 95% of population.

[@evanhuang6779]

Let me say this, all the Tibetan families I ever visited are wealthier and happier than our normal Han people, why would the west media say they're oppressed?

[@wire2u]

the 5% were definitely oppressed. That's why we hear bitches bitching and CIA's war propaganda machine rolling.

[@user-kz3eo6lz5o]

wealthier the happier?

[@GyacoYu]

In case someone want to check the name of that person in English, the clan is Palha/Phalha and the given name is Zhaxi-Wangqug/Trashi-Wangchuk. According to Tibetan naming conventions, he should be referred as Palha Zhaxi Wangqug (ZYPY) or Phalha Trashi Wangchuk (pseudo-Wylie). The r in Tibetan word _trashi_ is frequently omitted by English corruption.

[@zeyu6820]

Couple of years ago I was able to read a bit of how the slaves were treated back then in Tibet...omg things that were unimaginable even tho I already had knowledge about slavery in all other part of the world

[@noelborbon6155]

Weaponizing Tibetan Tantric Buddhism by the serfs and it's elitist overlords connected with the Dalai Lama

[@jennifercjensen]

Thank you for showing your Tibet trip. I really enjoyed watching it, you showed a lot of history which I didn't know. I hope someday I can visit there.

[@urban.nomad23]

The road video really shows off the landscape! Thanks for the share! The serf home is a great talk as always!!

[@laws5801]

This is the first time that I heard about the truth of the serfs in Tibet.

[@aroonsubway2079]

​@Forever Yours Are you denying the existence of the cruel and savage of serfdom in Tibet? Also, it doesn't make any sense to say "Tibean were threatened to speak Tibetan" ... Sometimes, you guys accuse CPC of destroying Tibetan culture, while other times, you are telling people Tibean were forced to speak Tibetan ... which one do you want us to believe? BTW, can I say Indians in UK were threatened to speak English but they are also forced to speak with a strong Indian accent LOL

[@Jhomolangma]

Aaron Spalding slavery exist in every community in old times but it was very rare in Tibet, CCP just finding some lame excuse...and yes this guy and Chinese gal is 200 percent arranged by Chinese communist govt

[@aroonsubway2079]

@@Jhomolangma They are not talking about slavery like thousands years ago, instead, they showed some photos and documents only decades ago in Tibet, which is really shocking. In addition, serfdom is not equivalent to slavery, in which people still lived a horrible life although they were not exactly in the cage. Why does it matter if this guy was arranged by CPC? If u provided evidence to debunk their arguments, that is cool. But if u just say "Aha, they are CPC reporters" and u expect it automatically prove your points, it is not convincing at all... BTW, I notice u changed to a different name, hopefully I am not talking to some random bot

[@Jhomolangma]

Aaron Spalding every country when they annex another one they find one excuse to annex, come on man , grow up its logic ....and I wil do whatever I want with my id , m not living in China where there is no basic human freedom

[@yadoliu]

@@Jhomolangma really? Can you oppose democracy in your country?

[@northernsamba7388]

Thanks Daniel for opening up our eyes to the darkness that the West would not talk about in Tibet when it was under Dalai Lama. The serf system in Tibet bears some resemblance to the Indian Caste system that is unyielding to this day in India, in places such as Madhya Pradesh. India's caste system is the oldest form of surving social stratification. The brutality is well documented. Artifacts include Tibetan human skin Thangka (religious drawing), painted onto the peeled skin of a 16 year old girl.

[@Daisy-ml5ky]

And yet the 6 million Tibetans long for the return of the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama . The people still have faith in Their religion and the Dalai Lama. We Buddhist believe that ‘Nothing lasts forever’. The truth shall eventually come out . Till then we mustn’t lose hope .Tashi Delek 🙏

[@ChangL_Rayray]

Yo Daniel~ it is so refreshing and make me feel ashamed to see you digging into the western media myth of all the political "cliche"s about China. you def testify the facts by your own footprints and actions. I really learn a lot as many others and enjoy. Big respect to you and hope you well and have fun on the rest of the journey. I will follow this journey : )

[@teannekuek9643]

It’s an eye opening video. Thanks and keep up the good job. 👏👏👏💪💪💪

[@P17NGS]

Great videos from Tibet! Keep up the good work! 👍👍👍

[@daveshongkongchinachannel]

China during feudal times also had wealthy landlords and beneath them some people were literally slaves. Medieval Britain was also a pretty nasty place if you were lower down the pecking order but it didn't remain that way (although some may wonder if things are going back in that direction once again these days!). And the USA - the land of the free - is full of inequality. My point here is that I really appreciate Daniel as a very positive individual who is willing to see through the propaganda of mainstream western media, but at the same time everything should be viewed in context and it would be wrong to assume Tibet would not have moved on if it had remained under control of the Dalai Lama just as it would be wrong to assume China's influence has all been negative. I guess we can compare it to British colonialism where even today you can see the British influence on places like Malaysia or India. Some people benefited from this influence but many people became second-class citizens in their own country. As a British citizen with a conscious awareness of such things, I have mixed feelings but at the end of the day, for better or worse, this is historical fact and with some recent events in mind we have to accept it for what it was and move on. To conclude, Daniel shows the positive side to China and much of what he says is true and more people should see his videos to get a more balanced picture. At the same time, I think it will be a sad day when we cannot make genuine criticism of any regime without fear of reprisal and that goes for any country not just China.

[@Faye_Liu]

The people who would be most qualified to talk about effects of British colonialism (probably way more negative than positive than what a typical British person is inclined to think and believe) have to be the ones who lived through it, surprisingly or maybe rather not surprisingly, it seems that the majority of the British felt that their imperial past was rather glorious and it left nothing but great legacies to these countries where they invaded and occupied often against people's will. Most British are completely ignorant of these parts of their history because they were never taught of this at school, such as the opium war and so on. It would be a good start when Britain or even the West starts to reflect into their imperialist past not only from a coloniser's perspective and teach its people this part of history (often very dark) correctly and factually before criticising other countries. Otherwise it would only make Britain look like a hypocrite.

[@daveshongkongchinachannel]

@@Faye_Liu Absolutely and even then you would need a large cross-section of society as views would vary widely. Here in HK is a good example - many locals still say things were better when the British were in charge, whereas others have far less glowing accounts. The fact is that even if the majority of people thought times were better for them, we have no way of knowing what things would be like now if the British had continued to run HK after 1997.

[@hunterthow6421]

Ben Louis Only fools takes him as a spiritual leader. However, the politicians of the West including Indian government actually use him as a chess piece to bash China and Chinese government. So you can’t really count on him to improve the Caste system in India.

[@Mhow-ib6kq]

I salute you for your prospective,honesty and optimism. Thank you.

[@Mhow-ib6kq]

@Ben Louis Instead Dalai lama go around the world begging and selling his so called philosophy. My foot!!!!!

[@madmanjshum]

It takes a courageous person and especially a non Chinese to point out the facts on Tibet and I am of no doubts you will be subjected to backlash and hate rhetoric from all sectors from the western societies. Respect

[@pemat9723]

The opposite of courage you mean. Someone who is a paid lip service provider of a powerful autocratic despotic shameless government whose own people are not free in their own country, Hongkong, ring a bell ?? Tiananmen square remember anyone?? Chinese government has not liberated their own, how can they liberate Tibetans, Uighurs and other annexed lands. nah!! Courage is definitely not it. Shameful way of earning a living, poor thing is more like it. Selling ones soul to the devil. Pitiful Daniel, yes. Courage, definitely not.

[@madmanjshum]

@@pemat9723 INDIAN!

[@Nuk1945]

The two girls are so happy

[@daboliu]

The girl is picking very polite words to translate, Duichiong means slave. culture is culture, political system is political system.Admire the culture and abandon the slavery.

[@DanielLee-sf9ds]

Hi Daniel! You have done a really great job! I enjoy this videos very much. The scenery is breathtaking. Really appreciate your narrative in the video. Given that some of us don’t understand Chinese, I think your description and translations play a huge role. Btw, the music is really epic!

[@bota02i]

so that's why they fled to India a feudal serfdom society

[@shawnt8769]

only lords fled to india.Common people are still there.

[@MiB-]

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[@qianliang7056]

I live near SF, some days I can see very blue skies.... but nowhere as blue and clean as Tibet. This is so cool

[@melaniec2448]

Really interesting content. You open my eyes, ears and mind!

[@kimlyezhuang5688]

So all the nobles had left and those remained were serfs and now liberated. So Tibetans who had left behind will not fight for the 'Tibetan freedom' requested by those who had left.

[@pemat9723]

Exactly! Why those Tibetans in Tibet would take such drastic step as self immolate if the Chinese have liberated Tibet.!!! The height of unashamed brazen lies. But it's no surprise after all it's china we are talking about here, china which is the epitome of lies and easily exposed brazen lies. You fool no-one china and China's paid army of trolls.

[@rptopmbv]

Go to Tibet museum you will see the all kinds of instruments that made of serf's skin amd bone

[@willw1839]

It’s quite easy to logically reduce the Tibetans who fled (especially the ones who went to Europe) are the rich, if people just think about it a little bit: Tibetan is still poor so back in 50’s it would be much more so, to have the resources to move cross the border into India and then fly to Europe (in an age where a train trip to Beijing is a luxury) would mean the people who left are likely not your everyday farmers.

[@lieluo2097]

Makes complete sense

[@jy7883]

*deduce

[@BZY-bu9wr]

In East Asian lore, reanimated zombies are actually stiffened corpses. I know Chinese zombies hop, idk it totally makes sense to me that zombies can't bend their knees.

[@JKimi6]

I don't understand why many people in the comment saying Free Tibet just wants return Tibet to a slave society. Surely, there are some self-interests and lots of politics involved. Yet, doing so is no different from people calling us brainwashed. I wish there will be one day when mutual understanding is truly possible.

[@luceafarul579]

They are just naive. What westerners thought was basically these: 1. Nah it’s CCP propaganda it probably wasn’t so bad as they portrayed. 2. Even if Tibet had issues it’s not anybody else’s businesses. 3. If you just freed Tibet they would’ve eventually fixed the system themselves. I mean look at how kind the Dali lama is!!!

[@yawenzoraluan3148]

Because the truth doesn't fit Western media's narrative, slavery and social injustice before the liberation era are glanced over or even denied in Western media. What's also less talked about is British army's invasion to Tibet in 1903. Western media would still call it " expedition " so as many other early 20th century invasions throughout Southeast Asia. Wonder how Buddhism antiques and artifacts from Tibet ended up in British museums ? Thank you for sharing valuable insights from within China. The world need to hear the other side of the story.

[@chenxin5664]

Tibet Buddhism asked the believers to donate 70% or even more of their income to temple. I think the socialism politics forbid that in Mao time. But in Deng time, the restrictions become weaker. The monks in Tibet become very rich again today. In Tibet religion also means money. That's why Dalai always say freedom of religion blabla. They hate the restrictions of religion. I think the tradition should be changed. Tibetan can practice religion, but they shouldn't donate most of their income to temple. It's also not good for eliminating poverty.

[@chenxin5664]

@Ben Louis I know Christian donate probably 10% or less of their income to church. But the amount donated for the Tibetan Buddhism is ridiculously high.

[@konchok4592]

Chen Xin still Tibet for Tibetan not China free Tibet I know Chinese govt will never let to know what going inside tibet than why Chinese govt let him to know. In Tibet they can’t take photos of Dalai Lama if they did he or she have to to go jail if they where caught by police

[@fastcx]

@@konchok4592 wait a sec, what about those that interviewed him? 😂 So it only applies to tibetan while he goes on interview with millions watching fed with "free tibet"are free from this? That's not how one should treat his own people

[@Pallyan]

Chen Xin .. oh really? You know so well about Tibet .. Are you a son of slave ? Cut the craps dude . Get the shit out of CPC notions.. wake up ..good morning 😎!

[@steveyao3102]

@@Pallyan maybe you should go live like a serf in Tibet, looks like you dont mind.

[@youguanhen9389]

I remember how shocked I was when heard about Tibet human skin Tangka, a decoration of rich people made from slaves' skins back before Tibetan liberation. . The slaves were peeled off of skins alive and their skins would be dry up and dyed of colors later.

[@tenzinpalmo6809]

Youguan Hen ha ha brain washed by ur great communist

[@simon1247]

Hi, Daniel, thanks for making this video. BTW, just a little reminder to all who is interested to visit Xizang or other Tibetan region in SiChuen, Yunnan, Qinghai, etc., Never, Never, Never use your index finger to point at anyone or anything that is considered sacred in the eyes of Tibetan, that is disrespectful and extremely offensive to Tibetan. You may get troubles for doing that. The only and suitable way to do is just like the two little girl did at 11:39, pointed with all your fingers and the palm is facing up

[@DanielDumbrill]

Thank you for this info

[@爸爸-q5y]

The two girls are so OMG I love them 🥺

[@lucyt4143]

Love your video! i get to see places that i have never been . Thank you!

[@brucehuang8303]

Being slaves, Tibetan people used to live a heavenly life with spiritual leader Dalai Lama? Painful life but spirit is content? What kind of stupid story?

[@hong3170]

They told them they have sins so they need to do this for next life. It is basically what religion works: to control people. Chinese people don't believe in religion so they did so many uprisings in history. CCP has the responsibility to satisfy people's needs otherwise Chinese could uprise to against them. 2000 years ago, Qin Dynasty Chinese rebels already said" emperors and nobles, are they born with the titles?" Chinese don't believe in classes. Almost all the new emperors were from bottom of the society. I just watched a vlog of an Indian girl married to a Chinese living in Guangzhou. She comments that in a Chinese restaurant the waitress behaves as she is the friend(equal) of the guests. I guess she means if it was in India, the waitress would have behave differently.

[@xiaoq8329]

With all the labor and torture, who believe they can enjoy the spiritual life? Spirituality is only a hype for the leaders to make believe their BORN PRIVILEGE.

[@Mhow-ib6kq]

@Simons Douglas Let the India rots

[@yawenzoraluan3148]

Wonder why there is an emphasis on suffering and putting faith in the next life while being content in this one within Buddhism teachings. It serves a purpose for the ruling class.

[@thisiskevin1000]

@@yawenzoraluan3148 Lust for power and privilege for the serfs

[@gangshan]

Nice road and grand scenery in wonderful music. What a treat. Daniel has good aesthetic sense.

[@benjason658]

Thanks Daniel, for bringing this true picture of Tibet in English to the world. Hope more people will have the chance to know the truth.

[@samy8897]

Your drive by were always something I loved but the Tibet ones ARE NEXT LEVEL WOOOOOOW the first video of this series.. I think second one idk but the first drive by was mind blowing , can’t wait for you to make videos while u travel on your RV , Tibet xinjiang who knows even karokorum highway to Pakistan lol