Tenzin
The Great Chamberlain |
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He finds the eleventh child in Tibet. Tenzin, a child monk, meditating in the lotus position sitting on the straw of his cell. Not the cell of a Buddhist temple, no, the cell of a prison. Soldiers invaded his temple, some time ago, beat him and his friends, and took them. They locked-up Tenzin and all the other monks because their religion is Buddhism. Since the invasion of his country by the soldiers, all religion is prohibited. The crime of Tenzin and his friends is having a belief, belief in something, having a different way of thinking than that of the invaders. For Tenzin, his country is not China, Tibet is his country! His religion, Buddhism, his watchwords: non-violence and compassion. His error ? Belief in his values, wanting to keep his culture, and especially…proclaim it! |