Sun-jo had given me a short history lesson about Tibet and China. It wasn’t pretty. The People’s Republic of China invaded Tibet fifty years ago. Since that time over six thousand Buddhist monasteries and shrines have been destroyed and hundreds of thousands of Tibetans have been killed or jailed. Which brings me to that boulder in the middle of the road the prisoners were cracking into gravel. We passed by it an hour after we got over the Friendship Bridge, which sort of sums up what’s happening to the Tibetans. Or as Zopa put it later that night, “Our brothers in Tibet have been made slaves
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