Talk:Rodger Kamenetz

Om mani padme hum
Is that eventually the jew in the lotus? om mani padme hum


 * -- 88.75.213.228 (talk) 10:11, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

" the authoritative account of the historic dialogue between rabbis and the Dalai Lama." - the book is called on the article's page. what Dalai Lama? what number?
 * -- 88.75.213.228 (talk) 10:28, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Prof. Kamenetz is mistaken
Professor Kamenetz's belief to link Hebrew slaves/slavery in ancient Egypt to that of the Tibetans and the dalai lama is mistaken. Tibetan slaves were enslaved by Tibetan lamas and the nobles of Tibet, whereas Hebrew slaves were slaves to the non-Hebrew ancient Egytians. Like the Hebrew god, the Chinese government was the one who freed the Tibetans from slavery. Furthermore, the exiled dalai lama and his followers chose to exile themselves and only form a tiny minority of the Tibetan people, whereas the entire Biblical Hebrew population was supposedly exiled as slaves in a foreign land away from the promised land against their wishes, the vast majority of Tibetans are still in the geographical area known as Tibet. Many of the so-called exiles are in fact economic migrants. If Professor Kamenetz wishes to pray, he should pray for the Tibetan people and not the lama slave masters. 86.129.9.96 (talk) 02:03, 25 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Praying for the dalai lama, maybe Kamenetz should start praying for the pharoahs. 86.151.194.168 (talk) 18:51, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

In the book it is quite clear that there is an encyclopedia of parallels in Jewish history to the situation of the Tibetan people. While Rabbi Greenberg focused on the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans and subsequent exile, there's discussion of a more historically apt parallel which is the Babylonian exile in which the leadership elite was exiled to Babylon while the vast majority of Israelites remained on their land. The record of the Chinese government in regard to systematic religious persecution of Tibetan Buddhists in Tibet is quite clear and includes imprisonment and torture for offenses such as having a portrait of the Dalai Lama. Is that oppression justified by the feudal oppressiveness of the old Tibetan system? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.103.70.211 (talk) 13:25, 11 October 2020 (UTC)