Tibet is India's core issue. However, our politicos, even our RW, seem to use it on and off, as a card to play and throw. It is not. There can be no security for India without Tibet. Dharmic Tibet is `us'. We need to always stand up for a sister dharmic civilisation.
Tibetan language is very close to our own, having been influenced by Sanskrit to a significant extent. Further, Tibetan writing is abugida, just like our alphabet. Finally, Tibetan has been the source of preserving much of our literature, both original and as translations.
The way our RW looks at everyone and everything commercially, even fellow dharmics, as some kind of trade goods sickens me. This core lack of commitment to fellow dharmics is what has destroyed India. Too much focus on economics and money is NOT good.
How many people know that Ngari and Rutog, now in China, were once part of the Ladakh Kingdom till the 17-18th century? Tibet's trade was heavily with India, very little with China. Tibetans came down to sell woollen goods and salt, and bought Indian goods in return.
Four regions of India are described in practically every Sanskrit book, viz, Manasasarovar, Himalayas, Ganga, and Malayaparvata [part of Kerala-Karnataka], with reverence. That is how important Manasasarovar was to Indian culture and dharma. But now, Tibet is a card to play!
To give an idea of just how much Manasasarovara meant to dharmics, Shaktibhadra and Rajanatha Dindima were poets in Kerala and Vijayanagara respectively. Both of them have taken to describing Manasasarovara, extolling its qualities, though it is doubtful either had seen it.
It is understandable if Kashmiri poets mention Manasasarovara, which is just next door for them. But dharmic poets, even in far off Kerala and Karnataka-Andhra would routinely describe Manasasarovara, because that cultural concept was just that important to all the dharmics.
