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post Sep 15 2009, 07:30 PM
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Obama is not meeting Dalai Lama during His Holiness visit to Washington in October. So he send this aide just to Dasa.

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post Sep 15 2009, 09:38 PM
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What can Obama gain by meeting this fake Buddha? If he has nothing to gain but everything to lose, why would he want to do such a stupid thing.

And Dalai Lama has spent 50 years touring around the world meeting all sorts of politicians. What has he gained? Nothing. But when Beijing invited him to go back to Tibet for the funeral of Panchen Lama in 1989 with no string attached, he didn't even have a few days to spare. So how many more years does Dalai Lama want to tour around the world?

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post Sep 15 2009, 10:13 PM
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QUOTE(beta @ Sep 15 2009, 09:38 PM) *
What can Obama gain by meeting this fake Buddha? If he has nothing to gain but everything to lose, why would he want to do such a stupid thing.

And Dalai Lama has spent 50 years touring around the world meeting all sorts of politicians. What has he gained? Nothing. But when Beijing invited him to go back to Tibet for the funeral of Panchen Lama in 1989 with no string attached, he didn't even have a few days to spare. So how many more years does Dalai Lama want to tour around the world?



Dalai Lama was scared that he too will be poisoned by Chinese like Panchen Lama. Tibetans are loosing beucause of being too nice, naive and non violent.

Where as politics is works of scoundrels, where scheming, cheating, bullingy and violence are necessary skills which Dalai Lama lacks utterly.

Truth doesn't work in politics.

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post Sep 16 2009, 02:19 AM
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@Beta ,

Your head is saying enough !
And may the worms come out of your head dancing and singing very soon laugh.gif
Your head is almost like Mao's wub.gif
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post Sep 16 2009, 02:58 AM
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Now it seems Chinese opposition works this time.

Dalai Lama used to roam freely around the world and met with whoever he desired. Beijing used to oppose but nobody cared.

Now Beijing continued to oppose......but gradually more and more governments care.

The opposition tactic is actually a diplomatic yardstick for China to test its pervasive influence in other countries.

Now even U.S. bends to the wish of China.
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post Sep 16 2009, 06:00 AM
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QUOTE(love_peace @ Sep 16 2009, 02:58 AM) *
Now it seems Chinese opposition works this time.

Dalai Lama used to roam freely around the world and met with whoever he desired. Beijing used to oppose but nobody cared.

Now Beijing continued to oppose......but gradually more and more governments care.

The opposition tactic is actually a diplomatic yardstick for China to test its pervasive influence in other countries.

Now even U.S. bends to the wish of China.



US has supported Beijing since Watergate years. The only difference is that in mid eighties the travel restriction on Dalai lama has been lifted and some congressional support has been there.

But the government has not changed its policy much on Tibet. There is nothing to gain but to loose by supporting Tibetan cause. Its just feel good gesture shown by West to Tibet by bestowing honours on HHDL.

But over all Tibetans have not gained much but Beijing over the yaers has moved ahead mainly becuase of economy. No one wants to displease your customers. after all Wetern culture is capitalism where $$$ are worshipped by young and old.

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QUOTE(edward @ Sep 16 2009, 02:19 AM) *
And may the worms come out of your head dancing and singing very soon laugh.gif
Your head is almost like Mao's wub.gif

Worm lover, you sure have a worm head.




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QUOTE(mila @ Sep 15 2009, 10:13 PM) *
Where as politics is works of scoundrels, where scheming, cheating, bullingy and violence are necessary skills which Dalai Lama lacks utterly.

Dalai Lama is no stranger to dirty politics. In fact, he witnessed the murder of his regent, Reting Rinpoche and his father at a very young age. In his own words,

http://books.google.com/books?id=CaV2y65qb4EC&pg=PR7&lpg=PP1#PPA286,M1

"Taktra Rinpoche at first bowed to the wishes of his predecessor, by appointing members personally recommended by Reting Rinpoche, Taktra soon took the opposite approach. He evicted from office anyone who supported the former regent. Although Reting Rinpoche had initially expected Taktra Rinpoche, after a few years as regent, to return the office to him, on demand, it was obvious, by 1946, that Taktra Rinpoche did not intend to do so. In addition, he took a more anti-Chinese stance than Reting Rinpoche had, and this policy may have created opposition to Taktra Rinpoche in some circles. Reting Rinpoche soon became involved in a plot to murder the older regent. The power struggle came to a head when Taktra Rinpoche saw incontrovertible evidence that Reting Rinpoche had approached the Chinese Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek, agreeing to sign a treaty surrendering Tibetan sovereignty if China would provide Reting Rinpoche with military assistance against his enemies in Tibet, after Taktra Rinpoche was murdered. But Taktra moved first, and bloody fighting raged for several weeks in April 1947.

Thousands of monk supporters of Reting Rinpoche revolted against the regent, and gun battles erupted around Lhasa. The Taktra regency finally defeated the rebels and Reting Rinpoche was captured, interrogated, and, before any sentence could be passed, murdered in the dungeons of the Potala.

The young Dalai Lama watched the battles from the roof of the Potala with his telescope, as shelling and gunfire echoed around Lhasa Valley. Yet even at the age of eleven, he was not completely surprised by this mini-war fought by monks, because of the education he had received from his sweepers, who had already shown him the reality of the government of Tibet.

"Actually, Reting Rinpoche and Taktra Rinpoche in the beginning had good relations," the Dalai Lama said. "Taktra Rinpoche was the disciple of Reting (there had been a spiritual connection at first). But then, eventually, it was about power. Reting Rinpoche wanted to retake power from Taktra Rinpoche, and Taktra Rinpoche refused. Then eventually Reting Rinpoche attempted to kill Taktra Rinpoche."

"How do you know?" I asked.

"I saw one handwritten letter by Reting Rinpoche," the Dalai Lama explained. "It said, 'Make sure that the power does not remain in the hands of this old monk. What I mean is that this old monk should not be alive.'"

"That is what set off the fighting," I said, "but in the midst of all this, Buddhist monks were fighting and killing one another."

"Yes, a great mistake," the Dalai Lama agreed. "I was approached to see if I could intervene, but my position was hopeless."

"Did you become more cynical after this event?" I asked. "Before that time, did you think that all monks had only religious motivation?"

"No, it didn't change my opinions," he said. "Such fighting (between monks) was common in Kham (in eastern Tibet, south of Amdo). Often during Tibet's history, monks in monasteries were fighting."

"And what did you think about the death of Reting Rinpoche? It wasn't an execution by the government when he was killed?" I asked.

"That was murder. ... It was not legal execution," the Dalai Lama said. "There are two versions of what happened. Some say that they stuffed a kkata (a ritual scarf) down his throat, and some say that he was castrated and that killed him."

"And this took place in the Potala," I said.

"Yes, in the Potala," the Dalai Lama replied."


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post Sep 16 2009, 09:10 AM
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QUOTE(beta @ Sep 16 2009, 09:04 AM) *
Dalai Lama is no stranger to dirty politics. In fact, he witnessed the murder of his regent, Reting Rinpoche and his father at a very young age. In his own words,

http://books.google.com/books?id=CaV2y65qb4EC&pg=PR7&lpg=PP1#PPA286,M1

"Taktra Rinpoche at first bowed to the wishes of his predecessor, by appointing members personally recommended by Reting Rinpoche, Taktra soon took the opposite approach. He evicted from office anyone who supported the former regent. Although Reting Rinpoche had initially expected Taktra Rinpoche, after a few years as regent, to return the office to him, on demand, it was obvious, by 1946, that Taktra Rinpoche did not intend to do so. In addition, he took a more anti-Chinese stance than Reting Rinpoche had, and this policy may have created opposition to Taktra Rinpoche in some circles. Reting Rinpoche soon became involved in a plot to murder the older regent. The power struggle came to a head when Taktra Rinpoche saw incontrovertible evidence that Reting Rinpoche had approached the Chinese Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek, agreeing to sign a treaty surrendering Tibetan sovereignty if China would provide Reting Rinpoche with military assistance against his enemies in Tibet, after Taktra Rinpoche was murdered. But Taktra moved first, and bloody fighting raged for several weeks in April 1947.

Thousands of monk supporters of Reting Rinpoche revolted against the regent, and gun battles erupted around Lhasa. The Taktra regency finally defeated the rebels and Reting Rinpoche was captured, interrogated, and, before any sentence could be passed, murdered in the dungeons of the Potala.

The young Dalai Lama watched the battles from the roof of the Potala with his telescope, as shelling and gunfire echoed around Lhasa Valley. Yet even at the age of eleven, he was not completely surprised by this mini-war fought by monks, because of the education he had received from his sweepers, who had already shown him the reality of the government of Tibet.

"Actually, Reting Rinpoche and Taktra Rinpoche in the beginning had good relations," the Dalai Lama said. "Taktra Rinpoche was the disciple of Reting (there had been a spiritual connection at first). But then, eventually, it was about power. Reting Rinpoche wanted to retake power from Taktra Rinpoche, and Taktra Rinpoche refused. Then eventually Reting Rinpoche attempted to kill Taktra Rinpoche."

"How do you know?" I asked.

"I saw one handwritten letter by Reting Rinpoche," the Dalai Lama explained. "It said, 'Make sure that the power does not remain in the hands of this old monk. What I mean is that this old monk should not be alive.'"

"That is what set off the fighting," I said, "but in the midst of all this, Buddhist monks were fighting and killing one another."

"Yes, a great mistake," the Dalai Lama agreed. "I was approached to see if I could intervene, but my position was hopeless."

"Did you become more cynical after this event?" I asked. "Before that time, did you think that all monks had only religious motivation?"

"No, it didn't change my opinions," he said. "Such fighting (between monks) was common in Kham (in eastern Tibet, south of Amdo). Often during Tibet's history, monks in monasteries were fighting."

"And what did you think about the death of Reting Rinpoche? It wasn't an execution by the government when he was killed?" I asked.

"That was murder. ... It was not legal execution," the Dalai Lama said. "There are two versions of what happened. Some say that they stuffed a kkata (a ritual scarf) down his throat, and some say that he was castrated and that killed him."

"And this took place in the Potala," I said.

"Yes, in the Potala," the Dalai Lama replied."



What are talking about? 40 million murders, 500 million tortured by Mao.

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post Sep 16 2009, 09:13 AM
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QUOTE(mila @ Sep 15 2009, 10:13 PM) *
Dalai Lama was scared that he too will be poisoned by Chinese like Panchen Lama.

Liar Mila, since when was Panchen Lama poisoned by Chinese? Poisoning political foes is never a CCP way of silencing critics but a Tibetan way. In fact, Dalai Lama's father and many previous Dalai Lamas were poisoned to death as testified by many Tibetans.

Deng Xiaoping called the Panchen Lama "the best patriot of China" but Dalai Lama's loyalists called him a Chinese lama. Traditionally, Panchen Lamas are "enemy of Dalai Lama", so why would Deng Xiaoping want to poison him when he often helped Deng to criticize Dalai Lama?

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QUOTE(mila @ Sep 16 2009, 09:10 AM) *
What are talking about? 40 million murders, 500 million tortured by Mao.

You mean the murder of 40 million sparrows? From "Mao Zedong" written by Jonathan Clements,

"Mao's first scheme, announced in the same month as Khrushchev's boasts, worked on the principle that much of China's food supply problem was due to unnecessary waste. Mao proposed eliminating the 'Four Pests' — rats, sparrows, flies and mosquitoes — in a concerted national effort.

The Chinese people complied, most famously with a campaign to kill off every sparrow in China, both by direct hunting and by constantly scaring them away from their natural perches until they eventually dropped from the sky with exhaustion. There were no sparrows the following year to steal grains of wheat, but there were also no sparrows to prey upon the population of Caterpillars, resulting in a plague of the insects on China's grain crop."


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post Sep 16 2009, 10:41 AM
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dalai lama looks very handsome in his long rich silk robe, looks just like "a simple buddhist monk" that he claims to his western fools who pay him $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ believing him. He is so [b]lucky to wear such beautiful silk robes while the 95 % of tibetans under his rule had no equal rights, heavily taxed, lived as peasants, serfs, or monks.


It is still a theocratic system with the Dalai Lama acting as both the head of the government and the religious leader - a system continued down from the old Tibet.

On Nov 26, 2000, the Dalai Lama at a seminar in Dharamsala in India claimed that theocracy had a broad meaning and a future Tibet would benefit from the implementation of a theocratic system
the Dalai still represents the interests of remnant forces of the feudal serfowners in old Tibet. All the brothers and sisters of the Dalai Lama served in high positions in the Dalai clique.

His late eldest brother Taktser Rinpoche used to lead the New York and Japan offices of the "Tibetan government-in-exile". His wife and three children are now living in the US.

The Dalai's second eldest brother Gyalo Thondup, the second most powerful person in the Dalai clique, had held the post of Chief Kalon several times. Gyalo Thondup owned houses in Delhi, Kalimpong and Darjeeling of northeast India as well as Hong Kong.

His third elder brother Lobsang Samten had long taken the post of Kalon in charge of health and head of Tibetan hospitals. His wife was also a secretary general in the "ministry of health". His brother-in-law Phuntsok Tashi Takla, husband of his eldest sister Tsering Dolma, had been the Kalon of "the ministries of the interior and security".


The Dalai's younger sister Jetsun Pema was one of the founders of the "Tibetan Youth Congress" (TYC) and Kolan several times while running the "Tibetan Children's Village" in Dharamsala of India for 46 years. A considerable part of foreign donations to the Dalai clique was handled through her in the name of the "Tibetan Children's Village".

Ngari Rinpoche, the Dalai's youngest brother, was the second president of TYC. After serving in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police for five years, he has taken charge of the Dalai Lama's private office, the power center of the Dalai clique.

Ngari Rinpoche's wife Rinchen Khando Choegyal served as the president of the "Tibetan Women's Association" for nine years till 1993 and then became the Kalon in charge of education for eight years, a powerful position to decide whether young Tibetans would be sent to college in Europe and North America.

And in today's Kashag (cabinet) of the "Tibetan government-in-exile", two members are from the Dalai family, Tempa Tsering, Jetsun Pema's husband, and Kesang Yangkyi Takla, the second wife of Phuntsok Tashi Takla (Tsering Dolma had died in 1964).

In addition, a number of powerful people in the "Tibetan government-in-exile" are from old Tibetan nobility [/b]
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post Sep 16 2009, 10:25 PM
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Look. Mao didn't even know how to wear pants. His pants reached above his chest.


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post Sep 17 2009, 06:37 AM
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QUOTE(arihant @ Sep 16 2009, 10:25 PM) *
Look. Mao didn't even know how to wear pants. His pants reached above his chest.

Chairman Mao looks more simple man than DALAI LAMA, he is wearing simple cloth pants as a true champion of the poor and fighting for their inequality unlike dalai lama who claims to be simple buddhist monk to his westerners while wearing silk robes and staying at 5 star hotels and wearing GUCCI shoes etc...his hypocrisy always shows, says one thing by mouth and does something else. says going to taiwan to pray, but went for politics. tongue.gif but he is smart clever politician monk who has made lot of money in name of buddha and his elite family hold many high posts in his gvt and charities that channel $$$$$$$$$ through their hands.
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QUOTE(indiantibetan @ Sep 17 2009, 06:37 AM) *
Chairman Mao looks more simple man than DALAI LAMA, he is wearing simple cloth pants as a true champion of the poor and fighting for their inequality unlike dalai lama who claims to be simple buddhist monk to his westerners while wearing silk robes and staying at 5 star hotels and wearing GUCCI shoes etc...his hypocrisy always shows, says one thing by mouth and does something else. says going to taiwan to pray, but went for politics. tongue.gif but he is smart clever politician monk who has made lot of money in name of buddha and his elite family hold many high posts in his gvt and charities that channel $$$$$$$$$ through their hands.


Mao slept with poor school girls from villages. He was a paedophile.


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QUOTE(beta @ Sep 16 2009, 09:33 AM) *
You mean the murder of 40 million sparrows? From "Mao Zedong" written by Jonathan Clements,

"Mao's first scheme, announced in the same month as Khrushchev's boasts, worked on the principle that much of China's food supply problem was due to unnecessary waste. Mao proposed eliminating the 'Four Pests' — rats, sparrows, flies and mosquitoes — in a concerted national effort.

The Chinese people complied, most famously with a campaign to kill off every sparrow in China, both by direct hunting and by constantly scaring them away from their natural perches until they eventually dropped from the sky with exhaustion. There were no sparrows the following year to steal grains of wheat, but there were also no sparrows to prey upon the population of Caterpillars, resulting in a plague of the insects on China's grain crop."

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WRITTEN BY MAO,S OWN DOCTOR. LI. HERE ITS IS... (ARIHANT I AGREE WITH YOU MAO IS PAEDOPHILE. )

Mao's Sexual Activity

"As Mao got older," Li wrote, "he became an adherent of Taoist sexual practices which gave him an excuse to pursue sex not only for pleasure but to extend his life. He claimed he needed the waters of yin—or vaginal secretions—to supplement his own declining yang—or male essence, the source of his strength, power and longevity.

Many of the women that Mao slept with were daughters of poor peasants who Li said believed that sleeping with the chairman was the greatest experience of their life. Mao was happiest and most satisfied when he had several young women simultaneously sharing his bed, and he encouraged his sexual partners to introduce him to others. He often told the young women to read the Taoist sex manual The Plain Girl's Secret Way, in preparation for their trysts." [Source: "The Private Life of Chairman Mao" by Dr. Li Zhisui, excerpts reprinted U.S. News and World Report, October 10, 1994]

Mao was very possessive of the women he had sex with. He quarreled with ones that said they planned to marry and once sent a guard to a labor camp after he touched one of the women on the buttocks. Li wrote, “He came to trust women more than men.

"Mao's sexual activity was not confined to women," Li claimed. "The young men who served as attendants were invariably handsome and strong, and one of their responsibilities was to administer a nightly massage as an aid to sleep. Mao insisted that his groin be massaged. In 1964, I saw Mao, naked, grab a young guard and begin fondling him. At first I took such behavior as evidence of a homosexual strain, but later I concluded that it was more an insatiable appetite for any form of sex." [Source: "The Private Life of Chairman Mao" by Dr. Li Zhisui, excerpts reprinted U.S. News and World Report, October 10, 1994]


Mao's Sex Drive Increases as He Gets Older

Mao's sex drive seem to increase as he got older. In the 1960s, Li said, he often went to bed with three, four or five women simultaneously. When Mao was told he was infertile, he responded, "'So I've become a eunuch, have I?,'" Li wrote, “not understanding that it meant his sperm was abnormal not that his sexual desires were reduced." [Source: "The Private Life of Chairman Mao" by Dr. Li Zhisui, excerpts reprinted U.S. News and World Report, October 10, 1994]

Li later concluded that Mao sometimes suffered from impotence when he was involved in a political struggle, but that he rarely had sexual problems when his political situation was secure. Mao worried that his sexual energy would begin to decline dramatically after he was 60. His doctors used to give him injections of ground deer antlers, a traditional Chinese aphrodisiac.

Mao most constant female companion during his later years was Zhang Yufeng, a beautiful young woman who became Mao's private secretary. In 1970 she began controlling access to the chairman and even Mao's wife Jiang Qing had to go through her. In the years before his death she was the only person who could understand Mao's garbled speech.
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Old men chasing young women: A good thing

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It turns out that older men chasing younger women contributes to human longevity and the survival of the species, according to new findings by researchers at Stanford and the University of California-Santa Barbara.

Evolutionary theory says that individuals should die of old age when their reproductive lives are complete, generally by age 55 in humans, according to demographer Cedric Puleston, a doctoral candidate in biological sciences at Stanford. But the fatherhood of a small number of older men is enough to postpone the date with death because natural selection fights life-shortening mutations until the species is finished reproducing.

"Rod Stewart and David Letterman having babies in their 50s and 60s provide no benefit for their personal survival, but the pattern [of reproducing at a later age] has an effect on the population as a whole," Puleston said. "It's advantageous to the species if these people stick around. By increasing the survival of men you have a spillover effect on women because men pass their genes to children of both sexes."

"Why Men Matter: Mating Patterns Drive Evolution of Human Lifespan," was published Aug. 29 in the online journal Public Library of Science ONE. Shripad Tuljapurkar, the Morrison Professor of Population Studies at Stanford; Puleston; and Michael Gurven, an assistant professor of anthropology at UCSB, co-authored the study in an effort to understand why humans don't die when female reproduction ends.

Human ability to scale the so-called "wall of death"—surviving beyond the reproductive years—has been a center of scientific controversy for more than 50 years, Puleston said. "The central question is: Why should a species that stops reproducing by some age stick around afterward?" he said. "Evolutionary theory predicts that, over time, harmful mutations that decrease survival will arise in the population and will remain invisible to natural selection after reproduction ends." However, in hunter-gatherer societies, which likely represent early human demographic conditions and mating patterns, one-third of people live beyond 55 years, past the reproductive lifespan for women. Furthermore, life expectancy in today's industrialized countries is 75 to 85 years, with mortality increasing gradually, not abruptly, following female menopause.

Grandmother hypothesis

In 1966, William Hamilton, a British evolutionary biologist, worked out the mathematics describing the "wall of death." Since then, the most popular explanation for why humans don't die by age 55 has been termed the "grandmother hypothesis," which suggests that women enhance the survival of their children and grandchildren by living long enough to care for them and "increasing the success of their genes," Puleston said. However, Hamilton's work has been difficult to express as a mathematical and genetic argument explaining why people live into old age.

Unlike previous research on human reproduction, this study—for the first time—includes data on males, a tweak that allowed the researchers to begin answering the "wall of death" question by matching it to human mortality patterns. According to Puleston, earlier studies looked only at women, because scientists can reproduce good datasets for humans entirely based on information related to female fertility and survival rates.

"Men's fertility is contingent on women's fertility—you have to figure out how they match up. We care about reproduction because that is a currency by which force of selection is counted. If we have not accounted for the entire pattern of reproduction, we may be missing something that's important to evolution."

Men and longevity

In the paper, the researchers analyzed "a general two-sex model to show that selection favors survival for as long as men reproduce." The scientists presented a "range of data showing that males much older than 50 years have substantial realized fertility through matings with younger females, a pattern that was likely typical among early humans." As a result, Puleston said, older male fertility helps to select against damaging cell mutations in humans who have passed the age of female menopause, consequently eliminating the "wall of death."

"Our analysis shows that old-age male fertility allows evolution to breach Hamilton's wall of death and predicts a gradual rise in mortality after the age of female menopause without relying on 'grandmother' effects or economic optimality," the researchers say in the paper.

The scientists compiled longevity and fertility data from two hunter-gatherer groups, the Dobe !Kung of the Kalahari and the Ache of Paraguay, one of the most isolated populations in the world. They also looked at the forager-farmer Yanomamo of Brazil and Venezuela, and the Tsimane, an indigenous group in Bolivia. "They're living a lifestyle that our ancestors lived and their fertility patterns are probably most consistent with our ancestors," Puleston said about the four groups. The study also looked at several farming villages in Gambia and, for comparison, a group of modern Canadians.

In the less developed, traditional societies, males were as much as 5-to-15 years older than their female partners. In the United States and Europe, the age spread was about two years. "It's a universal pattern that in typical marriages men are older than women," Puleston said. "The age gaps vary by culture, but in every group we looked at men start [being reproductive] later. At the end of reproduction, male fertility rates taper off gradually, as opposed to the fairly sharp decline in female fertility by menopause." Despite small differences based on marriage traditions, all women and most men in the six groups stopped having children by their 50s, the researchers found. But some men, particularly high-status males, continued to reproduce into their 70s. The paper noted that the age gap is most pronounced in societies that favor polygyny, where a man takes several wives, and in gerontocracies, where older men monopolize access to reproductive women. The authors also cite genetic and anthropological evidence that early humans were probably polygynous as well.

Older male fertility also exists in societies supporting serial monogamy, because men are more likely to remarry than women. "For these reasons, we argue that realized male fertility was substantial at ages well past female menopause for much of human history and the result is reflected in the mortality patterns of modern populations," the authors say. "We conclude that deleterious mutations acting after the age of female menopause are selected against … solely as a result of the matings between older males and younger females."

According to Puleston, the "grandmother hypothesis" may be true, but the real pattern of male fertility extends beyond this explanation. "The key question is: Does the population have a greater growth rate if men are reproducing at a later age? The answer is 'yes.' The age of last reproduction gets pushed into the 60s and 70s if you add men to the analysis. Hamilton's approach was right, but in a species where males and females have different reproductive patterns, you need a two-sex model. You can't correctly estimate the force of selection if you leave men out of the picture. As a man myself, it's gratifying to know that men do matter."

Grants from the U.S. National Institute on Aging supported this study.
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So Mao got addicted to Tantric sex since the 1950s? Could he have picked it up from the Dalai Lama since they began to meet at around the same period and had a close relation according to the Dalai Lama? You know many Tibetan Lamas do practise Tantric sex despite being Buddhist?

http://www.trimondi.de/EN/links.htm#SEXABUSE

Sexual abuse by Buddhist Monks

I was a Tantric sex slave – June Campbell
www.trimondi.de/EN/deba02.html

The Emperor's Tantric Robes - an Interview with June Campbell
www.anandainfo.com/tantric_robes.html

Kloset Kalu, the Secret Lover
www.american-buddha.com/kloset.kalu.htm

Buddhist Clergy Sexual Abuse: Annotated Bibliography
www.trimondi.de/EN/deba01.html

Best-selling Buddhist Author accused of sexual abuse – Don Lattin
www.american-buddha.com/sogyal.htm

Buddhist Sect Alarmed by Reports that Leader Kept His AIDS a Secret - John Dart
www.aegis.com/news/lt/1989/LT890302.html

Anonymous letter to American Buddha
www.american-buddha.com/letter%20from%20anonymous.htm

Tibetan Buddhist Master infects Gay Disciples with HIV
www.flameout.org/flameout/gurus/tibetan.html

Sonam Kazi Family Values
www.american-buddha.com/kazi.family.htm
www.american-buddha.com/bulletin_board/viewtopic.php?t=340

Echoes of Nalinika: Monk in the Dock – Enid Adam
www.american-buddha.com/echoes.nalinika.htm

Karaoke Monk booted out – BBC News Asia
www.american-buddha.com/karaoke.monk.htm

Buddhism and Misogyny (historical overview) – V. and V. Trimondi
www.trimondi.de/SDLE/Part-1-01.htm

The “Tantric Female Sacrifice" – V. and V. Trimondi
www.trimondi.de/SDLE/Part-1-03.htm

Child-Monks, Child-Abuse

Beatings are nothing new
www.taipeitimes.com/News/archives/2000/01/22/0000021071

Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth - Michael Parenti
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Child Sacrifice - Tibet's little boy 'monks'
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Monks arrested over sexual abuse of Sri Lankan war orphans
http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webnews/...e.RHUz_DO8.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3175846.stm

Buddhism’s pedophile monks – Uwe Siemon-Netto
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Princeton Prof. says no to Sri Lanka Child Monks
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laugh.gif It is always a "pleasure " for to speak with the Chinese Beast fans !
But it costs always to much energy for true people laugh.gif
for to join the stupid Chinese way of thinking about the ways of Nature on this earth . tongue.gif
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