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Michael Palin at the Potala Palace - BBC



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Palin visits the Potala Palace, once home to the Dalai Lama, and discovers the majesty of a building that was once the tallest in the world. Fascinating viewing from the BBC.


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Tibet was a ... ( 9 months ago by jeannieandjordan)
Tibet was a theocracy and feudal society that treated its own people like slaves. People must stop being nostaligic for a time that was dark and unenlightened. Tibet is now a better place to live for the common Tibetan people and Dalai Lama should just face himself and admit that he is no "God King", that he is a common human being and he doesn't have any divine rights. The Potala Palace belongs to Tibetan people, belongs to all people of the human race.
dude what are you ... ( 9 months ago by savetheyeti)
dude what are you tlking about. oh well, it's their country. did you know how many poor monks were massacred. how many ancient priceless gemss ruined. i am from a country bordering tibet. i don't anything about the horror, u don't know about horror in genral . think before you speak your opinion from your cozy little american home. u don't know any pain at all. only pain you faced was probably moving houses
did you know china( ... ( 9 months ago by savetheyeti)
did you know china(atheist country) is already interfering in the picking of the panchen lama and is trying to pick a dalai lama.
tu dois etre un ... ( 9 months ago by AupaPeps)
tu dois etre un putin de "communiste" chinois qui ne pensent qu'au fric et qui exploitent et massacre les tibetain on a du te faire un lavage de cerveau en chine mao aux chiottes et toi je te chie dessu pour ceux qui ne savent pas trop ce qu'il se passe regardez kundun tres beau film et vous allez avoir la meme reaction que moi (pardon pour la vulgarité mais cet enculé m'a enragée
"treated its own ... ( 9 months ago by AupaPeps)
"treated its own peoples like slaves" sale fils de pute peut etre que les paysans de chine sont mieu traité hein conar!)
thats odd ( 9 months ago by agacooker)
thats odd
chicken pasta ( 9 months ago by FooFightersKid)
chicken pasta
Shut up yo atheist ... ( 9 months ago by rjshmo)
Shut up yo atheist Communist!
Death too Jewish ... ( 9 months ago by rjshmo)
Death too Jewish created Communism!!
true ( 9 months ago by SoldierCyfix)
true
Please check our ... ( 9 months ago by TibetanPhotoProject)
Please check our Tibetan Videos from the exile community. On Youtube and TibetanPhotoProject dot com
Please check The ... ( 9 months ago by SazzyV)
Please check The Tibetan Photo Project and click over to see videos. also TibetanPhotoProject dot com
maddy is in my boot ... ( 9 months ago by porridge098)
maddy is in my boot.. i have no arms too
I was in Lhasa a ... ( 9 months ago by zaction)
I was in Lhasa a couple of months ago. We walked up what seemed like 4 million stairs to enter the palace. Unreal! Tibet is a gorgeous place. Very very clean and beautiful. No smog like mainland China. The altitude is rough to get used to for the first few days then becomes easy to deal with.
i hate china ... ( 8 months ago by jedimassforce)
i hate china because it take over tibet
Beautiful ! China ... ( 8 months ago by 143682)
Beautiful ! China get out of Tibet. It is not your and it will never be yours. China's gift to humanity- cultural revolution, starvation of it's own citizens and let us not forget -- the total destruction of environment in their own country and anywhere where they go.
You shut up! this ... ( 7 months ago by leaderwolf2)
You shut up! this palace is maintained by Beijing government! without the funds to repair this palace, it would already collapsed!
The Chinese took ... ( 6 months ago by divinedreamer86)
The Chinese took this away from the Tibetans to make a profit off it and now it's just this tourist attraction. The Dalai Lama can't even live in his own palace!
wosnt the old ... ( 5 months ago by jedimassforce)
wosnt the old potala palace destroyed by the chinease
Maybe the Potala ... ( 5 months ago by iamlumin)
Maybe the Potala could have been maintained with some of the money made from the over 50 billions dollars worth of lumber taken from Tibetan forests or perhaps from uranium deposits. Chinese have ruined great culture, multi-level genocide in progress turning Lhasa into hellhole with brothels and tacky shops and restaurants, etc. A real tragedy in progress. Ethnic cleansing, the whole works. World looks away until it's at their door.
Tibet is gone! ... ( 5 months ago by iamlumin)
Tibet is gone! Ruined by Chinese. Oh yes fragments of Tibetan culture will linger and some Tibetan people will hang on for awhile but in the end Chinese, through deception, lies, force, any means necessary have taken Tibet, it's lumber, water, uranium, even take credit for their beautiful culture and history. It's one of the greatest tragedies in the history of humanity and it continues today. People always look away until it's happening to them personally.
Lets not forget if ... ( 1 month ago by teamaster113)
Lets not forget if it wasn't for CHINA, most of tibet would have been destroyed buy their own people.
Tibetans are ... ( 1 month ago by nzgav)
Tibetans are subject to arbitrary arrest and detention
Torture still prevails in Chinese prisons and detention centres
Enforced disappearances, where a person is taken into custody and the details of their detention are not disclosed, continue to occur.
The 11-year-old 11th Panchen Lama has been missing since his status was announced in 1995.
Today, it appears the Chinese are using Tibet as a dumping ground for their, and foreign, nuclear waste.
tibet(.)net
(Central Tibetan Administration)
If Tibet still ... ( 4 weeks ago by liscraudjo)
If Tibet still exists, Michael Palin wouldn't know how's inside either.



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