Since that time over a million Tibetans have been killed. With the Chinese policy of resettlement of Chinese to Tibet, Tibetans have become a minority in their own country. Chinese is the official language. Up to 6,000 monasteries and shrines have been destroyed. Famines have appeared for the first time in recorded history, natural resources are devastated, and wildlife depleted to extinction.
Tibetan culture comes close to being eradicated there.
These political prisoners are tortured and held in sub-standard conditions, with little hope of justice. Unless we can all take part and recognize Tibet's loss as our own, the future looks grim. While the Barchu is the formal call to worship of our service, it also serves as a collective call to action. I am a Jew because my faith demands no abdication of the mind. I am a Jew because my faith demands all the devotion of my heart.