A Tibetan protester in monk's robes doused himself with gasoline, set himself ablaze and chanted anti-China slogans as he ran down a street in Nepal's capital this morning.
His demonstration outside the Buddhist holy site, the Boudhanath stupa, is the latest in a string of self-immolations protesting China's rule over Tibet.
Witnesses in Nepal said the man entered a cafe in Kathmandu's Boudhanath district - home to many Tibetan Buddhist temples and monasteries - and asked to use the bathroom.
After spending some time there, he went onto the street and lit himself on fire.
He ran a few steps, covered in flames and chanting slogans against China, before collapsing in front of the mammoth Boudhanath stupa, one of the holiest Buddhist sites in the world, surrounded by prayer wheels and decorated with colourful streams of prayer flags.











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[Disallowed String for - bad word] Dalai Lama for not condemning such act. He has already lost the battle against china so I am not sure what he is trying to do by not discouraging self immortalization.

So why everybody is watching and not doing anything? This is simply insane. You can see a guy taking a photo or video with his cell phone while watching. Jeeezz

i couldnt beleive its happenng in ktm.

this is a clear example how ppl are brainwashed

 Sajhamitra, easier said than done. When you witness an incident like this, you instatenously react the way your brain tells you to. The idiot was probably running around in pain after setting himself in fire. You expect an average bystander to bring him down and try to put the fire off? 

 Riddle, how do you know he is an idiot ? How insensitive !!

Insensitive to label a person an idiot for indulging himself in drivel of this nature? Okay then, he's a hero. 

Come to think of it, that's it! The onlookers didn't wish to disrupt this heroic act! 

 Wow !! Any loss of life is a tragedy. How infantile of you to call that person an Idiot. Next thing you know he's gonna call Gandi an idiot too for inciting hunger strike for freedom. C'mon man !! 

dolphin, Dalai Lama has already said in one interview that he's strictly against this self-immolation thing. He also admitted that despite his urge , he doesn't have control over everyones' wishes. Believe it or not, he's not as aggressive as before in this fight for his land. But it seems like there are some ripples still left after seeing these self-immolations. He simply can do nothing about it and he's not encouraging it in anyway. There are divided sect following his broad opinion now-a-days. It's simply not worth.

It's utterly disturbing to see/hear someone taking his/her own life.

When you realize that your adversaries are stronger than you, then it is foolish to try to continue the fight no matter whether you are right or wrong.

A lot of innocent lives can be lost in that route so it would be a smarter move to only preach philosophy for the dalai lama at this point.

 Rethink just because your adversaries are stronger does not mean that you give up. Should Palestinians give up the dreams of seing Palestine one day ? If Nepal is engulfed by China or India one day we should just give up ? C'mon Man !!

 Bathroomcoffee

When you are 100% sure you are going to lose, there is no point in fighting. It's better to save the lives of thousands of people instead of fighting for a ethnic feeling. 

In the jungle the stronger tiger feeds upon the others and takes over the land, bigger governments are no different, they will try to occupy others land and there is nothing you can do about it. The mice can revolt as much as they want but noone's going to be able to bell the cat.

After watching thousands of lives lost in the name of a cause, and realizing we now are more of a global citizens than anything else, where individual life matters a lot since each life is priceless. We cannot continue to fight wars that you cannot win because in doing so we are putting thousands of priceless lives at stake. 

The mice can keep on trying and not give up but at the end of the day any suffering on the mice side is ultimately due to their own foolishness of not accepting the reality of their defeat and living accordingly.

This is taking the song by reo speedwagon "keep the fire burning" a bit too far.

Somebody seems to have woken up on the wrong side of the bed. 

This act wasn't pointless (pointless would be someone who sets on a world tour preaching world peace, imo) as his act will encourage other Tibetans to follow his suits but definitely idiotic, as is the case with suicides. You don't kill yourself to make a point/statement. 

 No top news media highlighted this major news, which itself is more sad news.  

Riddle just because you are going to lose you are not even going to put up a fight ? Remember the sun never set in the British Empire too. And all those brave Nepali folks who fought against them at that time were fools ? The Dutch-East India Company was also invinsible at one point and time and the Japanese were fools to have gone against them?  The entire eastern Europe would still be saying Kharashooo if they had given of hope of ever becoming Bosnia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan etc. etc. Or even Scotland would not be what it is if they has given up. Same way if we(Nepali ppl) give up Nepal as a country would cease to exist.   

If more protestors start burning themselves to death with gasoline, there will be just one achievement. Baburam will increase the price of gasoline.

 Bathroom

Noone's telling you to give up a fight that can be won. But you have to remember the age old fable about mice belling the cat. Noone even attempted to bell the cat since they very well know it's the bitter truth that they would not win. 

Just think about Nepal trying to gain the Greater Nepal back from India. Noone even bothers because there is no chance that is going to happen. That does not make them foolish. It just shows that they are making reasonable decisions about what is attainable goal and what is not. 

Some goals are simply not attainable and if you are smart you will know what it is. Otherwise you will die trying. 

All the examples you have given were examples where the goals were attainable and it was attained. 

@ Rethink bro,

i do agree with the gist of your message. Greater Nepal is a possibility though. It is another thing that it will never happen because our country is weak. As Nepal has documents to prove, all we need is to be aggressive with the British and take the matter to the UN. But our leaders need guts for that which of course we dont have.

But if our country were strong and our leaders patriotic, greater Nepal is very much a possibility.