Omega124
Challenging Fate
"What happened to Buddhism"? This is the question that pondered the 2nd Dalia Lama as he studied the ancient teaching of the Buddha himself. "It used to be a religion of tolerance and peace, and yet now those Mongols up north bastardize it to justify their various wars of conquest and pillaging. The Buddha would never tolerate any aggressive warfare of any kind, and barely even for self-defence".
He sighed, and thought back to the turbulent times of the Red Plague. Tibet was spared from most of the plague, due to its remote location in the Himalayas. That is, not to say, that the plague never came. It just that it didn't really do much to the society due to the remote location. Monks still mediated, Tibet was still peaceful, and the country still kept to itself. When the rest of the world was dying, the great cultural works were still being preserved and even made.
Perhaps, without Tibet, true peaceful Buddhism would had died out during the plague. Mongolia and Shadow followers are sure trying to stamp out the peaceful adherents that are left in the world. They consider those considering traditional Buddhism to be "backwards" and "cowards". However, those who still remain are united, and actually look at the Dalia Lama as the Eastern Pope, a source of stability in this chaotic world.
Going back to his writing, he knew that he must reaffirm the neutrality of Tibet. "The Mongols are getting restless", he thought as he grabbed a capsule of ink. He started writing for a half hour straight, and at the end he had a final document:
"TO THE WORLD
As the world around us burns and goes to ashes, as the people following their gods' words to eternal warfare, and as the plagues that dominate the countryside for the past years flare up yet again, let it be known that we will not kindle any more fires. We will not intentionally try to cause suffer in others, and we shall always be tolerant of others. This is the way of the Buddha, and his ways are indeed also ours.
So, as we promise to to stay back in neutral lands, all we ask return for the world is to reconize us as sacred ground. Do not try to destroy our paradise on this Earth, and in turn we will keep an open ear to all leaders and their followers, no matter what may have happened before.
Also, do not make our adherents fight. The Buddha has told us never to kill, and to reach Nirvana we shall not hurt anyone. But you must also respect that your subjects of our faith will likewise refuse to raise a sword, which entails you not conscripting Buddhists".
He smiled as the note was finished, and called an aide forward. "Deliver a copy of this to the Khan, the Emperors of China, and the Shogun, along with whoever else will listen to our words. Now, with haste"!, he said. After he left, the Dalai Lama went to meditate to clear his mind of these mortal whims.
Orders:
Raise two armies, expand as in map
Spend the remaining cash in trade tech
He sighed, and thought back to the turbulent times of the Red Plague. Tibet was spared from most of the plague, due to its remote location in the Himalayas. That is, not to say, that the plague never came. It just that it didn't really do much to the society due to the remote location. Monks still mediated, Tibet was still peaceful, and the country still kept to itself. When the rest of the world was dying, the great cultural works were still being preserved and even made.
Perhaps, without Tibet, true peaceful Buddhism would had died out during the plague. Mongolia and Shadow followers are sure trying to stamp out the peaceful adherents that are left in the world. They consider those considering traditional Buddhism to be "backwards" and "cowards". However, those who still remain are united, and actually look at the Dalia Lama as the Eastern Pope, a source of stability in this chaotic world.
Going back to his writing, he knew that he must reaffirm the neutrality of Tibet. "The Mongols are getting restless", he thought as he grabbed a capsule of ink. He started writing for a half hour straight, and at the end he had a final document:
"TO THE WORLD
As the world around us burns and goes to ashes, as the people following their gods' words to eternal warfare, and as the plagues that dominate the countryside for the past years flare up yet again, let it be known that we will not kindle any more fires. We will not intentionally try to cause suffer in others, and we shall always be tolerant of others. This is the way of the Buddha, and his ways are indeed also ours.
So, as we promise to to stay back in neutral lands, all we ask return for the world is to reconize us as sacred ground. Do not try to destroy our paradise on this Earth, and in turn we will keep an open ear to all leaders and their followers, no matter what may have happened before.
Also, do not make our adherents fight. The Buddha has told us never to kill, and to reach Nirvana we shall not hurt anyone. But you must also respect that your subjects of our faith will likewise refuse to raise a sword, which entails you not conscripting Buddhists".
He smiled as the note was finished, and called an aide forward. "Deliver a copy of this to the Khan, the Emperors of China, and the Shogun, along with whoever else will listen to our words. Now, with haste"!, he said. After he left, the Dalai Lama went to meditate to clear his mind of these mortal whims.
Orders:
Raise two armies, expand as in map
Spend the remaining cash in trade tech
