By Rechung RINPOCHE
The executive a part of this ebook is a translation of the biography of the Elder gYu-thog Yon-tan mGon-po, the well-known courtroom health care professional of King Khri-srmi-lde-btsan who lived throughout the 8th century A.D. The Elder gYu-thog Yon-tan mGon-po visited India thrice. He met and had discussions with many realized Pandits, and therefore widened his wisdom of Buddhism and particularly of medication. On his go back to Tibet he unfold scientific technological know-how during the kingdom and shared his wisdom with many. Почтенный Речунг Ринпоче родился в Лхасе в аристократической семье и был признан в возрасте тринадцати лет Воплощением бывшего настоятеля монастыря Rechung южнее Лхасы. Защищенная высокими горными хребтами, тибетская медицина сохранила непрерывную традицию с момента ее прихода из Индии в седьмом веке.
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Title. 48-1992. Printed in the United States of America Preface Why Taiwan Matters is a book I have wanted to write for a long time. It answers the two questions I am asked most often about my work: What makes Taiwan so interesting to you? -China relations? I hope when you finish reading the book the first question will be answered. My goal is to give you an inkling of the excitement I feel every time I step off a plane at the Taoyuan International Airport. I felt that excitement for the first time in 1983 when I was a twenty-one-year-old college student embarking on a summer research project.
For them, Taiwan was the only homeland they had ever known. Though their ancestors had lived in Taiwan for centuries, most families could trace their origins to the mainland, and many had been eager to see the end of Japanese colonialism. Still, the ROC’s policies reduced Taiwan to a pawn in a fight between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party—two entities whose goals and aspirations had little relation to those of ordinary Taiwanese. The Kuomintang’s driving ambition was to recover mainland China, but the economic policies it adopted in pursuit of that goal were transformative.
Over time, some of these disputes ripened into full-on feuds, with adjacent villages carrying on vendettas for generations, long after the original causes were forgotten. In one coastal city, clan rivalries played out in a bloody—but all-in-good-fun—annual ritual: the Lukang Rock Fight. Every year until the mid-twentieth century, the men of Lukang would gather outside town on a spring day, line up with their kinsmen and throw rocks at the other clans. When the supply of rocks dwindled, the combatants closed in for hand-to-hand fighting with sticks and fists.