The scrolls were part of a large hidden library discovered in 1908 at the Dunhuang caves in Gansu by Western scholars Auriel Stein and Paul Pelliot. * Source: Translation from text of the Tibetan Chronicle, written on the back of Chinese Buddhist scrolls. Tibetan poem, written about 1,200 years ago * In Meltdown in Tibet, Michael Buckley turns the spotlight on the darkest side of China's emergence as a global super power. This destruction of the region's environment has been happening with little scrutiny until now.
Ruthless Chinese repression leaves Tibetans powerless to stop the reckless destruction of their sacred land, but they are not the only victims of this campaign: the nations downstream from Tibet rely heavily on rivers sourced in Tibet for water supply, and for rich silt used in agriculture. On the drawing board are plans for a massive engineering project to divert water from Eastern Tibet to water-starved Northern China.
The mighty rivers of Tibet are being dammed by Chinese engineering consortiums to feed the mainland's thirst for power, and the land is being relentlessly mined in search of minerals to feed China's industrial complex. The Himalayan snowcaps are in meltdown mode, due to climate change-accelerated by a rain of black soot from massive burning of coal and other fuels in both China and India. Tibetans have experienced waves of genocide since the 1950s.
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