Agriculture: Tigetan Organic Farming

Central Tibetan Administration. Department of Home: Central Tibetan Administration. “Agriculture: Tibetan Organic Farming.” 2011. Web. 10 January 2012. http://ctrc.tibet.net/agriculture.html

                Previous to the exile of Tibetan citizens, families were able to provide organic crops for the whole family. When they arrived in India families were not provided with enough farming area for families, particularly for organic farming, so individuals had to leave the home to find work. In 2002, the Exile Tibetan Government set up a plan to encourage settlements to provide for their families, Indians, and the whole world through organic farming. This is being achieved through training Tibetan exiles to rotate crops, create natural composts, and construct proper irrigation systems utilizing India’s vastly different environment. The connection with my project is that I want to see how effectively these methods have been employed in Bylakuppe, and how sufficient the community has become because of them. Is Bylakuppe able to grow most of its own food, or does it rely heavily on importing? Has the diet of the Tibetans there adapted to the crops that grow in southern India, or have methods been found to cultivate traditional foods for a taste of home?

My Shoes!!!

I got my shoes for india!!!! I absolutely love them. I was able to go out shopping last week and the whole time I was praying my shoes would get here so I could try the outfit on together. Guess what!!! I came home and they were on my door step. I was hoping to find a skirt as well so I could wear it to my brothers wedding in a couple of weeks but I have not been successful yet.

On the other hand, I found the article I read for Wednesdays annotated source very interesting. It was about the Tibetan Government in Exile Independence and Democracy and how they work and don't work together. It sounded similar to what Beau said ya'll talked about. It discusses all the ways that their democracy is not full function in comparison to the western democracy. I found this article to be very bias because the author places our culture on a pedestal when comparing it to the Tibetans culture. I had not realized that the Dalai Lama might not be reincarnated again. It makes me curious about how leadership is going to work after he is gone. The author of the article mentions that because the Dalai Lama was not elected in a competitive competition that it is not a democracy in the same that ours is. The Tibetan people have a different view of him- they didn't need to vote because the majority does fully sustain him as their political and religious leader.

The more I read, I begin to realize that there is so much bias in the articles I found. I guess you just pick through what you find and identify the bias you find and take them very lightly.