Flag of Tibet
The flag of Tibet ( Tibetan བོད་ ཀྱི་ རྒྱལ་ དར ། Wylie bod kyi rgyal dar , also Tibetan གངས་ སེང་ དར་ ཆ ། Wylie gangs seng dar cha , German 'snow lion flag' ) is used by the Tibetan government in exile . Their origins lie in Tibet itself.
history
The elements of the flag are said to have originated under King Songtsen Gampo in the 7th century. The snow lion appears for the first time on a war banner. In 1912, under the 13th Dalai Lama (1876–1933), the sun and the blue and red stripes were added to the traditional symbols of the Tibetan regiments. But the flag served as a military flag, not as a national flag . In the archives of the French Foreign Ministry there is a document describing a national flag of Tibet with the snow lion, which is said to have been introduced around 1920. The report comes from the French consul and is documented with a photo. Before 1920, the old Imperial Chinese flag may have been used. The current flag is said to have been used after 1925.
In 1947 the British persuaded Tibet to send a delegation to the Asian Relations Conference in New Delhi . Hugh Richardson , the British commercial attaché in New Delhi, recommended that the delegation use a flag to document independence. In the absence of a national flag, the military flag was used.
In the 1950s, the 14th Dalai Lama himself called this flag the "army flag", not the "national flag" of Tibet; The Tibetan “Prime Minister” Lukangwa (klu khang ba) also took this position at the same time. There was a political conflict over this flag, but until the uprising in 1959 it was carried quite openly. It was only later that Tibetans in exile began to use the flag of Tibet as their national flag.
The flag is banned in the People's Republic of China and in Tibet the strictest penalties exist for owning this flag or even showing it publicly.
In February 2019, an application was made to create an emojis for this flag, on the grounds that, on the one hand, the ethnic group of the Tibetans had to be taken into account and, on the other hand, non-existent states like Antarctica also had their own flag.
symbolism
The website of the Tibetan government in exile describes the meaning of the individual elements of the flag as follows:
- The snow-covered mountain in the middle (the holy mountain Kailash ) is a symbol of the Tibetan nation.
- The six red rays of the sun represent the original six tribes of Tibet.
- The color blue symbolizes the interplay of religious and secular rule.
- The two snow lions represent a form of government that is shaped by Buddhist principles.
- The golden border stands for the flowering of Buddhist teaching. The borderless side stands for the openness of the Tibetans to other world views.
- The jewel symbolizes the worship of the " three jewels " Buddha , Dharma and Sangha by the Tibetans.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Flags of the World - Tibet
- ↑ Flags of the World - Tibet 1920-c. 1925
- ↑ Tsering Shakya : The Dragon in the Land of Snows. A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 (Pimlico, London 1999), ISBN 0-7126-6533-1 - cit. P. 417 & p. 523, note 68: “... The Tibetan flag emblazoned with two snow lions holding three gems ... had become the main symbol of the protestors although it had only been adopted as a national flag-in-exile. Most Tibetans-in-exile believe that origin of the flag lies in great antiquity and accept that it has always been the national flag of Tibet. It was first displayed at the 1947 Inter-Asian Relations Conference. "
- ^ Melvyn Goldstein , Dawei Sherap, William Siebenschuh: A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye (University of California Press 2004), ISBN 0-520-24089-8 , p. 194.
- ↑ op. Cit., Pp. 174f.
- ^ Read the proposal. Retrieved January 25, 2020 (American English).
- ^ The Tibetan National Flag. Tibetan Government-in-Exile , accessed February 11, 2013 .
See also
Web links
- Flags of the World - Tibet (English)