[Buddha-l] 3 Tibetan Monks Sentenced for assisting with self-immolation

[andy]

> From the LATimes.
> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-monks-20110831,0,
> 5947771.story
> 
> Pro-Tibetan groups are criticizing the Chinese for condemning three monks
> who helped a 16 yr old monk burn himself (he died the next day). Am I alone
> in finding all this side-taking ethically complex?
> Dan

Dan, could you be more specific about the ethical complexity?  Self-immolation 
is rather questionable, in the Buddhist tradition, so why not blame enablers? 
-- 
Andy Stroble