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Dlux said: "Perhaps the above is true or perhaps not as some say there is personal karma(kamma)family karma & country karma as suggested by the Dalai Lama re Tibet/China."

Collective karma merely follows the same influences as individual karma however lacking in the individual control.

For example, a helpless child that suffers abuse. Their mind cannot cope, thus they kind of inherit the karma of another. A child cannot control its destiny like an adult.

As "Buddhists", the Tibetans suffered the karma of not following the Buddha's teaching, in creating a feudal society which was the complete opposite of the Buddha's view of a sectarian and educated society. The Tibetan society could not help itself, both militarily and diplomatically. There was no middle class or political class.

However, this still would not have saved them. Whilst the Thais held sufficient wisdom to be able to deal with Western powers, most other Buddhist countries did not.

In other words, the Dalai Lama's views on kamma are often just superstition.

In reality, contrary to the Dalai Lama's views, a child is not abused due to its past karma, due to some kind of action it committed in a so-called past life.

A nation is not invaded due to its "bad karma". For example, in Australia, the indiginous peoples did not commit bad karma morally that lead to what they suffered. They were simply less materially and egoistically developed than others.

Any country genuinely living according to religious values will naturally have difficulty defending itself from aggressor nations.

If a whole nation followed the precept of: "Thou shall not kill", then how could it defend itself?

Karma is a teaching to assist individual improve their lives and the lives of others.

It does not explain everything.