Showing how the Tibetans have been failed
For decades the Tibetans have blindly followed the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in the hope that he would secure them a free Tibet. Instead of achieving this goal for them the Dalai Lama has demonstrated a political incompetence that has left the Tibetans not only without their freedom, but even brow-beaten into rejecting independence as a goal! These articles illustrate the growing tension within the Tibetan community at the Dalai Lama's betrayal of his people.
The Washington Post
Dalai Lama asks Home Rule, with Chinese Role, in Tibet
The Buddhist spiritual leader proposed talks with China to make Tibet “a self-governing, democratic political entity . . . in association with the People’s Republic of China [which] could remain responsible for Tibet’s foreign policy.”
The Dalai Lama…
The Independant
Refugees Chafe at Dalai lama’s Rule
Tibetan refugees began an 18-day walk from their northern India headquarters to New Delhi yesterday, hoping to step up pressure on China for Tibet’s independence. The march reflected growing impatience by a younger generation of Tibetans with the Dalai…
The Daily Telegraph
Tibetans accuse Dalai lama of Betrayal
All is not well in Shangri-la. In the Dalai Lama’s mountain headquarters the chanting of Tibetan monks has been disturbed by loud voices of dissent.
Many members of the 130,000-strong Tibetan exile community are convinced that the Dalai…
The New York Times
Some Tibetan Exiles reject Middle Way
A handful of radical Tibetan exile groups have said angrily that the “middle way” has achieved nothing in nearly 30 years. They have called for an Olympic Games boycott, burned Chinese flags and refused to call off a march from…
DNA
Dalai Lama’s Middle Way has failed
Jamyang Norbu: “There’s now a very strong voice among Tibetan people, especially among young people. ... A lot of them, who are coming out of Tibet into exile, are not so reverent of the Tibetan government-in-exile. They are now…
The Daily Telegraph
Dalai Lama too soft on China say Tibetan Exiles
‘Militant Tibetan groups are increasingly challenging the spiritual leader’s authority ahead of Tuesday’s anniversary of the failed uprising against Chinese rule that led to him fleeing to Dharamsala in northern India.
Mindful of the fact that half a…
Macleans
Stop the Lama Love In
In addition to being a spiritual figure, the Dalai Lama is the leader of the Free Tibet movement. And when it comes to advancing that goal, he has been a resounding failure. Uncritical adulation legitimizes the Dalai Lama’s failed…
