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Dalai lama politics
68 years as the unelected head of Tibetans. Isn’t that a dictatorship?
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama has held absolute power of the Tibet for nearly 7 decades. In this time the Tibetans have never had the opportunity to cast a single vote on any issue against him. Dozens of presidents and prime ministers of democratic countries have been voted in and voted out, and even popes and archbishops have come and gone, but the Dalai Lama still clings on to power. He makes a big pretence of wishing for democracy, but, as many prominent Tibetans and Tibetologists have declared, in reality he suppresses democracy and freedom of expression. What would Thomas Jefferson - the father of modern democracy - make of the Dalai Lama and his theocratic rule - mixing religion and politics?
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