wood

THE Dalai Lama show is set to roll into Australia again next month and again Australian politicians are getting themselves in a twist as to whether they should meet him.Rarely do journalists challenge the Dalai Lama.Partly it is because he is so charming and engaging. Most published accounts of him breeze on as airily as the subject, for whom a good giggle and a quaint parable are substitutes for hard answers. But this is the man who advocates greater autonomy for millions of people who are currently Chinese citizens, presumably with him as head of their government. No mere spiritual leader, he was the head of Tibet's government when he went into exile in 1959. It was a state apparatus run by aristocratic, nepotistic monks that collected taxes, jailed and tortured dissenters and engaged in all the usual political intrigues. Read: http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/behind-dalai-lamas-holy-cloak/2007/05/22/1179601410290.html

Non-Redneck

"It was a state apparatus run by aristocratic, nepotistic monks that collected taxes, jailed and tortured dissenters and engaged in all the usual political intrigues"Replace the word "monks" with "communist Chinese" and you've got what is happening in Tibet today.It looks like the communist Chinese have discovered Yahoo answers and are sending their agents to spread propaganda here as well.

LB

Becasue its a load of old rubbish, just propaganda suitable for the garbage.

AndiC

I suggest you go to Dharamsala and do your own investigations instead of soaking up and spreading this nonsensical propaganda.

Youwish

Excuse me please. This is YA not China. We don't fall for BS here. Go spread your lies somewhere else.