What's the purpose of Dalai Lama's Incitement?- People's Daily Online

What's the purpose of Dalai Lama's Incitement?

16:10, November 05, 2009

Recently, the Dalai Lama is going through a dramatically tough time in the international arena. He has been given the silent treatment, even U.S. President Barack Obama had quietly refused to meet him.

There seems to be a consensus among many that "with the Dalai Lama comes trouble".

According to "Voice of Tibet (Norway)", on October 18, in Dharamsala, India, when some Buddhists asked the Dalai Lama, "Religion is religion, politics is politics, and how does religion relate to politics?" The Dalai Lama alleged that Tibet is "destroying Buddhism".

When facing Buddhists, the Dalai Lama would choose to shorten his speech, and his "appeal for religious freedom" would be deviated to "having religious belief means confronting China's Tibet Autonomous Region government".

Sometimes, the Dalai Lama would fan the emotion by fanning the words of "crusades" and "jihads".

Fortunately, though the Dalai Lama regards himself as "Buddhism's spokesman", not many people take it seriously. For example, Buddhism believers in Taiwan were suspicious or even against the Dalai Lama. When the Dalai Lama went to "console" the victims of the flooding disaster in Tai'nan, some local residents held slogans to protest. Some slogans were full of sarcastic words, saying "The Dalai Lama is destined to go to hell".

Even in India, where the so-called "Tibet government-in-exile" exists, there are many critics who oppose the Dalai Lama. A few days ago, Narasimhan Ram, editor-in-chief of the Hindu and Group publications, pointed out in Second forum on the development of Tibet that, the Dalai Lama's accusation against China was totally false. For example, Tibet has 1,700 monasteries and other Tibetan Buddhist religious sites with their 46,000 monks and nuns, four mosques for 3,000 Muslims, and a Catholic church for 700 Christians. These sites could fully fulfill the religious believers' needs. In fact, any tourists who had been to Tibet can fairly see that all kinds of religious events are proceeding normally.

By People's Daily Online

▲Second forum on the development of Tibet