China’s Tensions With Dalai Lama Spill Into the Afterlife

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China’s Tensions With Dalai Lama Spill Into the Afterlife

Post by stilltrucking » March 11th, 2015, 12:31 pm

Chinese Communist Party leaders are deathly afraid that the Dalai Lama will not have an afterlife. Worried enough that this week, officials repeatedly warned that he must reincarnate, and on their terms.. . .

“I don’t think the Dalai Lama would mind if you saw this through the prism of Monty Python,” Robert Barnett, director of the modern Tibetan studies program at Columbia University, said in a telephone interview. “

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