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Dalai Shmalai
This man makes me angry.
He represents an old and exploitive theocracy which lived off of the poorest, dominated them, and exploited the belief system of a relatively primitive people. That the poor ad ignorant did not rebel (as far as the rest of us know) is not of relevance
Supported by romantics, new agers, and rich meat eaters who fall in love with con men, India's Wisdom, Feng Shiu, and ancient religious figures (religious is not an opprobium, by the way) the DL has flourished while the poor of Tibet have had a rising standard of living.
One man's romanticism is often another man's pain.