Letters to the Editor
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hi raymundohpl! nice to see you again
you are being sincere this time and i am not going to gainsay you. who knows? anything can happen, but it's hard to see how Tibet can ever achieve autonomy - not in this lifetime.
nor can i see how "Palestinian Tactics" can work. you must remember that outside "palestine" are a billion co-religionists and several hundred million ethnic arabs, many with billions of barrels of oil and their own agendae.
the tibetans resemble, to me, nothing so much as the Judaeans after being conquered by Rome two millennia ago. two of their (uglier) children became important later and they even got their land back (of course, there are (still and forever) some ugly fights with The Squatters).
So? my suggestion? Keep Dharmsala as a monastery, give scholarships to the best and keep the religion alive (i think it's a worthy one). This means that the Dalai Lama Can NOT give up - he must keep the tradition going - including finding the next (male) incarnation. but even if the reincarnated need to be replaced by teachers ("rabbis"), Scholarship MUST continue - it might need to exist for several thousand years before a home can be found.