I prefer to remain in India and China doesn’t understand a variety of different cultures: Dalai Lama
New Delhi: The insecure country for many communities – once again criticized by Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. As we all are very well aware of China’s strategy and its actions against several people. Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama criticized the leaders of China on Wednesday and said “China don’t understand the variety of different cultures and there is too much control by the main Han ethnic group.”
The spiritual leader cleared his words and said that he is not against Chinese brothers and sisters.
The 86-year-old Dalai Lama, taking part in an online news conference anchored in Tokyo, was answering a question about whether the international community should consider boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics over the suppression of minorities, including those in the western region of Xinjiang.
“I know Communist Party leaders since Mao Zedong. Their ideas (are) good. But sometimes they do much extreme, tight control. Regarding Tibet and also Xinjiang, we have our own unique culture, so the more narrow-minded Chinese Communist leaders, do not understand the variety of different cultures,” he said from his base in India.
China seized control of Tibet after its troops entered the region in 1950 in what it calls a “peaceful liberation”. Tibet has since become one of the most restricted and sensitive areas in the country.
The Dalai Lama said he broadly supported the ideas of Communism and Marxism, laughing as he related an anecdote about how he once thought of joining the Communist Party but was dissuaded by a friend.
“I prefer to remain here in India, peacefully,” he said, praising it as a center of religious harmony. In the end, though, he said believed all religions had the same message. “All religions carry the message of love and use a different philosophy of views. So now the problem is the politicians, in cases, some economists use this difference of religion. So now, religion is also politicized – so that is a problem.”
(_Vinayak)
