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Tibet will be free: Dalai Lama

By Lobsang Wangyal | Tibet Sun

The Dalai Lama during a prayer session on the first day of Losar, the Tibetan New Year, at Sera monastery in Bylakuppe in south India. He said that the Tibetan issue is bound to be resolved as China is reeling through chaos.Tibet Sun/Lobsang Wangyal/India

The Dalai Lama said that the Tibetan issue is bound to be resolved as China is reeling through chaos.

“China is in chaos, and therefore a change will come to China, which will bring freedom in Tibet”

China does not have the communist principles any more. Today’s China is a ‘totalitarian capitalist’ system.”

The Dalai Lama was speaking to Tibetans in Bylakuppe on the first day of the Tibetan New Year of 2136. He conferred a long life empowerment in the morning and gave a public speech in the afternoon, dwelling on topics such as morality, politics, education, environment, economy, organic farming and health.

Autonomy for Tibet through his ‘Middle-way’ policy, he says, is the most feasible for Tibetans under the current circumstances. He said that the policy has been receiving support not only from the international community but also from Chinese scholars and activists.

“We received more than 300 letters from Chinese who support the middle-way policy.”

The Dalai Lama is no more seeking an independent Tibet, but autonomy for Tibet since 1979. However, China has not responded to his calls.

He said that the Tibetan issue is not about civil war in their country, but it is about intrusion of their land by an ‘uninvited guest’.

China, however, accuses the Dalai Lama a separatist, and claims Tibet to be their territory since ancient times.

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