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Dalai Lama relative joins Communist Party: state media


A relative of the Dalai Lama has joined China's ruling Communist Party, state media reported on Wednesday.

"I'm proud to join the CPC (1) (Central Processing Complex) An IBM mainframe that has two or more central processors (CPs) that share memory. It is the collection of processors, memory and I/O subsystems manufactured with a single serial number, typically all contained in one cabinet.  (Communist Party of China The Communist Party of China (CPC) (Simplified Chinese: 中国共产党; Traditional Chinese: 中國共產黨 )," Xinhua news agency “Xinhua” redirects here. For other uses, see Xinhua (disambiguation).

The Xinhua News Agency (Simplified Chinese: 新华社; Traditional Chinese:
 quoted Deying Drolma, the grand niece of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, as saying.

"My grandmother Khyi Losel lo·sel  
n.
One that is worthless.



[Middle English, from lsen, past participle of l
 is a cousin of the Dalai Lama. When he fled to India in 1959, he asked her and her family to go with him but she refused. She told us we shall never betray our motherland."

The 35-year-old, a soldier in the People's Liberation Army People's Liberation Army

Unified organization of China's land, sea, and air forces. It is one of the largest military forces in the world. The People's Liberation Army traces its roots to the 1927 Nanchang Uprising of the communists against the Nationalists.
, took her oath to join the party on June 26, Xinhua said, in a report from the northwestern province of Gansu where she apparently resides.

The ruling party has long maintained that the Dalai Lama is a "splittist" seeking to establish an independent Tibet. The 1989 Nobel Peace prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.  winner denies that, saying he seeks only more autonomy for the Himalayan region.

Deying Drolma had earlier considered joining the party, but feared her family ties would make that impossible, the report said.

China has ruled Tibet since 1951 after sending in troops to "peacefully liberate" the region from what it maintains was a Buddhist theocracy that enslaved most Tibetans.

The Dalai Lama fled in 1959 after a failed anti-Chinese uprising.

His grand niece said she hoped he could one day return to his hometown in Qinghai province, which neighbours Tibet.

"He is an old man now and old people tend to miss their hometown. I wish he can come back to have a visit," she said.
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