Tibet wasn't paradise.I was disappointed that Amitabh Pal didn't ask any questions regarding the brutal regime that existed in Tibet before the Chinese invasion in 1950 (Interview with the Dalai Lama Dalai Lama (dä`lī lä`mə) [Tibetan,=oceanic teacher], title of the leader of Tibetan Buddhism. Believed like his predecessors to be the incarnation of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, 1935–, , January issue). People lived as impoverished serfs in a rigid caste system Noun 1. caste system - a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity class structure - the organization of classes within a society . The Dalai Lama's views have evolved in a democratic direction during his period in exile. It is likely, however, that had Tibet been left alone, it would have remained under a tyrannical regime. Many liberals are under the illusion that the Chinese communists overthrew a benign, egalitarian e·gal·i·tar·i·an adj. Affirming, promoting, or characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people. society. Actually, it was a case of one despotic regime replacing another. Charles Rosenbloom New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , New York |
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