Making the Case for Tibet

By: Ellen Bork | THE AMERICAN INTEREST |

Forty-nine days of Tibetan Buddhist rites for Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari ended this past Monday, December 17 in a monastery in Dehradun, India. Lodi, who died on October 29, was a public servant of Tibet, a country denied its sovereignty, and an envoy of the Dalai Lama, regarded by Tibetans as the 14th reincarnation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Lodi’s unique and daunting mandate was to build support for Tibet in the United States and to represent the Dalai Lama in nine rounds of “dialogue” with Chinese officials about Tibet’s predicament…

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