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8 July 2007, 01:26

Why is the United States giving money to support an athiest cause in Tibet?

Have you accepted the Panchen Lama as your son of heaven savior?

In October 1998, The Dalai Lama’s administration acknowledged that it received $1.7 million a year in the 1960s from the U.S. Government through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and also trained a resistance movement in Colorado (USA).[21] When asked by CIA officer John Kenneth Knaus in 1995 whether the organization did a good or bad thing in providing its support, the Dalai Lama replied that though it helped the morale of those resisting the Chinese, "thousands of lives were lost in the resistance" and further, that "the U.S. Government had involved itself in his country’s affairs not to help Tibet but only as a Cold War tactic to challenge the Chinese."[22]

British journalist Christopher Hitchens wrote a scathing attack on the Dalai Lama in 1998, which questioned his alleged support for India’s nuclear weapons testing, his statements about sexual misconduct, his suppression of Shugden worship, as well as his meeting Shoko Asahara, whose cult released sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway system.[23][24] Brian Given published a detailed reply to these criticisms in World Tibet Network News.[25]

There has also been criticism that feudal Tibet was not as benevolent as the Dalai Lama had portrayed. Critics have suggested that in addition to serfdom there were conditions that effectively constituted slavery.[26] Also the penal code included forms of corporal punishment, in addition to capital punishment.[19] In response, the Dalai Lama has since condemned some of ancient Tibet’s feudal practices and has added that he was willing to institute reforms before the Chinese invaded. However, historian Michael Parenti believes there was a connection between Dalai Lama’s 1959 fleeing Tibet and the then PRC Central Government’s decision to gradually phase out serfdom in Tibet.[26]