Is There A Chinese Plot To Assassinate The Dalai Lama?

Dalai Lama Reveals Warning Of Chinese Plot To Kill Him -- The Telegraph

The Dalai Lama has revealed his fears after being warned that Chinese agents have hatched a plot to kill him.

In an exclusive interview with this week's Sunday Telegraph, the 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, revealed he had been passed reports from inside Tibet warning that Chinese agents had trained Tibetan women for a mission to poison him while posing as devotees seeking his blessings.

The Tibetan Buddhist leader said he lives within a high security cordon in his temple palace grounds in Dharamsala, in the Himalayan foothills, on the advice of Indian security officials.

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My Comment: A part of me is skeptical that after all of these years, they now want him dead. But another part of me knows that China is not one unified body .... that there are divergent and different groups with their own agendas at play, and one of them may involve the killing of the Dalai Lama.

Non-Violence Can't Tackle Terror: Dalai

From The Hindu:

NEW DELHI: The Dalai Lama, a lifelong champion of non-violence on Saturday candidly stated that terrorism cannot be tackled by applying the principle of ahimsa because the minds of terrorists are closed.

"It is difficult to deal with terrorism through non-violence," the Tibetan spiritual leader said delivering the Madhavrao Scindia Memorial Lecture here.

He also termed terrorism as the worst kind of violence which is not carried by a few mad people but by those who are very brilliant and educated.

"They (terrorists) are very brilliant and educated...but a strong ill feeling is bred in them. Their minds are closed," the Dalai Lama said.

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My Comment: This is a very profound statement from the Dalai Lama .... its message cannot be ignored.