Many of us have a plenty of misconceptions about Tibet's history. Tibet is certainly a region with a culture that is distinct from Han China (the thickly populated eastern part). However, historically, China had stronger links with Tibet than India. Chinese communist forces occupied Tibet and the morality of the occupation is disputed. But the old Lama order in China was a feudal order full of oppression of the ordinary peasants. US supported Dalai Lama and conferred Nobel prize on him only because CIA needed an agent against the communist China during the cold war. If tomorrow, Tibetans want independence and a democracy, I have no problems except that it risks being another failed state in Asia like Bangladesh. But no civilized person will advocate the return to the medieval rule of Dalai Lama. Any Indian's blood should boil with the atrocities committed by Lamas in the name of Buddhism, a noble religion originated in India.
