To Control Tibet, Communist China Ventures Into the Spiritual Realm -by Lobsang Sangay for Foreign Affairs n 1954, China’s paramount leader Mao Zedong met Tenzin Gyatso, the then 19-year-old who was the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet. “Religion,” Mao acerbically observed to the young Dalai Lama, “is poison.” Five years…
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