[DEBATE] : Tibet in China

[Alan Murphy]

I knew that . . . but I didn't know that the Dalai Lama was a Tibetan
separatist?

Alan

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi <
critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Alan Murphy <ecopeace at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I didn't know that the Dalai Lama was making an imperialist claim on
> Tibet?
>
> Tibet, too, once had a claim to being an empire:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tibet#Tibetan_Empire>.  At
> its largest, the ancient Tibetan empire was much larger than the
> present-day Tibet Autonomous Region:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_Autonomous_Region>.  Tibetan
> separatists make a claim to the areas beyond the TAR as well, which is
> one of the bones of contention between the Tibetans and the Chinese.
> --
>  Yoshie
> <http://montages.blogspot.com/>
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