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Dalai Lama Says Tibet Doesn’t Seek Independence, Wants To Remain With China

Swarajya StaffThursday, November 23, 2017 3:56 pm IST
The Dalai Lama (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The Dalai Lama (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The Dalai Lama (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tibet does not seek independence from China but wants greater development, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said today (23 November).

China and Tibet have enjoyed a rather close relationship, although there were the occasional "fights", he said at a session organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce.

"The past is past. We will have to look into the future," he said, stressing that Tibetans wanted to stay with China.

"We are not seeking independence... We want to stay with China. We want more development," he said, adding that China must respect the Tibetans' culture and heritage.

"Tibet has a different culture and a different script... The Chinese people love their own country. We love our own country," he said.

He claimed that no Chinese "understood what had happened in the last few decades", and that the country had changed over the years.

"With China joining the world, it has changed 40 per cent to 50 per cent of what it was earlier," he said.

The Dalai Lama also referred to the ecological significance of the Tibetan Plateau and recalled that a Chinese ecologist had said its environmental impact was like that of the South Pole and the North Pole. "The ecologist called it the Third Pole," he said.

The Dalai Lama said, "From Yangtze to Sindhu rivers, major rivers ... come from Tibet. Billions of lives are involved. Taking care of the Tibetan Plateau is not only good for Tibet but for billions of people. PTI

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