Dalai Lama's threat shakes Buddhism

It's always interesting to see who shows up behind the news as an informant. Robbie Barnett, the notorious gadfly against the Christian missionary movement in Asia and one of the founders of the Tibetan Intelligence Network, I mean Tibetan Information Network becomes the LA Times research aide behind the article. Interesting. Hey, it's an interesting article as it should be. More than the usual journalistic boilerplate. Would be interesting in hearing Robbie Barnett's talk about, "Tibetans May Send Team to Beijing." Is that an Olympic team? August 6, 1992.

"As the world's most famous Buddhist, the Dalai Lama is a monk juggling two jobs. One is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, and the other is the political head of his government in exile.

He was chosen to serve these dual callings through an arcane process based on signs that he was reincarnated from a long line of Dalai Lamas who were considered embodiments of the Buddha of Compassion, the holder of the White Lotus."

But the threat of the Dalai Lama leaving his political post is real, according to Robbie Barnett, Tibetan expert from Columbia University.

"He's always said he prefers to get out of politics, go into a cave and meditate," Barnett said. "He's talking to people inside [interesting] Tibet, asking will they please give up violence."

"The question is how the Chinese government can clear the static in the air so people in the rural areas inside Tibet can hear him."

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