Seriously...
http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html
http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html
Many ordinary Tibetans want the Dalai Lama back in their country, but it appears that relatively few want a return to the social order he represented. A 1999 story in the Washington Post notes that the Dalai Lama continues to be revered in Tibet, but
. . . few Tibetans would welcome a return of the corrupt aristocratic clans that fled with him in 1959 and that comprise the bulk of his advisers. Many Tibetan farmers, for example, have no interest in surrendering the land they gained during Chinas land reform to the clans. Tibets former slaves say they, too, dont want their former masters to return to power. Ive already lived that life once before, said Wangchuk, a 67-year-old former slave who was wearing his best clothes for his yearly pilgrimage to Shigatse, one of the holiest sites of Tibetan Buddhism. He said he worshipped the Dalai Lama, but added, I may not be free under Chinese communism, but I am better off than when I was a slave.