(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-10-18 10:53

BEIJING -- The Dalai Lama claims he is preaching "peace" and "human compassion" and seeking benefits for the Tibetans when he shuttles around the world by air in designer outfits, picking up his accolades here and there.

But the self-claimed spiritual leader has obviously forgotten his identity, abused his religion and been playing too much politics.

On top of these, he has betrayed his home country and fellow Tibetans time and again since he fled in 1959 with the obstinate claim to separate Tibet from China.

All these have been done in the guise of religion.

Among his latest "developments" is a meeting with US President George W. Bush and a US congressional award. He compares the meeting with Bush to "a reunion of one family", still not realizing he has been a cats' paw once again.

The Dalai Lama has deliberately ignored the central government' s message, which has been sent to him on various occasions, that he should give up his independence claim and all secessionist activities if he wants to return.

If the Dalai Lama, 72, really wishes to do anything beneficial to the 2.8 million Tibetans in his life, it's high time for him to stop playing politics and cheating people, the Westerners in particular, with his hypocritical "autonomy" claims.

He has obstinately sought "independence for Tibet" in the past 48 years and released a statement from India, pledging to "restore Tibet's free and independent status".

Apparently frustrated by China's stable development and by the infighting among exiled "pro-Tibet independence" groups, he has toned down his "independence for Tibet" claims since 1994.

In recent years, the Dalai Lama repeated he did not seek independence but instead sought a high degree of autonomy for Tibet within the framework of the Chinese Constitution.

His call for "true autonomy" is tantamount to an eradication of Chinese sovereignty over Tibet.

The Dalai Lama requested "true autonomy" over the proposed " Greater Tibet", a region extending to Tibetan-inhabited areas in the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan. This is an obvious attempt to overthrow the system governing China's ethnic minority regions.

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