For 'Simple Monk,' Politics Loom Large -- U.S. Is Guarded in Its Dealings with Dalai Lama

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He is the 14th Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize winner believed to have been reincarnated "to carry on the work of the previous incarnation."

For him, much of his current life, including this week's visit to the Bible Belt, has been devoted to restoring autonomy for the people of Tibet. When he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, he said, "The prize reaffirms our conviction that with truth, courage and determination as our weapons, Tibet will be liberated."

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For 'Simple Monk,' Politics Loom Large -- U.S. Is Guarded in Its Dealings with Dalai Lama

It is part of a centuries-old tug-of-war in which Tibet and China have fought over a land that the Dalai Lama calls home and that a Rhodes College religious studies professor calls "a place that is good for growing yaks." While Tibet wants self-rule, Chines...

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