He was a man of faith using spiritual courage to resist the forces of Communist oppression.
Liberals hate people like that.
The only people who ever welcomed him were conservatives and men of principle.
There are very few of those left.
I remember he visited with Mao Zedong in 1959 or the early 1960’s. Mao was nice to him the whole time, but at the end, he looked at the Dalai Lama and said, “religion is poison.”