The current Dali Lama never struck me as a guy who took this stuff seriously.
Ever read his autobiographies? Crazy stuff. Like he claimed a small plane was flown to him so he could see one. It landed and he got in when no one was looking and took off (from a beach) flew around a little and landed. Wrote that the controls were obvious so it was easy to do. He did say the pilot and others around weren’t happy.