Your statement shows a great deal of ignorance. Try reading something about the history of Tibet and the Dalai Lama. Read some of the writings of the Dalai Lama and judge for yourself. Many people who would never accept Tibetan Buddhism as their personal religion nevettheless find him a very impressive person. I recommend the Dalai Lama's autobiography where he tells what it was like to be selected at the age of four, to be trained and raised in a series of palaces in a remote country, to negotiate with Mao at the age of 19 and subsequently to barely escape with his life from the invading Chinese.
I had understood that they were "Red Hat" or Mahayani.
I had understood that they were "Red Hat" or Mahayani.
I stand corrected, they are Geluk.
Tibetan Buddhism has five main schools (the suffix pa means sect):
Nyingma(pa), The Ancient Ones, the oldest and original school founded by Padmasambhava himself
Kadam(pa) (no longer existent although efforts to revitalize it are present in the Buddhist community)
Kagyu(pa), Oral Lineage, headed by the Karmapa
Sakya(pa), Grey Earth
Geluk(pa), Way of Virtue, also known as Yellow Hats, whose spiritual head is the Ganden Tripa and whose temporal head is the Dalai Lama, who was ruler of Tibet from the mid-17th to mid-20th centuries.