I’m not giving commie’s absolution, quite the contrary. I was just agreeing about the similarities articulated by the original poster.
Color me skeptical but due to the entourage the Dalai Lama surrounds himself with, I’m not so sure his rhetoric would match his “vision” of a democratic Tibet. Democratic like Venezuela or Cuba?
Who might that be? When I met the Lama he was surrounded by Tibetans. You obviously know little about the philosophy and preachings of the Lama.