Yes:
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said that he is a Marxist, yet credits capitalism for bringing new freedoms to the communist country that exiled him — China. “Still I am a Marxist,” the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader said in New York, where he arrived with an entourage of robed monks and a heavy security detail to give a series of paid public lectures. Marxism has “moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to make profits,” the Dalai Lama, 74, said yesterday.
Source: http://michellemalkin.com/2010/05/21/hear-the-dalai-lama-speak-about-why-hes-marxist-and-not-capitalist-tickets-on-sale-now/
I suppose they imagine it will keep the Chicoms from killing their friends and neighbors.
As long as there is a coercive element, and that includes the old "captive nations" concept, it doesn't matter what the subject says.
Quite frankly i've met the man, the wife has met him, the kids have met him several times, and we've visited the Buddhist Center his uncle started in Bloomington, Indiana.
None of these people strike me as being Marxists in particular, nor is it particularly relevant to the current situation.
Eventually the Han will find that they are not biologically suited to high altitude life and will leave the highlands.