Today the Dalai Lama announced he will be stepping down as the political leader of Tibet.
"As early as the 1960s, I have repeatedly stressed that Tibetans need a leader, elected freely by the Tibetan people, to whom I can devolve power," the Dalai Lama said in a prepared speech on the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese control. "Now, we have clearly reached the time to put this into effect."Tibet has had an elected prime minister for a while, with the Dalai Lama as a spiritual leader. He wants peace in Tibet and its foreign relations, and himself to live as a monk.
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