Law scholar chosen to assume political powers currently held by the Dalai Lama

Tibetan exiles from around the world have chosen a Harvard law scholar as prime minister of their government-in-exile , officials have said.

"The Election Commission of the Central Tibetan Administration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama has declared Dr
Lobsang Sangay as the third kalon tripa," Chief Election Commissioner Jampal Thosang told a news conference on Wednesday, using the Tibetan title for prime minister.

The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader announced last month that he would retire as the Tibetan movement's political leader, transferring his powers to the newly-elected prime minister.

Sangay easily beat the two other candidates for the prime minister's post, securing 55 per cent of the vote, Thosang said.

The election may prove a landmark in replacing a religious monarchy with a more radical leader claiming democratic legitimacy to speak for Tibetans, dealing a symbolic blow to China's claims to rule the region.

The 42-year old Sangay has said he fully supports the Dalai Lama's "middle way" formula that seeks "meaningful autonomy" for Tibet under Chinese rule, rather than outright independence.
The Dalai Lama's idea to devolve power reflects concern about how to sustain a struggle for Tibetan rights that the Nobel laureate has single-handedly carried since fleeing his homeland to India in 1959.

The worry is that when the Dalai Lama dies, the Tibetan cause, stripped of its totemic leader, will fade into obscurity. An elected figure is seen as a solution.

The Dalai Lama will continue as a spiritual leader to his people who revere him as an incarnation of the Buddhist deity of compassion.

Born in a refugee settlement in India in 1968, Sangay won a Fulbright scholarship to Harvard where he earned a doctorate in law. He has engaged with Chinese scholars and has twice organised meetings between them and the Dalai Lama.

Sangay was in the US when the results were announced. As prime minister he will have to move to the north Indian town of Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile that was formed in 1959 after the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa following a failed uprising against Chinese rule.

STONED TO DEATH

No country is perfect.

The Jews stoned people to death and the 'mad Moslems' copied them.

Numbers 15:32-36:

While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day...

The LORD said to Moses, "The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp."

So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses. (The UnHoly Bible)

"In much of the Bible, especially the Old Testament, there are laws that command that people be killed for absurd reasons such as working on the Sabbath, being gay, cursing your parents, or not being a virgin on your wedding night." (Murder in the Bible)

Abraham was going to murder his son Isaac.

"Italian and Russian police, working together, broke up a ring of Jewish gangsters who had been involved in the manufacture of child rape and snuff pornography.

"Three Russian Jews and eight Italian Jews were arrested after police discovered they had been kidnapping non-Jewish children between the ages of two and five years from Russian orphanages, raping the children, and then murdering them on film.

"Mostly non-Jewish customers, including 1,700 nationwide, 600 in Italy, and an unknown number in the United States, paid as much as $20,000 per film to watch little children being raped and murdered." (Italian, Russian Police Break Up Child Snuff Porn Ring)

Palestinian kids, murdered by Israel.

The countries that carry out the most executions include China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the USA.

Americans executed this apparently innocent youth.

Lynching occurred in the United States chiefly from the late 1700s through the 1960s.

Afghanistan and Iran were relatively civilised until the USA began its interference.

The Dalai Lama may be correct when he says that most people are gentle in nature

He says he does not believe people are naturally violent.

He says the basic human nature is to be a social animal and the basis of a social animal is some kind of cooperation, “So therefore I describes human nature as more gentleness.”

He says that the people who are violent are in the minority in our society.

He says we take for granted that the violence by others becomes very striking in our minds, so it becomes significant, but he says the majority of people still remain gentle by human nature.

He says that human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. (Teachings: Dalai Lama Quotes)

Chimpanzees will help humans without any reward in return.[8]

The peaceful sociable Bonobos, who are our nearest relatives, have been observed aiding injured or handicapped bonobos.[9]

Animals that cooperate are more likely to survive.

Cooperation is a very successful survival strategy.

It has been the basis of all the most dramatic steps in the history of life. (Evolution myths: 'Survival of the fittest' justifies 'everyone for ...)

In the 1940s, Brigadier Gen. S.L.A. Marshall claimed that only 15-20% of America's World War II soldiers would use their weapons in battle. (On Killing, by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, p. 4 - The Canadian National Newspaper: Twilight of the Psychopaths )

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