Students must not attack the Dalai Lama based on untrue claims

I am writing in response to the letter to the editor published on Sept. 26. In this letter, Collin Chambers and Derek Ford portrayed His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a mean leader and China as a savior. However, they failed to mention that what was true yesterday is not necessarily valid today.

In other words, the Tibetan people could be in better shape with the Dalai Lama than with China today. His Holiness is a committed leader who says his life is to promote basic human values or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness, to foster inter-religious harmony and welfare of the Tibetan people by focusing on the survival of their identity, culture and religion.

Better still, His Holiness is coming on our campus to partake in the Forum for Peace and, considering the recent violence related to the film about the Prophet Mohamed, all students, progressive or not, should take advantage of this forum.

Edouard Tiendrebeogo

SUNY-ESF