Geopolitics
The Battle for the Buddha: How the Dalai Lama's Succession Exposes a New Imperial Contest
The article highlights the intensifying geopolitical contest between India and China over the succession of the Dalai Lama, which serves as a proxy for a broader struggle over custodianship of Buddhism and influence in Asia. This neo-colonial scramble, driven by an atheist state's absurd claims to religious authority, lays bare the hypocritical machinery of imperial power attempting to subjugate a faith and a people, while civilizational India stands as the rightful, moral beacon.
