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Tue Mar 7, 2017, 11:50 PM Mar 2017

Dalai Lama says Chinese hardliners have parts of brain missing

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dalai-lama-says-chinese-hardliners-parts-brain-missing-104711121.html

Dalai Lama says Chinese hardliners have parts of brain missing

March 6, 2017

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese hardliners have parts of their brains missing, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said in an interview aired this week, comments likely to infuriate Beijing, which views the Nobel Peace laureate as a dangerous separatist.

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Speaking to U.S. comedian John Oliver in India's northern town of Dharamsala, where the exiled Tibetan government is based, he also said he might be the last Dalai Lama.

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China says the tradition must continue and its officially atheist Communist leaders have the right to approve the Dalai Lama's successor, as a legacy inherited from China's emperors.

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Asked if he was worried China might appoint its own Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader said it would be foolish.

"Our brain usually, you see, has the ability to create common sense," he said. "The Chinese hardliners, in their brain, that part of the brain, is missing."

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Dalai Lama says Chinese hardliners have parts of brain missing (Original Post) bananas Mar 2017 OP
Hmm I think the Dalai Lama may be on to something there, could Dr. Ben Carson doc03 Mar 2017 #1
So Ben Carson is a Chinese hardliner? milestogo Mar 2017 #2
I can't believe that guy was a brain surgeon, did he have some kind of doc03 Mar 2017 #3

doc03

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3. I can't believe that guy was a brain surgeon, did he have some kind of
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 09:03 AM
Mar 2017

mental condition that made him quit or senility?

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