CHINA-DALAI LAMA: MEETING WITH POP STAR LADY GAGA

 A sharply worded article in the Global Times on June 29, 2016, criticised the US pop star Lady Gaga for publicising via video her recent 19-minute meeting with the Dalai Lama and hinted that she would not be allowed access to the huge Chinese market. The article said the "Dalai Lama is both a religious and political figure. His role as a "dissident leader" and a saboteur of socialist China is the fundamental reason for his popularity in the West. The Dalai Lama skillfully bonds religion with politics, always presenting himself as a spiritual leader, but in the meantime selling his political schemes and damaging the unity of Chinese society." It added "The Dalai Lama is the most politicized religious figure in the world. Western leaders' meetings with him have long been defined as a highly sensitive political behavior. This will inevitably affect how the public feels, including how 1.3 billion Chinese feel, if celebrities from each part of the world have contact with the Dalai Lama, or publicly show their worship of him. Although Lady Gaga did not discuss politics with the Dalai Lama, still, ordinary people in China find it hard to accept her showering high praise on him in this way."


(Comments: Some months ago China had reacted sharply to some popular Chinese artistes attending a religious ceremony organised by the Karma Kagyu sect in Bodh Gaya, India where representatives of the Dalai Lama were present.) 
 






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