Jonathan Mirsky
The New York Review of Books - December 15, 2014
China-watchers, friends of Tibet, and admirers of Pope Francis were
amazed and disappointed last week when the Pope announced he would not
be meeting the Dalai Lama during the Tibetan leader’s visit to Rome. The
Dalai Lama was there with other winners of the Nobel Peace Prize,
who—ironically—had gathered in Rome after a planned meeting in South
Africa did not take place because Pretoria refused to grant the Dalai
Lama a visa. In the end, the pope declined to meet with any of the
Laureates. In view of Francis’s extraordinary reputation for
open-mindedness, how could this be?
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