LOS ANGELES â?? When the time came for the smiling Tibetan monk at the front of the University of Southern California lecture hall to answer questions, the Chinese students who packed the audience for the talk last Tuesday had plenty to lob at their guest:
If Tibet was not part of China, why had the Chinese emperor been the one to give the Dalai Lama his title? How did the tenets of Buddhism jibe with the â??slavery systemâ? in Tibet before Chinaâ??s modernization efforts? What about the Dalai Lamaâ??s connection to Hitler?