http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/ ... a-payroll/1.In 1956 the Dalai Lama, fearing that the Chinese government would soon move on Lhasa, issued an appeal for gold and jewels to construct another throne for himself. This, he argued, would help rid Tibet of “bad omens'’. One hundred and twenty tons were collected. When the Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959, he was preceded by more than 60 tons of treasure.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gya ... Dalai_LamaIn October 1998, the Dalai Lama's administration acknowledged that it received US$1.7 million a year in the 1960s from the U.S. Government through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and had also trained a guerrilla army in Colorado (USA).[29]
Dalai Lama´en er en politiker med usædvanlige evner inden for imagepleje.