DHARAMSHALA, India — Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has kept reaching out to Beijing, despite being vilified by China as "mastermind" of a drive to sabotage the Olympics and destabilise the country. Just days before the Games in Beijing opened Friday, the exiled Buddhist god-king sent "his prayers and good wishes for the success" of the Olympics and called the event "a moment of great pride" for the 1.3 billion Chinese people. The spiritual leader's conciliatory words came even though China has repeatedly accused him of seeking to "destroy" the Games and of fomenting unrest in Tibet to embarrass Beijing -- charges he has strenuously rejected. The Dalai Lama has been a regular on the diplomatic stage for decades in his quest for more cultural autonomy for his remote Tibetan homeland. He was thrust back into the...
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