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# Harvard academic elected Tibet's first non-Lama political leader
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## A Harvard academic and law expert has been elected as Tibet's political
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leader, becoming the first non 'reincarnated' Lama to carry out the role.
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![Harvard academic elected Tibet's first non-Lama political leader ][1]
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Lobsang Sangey Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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[![Dean Nelson][2]][3]
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By [Dean Nelson][4], New Delhi 4:16PM BST 27 Apr 2011
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[Follow Dean Nelson on Twitter][5]
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Lobsang Sangay's election, with 55 per cent of the votes cast by
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**[Tibetans][6]** around the world, follows the Dalai Lama's announcement of
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his plans to retire earlier this year and his determination to avoid creating
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a leadership vacuum. He had feared China would exploit his future death and
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seek to impose a pro-Beijing leadership on Tibetan Buddhists.
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The 43-year-old will be the first Tibetan 'Kalon Tripa' or prime minister to
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have been raised in India. According to China and Tibet analysts, he will
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share the leadership of the Tibetan exiles with the Karmapa Lama, who will
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replace the Dalai Lama as the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism following
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his death.
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Mr Sangay was raised in Darjeeling, the former British colonial hill station,
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and has worked as a fellow at Harvard Law School for the last 15 years.
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He is seen as a follower of the Dalai Lama's pursuit of "meaningful autonomy"
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for Tibet within a Chinese state, but some suspect he may have more radical
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ambitions as a former member of the pro-Independence Tibetan Youth Congress.
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Mohan Guruswamy, director of New Delhi's Centre for Policy Alternatives, said
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the election of Mr Sangay and the rise of the Karmapa Lama marked a division
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of the two roles, both of which have until now been carried out by the Dalai
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Lama. It is also an attempt to counter Chinese claims that the Tibetan exiles
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favour a return to feudal rule by Buddhist lamas.
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## Related Articles
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* [Buddha's birthday][7]
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17 May 2011
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* [Dalai Lama pleads with Tibetan MPs to let him step down][8]
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14 Mar 2011
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* [The Dalai Lama's battle with China][9]
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10 Mar 2011
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* [Dalai Lama moves to avoid Chinese interference in succession][10]
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10 Mar 2011
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* [Dalai Lama to step down][11]
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10 Mar 2011
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* [Dalai Lama: Q&A][12]
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10 Mar 2011
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"The Dalai Lama is trying to give the Tibetans a modernity and to challenge
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Chinese claims that the Tibetans want to re-establish the old feudal system.
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He wants to say 'actually we've liberated the Tibetans.'
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"The Karmapa Lama will provide the spiritual leadership which is essential to
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Tibetan identity. For the first time the Kagyu sect will have leadership,
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which will bring all the sects together. It's a move for modernisation and
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democratisation."
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The Dalai Lama had been concerned that if Tibetans waited for his
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reincarnation to be born and trained for leadership, his people would be
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without leadership for three decades.
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Mr Sangay, who will move to Dharamsala to serve as prime minister, called for
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the Dalai Lama's return to Tibet and an end to the suffering of Tibetans
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living under Chinese rule.
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"I urge every Tibetan and friends of Tibet to join me in the common cause to
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alleviate the suffering of Tibetans in our occupied Tibet and to return His
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Holiness, the Dalai Lama, to his rightful place in the Potala Palace," he
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said.
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Outgoing prime minister Lobsang Tenzing, the reincarnated lama Sandhong
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Rinpoche, welcomed his successor's election.
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"Our democracy is mature enough to handle this change. It's a significant
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change from old to new, from a monk to a lay person, from older to young, and
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from traditional to modern," he said.
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It is not clear when the Dalai Lama, 75, will relinquish his figurehead roles
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which he has held since 1950 when he was 15 years old.
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