The Tibetan independence movement (Tibetan: བོད་རང་བཙན Bod rang btsan; simplified Chinese: 西藏独立运动; traditional Chinese: 西藏獨立運動) is the political movement advocating for the reversal of the 1950 annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, and the separation and independence of Greater Tibet from China.
It is principally led by the Tibetan diaspora in countries like India and the United States, and by celebrities and Tibetan Buddhists in the United States, India and Europe. The Central Tibetan Administration is based in Dharamshala, India.
The Tibetan independence movement is no longer supported by the Central Intelligence Agency, which ended its Tibetan program after the 1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China. Later in the 1970s, the 14th Dalai Lama, who had backed it since 1961, also withdrew his support but now supports The Middle Way Approach.[1][2][3][4]
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- ^ Reasonable Demands Needed From Dalai Lama
- ^ PTI (23 November 2017). "Tibet Wants to Stay With China, Seeks Development: Dalai Lama". TheQuint. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
- ^ "'Past is past': Dalai Lama says Tibet wants to stay with China, wants development". Hindustan Times. 23 November 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2021.