After a lifelong struggle to seek an amicable middle path of regional autonomy with Beijing the Dalai Lama said Sunday his faith in ongoing negotiations was shrinking and added that the situation in Tibet is deteriorating, the exiled spiritual leader was speaking to the media in Tokyo.
Exiled Tibetans seek autonomy that would allow them to freely practice their culture, language and religion. With China repeatedly stonewalling Tibetan efforts the Dalai Lama has grown increasingly frustrated and vocal about the lack of progress, despite the departure of two of his envoys for new talks with China last week.
"Now my faith in the Chinese government is becoming thinner, thinner, thinner," he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press on Sunday.
He added that conditions in Tibet were going from bad to worse despite his efforts to negotiate with Beijing.
"Inside Tibet, the situation is worse," he said.
A symbol of perseverance the monk is in Japan to deliver a series of lectures to students and fellow Buddhists. Though friendly towards the monk, Japan, despite the Dalai’s repeated visits to the country, is in no mood to disturb a precarious regional balance by holding official meetings with him.
The spiritual leader’s pronouncements follow similar statements he made in Dharmsala, Himachal Pradesh last week.
On the occasion he said, he had "given up" on persuading China to accept his middle path approach.
He also called a special meeting of Tibetan exile communities and political organizations due to take place later this month. Th convention may well turn out to be the venue of a marked shift in the Tibetan strategy for engaging Beijing, which has governed the Himalayan region since Communist troops occupied it in the 1950s.
The announcement of the current talks with Beijing came after he called for that meeting.
The Dalai Lama fled to India amid a failed uprising in 1959. Tibetan groups say the Chinese government cracked down on the region earlier this year killing 140 and detaining nearly a thousand others.
Exiled Tibetans seek autonomy that would allow them to freely practice their culture, language and religion. With China repeatedly stonewalling Tibetan efforts the Dalai Lama has grown increasingly frustrated and vocal about the lack of progress, despite the departure of two of his envoys for new talks with China last week.
"Now my faith in the Chinese government is becoming thinner, thinner, thinner," he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press on Sunday.
He added that conditions in Tibet were going from bad to worse despite his efforts to negotiate with Beijing.
"Inside Tibet, the situation is worse," he said.
A symbol of perseverance the monk is in Japan to deliver a series of lectures to students and fellow Buddhists. Though friendly towards the monk, Japan, despite the Dalai’s repeated visits to the country, is in no mood to disturb a precarious regional balance by holding official meetings with him.
The spiritual leader’s pronouncements follow similar statements he made in Dharmsala, Himachal Pradesh last week.
On the occasion he said, he had "given up" on persuading China to accept his middle path approach.
He also called a special meeting of Tibetan exile communities and political organizations due to take place later this month. Th convention may well turn out to be the venue of a marked shift in the Tibetan strategy for engaging Beijing, which has governed the Himalayan region since Communist troops occupied it in the 1950s.
The announcement of the current talks with Beijing came after he called for that meeting.
The Dalai Lama fled to India amid a failed uprising in 1959. Tibetan groups say the Chinese government cracked down on the region earlier this year killing 140 and detaining nearly a thousand others.
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