Is Dalai Lama a deposed feudal theocratic dictator?

Now, the Dalai Lama is technically only two of those words. Feudal and theocratic. In no way was he a dictator, considering he was a reincarnated person from the previous Dalai Lama. By the time of the Chinese invasion he was still very young, so he could not have been a dictator. read more

Deposed, yes. Feudal, yes. Theocratic, yes. Dictator, close but not exactly. The Dalai Lama was the monarch of Tibet, which, as Gwydion Madawc Williams points out, was considered legitimate by Tibetan custom. He was also quite young, only 15 years old, when Tibet was annexed by China, and he had been the ruler for less than a year at that point. read more