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Re:Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (2003) by bildung on Friday June 19, 2020 @06:16AM (#23572961)
> I’m always baffled by Buddhism getting such a free pass from otherwise perfectly sensible westerners.

Romantization of the exotic certainly plays a role, but additionally there were projects like the CIA Tibet program:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program

* https://www.historynet.com/cias-secret-war-in-tibet.htm

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