If the only problem the previous commenter stated was just some kind of a cult, well, if woudn't be half-bad. But upon reading about the Tibet and basically the Asian Inquisition (not the Spanish one, but the actual witch-burning one from Central Europe), you will see the Tibet in a very different way.
But in fact Tibet was in many ways just about as far from Disneyland as can be conceived. Even by the early 20th century, it was a medieval-esque serfdom and theocracy. It doesn't matter how technical or philosophical someone gets about how Buddhism is non-theistic and Vajrayana is some kind of system of applied psychology, the fact is that powerful lamas were viewed as actual gods and, like a caste system, the underprivileged were regarded as deserving of their lot due to karma. There was a centuries-in-the-making ingrained resistance to outside ideas throughout the region, and those which would include things like modernity and human rights. While the rest of the world was getting stuff like penicillin and effective surgery, the stranglehold that the monastic institutions had on the education-deprived Tibetans prevented any meaningful cross-border dialogue.
All that being said, the CCP was not (and China still is not) some kind of bastion of human rights and openness to ideas. The People's Army would have never been so much as scratched by whatever barely passed for Tibetan soldiers, so they arguably did not need to be nearly so heavy-handed. Assuming it's actually anyone's legitimate responsibility to 'liberate' that place, I suppose that some 'force' might've been required to crack the nut of that massively insular Tibetan world, but there's no way that it was necessary to engage in ethnic cleansing and erasure.
In a parallel universe, the world of Tibet could have been introduced to modernity without being placed under the thumb of the Chinese monolith. So I guess I'm just trying to provide a balanced perspective.
From the Chinese perspective pre-Communism, there would be no issue with Tibetan culture. But even if there were, it isn’t for them to care about or interfere with right?
As for your other comparisons. I don’t see cannibalism or Islamic fundamentalism (Jihad) as being comparable to Tibetan culture. Islam has explicit calls for violence against other belief systems. Tibetan culture does not. I can see treating Islam as a threat because of what it states openly, but it would be weird to group that with Tibetan culture, whether before or after Buddhism.
>Tibetan culture does not.
This is not true. The Chinese view tibetan culture as if it was scientology. There is a lot of evidence of injustices and really cult like backwards practices arising from the culture.
Interesting comments too.