Here's some rich irony: China destroys Tibetan Buddhism and its supporting culture, then launches a research centre for Tibetan Buddhism.

China's Forbidden City now a new research base of Tibetan Buddhism

China's famous Palace Museum has launched a research center for the study of Tibetan Buddhism by using its rich collection of royal cultural relics over the past five centuries.

The Research Center for Tibetan Buddhist Heritage (RCTBH) of the Palace Museum, better known as the Forbidden City in the heartof Beijing, will focus on the study of the history when the religion was practiced in royal courts of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911 A.D.).

This would form an important part of the study of Tibetan Buddhism, one of three major branches of Buddhism that is still practiced by Tibetans in west China and in neighboring countries including Nepal, Bhutan and India.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/...nt_12281980.htm

Well, you may understand what this could mean,

as the Authorities have quite a different view on who is who...

it might be nothing else then to "correct" the chin. point of view,

regarding the fate of Tibet, it's people, their leader and their independent

culture....