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Head of theocratic Tibet, the 13th Dalai Lama expelled the Chinese and proclaimed independence in 1913, built an army, post and currency, backed down before the monasteries by closing the English school, and warned against communism in 1932.
Political topics
13th Dalai Lama (Thubten Gyatso) leans further toward autocracy than 88% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where 13th Dalai Lama (Thubten Gyatso) stands furthest from the rest.
On Nationalism, 13th Dalai Lama (Thubten Gyatso) sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 263 ideologies
Rule by a Buddhist monastic hierarchy, with reincarnated leaders and monasteries dominating politics and land, traditional order and moral precepts as law, as in the Tibet of the Dalai Lama before 1950.
Current that joins ethnic identity and Theravada Buddhist faith and sees the nation as guardian of the Dharma, wary of the influence of other communities, as in Sinhalese nationalism in Sri Lanka and monk movements such as Ma Ba Tha and 969 in Myanmar.
Doctrine of rule by the best, which entrusts power to a minority qualified by virtue, education or birth, rejecting political equality and majority rule, which it sees as a risk to competence.
The most distant ideology
Techno-AnarchismAnarchist23%
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