Of particular interest is the income generated by the Green Book. The Green Book is a record of the 'voluntary tax' that the community pays to their government-in exile. The officials stress the importance that this tax has on the future of the community, and the need to kick-start more income-generating projects.
On the face of it, it appears that the Dalai Lama's plans to make the community accountable for itself are taking shape. The Tibetans seem to have come a long way since 1959 when the Dalai Lama, followed by about 80,000 of his people, made their way into India to "escape an encircling Chinese presence". They crossed the formidable Himalayas with nothing but the possessions on their backs.
Being the unquestioned spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama finds himself in every facet of Tibetan life in some form or the other.
But a closer examination reveals there is an invisible and inseparable umbilical cord that ever more firmly links the Tibetan exile economy to what can be called Brand Dalai Lama.
Image: Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama delivers a lecture on 'The Nature of Mind' in California. | Photograph: Phil Klein/Reuters
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