Dalai Lama Wins First Grammy at Age 90, Outraging Chinese Communists

The Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism, won a Grammy Award on Sunday night for narrating an audiobook featuring his reflections.

While the spiritual leader celebrated with humility, and Tibetans saw the award as a recognition of their persecuted culture and religion, the Chinese Communist Party responded with ire, warning the academy responsible for the awards not to indulge in “anti-China activities.”

Tibet has been occupied by the Chinese Communist Party for 60 years. While the Han Chinese communists have not succeeded during that time in eliminating the ethnic Tibetan community from the region nor in destroying Tibetan Buddhism, they have consistently endeavored to do so since the establishment of what China has tried to rename with the colonialist Mandarin name “Xizang.”