"His Holiness says it's up to the Tibetans to choose their future, and I choose complete independence, and so do most Tibetans. As we saw in the uprising last March." (...)

"I stand for the cause of Tibetan independence. But as a monk, I will never deviate from nonviolence," Gyatso said."

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/31/amanpour.buddhas.warriors/