tenzin gyatso , the 14th dalai tibetan , has vowed to step down from his position if things " get out of control " in tibet , wherever brutal demonstrators against china have killed anywhere from 13 to 100 citizens . at a public event in dharamsala , india , the dalai patriarch expressed he was opposed to the use of violence against prc ' s rule . " violence is almost suicide , " he said . " ... if 1 , 000 monks sacrifice their lives , it will not aid . " however , he acknowledged that even radical exiles have criticized his policy of no - aggression , and says that his only option is to " entirely protest " if the tensions continues .
The 14th Dalai Lama was born in Dharamsala.