Tibetan autonomy from China have failed to bring positive changes said Dalai Lama

 DHARMSHALA---My efforts to secure Tibetan autonomy from China have failed to bring positive changes said Dalai Lama as  he is unsure whether new talks between his envoys and Beijing over the fate of the Himalayan region will produce any breakthroughs.
The Tibetan spiritual leader has spoken in unusually blunt and pessimistic terms recently about prospects for his homeland. He said  that the situation in Tibet was worsening and that criticism among Tibetans of his negotiating approach toward China was growing.

The Dalai Lama has followed a "middle way" which rejects calls for outright independence but seeks greater autonomy to preserve Tibet's unique Buddhist culture.

China, which has governed Tibet since Communist troops occupied it in the 1950s, has repeatedly accused the Dalai Lama of leading a campaign to split the Himalayan region from the rest of the country.

The Dalai Lama, who fled to India amid a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, has denied the allegations.

"The whole world knows the Dalai Lama is not seeking separation, except the Chinese government," he told a news conference in Tokyo , urging China's leaders to have a "more spiritual mind" in dealing with Tibetan issues.

"Things are not improving inside Tibet," he said. "Our approach failed to bring some positive changes inside Tibet. So criticism is also increasing."

 Dalai Lama told reporters in Tokyo that his faith in the Chinese government was "becoming thinner, thinner, thinner."

Last month, he said he had "given up" because there had been no positive response in negotiations with Beijing. He called a special meeting of Tibetan exile communities and political organizations later this month to discuss the future of their struggle.

Despite the Dalai Lama's recent comments, a new round of talks is due to be held between his envoys and the Chinese government, the first since Beijing hosted the Olympics in August.

Envoys of the spiritual leader arrived in Beijing l, but the Dalai Lama did not say when the talks would begin and declined to elaborate on them.
"At this moment, I remain silent. Furthermore, I don't know what will happen. I don't know," he said.
The last formal talks between the Dalai Lama's envoys and Chinese officials, the seventh since 2002, ended in an impasse in July, with China demanding that he prove that he did not support Tibetan independence or the disruption of the Beijing Olympics.
Relations have been particularly tense this year. In March, peaceful demonstrations against Chinese rule in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, exploded into violence. Beijing says 22 people were killed in the riots, in which hundreds of shops were torched and Chinese civilians attacked.

China then launched a massive crackdown in Tibet and a broad swath of Tibetan areas in the country's western regions. Tibetan exile groups said at least 140 people died. More than 1,000 people were detained, although human rights groups say the number could be higher.