Jeri, hi again. I don't mean to be making such absolutist connections as "he hasn't denounced them, therefore he supports them". In my readings about human rights in South Asia and India, the issues of Buddhist violence and Buddhist militarism, always comes up because of it's centrality in the Pakistan/Kashmir/India geopolitics, in the case of Sri Lanka, and in other less obvious cases, such as the conflicts between Tibetan Buddhist refugees living in northern India along the border with Tibet and Kashmir and native Indian Buddhists who are also a minority in that region. Or the Tibetan Buddhist refugees who keep flowing into Nepal. It is a very complicated geopolitical situation.

However, the main point to remember is this does, to a certain extent, have it's roots in the partitioning of India/Pakistan, and the huge minority of Muslims "caught" in the partition on the India side, and in the contested region of Kashmir. Kashmir has been in the news too because of the Kargil battle, instigated by the Pakistani leader Musharref. Now, some might recognize his name as the current fundamentalist Muslim leader of Pakistan. The entire region is very unstable, especially because both countries now have nuclear weapons. So the Dalai Lama's naive statements in support of India's nuclear weapons program, at a time when India was condemned by the world community for developing those weapons (again, instability of the region), didn't exactly help.

I am really no expert on any of this, and I don't claim to have an easy answers. But I do know this. The Dalai Lama has made some possibly well intentioned, but dangerously wrong-headed statements that have definitely had political ramifications in India and beyond.