The article said the Dalai clique is a theocratic regime run by prominent monks. Political favoritism and nepotism is widespread.

The "Tibetan government-in-exile"'s Chief Kalon (premier minister) Samdhong Rinpoche and one of the Kalons (ministers) Tsering Phuntsok were monks.

Another Kalon, Thupten Lungrig graduated from the "Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies", a Buddhist school in Varanasi of north India's Uttar Pradesh.

One of the Dalai Lama's private representatives and also a former Kalon, Lodi Gyari is a living Buddha as well.

According to their election rules, ten of the 43 members of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile must come from different sects of the Tibetan Buddhism.

The article said the Dalai clique still represented the interests of remnant forces of the feudal serfowners in old Tibet.

All the brothers and sitsters of the Dalai Lama served in high positions in the Dalai clique.

His late eldest brother Taktser Rinpoche used to lead the New York and Japan offices of "Tibetan government-in-exile". His wife and three children are now living in the United States.

Dalai's second eldest brother Gyalo Thondup, the second most powerful person in the Dalai clique, had held the post of Chief Kalon for several times. Gyalo Thondup owned houses in Delhi, Kalimpong and Darjeeling of northeast India as well as Hong Kong.

His third elder brother Lobsang Samten had long taken the post of Kalon in charge of health and head of Tibetan hospitals. His wife was also a secretary general in the "ministry of health".

His brother-in-law Phuntsok Tashi Takla, husband of his eldest sister Tsering Dolma, had been the Kalon of "the ministries of the interior and security".

Dalai's younger sister Jetsun Pema was one of the founders of the "Tibetan Youth Congress" (TYC) and Kolan for several times while running the "Tibetan Children's Village" in Dharamsala of India for 46 years. A considerable part of foreign donation to the Dalai clique was handled through her in name of "Tibetan Children's Village".

Ngari Rinpoche, Dalai's youngest brother, was the second president of TYC. After serving in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police for five years, he has taken charge of the Dalai Lama's private office, the power center of the Dalai clique.

Ngari Rinpoche's wife Rinchen Khando Choegyal served as the president of "Tibetan Women's Association" for nine years till 1993 and then became the Kalon in charge of education for eight years, a powerful position to decide whether young Tibetans would be sent to college in Europe and North America.

And in today's Kashag (cabinet) of "Tibetan government-in-exile", two members are from the Dalai family, Tempa Tsering, Jetsun Pema's husband, and Kesang Yangkyi Takla, the second wife of Phuntsok Tashi Takla (Tsering Dolma had died in 1964).

Since the founding of the Tibetan government-in-exile, seven family members of the Dalai Lama had held the posts of Kalon and Chief Kalon, the article wrote. "The 14th Dalai Lama's family is much more powerful than the families of all the previous Dalai Lamas."

In addition, a number of powerful people in the Tibetan government-in-exile are from old Tibetan nobility or families of old tribal chiefs.