Gyari Dolma, the first woman contesting for the post of Sikyong, or President of the Central Tibetan Administration Tibets Government in Exile has asked India to abandon its cautious position on Tibet and acknowledge her homelands occupied status. Dolmas nudge to India at a recent webinar came after President Xi Jinpings call to sinicise, or reshape Tibetan Buddhism to bring it in line with the culture of the majority Han community and principles of the Communist Party of China. India must recognise Tibet as an occupied nation and recognise that it shares a border not with China, but with Tibet. India has a legal, international obligation to stand for truth and recognise its relations with Tibet, Dolma said. She was critical of Indias Tibet policy as well, contending that while India has been kind to the Tibetan people, the Indian government had always let its relations with China influence its stand. As the first step, Tibetans have argued India must start calling the China border as the Tibet border. Xis August 29 call at a meeting of the communist party isnt the first time that the Chinese President has called for sinicisation of Tibetan Buddhism. Back in 2015 also, President Xi spoke about sinicising the five major religions practised in China- Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism and Daoism. This time, it was part of a four-point programme to build an impregnable fortress to maintain stability in Tibet. This is necessary, President Xi told the meeting, to strengthen border defence and frontier security of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) that borders India and Bhutan. One of the tasks that President Xi spelt out at the meeting included educating Tibetans in Lhasa and beyond to strengthen the struggle against splittism. President Xis mention of splittism is seen as a reference to the exiled Tibetan supreme spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who is frequently accused by communist Beijing of fueling separatism in TAR. President Xis fresh attempt to wipe out Tibetan identity comes around the time the Peoples Liberation Army is engaged in a bitter stand-off with Indian soldiers in Ladakh, the last stronghold of Tibetan Buddhism, and Beijings deteriorating ties with the United States and its South China Sea neighbours.