 Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Muna May 2008, London Metropolitan University yakapa 14th Dalai Lama Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy, nokuda kwekusimudzira rugare munyika yose. Kufamba uku kwakakonzera gakava pakati pevanhu veChinese nenharaunda yeChinese yekune dzimwe nyika, vanoona Dalai Lama semunhu ane mhosva yekusagadzikana kwe2008 muTibet.. Somugumisiro, vamiririri veChinese vanoenda kune dzimwe nyika vakanga vaudzwa kuti varambe London Metropolitan University mukupa mazano kune vatengi vanoda kudzidza muUK. Mutevedzeri-mukuru weyunivhesiti, Brian Roper, muna July akatumira tsamba yekukumbira ruregerero kuChinese Foreign Ministry kuburikidza nevakuru veumiriri. Mubvunzurudzo ne Global Times, mumwe mushandi weChina anodzidza kunze kwenyika akataura kuti yunivhesiti inogona kugadzirisa mhosva yekuremekedzwa nekuramba mapuratifomu ekutaura kumapoka ekuzvimiririra kweTibet, senge yunivhesiti yavo Free Tibet Society. Yunivhesiti yakatarisanawo nokutsoropodzwa nokuda kwokupa zvikoro zvepachena zvakananga kuvadzidzi vanobva munzanga yeTibetan iri muutapwa muIndia, Nepal uye kuMadokero, munyaya ye zvikwereti zvemarudzi zvisingabatsiri. 