On 15 November 1956, Mao Zedong 毛泽东 delivered a speech at the Second Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Eighth CCP Congress. The official written version of this speech was published belatedly, in 1977, in the fifth volume of Mao's Selected Works. In this text, Mao was supposed to be talking about the Dalai Lama's forthcoming stay in India, and he had no difficulty in envisaging the Dalai Lama's eventual departure into exile. This passage, obviously, seems problematic as it contradicts the policy of the CCP leadership towards the Dalai Lama at that time. Tsering Shakya (The Dragon in the Land of Snows, Pimlico, 1999), Li Jianglin 李江琳 (1959 Lhasa, New Century Press, 2010), Melvyn Goldstein (A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3, University of California Press, 2013), and Liu Xiaoyuan 刘晓原 (To the End of Revolution, Columbia University Press, 2020) have successively sought to understand the reason for this. The probable reason seems to be simply that Mao most likely never made these remarks about the Dalai Lama on the date in question, and that this passage was added later in the written version of the speech, to avoid Mao losing face.

1956 年11月15日，毛泽东在中国共产党第八届中央委员会第二次全体会议上发表了讲话。 这篇讲话的正式书面版本迟至 1977 年才在《毛泽东选集》第五卷中发表。在这段文字中，毛泽东应该是在谈论达赖喇嘛即将在印度逗留的问题，他不难设想达赖喇嘛最终会离开流亡。显然，这段话似乎有问题，因为它与当时中共领导层对达赖喇嘛的政策相矛盾。Tsering Shakya（The Dragon in the Land of Snows, Pimlico, 1999）、李江林（1959 Lhasa, New Century Press, 2010）、Melvyn Goldstein（A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3, University of California Press, 2013）和刘晓原 (To the End of Revolution, Columbia University Press, 2020）相继试图理解其中的原因。可能的原因似乎仅仅是，毛泽东很可能在上述日期从未发表过有关达赖喇嘛的这些言论，而这段话是后来在讲话的书面版本中添加的，以避免毛泽东丢面子。