Due to propaganda, the Dalai Lama is portrayed as both spiritual and political leader of the Tibetans. Many westerners are not aware that the Dalai Lama was always only the political head of state and that the spiritual leaders are the head of the various schools as the Gaden Tripa is the spiritual head of the Gelugs, the Karmapa is the spiritual head of the Kagyus, the Sakya Trizin is the spiritual head of the Sakya school, and so on. And, thus the 'outsiders' are confused and.
Amongst the Tibetans in exile, they are divided by the double recognition of the spiritual head as in the case of the Karma Kagyus with two 17th Karmapa. And, there is division among the Gelugs by the ban on the practice of Dorjs Shugden. With all these confusion, no wonder the Tibetans in exile are impotent to do very much nor to even look to what the CTA are doing. So, they are having a jolly good time and the poor, ordinary Tibetans in exile are the one suffering.