mig vantar hjálp við að þýða þetta

“In 1913, the Dalai Lama issued a proclamation that stated that the relationship between the Chinese emperor and Tibet ”had been that of patron and priest and had not been based on the subordination of one to the other."[29] “We are a small, religious, and independent nation,”

ég þarf nefninlega að setja þetta inn í ritgerð (ekki sona, en ég þarf samt að fá þetta helst á góðri íslensku)