Contemporary Tibetan teenagers are obligated to receive a uniform anti-religious Marxist ideological education in formal schools supervised by the Chinese central government. Yet Tibetan Buddhism is also passed on to them in their families as their traditional religious belief system. This creates a conflict for Tibetan teenagers, who are confronted with an ideological tension between their religious beliefs and their atheistic Marxist education. Directly asking them “which side do you stand with?” is neither appropriate nor feasible given concerns for safety and candor concerns. As an alternative method I have conducted interviews using indirect questions. I have studied the judgments of Tibetan teenagers about culture-specific and context-rich moral dilemmas as a proxy to reveal the extent to which they reason more like a Marxist or more like a Buddhist. One can logically classify the possible responses to this conflict between school-based atheistic Marxist education and home-based religious Buddhist education into four separate options: (a) reasons like a Tibetan Buddhist (b) reasons like a Chinese communist (c) refuses both ideologies (d) accepts both ideologies and finds a way to reconcile them. The content analysis of the interviews revealed a large amount of inconsistency and variations within and among individuals pertaining to their reasoning values. Besides the above options, my research discovered a fifth possibility: Tibetan teenagers do not typically feel it is necessary to reconcile the apparent ideological conflict or have to choose one of the two belief systems. Instead, some of them find ways to live a calm, peaceful and happy life without taking sides or reconciling the conflict. Whether consciously or not, they incubate diverse socially functional strategies while holding two opposed ideologies, for example, utilizing tolerance to tolerate intolerance, tacitly deciding to avoid sensitive debates, flexible use of contextualization to dissolve apparent conflicts, and maintaining belief commitment while understanding the opposite, and establishing clear boundaries between personal beliefs and overt behaviors. These are forms of practical wisdom drawn from the adaptive strategies of Tibetan teenagers for co-existence in our increasingly multi-polar and multi-ideological global world.