In a rebuke to China, the Tibetan religious chief says solely his basis has the facility to recognise his successor.
The Dalai Lama has confirmed that he could have a successor chosen in accordance with “previous custom”, ending years of hypothesis concerning the centuries-old workplace.
In a video message on Wednesday, simply days earlier than his ninetieth birthday, the Tibetan religious chief stated the Gaden Phodrang Basis, which he established to protect the establishment, could have the facility to recognise his future reincarnation.
Tibetan Buddhist leaders will search for his successor, he added, stressing that “nobody else has any such authority to intervene on this matter”.
The 14th Dalai Lama stated he had obtained many messages lately from Buddhists calling for the workplace’s continuation.
“In accordance with all these requests, I’m affirming that the establishment of the Dalai Lama will proceed,” he added.
He made the feedback throughout a three-day non secular convention in Dharamshala, the northern Indian city the place he has been based mostly since 1959, when he fled Tibet for India after a failed rebellion towards China.
Chatting with Al Jazeera, the Tibetan author and activist Tenzin Tsundue described the Dalai Lama’s announcement on Wednesday as a “punch within the face” for China, which governs the Tibet Autonomous Area and which has claimed that it has the facility to nominate his successor.
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Dalai Lama, whom China manufacturers a “separatist”, has beforehand warned Beijing not “to meddle within the system of reincarnation of lamas, not to mention that of the Dalai Lama”.
In response to his feedback on Wednesday, China stated the Dalai Lama’s succession should be authorized by the central authorities in Beijing.
Thupten Ngodup, a religious adviser to the Dalai Lama, stated that ordinarily there wouldn’t be discuss of a successor in the course of the present chief’s lifetime.
“However this dialogue is occurring now primarily as a result of the Chinese language authorities is interfering with the reincarnation of His Holiness,” he instructed Al Jazeera.
In Tibetan Buddhism, it’s believed that the religious chief can be reincarnated within the physique of a kid.
Born right into a farming household on July 6, 1935, the present Dalai Lama was chosen for the function on the age of two.
A search social gathering despatched by the Tibetan authorities picked him after he recognized objects belonging to his predecessor, based on his web site.
Within the winter of 1940, he moved to Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, the place he turned his individuals’s religious chief.
His successor could be of any gender and doesn’t have to carry Tibetan nationality, an official on the Dalai Lama’s belief stated on Wednesday.
In 2011, the Dalai Lama handed political authority to a democratically elected Tibetan government-in-exile.
