In a rebuke to China, the Tibetan religious chief says solely his basis has the ability to recognise his successor.
The Dalai Lama has confirmed that he can 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, can have the ability to recognise his future reincarnation.
Tibetan Buddhist leaders will seek for his successor, he added, stressing that “nobody else has any such authority to intrude on this matter”.
The 14th Dalai Lama stated he had acquired many messages in recent times 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 spiritual 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 ability 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 have to be accepted by the central authorities in Beijing.
Thupten Ngodup, a religious adviser to the Dalai Lama, stated that ordinarily there wouldn’t be speak of a successor throughout the present chief’s lifetime.
“However this dialogue is going on now primarily as a result of the Chinese language authorities is interfering with the reincarnation of His Holiness,” he informed Al Jazeera.
In Tibetan Buddhism, it’s believed that the religious chief will likely 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 position on the age of two.
A search get together despatched by the Tibetan authorities picked him after he recognized gadgets belonging to his predecessor, in response to his web site.
Within the winter of 1940, he moved to Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, the place he grew to become his individuals’s religious chief.
His successor might 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.
