Thousands of believers met on Monday in the McLeod Ganj monastery complex in Northern India, where the Prayer Assembly began several -day celebrations of the 90th birthday of the spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhism – the Dalai Lama. Informed AFP, writes TASR.
It is expected that this charismatic Nobel Peace Prize winner during the celebrations of his jubilee will reveal whether and who will be the next Dalai Lama. This decision should be announced on Wednesday.
Dalai Lama about the future
The Dalai Lama announced his plans for the future on Monday when he said he was 90 years old, but feels “physically fit” and the time he remains to him still wants to devote as much as possible the well -being of others. “
The Tibetan exile government has been based in Dharamsal, India, where the Dalai Lama has been living since 1959, when he escaped from Tibet, which was then entered by Chinese troops. Since then, China has considered Tibet an integral part of its territory.
In 2011, the Dalai Lama handed over the political power of an exile government, which was democratically elected by 130,000 Tibetans worldwide.
At the same time, he has repeatedly warned that the future of the post of leader of Tibetan Buddhism is threatened by “the risk of misuse of the reincarnation system by political interests.”
China and reincarnation
This situation occurred eg. In 1995, when the Chinese government after the death of the tenth panchenem – the second highest representative of Tibetan Buddhism – refused to recognize his successor of the selected monks and approved by the Dalai Lama. China is isolated by this boy to house arrest and has pancheen panchenlas, but many Tibetans consider it false.
Given these experiences and concerns, the Dalai Lama has repeatedly promised that the 15th Dalai Lama would be “born in the free world.”
The current Dalai Lama is the fourteenth in the 500 -year -old tradition of Buddhism. Although he has indicated in recent years that it might be the last Dalai Lama, most Tibetans seem to be in favor of the continuation of the “Cycle of Reincarnation”.
While China considers the current Dalai Lama to be a dangerous separatist and blames him that he also encourages suicide by burning by burning, to which Buddhist monks and ordinary believers have resorted, trying to draw attention to the oppression of the Tibetan people by China. For many of its followers, the embodiment of the struggle for Tibetan autonomy is.
The life of the Dalai Lama
Tändzin Gjamccho, born July 6, 1935, became 14th spiritual and political leader of the Tibetans at the age of two, identified as the reincarnation of his predecessor, as required by the Buddhist tradition. He spent the escape from Tibet and Chinese repression in 1959 in the McLeod Ganj monastery at the foot of the Himalayas.
