There is a dangerous and complex clash between the Dalai Lama and China. The highest authority of Tibetan Buddhism, which lives, said Wednesday that it will be reincarnated, and that its non -profit institution will have the exclusive authority to identify its reincarnation. His words, pronounced in one of the organized acts for the celebration this Sunday of his 90 years, suppose the first clear clues about their intentions for the succession process after his death. But these collide frontally with the vision of the Chinese government, which aims to keep from Beijing the control of the steps to choose the reincarnation of the next religious leader.
China has immediately replicated that the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama must meet the “search and identification in China” requirements, in addition to following the “raffle in a golden urn” process (a ritual that dates back to the 18th century, during the Qing dynasty), in addition to having the mandatory “approval of the central government”, as MAO said this Wednesday NO, spokesperson for exterior, in a routine appearance.
It is the usual answer of Beijing to the issue. China raised it almost identically in March, when the Dalai Lama lifted a Polvareda with the publication of his latest autobiographical book, Voice for the voiceless (Voice for voiceless). In it he affirmed that his next reincarnation would be born in the “free world” (and not in China), a first track of the presumable clash that is to come, and that it could even conclude with the duplicate appointment of a successor related to Tibetan exile and another sponsored by China.
Beijing sees Dalai Lama, who abandoned Tibet to settle in India in 1959 against Chinese domain, as a separatist who puts at risk the stability of a volatile region and crossed by an ethnic and religious conflict.
On previous occasions, the religious authority, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, has urged his followers to reject any person chosen by Beijing, but had also expressed.
“I affirm that the institution of Dalai Lama will continue,” he said on Wednesday in a video message aimed at a meeting in Dharamshala, the city located in the Himalayas signs, in northern India, which has been attended more than 100 monks dressed in garnet tunics, journalists from all over the world and ancient followers, including the Hollywood actor Richard Gere, according to Reuters
The Dalai Lama has added that Gaden Phodrang Trust, a non -profit organization that created to maintain and support the tradition and institution of Dalai Lama, has the exclusive authority to recognize its future reincarnation in consultation with the heads of Tibetan Buddhist traditions. “Consequently, they must carry out the search and recognition procedures according to the tradition of the past …,” he said.
