The Dalai Lama’s successor might be born exterior China, the non secular chief of Tibetan Buddhism says in a brand new e-book, elevating the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over management of the Himalayan area he fled greater than six a long time in the past.
Tibetans worldwide need the establishment of the Dalai Lama to proceed after the 89-year-old’s demise, he writes in Voice for the Unvoiced, which was reviewed by Reuters and is being launched on Tuesday.
He had beforehand mentioned the road of non secular leaders may finish with him.
His e-book marks the primary time the Dalai Lama has specified that his successor can be born within the “free world”, which he describes as exterior China. He has beforehand mentioned solely that he might reincarnate exterior Tibet, presumably in India the place he lives in exile.
“Because the goal of a reincarnation is to hold on the work of the predecessor, the brand new Dalai Lama might be born within the free world in order that the standard mission of the Dalai Lama – that’s, to be the voice for common compassion, the non secular chief of Tibetan Buddhism, and the image of Tibet embodying the aspirations of the Tibetan folks – will proceed,” the Dalai Lama writes.
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, fled on the age of 23 to India with hundreds of different Tibetans in 1959 after a failed rebellion in opposition to the rule of Mao Zedong’s Communists. Beijing insists it’ll select his successor, however the Dalai Lama has mentioned any successor named by China wouldn’t be revered.
China manufacturers the Dalai Lama, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for protecting alive the Tibetan trigger, a “separatist”.
When requested concerning the e-book at a press briefing on Monday, a spokesperson for China’s overseas ministry mentioned the Dalai Lama “is a political exile who’s engaged in anti-China separatist actions underneath the cloak of faith.
“On the Tibet challenge, China’s place is constant and clear. What the Dalai Lama says and does can not change the target reality of Tibet’s prosperity and growth.”
Beijing mentioned in February it hoped the Dalai Lama would “return to the suitable path” and that it was open to discussing his future if he met such circumstances as recognising that Tibet and Taiwan are inalienable components of China, whose sole authorized authorities is that of the Individuals’s Republic of China. That proposal has been rejected by the Tibetan parliament-in-exile in India.
In his e-book, the Dalai Lama says he has obtained quite a few petitions for greater than a decade from a large spectrum of Tibetan folks, together with senior monks and Tibetans residing in Tibet and outdoors, “uniformly asking me to make sure that the Dalai Lama lineage be continued”.
Tibetan custom holds that the soul of a senior Buddhist monk is reincarnated within the physique of a kid on his demise. The present Dalai Lama was recognized because the reincarnation of his predecessor when he was two.
The e-book, which the Dalai Lama calls an account of his dealings with Chinese language leaders over seven a long time, is being revealed on Tuesday within the US by William Morrow and in Britain by HarperNonFiction, with HarperCollins publications to observe in India and different nations.
The Dalai Lama, who has mentioned he’ll launch particulars about his succession round his ninetieth birthday in July, writes that his homeland stays “within the grip of repressive Communist Chinese language rule” and that the marketing campaign for the liberty of the Tibetan folks will proceed “it doesn’t matter what”, even after his demise.
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