The Dalai Lama said on Wednesday that the nonprofit he founded would have the right to recognize his future reincarnation and oppose China's insistence on choosing a successor to the spiritual leader of the Tibetan nation.
The leader, who turned 90, made a speech on Sunday, came to mark his birthday during the week of the celebration.
Beijing believes that the Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule. The Dalai Lama has previously said his successor would be born outside China and urged his followers to reject anyone Beijing chose.
The Dalai Lama said in the video message: “I confirm that the Dalai Lama's institutions will continue.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning reiterated on Wednesday that Beijing must approve the identity of successors and that the centuries-old ceremony must be completed in China.
Journalists from around the world and long-time supporters including Hollywood star Richard Gere also attended an event in Dharamsala, India, where they sat in a hall with gorgeous paintings of Buddha and pictures of Dharai Lama on the wall.
The Dalai Lama added that the nonprofit Gaden Phodrang Trust, he established, maintains and supports the traditions and institutions of the Dalai Lama, which has the only power to consult with the heads of Tibetan Buddhist traditions.
“So, they should follow the traditions of the past to carry out search and endorsement procedures…no one else can intervene in this matter,” said the Dalai Lama.
Samdhong Rinpoche, a senior official at Gaden Phodrang Trust, said the Dalai Lama was in good health and had not given any written instructions on this.
He told reporters in Dharamshala that successors can be of any gender and their nationality is not limited to Tibet.
Penpa Tsering, the leader of the Tibetan government’s central government, issued the Tibetan government in India, said the Dalai Lama would open his visit to Tibet if his health permits and there are no restrictions from China, marking his first visit to the country since 1959.
“It's all up to China and the Chinese government,” he said, adding that Beijing's condition is that if the Dalai Lama visits, he should stay.
“His holiness reaction was, 'If I were to go to Tibet and China, I would go, but I wouldn't live there because there was no freedom there,'” Tsering said. It also relates to his holiness saying “I will be born in a free world.” ”
Mao Ning, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said the country's leaders have the right to approve the Dalai Lama's successor, as a legacy of the imperial era, and China has implemented a policy of freedom of religion.
A selection ceremony where the possible reincarnation name was drawn from the Golden (yellow urn), whose historical ritual dates back to 1793.
“The return of major Buddhas such as the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama need to be drawn through the golden pain and the approval of the central government.”
War government leader Tsering said the United States has lifted some restrictions on funds for Tibetans in exile, and the Tibetan government is also looking for alternative sources of funds.
The United States faces rising competition from China's global dominance, which he repeatedly says it is committed to promoting Tibetan human rights. U.S. lawmakers have previously said they would not allow China to influence the choice of the Dalai Lama's successor.
The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists is considered one of the most influential figures in the world, and subsequently extends far beyond Buddhism. The successor's choice was for strategic reasons, not only to make his religious followers but also to attract interest from China, India and the United States.
Tibetan tradition believes that the soul of a high-level Buddhist monk was reincarnated after his death.
The 14th Dalai Lama was born on July 6, 1935 in Lhamo Dhondup, an agricultural family in Qinghai Province, when he was only two years old.
According to the Dalai Lama website, search groups sent by the Tibetan government made decisions based on several signs, such as the vision revealed to the senior monks. When the toddler uses the phrase “This is mine, it's mine”, the searcher convinces the searcher.
In the winter of 1940, Lhamo Thondup was taken to the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and was officially installed as a spiritual leader of the Tibetan people.
He has lived in northern India since 1959 as he fled the failed uprising of Mao Zedong's Communist rule.
In his book Silent voiceThe Nobel Prize winner was released in March this year and his successor will be born outside China. He said that Chinese communists who reject religion “interfere in the Lama’s reincarnation system, not to mention the Dalai Lama’s Communist Party.”
But China said its leaders had the right to approve the Dalai Lama's successor as a legacy of the Empire era. A selection ceremony where the possible reincarnation name was drawn from the Golden (yellow urn), whose historical ritual dates back to 1793.
The Beijing-branded Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for keeping the Tibetan cause alive, serving as a “separatist” and prohibited the display of his photos or any public display of him.
