
Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, offers blessings to his followers at his Himalayan residence in the northern hill town of Dharamshala, India, December 20, 2024. — Reuters
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The Dalai Lama has announced that he will be born again after his death, his successor has been identified by the confidence he has established personally. This is a move that directly challenges China’s long -standing claim on the election process.
Addressing Dharamshala before his 90th birthday, the Tibetan spiritual leader had earlier rejected speculation that he could be the last Dalai Lama. He confirmed that the tradition of centuries -old avatar would continue.
In response, Beijing reaffirmed its claim to monitor succession, insisting that the next Dalai Lama should be selected in China through a traditional ritual. Meanwhile, the US State Department confirmed its position, and called on China to refrain from interference and maintain religious freedom.
Beijing is watching the Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet from Tibet in 1959 after the failure of a rebellion against a separatism against the Chinese rule. The Dalai Lama has said that his successor would be born outside China and urged his followers to reject anyone selected by Beijing. In the past years, he also said that it is possible that there is no successor.
“I am confirming that the Dalai Lama’s organization will continue,” the Dalai Lama said in a video message.
The program was attended by journalists around the world and Hollywood star Richard Gary for a long time, with supporters of supporters, whose walls showed pictures of Buddhist walls and pictures of the Dalai Lama.
The Dalai Lama added that the Dalai Lama tradition has been established to maintain and support the institution, the Gaden Fooding Trust has been established to maintain and support it, it has the only authority to accept his avatar in consultation with the heads of the Tibetan Buddhist traditions.
“They should follow the method of searching and identifying according to the tradition of the past, according to the tradition of the past … No one has such an authority to interfere in this matter.”
The Tibetan tradition believes that the soul of a senior Buddhist monk is born again in a child’s body after his death.
According to the Dalai Lama’s website, on July 6, 1935, a Lamo -Find -up with a farming family, which is now in Kinghai province, was identified as a two -year -old as a two -year -old by a number of symbols, such as an avatar.
Now he is considered as one of the most influential religious figures in the world, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, and in 1989.
‘Open to visit Tibet’
Dalai Lama’s health was good and has not yet given any written instructions about succession, said Samadhong Rinpoche, a senior Gaden Fooding Trust official.
He told reporters that the successor could be in any genre and that his nationality would not be limited to Tibet.
The leader of the Central Tibetan administration, Penpa Sising, the deportation of the Tibetan government in India, said that the Dalai Lama would be open to visit Tibet if they were allowed and if there was no restriction from China. This will be his first visit to the country since 1959.
“It depends on China and the Chinese government,” he said.
“If I want to go to Tibet and China, then it is sanctuary, I will go, but I will not stay there, because there is no freedom”, it is also linked to the conflict where Patients say, “I will be born in a free world.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said China has the right to approve the Dalai Lama’s successor, as a legacy of the Imperial Times, and that Beijing is following the policy of religious belief.
The US State Department spokesman said it would demand that the Dalai Lama, his representatives, or democratically elected Tibetan leaders from China, would demand the return to direct dialogue without any preconditions, to gain “meaningful sovereignty for the Tibetans”.
The spokesman said, “We will also continue to call for China to end the interference of the succession of the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Buddhists and to respect the freedom of religion or to respect the belief of people of all faiths.”
The government’s deportation leader, Tesing, said the United States has lifted some sanctions on funds for Tibetans in exile, and the Tibetan government is also looking for alternative sources of financial support.
The electoral ritual, in which the potential avatar names are made from a golden bitter, which is a history of 1793 during the King family.
“A large living Buddhist child like the Dalai Lama and Panchin Lama needs to be re -born with the golden government through a lot of drawing and the central government’s approval,” Mao said at a regular news conference at a regular news conference.