Tibetan spiritual leader says he will have a successor after his death

Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, says that he will be a successor after his death and that the 600 -year -old institution will rest with him.

“I confirm that the institution will continue,” he said in a video message at the beginning of the meeting of religious leaders in Himalaya town Dharamshala.

He added that the members of Dalai Lama’s office would consult with Tibetan Buddhist traditions and presidents of other religious leaders to search and recognize a successor in accordance with the past tradition.

In a message seen for China, he reiterated that “no one has the authority to intervene in this matter”.

Dalai Lama fled the Indian border in 1959 after an unsuccessful uprising against the Chinese administration in Tibet. He established a government in Dharamshala and is seen as an alternative power supply for those who angered Beijing’s Tibet to strict control.

The announcement comes at a time when Dalai Lama celebrated his 90th birthday on Sunday. The celebrations started on Monday – the birthday of Dalai Lama according to Tibet’s Moon calendar.

More than 7,000 guests, including a number of Indian ministers, will participate in celebrations. Hollywood player Richard Gere, a long -time follower, continues.

In the past, the spiritual president of Tibetan Buddhism, who won the Nobel Peace Prize, was destroyed between the 600 -year -old institution and whether he would continue. A few years ago, he said that his successor might be a girl or may not be successor.

However, in recent years, if there is a widespread support between the Tibetans for the post – which – then he said he would continue and his office would choose a successor.

He always insisted that his successor would be born outside China, which made Beijing angered.

Although Dalai Lama has always defended the “middle way” to solve the status of Tibet (the real self -management in China), Beijing sees him as a separatist. He says that people in Tibet have greatly improved under the rule of living standard.

Youdon Aukatsang, a deputy in the Tibetan parliament, said the current Dalai Lama was “a binding and unifying force for the Tibetan movement” and that some of the Tibetans thought that one could have an effect on the successor and forward movement.

“The Dalai Lama Institution is very important for the tibetan struggle. At the same time a symbol of a sign of our Tibetan identity and spiritual shelter. This will continue.

“We have a lot of shoes to fill, but we have to fill them, right?

However, experts are expected to call China’s own Dalai Lama.

“China will claim that only Beijing -based Chinese Communist Party has the authority to find the reincarnation of Dalai Lama. He said.

“A few months or a few years later, his own proteins describing and imposing a small child as the next dalai lama and imposing it.

Ms. Aukatsang says, “Although he tried to control the hearts and minds of the Tibetan people in Tibet all these years,” he says, Beijing “completely failed”.

“The world will not recognize it not only by Tibetans, because the world will not be recognized because it does not have legitimacy to find the future Dalai Lama,” he says.

“We are worried, but we know that China will find its own Dalai Lama, regardless of our concern, we will call it Dalai Lama, known by China. I am not worried that Dalai Lama will have any reliability in the Tibetan world or in the Buddhist world.”

Tibetan Buddhists believe that their senior monks were reincarnated and that a Dalai Lama was chosen by Buddhist officials if they are convinced that their predecessor is the port of the soul.

Current – 14. At the age of two, a search party of Buddhist officials recognized it as the reincarnation of previous 13 Dalai Lamas.

According to the official biography, clinical evidence came when the authorities showed him a series of his predecessor. The child who started to walk described the things of the 13th Dalai Lama correctly, “This is mine. This is mine.”

He was educated in a Tibetan monastery, captivated before the age of four, and made a Buddhist philosophy.

However, at the age of 15 in 1950, Mao Zedong’s newly established communist government marched to Tibet. A year later, China made a 17 -point agreement that justified the inclusion of Tibet in China.

In 1959, a Tibetan rebellion was crushed and thousands of protesters were killed.

Dalai Lama fled to India with 10,000 followers and settled in Dharamsala and directed a government. He gave up his political role in 2011, but he continues to be the best spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.

Some of those who fled next to him still dream of going to Tibet.

84 -year -old Lobsang Choedon, who participated in the celebrations on Monday, said, “My faith will return to Tibet. Without me, my younger generations will definitely return.”

Choedon’s daughter and grandchildren were born in India and spent all their lives. However, his 15 -year -old grandson Ngawang Lhundup feels deeply attached to his anvest’s homeland.

He has been listening to stories about Tibet since his childhood and says he will intend to visit Tibet, even though he is under the Chinese administration.

“But if China was free from the invasion, I would be very pleased to return to Tibet.”