DHARAMSHALA, India: A senior Indian minister has mentioned that solely the Dalai Lama and the organisation he has arrange have the authority to determine his successor because the religious head of Tibetan Buddhism, in a uncommon remark contradicting rival China’s long-held place.
The Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959 after a failed rebellion in opposition to Chinese language rule, mentioned on Wednesday (Jul 2) that upon his loss of life he could be reincarnated as the next spiritual leader and that solely the Gaden Phodrang Belief would be capable to determine his successor. He beforehand mentioned the individual shall be born outdoors China.
Beijing says it has the fitting to approve the Dalai Lama’s successor as a legacy from imperial occasions.
Kiren Rijiju, India’s minister of parliamentary and minority affairs, made a uncommon assertion on the matter on Thursday, forward of visiting the Dalai Lama’s base within the northern Indian city of Dharamshala for the spiritual chief’s ninetieth birthday on Sunday.
“Nobody has the fitting to intrude or determine who the successor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama shall be,” Indian media quoted Rijiju as telling reporters.
“Solely he or his establishment has the authority to make that call. His followers imagine that deeply. It’s necessary for disciples internationally that he decides his succession.”
India’s overseas ministry didn’t reply to a request for touch upon the Dalai Lama’s succession plan.
Rijiju, a practising Buddhist, shall be joined by different Indian officers on the birthday celebrations.
India is estimated to be dwelling to tens of hundreds of Tibetan Buddhists who’re free to review and work there. Many Indians revere the Dalai Lama, and worldwide relations consultants say his presence in India provides New Delhi a measure of leverage with China.
Relations between India and China nosedived after a lethal border conflict in 2020 however are slowly enhancing now.
