BEIJING — Beijing on Monday criticized the Dalai Lama ’s first Grammy win, describing the music trade award for an audiobook, narration and storytelling as “a software for anti-China political manipulation.”
The Tibetan Buddhist religious chief, who lives in exile in India, took the award on Sunday for his guide, “Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.”
He mentioned in an announcement on his web site that he noticed the award “as a recognition of our shared common duty.”
“I obtain this recognition with gratitude and humility,” he added.
China’s International Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian mentioned: “It’s well-known that the 14th Dalai Lama is just not merely a spiritual determine however a political exile engaged in anti-China separatist actions underneath the guise of faith.”
“We firmly oppose the related occasion utilizing the award as a software for anti-China political manipulation,” he added.
The Dalai Lama, who’s seen by many because the face of Tibet’s battle for autonomy, has lived in exile since 1959, when Chinese language troops crushed an rebellion within the Tibetan capital of Lhasa.
China, which governs Tibet as an autonomous area, has been accused of attempting to stamp out the Tibetan language, tradition and id.
Beijing and the Dalai Lama additionally spar over the spiritual leader’s eventual successor. Tibetan Buddhists imagine the Dalai Lamas are reincarnations of a religious chief first born in 1391.
Beijing maintains the following Dalai Lama can be born in Tibet and acknowledged by the ruling Communist Social gathering, whereas the Dalai Lama has mentioned his successor can be from a free nation and that China has no function within the course of.
