Dharamshala, India: an aged Indian minister stated that solely the Dalai Lama and the group he established have the authority to determine his successor as a non secular head of Tibetan Buddhism, in a uncommon contradictory commentary for China’s longtime.
The Dalai Lama, which fled to India in 1959 after a false revolt in opposition to Chinese domination, stated on Wednesday (2 July) that at his loss of life he would have been reincarnate as the subsequent non secular chief and that solely the Gaden Phodrang Trust would have been in a position to determine his successor. Previously he stated the individual can be born out of China.
Beijing claims to have the suitable to approve the successor of Dalai Lama as an inheritance of Imperial Times.
Kiren Rijiju, minister of parliamentary and minority affairs of India, made a uncommon declaration on the query on Thursday, earlier than visiting the bottom of the Dalai Lama within the metropolis of northern India of Dharamshala for the ninetieth birthday of the spiritual chief on Sunday.
“Nobody has the suitable to intervene or resolve who would be the successor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama”, the Indian media have talked about Rijiju as if to say to journalists.
“Only he or his establishment have the authority to make that call. His followers imagine it deeply. It is necessary for the disciples around the globe that decides his succession.”
The India Foreign Ministry didn’t reply to a request for commentary on the succession plan of the Dalai Lama.
Rijiju, a training Buddhist, can be reached by different Indian officers to birthday celebrations.
India is estimated to host tens of 1000’s of Tibetan Buddhists who’re free to check and work there. Many Indians venerate the Dalai Lama and the specialists of worldwide relations say that his presence in India offers New Delhi a lever measure with China.
Relations between India and China have been canceled after a mortal border conflict in 2020, however now they’re slowly bettering.
