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Time of India
2 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Dalai Lama hints Tibetan Buddhist institution could live on
Dalai Lama hints Tibetan Buddhist institution could live on (Image: AP) The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists, on Monday gave his strongest indication yet that the centuries-old institution could continue after his death. Speaking at prayer celebrations ahead of his 90th birthday on July 6, Tenzin Gyatso told followers that "there will be some kind of a framework within which we can talk about its continuation. " Tibetan Buddhists believe that the Dalai Lama can choose the body into which he is reincarnated, as has happened on 14 occasions since the creation of the institution in 1587. But the current Dalai Lama has suggested in the past that he could potentially be the last. "The institution of the Dalai Lama, and whether it should continue or not, is up to the Tibetan people," he told Time magazine in 2004. "If they feel it is not relevant, then it will cease and there will be no 15th Dalai Lama." Gyatso, who was born in 1935 and became the 14th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama in 1940, has been living in exile in India since Chinese troops crushed an uprising in the Tibetan capital Lhasa in 1959. What else did the Dalai Lama say about his succession? For China, the Dalai Lama is a Tibetan separatist who doesn't recognize Chinese sovereignty over Tibet and whose loyalties lie with the Tibetan government in exile. Gyatso himself has called on followers to reject any successor proposed by Beijing. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 3.5, 4.5 BHK Homes starting at ₹4.89 Cr.* Hero Homes Learn More Undo He said the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama could also be found in India, and could be either a boy or a girl. "My life is outside Tibet, therefore my reincarnation will logically be found outside," he said in his 2004 interview with Time magazine. "But then, the next question: Will the Chinese accept this or not?" While the question of his succession is becoming more and more relevant, the Dalai Lama insisted he is not finished yet. "Though I am 90 years old, physically I am very healthy," he said on Monday, before tasting a slice of Tibetan-style birthday cake, an elaborately decorated tower made from roasted barley and butter. "In the time I have left, I will continue to dedicate myself to the well-being of others as much as possible," he said.
DW
3 days ago
- Politics
- DW
Dalai Lama hints Tibetan Buddhist institution could live on – DW – 06/30/2025
Speaking ahead of his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama has indicated that the Tibetan Buddhist institution could continue after his death after all. The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists, on Monday gave his strongest indication yet that the centuries-old institution could continue after his death. Speaking at prayer celebrations ahead of his 90th birthday on July 6, Tenzin Gyatso told followers that "there will be some kind of a framework within which we can talk about its continuation." Tibetan Buddhists believe that the Dalai Lama can choose the body into which he is reincarnated, as has happened on 14 occasions since the creation of the institution in 1587. But the current Dalai Lama has suggested in the past that he could potentially be the last. "The institution of the Dalai Lama, and whether it should continue or not, is up to the Tibetan people," he told magazine in 2004. "If they feel it is not relevant, then it will cease and there will be no 15th Dalai Lama." Gyatso, who was born in 1935 and became the 14th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama in 1940, has been living in exile in India since Chinese troops crushed an uprising in the Tibetan capital Lhasa in 1959. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video For China, the Dalai Lama is a Tibetan separatist who doesn't recognize Chinese sovereignty over Tibet and whose loyalties lies with the Tibetan government in exile. Gyatso himself has called on followers to reject any successor proposed by Beijing. He said the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama could also be found in India, and could be either a boy or a girl. "My life is outside Tibet, therefore my reincarnation will logically be found outside," he said in his 2004 interview with magazine. "But then, the next question: Will the Chinese accept this or not?" While the question of his succession is becoming more and more relevant, the Dalai Lama insisted he is not finished yet. "Though I am 90 years old, physically I am very healthy," he said on Monday, before tasting a slice of Tibetan-style birthday cake, an elaborately decorated tower made from roasted barley and butter. "In the time I have left, I will continue to dedicate myself to the well-being of others as much as possible," he said.
Arab News
11-03-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Dalai Lama says his successor to be born outside China
NEW DELHI: The Dalai Lama's successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book, raising the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control of the Himalayan region he fled more than six decades worldwide want the institution of the Dalai Lama to continue after the 89-year-old's death, he writes in 'Voice for the Voiceless,' which was reviewed by Reuters and is being released on had previously said the line of spiritual leaders might end with him. His book marks the first time the Dalai Lama has specified that his successor would be born in the 'free world,' which he describes as outside China. He has previously said only that he could reincarnate outside Tibet, possibly in India where he lives in exile.'Since the purpose of a reincarnation is to carry on the work of the predecessor, the new Dalai Lama will be born in the free world so that the traditional mission of the Dalai Lama – that is, to be the voice for universal compassion, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, and the symbol of Tibet embodying the aspirations of the Tibetan people – will continue,' the Dalai Lama Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, fled at the age of 23 to India with thousands of other Tibetans in 1959 after a failed uprising against the rule of Mao Zedong's insists it will choose his successor, but the Dalai Lama has said any successor named by China would not be brands the Dalai Lama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for keeping alive the Tibetan cause, as a 'separatist.'When asked about the book at a press briefing on Monday, a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry said the Dalai Lama 'is a political exile who is engaged in anti-China separatist activities under the cloak of religion.'On the Tibet issue, China's position is consistent and clear. What the Dalai Lama says and does cannot change the objective fact of Tibet's prosperity and development.'Supporters of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan cause include Richard Gere, a follower of Tibetan Buddhism, and Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the US House of Representatives. His followers have been worried about his health, especially after knee surgery last year. He said in December that he might live to be his book, the Dalai Lama says he has received numerous petitions for more than a decade from a wide spectrum of Tibetan people, including senior monks and Tibetans living in Tibet and outside, 'uniformly asking me to ensure that the Dalai Lama lineage be continued.'Tibetan tradition holds that the soul of a senior Buddhist monk is reincarnated in the body of a child on his death. The current Dalai Lama was identified as the reincarnation of his predecessor when he was book, which the Dalai Lama calls an account of his dealings with Chinese leaders over seven decades, is being published on Tuesday in the US by William Morrow and in Britain by HarperNonFiction, with HarperCollins publications to follow in India and other expressed faith in the Tibetan government and parliament-in-exile, based with him in India's Himalayan city of Dharamshala, to carry on the political work for the Tibetan cause.'The right of the Tibetan people to be the custodians of their own homeland cannot be indefinitely denied, nor can their aspiration for freedom be crushed forever through oppression,' he writes. 'One clear lesson we know from history is this: if you keep people permanently unhappy, you cannot have a stable society.'Given his advanced age, he writes, his hopes of going back to Tibet look 'increasingly unlikely.'
