New Delhi – The successor of Dalai Lama will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book, raising bets in a dispute with Beijing about the control of the Himalayan region that fled more than six decades ago.
Tibetans worldwide want the institution of Dalai Lama to continue after the death of the 89 -year -old, writes in “Voice for the Voiceless”, which was reviewed by Reuters and will be launched on Tuesday.
He had previously said that the line of spiritual leaders could end him.
His book marks the first time that the Dalai Lama specified that his successor would be born in the “free world”, which he describes as outside China. He previously said only that he could reincarnate outside the Tibet, possibly in India, where he lives in exile.
“Since the purpose of a reincarnation is to continue with the work of the predecessor, the new Dalai Lama will be born in the free world so that the traditional mission of Dalai Lama, that is, to be the voice for universal compassion, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibet Symbol in Tibet.
Tenzin 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 government of the communists of Mao Zedong.
Beijing insists that he will choose his successor, but Dalai Lama has said that any successor appointed by China would not be respected.
China marked the Dalai Lama, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for keeping the Tibetan cause alive, as a “separatist.”
When asked about the book in an informative news session on Monday, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Dalai Lama “is a political exile that is dedicated to separatist activities Anti-China under the mantle of religion.
“On the subject of Tibet, China’s position is consistent and clear. What Dalai Lama says and does not change the objective fact of the prosperity and development of Tibet. “
Beijing said last month that he expected Dalai Lama “to return to the right path” and that he was open to discuss his future if he met the conditions that recognized that Tibet and Taiwan are inalienable parts of China, whose only legal government is that of the People’s Republic of China. This proposal has been rejected by the Tibetan Parliament in exile in India.
The supporters of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan cause include Richard Gere, a follower of Tibetan Buddhism, and Nancy Pelosi, the former president of the United States Representatives Chamber.
His followers have been worried about their health, especially after knee surgery last year. He told Reuters in December that he could live to be 110.
In his book, the Dalai Lama says that he has received numerous requests for more than a decade of a broad spectrum of Tibetan villages, including major monks and tibetans who live in the Tibet and outside, “asking me uniformly to make sure the Dalai Lama lineage continues.”
The Tibetan tradition argues that the soul of a high -ranking Buddhist monk is reincarnated in the body of a child in his death. The current Dalai Lama was identified as the reincarnation of his predecessor when he was 2 years old.
The book, which Dalai Lama calls a story of their treatment with Chinese leaders for seven decades, is being published on Tuesday in the United States by William Morrow and in Great Britain for Harpernonfiction, with Harpercollins publications to follow in India and other countries.
The Dalai Lama, who has said that he will release details about his succession around his 90th birthday in July, writes that his homeland remains “in the control of the repressive domain of the communist Chinese” and that the campaign for the freedom of the Tibetan people will continue “regardless of what”, even after his death.
He expressed faith in the Tibetan government and Parliament in exile, based on him in the city of the Himalayas of Dharamshala of India, to continue political work for the Tibetan cause.
“The right of the Tibetan people to be the custodians of their own homeland cannot be denied indefinitely, or their aspiration for freedom can be crushed forever through oppression,” he writes. “A clear lesson that we know about history is this: if you keep people permanently unhappy, you can’t have a stable society.”
Given his advanced age, he writes, his hopes of returning to Tibet look “more and more unlikely.”
