Tenzin Nyidon
DHARAMSHALA, July 2: In a landmark declaration at the opening ceremony of the 15th Tibetan Religious Conference held on Tuesday, the foremost Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama announced that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue and reaffirmed that the sole authority over the recognition of his reincarnation rests with the Gaden Phodrang Trust—the Office of the Dalai Lama.
“I am affirming that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue,” he said in a pre-recorded message to the gathering of over 180 Tibetan religious leaders and representatives of major spiritual traditions of Tibet, also acknowledging the sentiments and aspirations of Tibetans both in exile and Tibet. The three-day conference, organized by the Department of Religion and Culture of the Central Tibetan Administration, commenced at the Dalai Lama Library and Archives in Dharamshala.
Addressing the sensitive issue of his future reincarnation, the Nobel Peace Laureate underlined that the procedure for identifying a future Dalai Lama was clearly outlined in his 2011 statement. “The responsibility for doing so will rest exclusively with members of the Gaden Phodrang Trust,” he emphasized. The office, he explained, will consult the heads of various Tibetan Buddhist traditions and oath-bound Dharma Protectors inseparably linked to the lineage of the Dalai Lamas to carry out the recognition in accordance with tradition.
“I hereby reiterate that the Gaden Phodrang Trust has sole authority to recognize the future reincarnation; no one else has any such authority to interfere in this matter,” the Dalai Lama affirmed.
Reflecting on his earlier statement from 24 September 2011, the Tibetan spiritual leader recalled that he had informed heads of the Tibetan Buddhist traditions and followers around the world that the continuation of the institution of the Dalai Lama would be subject to collective consultation when he turns 90. “As far back as 1969, I made clear that concerned people should decide whether the Dalai Lama’s reincarnations should continue in the future,” he reiterated.
Since then, despite the absence of any public deliberation on the matter, His Holiness shared that he has received consistent appeals over the last 14 years from religious leaders, Tibetan Parliamentarians, civil society groups, Buddhist communities across the Himalayan region, Mongolia, Russia, China, and especially from inside Tibet, urging the continuation of the institution.
The 15th Tibetan Religious Conference, which runs from July 2–4, brings together 121 Tibetan Buddhist leaders and is expected to deliberate on key religious matters. It is one of the events leading up to the 90th birthday celebrations on July 6th where thousands will gather to celebrate the revered Tibetan leader.
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HH Dalai Lama belongs to Tibet and the world knows now about his reincarnation will only take place align with Gaden Photrang. I feel pity for those CCP, they themselves know that they are lying, there is nothing worse than that in humans life for one’s self conscience. CCP will collapse as KARMA will prevail for their murderous and torturous acts for 70 years in Tibet. BHOD GYALO !
For almost six hundred years, the Dalai Lama’s have emanated in order to serve the Tibetan people as per the Buddha’s prophecy that Avaleketesvara or the Buddha of compassion is assigned to pacify the people of Tibet! Both the Dalai Lama and Tibet are sacred to the Tibetan people and their religious and cultural identity. IT IS A UNIQUE FEATURE OF THE TIBETAN NATION WHICH IS UNDER ILLEGAL AND BRUTAL CHINESE COMMUNIST OCCUPATION! NO OUTSIDE FORCE LEAST OF ALL THE MOST EVIL CCP HAS ANY RIGHT TO INTERFERE IN THE REINCARNATION OF THE MOST HOLY DALAI LAMA! The Dalai Lama’s return to the earth is out of His infinite compassion to help those who are devoted to Him. The Chinese communists HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE DALAI LAMA AND HAVE BEEN VILIFYING HIM FOR THE LAST SEVENTY YEARS! They have alleged Tibetan Buddhism as “superstition, feudal and a tool of oppression”. It started calling it “Lamaism” to demonise it in order to destroy it by razing every monastery to the ground and murdering every monk and nun. The reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is a purely religious matter and ONLY PEOPLE OF FAITH HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE THEIR SPIRITUAL LEADER AND NO ONE ELSE WHO ARE OUT OF THE PARAMETER OF SPIRITUAL DOMINION! This has been the long tradition of the Tibetan reincarnation system for time immemorial especially concerning the Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas! The Dalai Lama BELONGS TO TIBET and NOT CHINA! TIBET AND CHINA ARE TWO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES THAT MADE FRIENDS AT TIMES AND FOES AT OTHER TIMES! Since, 1949/50 the anti-Buddhist Chinese communists illegally occupied Tibet! It has been brutalised by the murderous, illegitimate regime and has murdered 1.2 million (one sixth of the population) and destroyed more than 6000 monasteries and countless religious objects in its anti-Buddhist frenzy of madness! Yet the ruthless infidel now finds it convenient to interfere in the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation because the Dalai Lama is extremely popular in occupied Tibet! TIBETANS REGARD HIM AS THEIR GOD! The Nazi CCP regime is left with no other option than get its its blood dripping hands in the Dalai Lama reincarnation matter in order to use him as a puppet to deceive the Tibetans in occupied Tibet and prolong their illegal and ruthless occupation! It is bounden upon every Tibetan to make sure the evil regime who is our sworn enemy must not succeed in its misadventure! If every Tibetan including the opportunists and disgruntled Tibetans (such as Shugden worshippers) REJECT THE CCP candidate, the CCP will be doomed! If every Tibetan reject the dummy “Dalai Lama” candidate of the enemy, the CCP will be forced to swallow the bitter pill of humiliation!
The junior tutor of HH The present Dalai Lama, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche was faced with a similar situation when he was recognised as the reincarnation of his previous predecessor. Trijang Rinpoche was born in Tsai Gungthang in the Lhasa region but he is a Lama of the Khampas from Chatreng. As the Khampas are very tribal minded, the chatreng Khampas were not happy with the candidate from Tsai Gungthang and they had their own candidate born in Chatreng! They planned to kill the Tsal Gungthang candidate in order to install their own candidate who they saw was relevant to them as their own! They ridiculed Trijang Rinpoche as the གུང་ཐང་བུ་ལི the kid from Gungthang! However, as karma would have it, the Gungthang candidate prevailed who later became one of the most sought after teacher and the junior tutor to HH The 14th Dalai Lama. He writes: when it comes to karma, even if Brahma (ཚངས་པ་) manifests one thousand arms to change the course of karma, he cannot do so. (ཚངས་པའི་ལག་པ་སྟོང་དུ་བསྐྲུན་ཀྱང་ལས་ལ་བསྒྱུར་བ་གཏོང་མི་ཐུབ་) Therefore, no matter what the evil CCP tries to hoodwink the world by its despicable lies, fabrications, concoctions and a mountain of propaganda, they CANNOT CHANGE THE COURSE OF KARMA THAT WILL BESTOW THE DALAI LAMA TO THE RIGHTFUL TIBETAN PEOPLE AND NOBODY ELSE!!!