![]() “We urge the US side to stop exploiting relevant issues to interfere in China's internal affairs, and take no actions to implement articles in the Act that target China and hurt China's interests, so as to avoid further damaging China-US cooperation and long-term development of bilateral relationship”, the Chinese official also stated. The 83-year-old Dalai Lama was recognized as the tulku, or reincarnation, of his predecessor when he was only 2 and lived in Tibet until 1959, about a decade after Chinese Communists took. ![]() The 14th Dalai Lama himself was found and recognised following religious rituals and historical conventions, and his succession was approved by the then central government”, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Monday. “The institution of reincarnation of the Dalai Lama has been in existence for several hundred years. The Chinese Foreign Ministry has construed the new US legislation as “interference” in its internal matters, as it pointed out on Monday that even the current Dalai Lama was chosen in accordance with rituals of Tibetan Buddhism as well as Chinese law. ![]() The exiled Tibetan government has been headquartered in the north Indian town of Dharamshala since 1959, when the current Dalai Lama and his followers fled a "crackdown" by Chinese authorities in the wake of a Tibetan uprising. Senior Congress leader and former federal minister Anand Sharma clarified later that Congress very much recognised the " One China Policy" and that Choudhury’s remarks didn’t reflect the official line of the Congress Party. Similarly, another social media post by Leader of Opposition in India’s lower house (Lok Sabha) Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in May, calling upon the Narendra Modi government to recognise Taiwan, was also taken down. However, voices of dissent within India's political establishment over the federal government's continued support for One China Policy have become bolder amid the ongoing border standoff between the Indian Army and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the eastern Ladakh region.Ī tweet by the governing Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) leader Ram Madhav on his September visit to the home of a Tibetan-origin soldier who reportedly died in a mine blast while patrolling the China border in Ladakh was later taken down. The open support for the new Tibet-related law by Singhvi is significant as New Delhi doesn’t officially recognise Tibet's government-in-exile, in line with its stated respect for the One-China Policy. The new law also sets aside $6 million for the welfare of Tibetans in India, on top of $8 million for Tibetans in China. The new bill calls on the US secretary of state to not authorise any new Chinese consulate in the US until Beijing concedes to the demand of letting Washington establish a consulate in TAR. The Tibetan Policy and Support Act, 2020 also calls for the setting-up of a new US consulate in Lhasa, the capital of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Time for China to live in peace with people within & outside its territories? Only as recently as 2011 did the current Dalai Lama, adapting to the concept of democracy, voluntarily transfer his political powers to an elected leader of the Tibetan people.The Tibetan Policy &Support Act which became US law today signals US resolve to protect the Tibetan people from Chinese cultural genocide and strengthen the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan exile community. It is the extraordinary bond between the spiritual teacher and the faithful that has historically sustained the Dalai Lamas as the long-serving sovereigns of Tibet, functioning as both temporal and spiritual leaders for 369 years. Behind the idea of reincarnation is the faithful belief in rebirth and its purpose to continue the mission and wisdom of the previous incarnation in the present body. In Tibetan Buddhism, reincarnation is a deeply revered and sacred spiritual practice spanning nine centuries. Beginning with the monumental carnage of the so-called Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, extending into “patriotic re-education” in the monasteries and strike-hard campaigns that denounced the Dalai Lama and all expressions of religious freedom, and continuing to today’s restrictive policies in Tibet, Beijing’s incessantly flawed policies and ruthless campaigns to repress Tibet’s Buddhist culture and civilization have been the hallmark of the party’s rule. Historically, the Chinese Communist Party’s closest engagement with the religion of Tibetan Buddhism started in the 1950s when the national army destroyed 98% of the then existent Tibetan monasteries and disrobed 98% of its monks and nuns - tragic events carefully documented in the 70,000 Character Petition to Chairman Mao written by the late Panchen Lama in 1962.
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