For millions of Tibetan Buddhists, the Dalai Star is a resistance symbol. For Chinese dictator Xi jinpingHe is simply another inconvenience, together with the rebels in Taiwan and campaigns for democracy in Hong Kong, whose defiance – and will – be resolved.
We know that the XI, the most powerful and relentless Chinese leader in the generation, has little time for religion, unless it is carefully culpriced. Organized religion represents the threat of his powers, and his vision, for China And the world.
14. Dalai Lama, exiled Tibetan with a huge influence on the territory that China considers as its own, is especially irritating. Worse, in Xi’s eyes, religious leader, Nobel Peace Laureate with global status, human rights campaigns, the area in which China is most endangered to criticism.
This week, just days in front of his 90. BirthdayDalai Lama secured followers that, after his death, be reincarnate as Next spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and wrote a succession process that sets a renewed conflict with Beijing.
Communist superpower wants to choose one’s own, political pavements. XI would like to convert the largest symbol of Tibet resistance to the state body tool.
In March 2025. years, Dalai Lama said his successor would be born in the free world. ” This was his ripost in the Judgment of the Chinese Communist Party from 2023. year, claiming that reincarnation “Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas [the second most senior Tibetan spiritual figures]It must be sought within the country … and get approval from the central government. “
China is already a good reasons for Tibetan Buddhist reasons to appoint religious leaders outside China and Tibet, and away from the CCP display case. In 1995, Beijing selected Gyalten Norba as 11. Panchen Lama, just days after his own choice of Dalai Lame – a six-year-old, Gendun Choki NyimaIt was, together with his parents, disappeared by the authorities. Have not been seen until today.
Dalai Lama has friends in powerful places. It increased by tens of thousands and around his house in the exile in Dharamshali, North India. What would happen if his successor was born there? In the US, the Tibetan Act on Policy and Support, which was signed by the President Donald Trump during his first term, threatens reprisals against Beijing if he is interfered in the Dalai Lama Succession process.
But China, especially China Xi Jinping, will not be left. XI destruction of democracy in Hong Kong and its use of concentration camps to crash Uagurs culture And the other in the northwest of China point to his determination to delete unpleasant spirituality.
Beijin’s tactics of strong arms against Catholic church in China Show that even powerful global religions are not safe. In 2018. year, the Vatican made a secret pact with China that allows the Beijing to appoint a bishop for home-approved governments. Cardinal Joseph Zen, former Archbishop Hong Kong, accused the world to see the “amazing betrayal”.
Like the papacy and other absolute religious monarchies that rest on opaque rituals and remain immune from supervision, the Dalai Lama office can undermine. Remember the incidental incident of a young man and “Sucking language”? Who, in addition to respecting a religious leader we could survive that?
And the selection of the new Dalai Lama is by its nature mystical. 14. Dalai Lama was elected two years by the search of Tibetan monks in the northwest of China, when said that Toddler identified his predecessor’s things.
The selected legitimacy may be strengthened, however, if the degree of formality is added to the process. Some advocated the creation of the Council, with representatives of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism, to ensure the implementation of the written instructions of the Dalai Lama on Success.
But for all its eccentricity, the tradition of the North Language and Tibetan Buddhism, an example of cultural freedom is an important example.
Tianxia (literally: “All under the sky”) was a system of interstate relations that govern Asia in ancient times. China, as the then center of civilized world and the top of the culture, which governs the sage of empires, allegedly expanding wisdom and material benefits for all humanity. Some think that the ultimate goal of XI is to establish a modern version of Tianxia in a global level by 2050. years.
If the Dalai Lama falls, and XI can brush us and world criticism, maybe he will be on his way to achieving him.