With a reincarnation proclamation by the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, who is currently aged 90 years, the move is a symbolic and critical act against growing Chinese control over Tibet. Not only does this ruling restore the centuries-old tradition of the Dalai Lama, but it also sends a tremendous message to more than six million Tibetan Buddhists who have lived under Chinese control during the last 75 years that their religious and cultural identity will not be crushed.
By opting to become reincarnated, the Dalai Lama has dealt a tactical blow to Beijing in its program of assimilating the Tibetan culture into the mainstream Han Chinese. It again states how Tibetan Buddhism is independent, especially in its spiritual leadership that is not accountable to political authority, or specifically, the Chinese Communist Party. The motion is also contrary to a long-held Chinese wish that the Dalai Lama’s lineage would be terminated when the 14th spiritual leader passes on.
Notably, the Gaden Phodrang Trust, under the leadership of Samdhong Rinpoche, will identify the 15th Dalai Lama, and it is indicative of the fact that the next incarnation is going to be held outside of Chinese occupation. This ruling practically circumvents the furious so-called Golden Urn process, which the regime will (using its state-married-in Panchen Lama, Gyaltsen Norbu), employ. In the meantime, the valid Panchen Lama, elected by the 14th Dalai Lama, has been missing since 1995, supposedly detained by the Chinese government.
The Dalai Lama in all the four Tibetan Buddhist schools, namely the Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu and Gelug schools, is considered sacred. Via his reincarnation beyond the influence of Chinese, he does not only manage to ensure continuity of religious Tibetan, but he also renews the promise of cultural survival and the future attainment of autonomy.
Till the institution of the Dalai Lama is alive and still in existence, the occupation of Tibet by China will always be incomplete spiritually and morally.
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