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 Posted: Tue 2:49, 03 Sep 2013 Post subject: Dalai Lama will choose successor |
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Dalai Lama will choose successor,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
The Dalai Lama today headed back to his home in exile in India after a nearly two-week visit to the United States. President Barack Obama welcomed him on Saturday at the White House,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], leading China to lodge a protest.
China has tried to isolate the Dalai Lama, but he remains widely popular around the world and packed arenas throughout his US visit. Many Tibetans believe Beijing is waiting for his death,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], hoping his cause will end with him.
The Dalai Lama,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who turned 76 during his US visit and appears to be in good health,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was emphatic that he would not allow China to stage-manage his succession.
"The Dalai Lama's rebirth or next life logically, finally, it is my business,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], not others' business,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," the Dalai Lama told NBC's Today show in an interview broadcast today.
"My next life, ultimately,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I will decide - no one else," he said.
Referring to Chinese leaders,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Dalai Lama said: "Recently, they have some kind of policy, some certain policy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but that is quite ridiculous."
It was unclear if the Dalai Lama meant he would control his successor's selection in a practical or a spiritual sense. Under Tibetan tradition,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], monks identify a young boy who shows signs he is a reincarnation of a late lama.
But the Dalai Lama has said in the past that he is willing to break custom by choosing his successor before his death or among exiles outside Tibet. The Dalai Lama's selection, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, has not been seen since 1995.
"Several years of some kind of house arrest - not his mistake," the Dalai Lama said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], speaking of his choice of Panchen Lama.
Speaking more broadly about the human rights situation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Dalai Lama said: "Every week some people are arrested and (there is) severe torture in Tibet. Very,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], very sad."
In another step he hopes will limit China's control over his successor,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Dalai Lama has officially stepped down from his political role,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], handing temporal power to a prime minister elected by Tibetans living in exile.
The Dalai Lama said he was proud of his decision,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], adding with a laugh that he slept well the night after he handed over political duties.
"That means I really felt some kind of release,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], relief," he said.
The Dalai Lama,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, says he is peacefully seeking greater rights for Tibetans and that he accepts Beijing's rule.
China insists that he is a separatist. It summoned the top US diplomat in Beijing to protest the Dalai Lama's meeting with Obama, who pledged his "strong support" for human rights and cultural traditions in Tibet.
The Dalai Lama addressed thousands of people in Chicago on Sunday and Monday at a meeting of the Theosophical Society in America,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which encourages people of different religious traditions to seek common understanding.
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