'No one can decide except ...': India on next Dalai Lama successor; snubs China

NEW DELHI: No 1 but the Dalai Lama tin determine the adjacent successor, Union curate Kiren Rijiju said connected Thursday, sending a wide and archetypal connection to China. The Tibetan spiritual leader declared connected Wednesday that the instauration of the Dalai Lama would continue, with the Gaden Phodrang Trust holding exclusive authorization to place his aboriginal reincarnation.During a property interaction, Rijiju emphasised that the Dalai Lama represents the astir important instauration for Buddhists."The Dalai Lama holds a profoundly important presumption not lone for Tibetans but besides for millions of his followers astir the world. The determination regarding his successor lies solely with the Dalai Lama," Rijiju said. "And each those who travel the Dalai Lama consciousness that the Incarnation is to beryllium decided by the established normal and arsenic per the privation of the Dalai Lama himself.

Nobody other has the close to determine it but him and the conventions successful place," helium added.This connection came aft China refused to hold with the Nobel Peace laureate's succession arrangements, and said that it indispensable beryllium "approved by the Chinese government.""The reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, the Panchen Lama and different large Buddhist figures indispensable beryllium chosen by drafting tons from a aureate urn, and approved by the cardinal government," overseas ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told quality bureau AFP.

Rijiju, who practises Buddhism, volition be the Dalai Lama's 90th day solemnisation successful Dharamshala connected July 6, alongside Union curate Rajiv Ranjan Singh, representing the Indian government.The 14th Dalai Lama stands arsenic the main instauration for Tibetans and adherents of the Nalanda contented of Buddhism.