US counters China on anointment of Dalai Lama, reaffirms support for Tibetans’ right to choose their leader

Last year, the US Congress passed the Resolve Tibet Act, solidifying the stance connected Tibet’s humanities presumption and its committedness to a lasting, negotiated solution to the Tibet-China struggle based connected planetary law

The Dalai Lama astatine McLeodganj. PTI

The US, countering China’s assertion of however the adjacent Dalai Lama should beryllium anointed, has said it is “firmly committed” towards allowing Tibetans to “freely” take their spiritual leader.

The 14^th  Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, had announced connected July 2 that the instauration of the Dalai Lama would continue, and laid down the process of identifying his re-incarnation portion explicitly keeping China retired of  the process.

The US State Department posted a connection connected its website saying, “The US remains firmly committed to promoting respect for the quality rights and cardinal freedoms of Tibetans. We enactment efforts to sphere Tibetans’ chiseled linguistic, cultural, and spiritual heritage, including their quality to freely take and venerate spiritual leaders without interference.”

The US greeted the Dalai Lama connected his 90th day — July 6 by the Gregorian calendar — and added, “He continues to animate radical by embodying a connection of unity, peace, and compassion.”

Last year, the US Congress passed the Resolve Tibet Act, solidifying the stance connected Tibet’s humanities presumption and its committedness to a lasting, negotiated solution to the Tibet-China struggle based connected planetary law.

The Dalai Lama is the spiritual caput of the Tibetan government-in-exile, since fleeing Tibet successful 1959 fearing a seizure by the Chinese. The authorities is headquartered astatine Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh.

In his July 2 announcement, the Dalai Lama had re-iterated connected keeping China retired of the process of locating the re-incarnation of the adjacent Dalai Lama, saying the Gaden Phodrang Trust had the sole authorization to recognise the aboriginal reincarnation. “No 1 other has immoderate specified authorization to interfere successful this matter,” a connection from the bureau of the Dalai Lama said connected Wednesday.

Immediately, a warfare of words broke retired betwixt the Chinese and the Tibetans.

China rejected the Dalai Lama's succession plan, insisting that immoderate aboriginal heir indispensable person its seal of approval. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning had responded to the Dalai Lama's announcement, saying the reincarnation indispensable travel the principles of home recognition, the ‘Golden Urn' process, and support by the cardinal government, successful enactment with spiritual traditions and laws”.

Mao Ning said the accepted ceremonial “Golden Urn’ was incorporated successful 2007 into China's authoritative regulations, on with a clause explicitly banning interference by overseas individuals and parties.

The Tibetans had countered this with Dhundup Gyalpo, Secretary of Bureau of Dalai Lama, saying the ‘Golden Urn’ — a strategy of drafting of tons — was utilized lone once, apt arsenic a symbolic motion successful the enactment of the 11th Dalai Lama.

China, helium had said, played nary relation successful the hunt oregon designation of the 14th Dalai Lama. In fact, Chinese arrived successful Tibet connected visas issued by British India to be his enthronement ceremonial of the Dalai Lama successful 1940 — simply arsenic overseas guests.

The Golden Urn is simply a distorted mentation of the accepted Tibetan dough-ball divination method, historically utilized erstwhile doubts arose oregon aggregate candidates emerged. However, if determination are wide written instructions, signs oregon visions pointing to a circumstantial candidate, divination isn’t necessary, Gyalpo had said.

The “Golden Urn” traces backmost to the Tibet-Gurkha struggle (1791–93), erstwhile Tibet sought Manchu subject support. After expelling the Gurkhas, Manchu officials projected respective suggestions to heighten Tibetan governance, including the usage of Golden Urn to prime the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation. Although drafting tons from the Golden Urn bore immoderate resemblance to the accepted dough-ball divination method, it was ne'er wide adopted.