New Delhi: Dismissing Chinese claim to appoint the next Dalai Lama, President of the Tibetan Government in Exile stated on Friday (April 2) that Tibetans have “copy right” over reincarnation, however Beijing is planning to have a “duplicate” copy.
Lobsang Sangay, Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration (Tibetan Government in Exile), stated, “Communist Party of China has zero credibility, as far as reincarnation is concerned. The Communist Party believes in atheism. They say religion is poison, why do they want to interfere in our internal affairs.”
Responding to a query from Zee Media in an occasion, Sangay, who’s the political successor to Dalai Lama, defined, “for almost thousand years, we the Tibetans have selected our own reincarnate Lamas, including the Dalai Lamas. So we have the patent and copyright over reincarnation. So we are the original and Chinese will have a duplicate. Original original hota hai, duplicate, duplicate.”
Keen to enhance its affect on Buddhism, China has said that it will appoint the next Dalai Lama, the fifteenth within the line of succession. The present Dalai Lama is the 14th one and had to depart Tibet in 1959 after the area was occupied by the Communist regime.
Asked if China might do a repetition of Galwan or Doklam incident, he stated, “very doubtless, 60 years in the past after they occupied Tibet, they stated, as soon as we occupy Tibet as the palm, they will come after 5 fingers right. What you saw in Doklam, is one of the 5 fingers. What you saw in Galwan is one of the 5 fingers, these kinds of incursions will continue. Chinese govt policy is expansionist, therefore, such incidents will keep happening”
The 2020 Galwan incident witnessed the loss of life of 20 Indian troopers on the Line Of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh due to aggressive Chinese motion. In 2017, China tried to occupied Bhutanese territories in Doklam however was stopped by Indian forces.
