Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Battle for succession to the Dalai Lama Beijing enacts a law: "It must be born in China"

BEIJING - The Dalai Lama claims to be close to "retirement" and between Beijing and Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, is wrestling for the succession. For years, China try to take the power to appoint the heir of the spiritual leader of Buddhists, thus completing the political and cultural conquest of Tibet.

It 's a war that also involves the West, the United States in the lead, fought with strokes of kidnapping, and a unilateral promotion of monks Lamaist a leader of the Communist Party. But now, a few weeks of the withdrawal of Tenzin Gyatso, 75, XIV Dalai Lama and Nobel Peace Prize, Beijing deploys for the first time the weapon of the law.

The State Administration for Religious Affairs, a kind of ministry that controls the management of different denominations, has announced the establishment of a law that sets the criteria for a "legitimate reincarnation of Buddha." According to Beijing, the successor to the Dalai Lama will be reincarnated in a territory other than Chinese.

The communist authorities, historically atheist, that is, determine that from now on, the spiritual leader of Buddhists can not be born in China, which is under the control of state officials. The current Dalai Lama in recent weeks, but had confirmed that his successor would no longer be reincarnated in Tibet, the Chinese territory after the invasion of 1959 until the historically Tibetan region and the other will be ruled by Beijing .

If the Dalai Lama had blocked the road rise to power del'attuale Panchen Lama, chosen and protected by Communist officials, China blocked the opportunity now to read the death of the Dalai Lama, or after an unprecedented abdication, the his reincarnation can take place in a child born and living abroad, perhaps in India, without clearance by the Chinese authorities.

The "war of reincarnation" Buddhist has always been delicate. For centuries, the baby-pretenders to the throne of the Potala in Lhasa, are in danger of being murdered by the rival clan, and in many cases this has occurred. In 1995, after the Dalai Lama in a Tibetan child had identified the reincarnation of the eleventh Panchen Lama, or the number two in the hierarchy Lamaist, the chosen one has mysteriously disappeared, and Beijing has set up its own candidate instead.

The current Karmapa Lama, who fled from China in 2000 and adventurous refugees in Dharamsala, although I was born and raised in Tibet has at least two contenders to the legacy of Tenzin Gyatso. India, to avert the risk of clashes between groups of exiled Tibetans, which prevents the pretenders to the succession of the Dalai Lama can reach the monastery which houses a black hat, symbol of the Lamaist.

The struggle for the spiritual leader of Buddhists is not limited to "Chinesized by law" the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, claimed by Beijing. A financial scandal, which involved the secret services would see Chinese shakes for days Tibetans in exile in India. A mountain of cash, just under two million dollars, was found by Indian police in the room of the Karmapa Lama, just outside of Dharamsala.

The officers arrived at the right arm of Tenzin Gyatso was found after "accidentally" in a stock car with two hundred thousand dollars in Indian currency. Among the money held by the Karmapa Lama there were also one hundred thousand U.S. dollars into yuan, the Chinese currency. I am so back to explode, despite the denials from Beijing, rumors that the Karmapa Lama is actually a spy sent by the Chinese in Dharamsala.

According to the Dalai Lama, who defends his deputy, the money is instead the result of donations of the faithful, many of whom send offers from Tibet and other regions of China. Among the laws of reincarnation and spy story, the succession to the leadership Buddhist ignites. The only sure thing is that it will end the reign of the Dalai Lama, the handover will not be painless.

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