The Dalai Lama's announcement Thursday that he plans to relinquish his position as head of the Tibetan government in exile, saying it was time to make way for a new leader "freely elected". "My desire to pass the authority has nothing to do with wanting to give up responsibility," said the Dalai Lama during a speech in Dharamsala, northern India inhabited by Tibetans in exile.
"It's for the long term good of Tibetans. This is not because I feel discouraged," he added. The leader of Tibetans in exile, aged 75, Nobel Peace Prize, said he would seek an amendment allowing him to relinquish his duties during the next session of Tibetan Parliament in March. A spokesman for the Dalai Lama had announced in November its intention to leave his position as head of the Tibetan government in exile to lighten his workload and reduce its official role, without abandoning his spiritual role.
The Dalai Lama was only 15 when he was appointed "Head of State" in 1950 after the arrival of Chinese Communist troops in Tibet. Highest-ranking Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama is considered the reincarnation of the first Dalai Lama was born in 1391. He fled China in 1959 and took refuge in Dharamsala after a failed uprising against the government in Beijing.
"By the 1960s, I have been repeatedly warned that the Tibetans were in need of a leader, elected freely by the Tibetan people, to whom I can hand over power," he said. Today, time has reached to put it into operation. " During his speech Thursday marking the anniversary of the 1959 uprising, the Dalai Lama, however, assured that he did not withdraw from the political struggle and remained "committed to playing its part in the just cause of Tibet." Despite his age and ill health, he continues to travel to enforce the struggle of the Tibetan people.
It said Thursday it had received calls "repeated and sincere 'in Tibet but also to ask him to keep his political role. 
"It's for the long term good of Tibetans. This is not because I feel discouraged," he added. The leader of Tibetans in exile, aged 75, Nobel Peace Prize, said he would seek an amendment allowing him to relinquish his duties during the next session of Tibetan Parliament in March. A spokesman for the Dalai Lama had announced in November its intention to leave his position as head of the Tibetan government in exile to lighten his workload and reduce its official role, without abandoning his spiritual role.
The Dalai Lama was only 15 when he was appointed "Head of State" in 1950 after the arrival of Chinese Communist troops in Tibet. Highest-ranking Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama is considered the reincarnation of the first Dalai Lama was born in 1391. He fled China in 1959 and took refuge in Dharamsala after a failed uprising against the government in Beijing.
"By the 1960s, I have been repeatedly warned that the Tibetans were in need of a leader, elected freely by the Tibetan people, to whom I can hand over power," he said. Today, time has reached to put it into operation. " During his speech Thursday marking the anniversary of the 1959 uprising, the Dalai Lama, however, assured that he did not withdraw from the political struggle and remained "committed to playing its part in the just cause of Tibet." Despite his age and ill health, he continues to travel to enforce the struggle of the Tibetan people.
It said Thursday it had received calls "repeated and sincere 'in Tibet but also to ask him to keep his political role.
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