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Reuters

The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, is profaning Buddhism by suggesting he will not be reincarnated when he dies, the Chinese-appointed governor of Tibet said yesterday.
The comment's by Padma Choling are some of China’s strongest comments to date on the subject.
Tibetan Buddhism holds that the soul of a senior lama is reincarnated in the body of a child on his death.
China has said the tradition must continue and it must approve the next Dalai Lama.
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However, the Nobel peace laureate, who fled his homeland in 1959 after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule, has said he thinks the title could end when he dies.
He has also stated that he will not be reborn in China if Tibet is not free and that no one, including China, has the right to choose his successor “for political ends”.
Tibet governor Padma Choling, speaking on the sidelines of the National People's Congress, the annual meeting of parliament in Beijing, accused the Dalai Lama of switching back and forth with his various pronouncements on the issue, and of hypocrisy since he himself was reincarnated.
“If the central government had not approved it, how could he have become the 14th Dalai Lama? He couldn’t. It has a serious procedure,” Padma Choling, an ethnic Tibetan himself, told reporters.
“I think that, in fact, he is profaning religion and Tibetan Buddhism,” he said, adding that the Dalai Lama was trying to usurp Beijing’s right to decide.
“If he says no reincarnation then no reincarnation? Impossible. Nobody in Tibetan Buddhism would agree to that,” he said. “We must respect history, respect and not profane Tibetan Buddhism.”
Exiles worry that China might just simply appoint its own successor.
In 1995, after the Dalai Lama named a boy in Tibet as the reincarnation of the previous Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism, China put that boy under house arrest and installed another in his place.
Many Tibetans spurn the Chinese-appointed Panchen Lama as a fake.
China’s officially atheist Communist party says it has inherited the right of the old emperors to sign off on reincarnations, although how important the custom was is historically disputed.
The nation routinely rejects criticism of its policies in Tibet, saying that its rule, since Communist Chinese troops “peacefully liberated” the region in 1950, ended serfdom and brought development to a backward, poverty-stricken region.
Beijing has claimed the Dalai Lama, who fled to India after the uprising, is a “wolf in sheep’s clothing,” who seeks to use violent methods to establish an independent Tibet.
The Dalai Lama has said he wants only genuine autonomy for Tibet and denies advocating independence or violence.


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China says Dalai Lama ‘profanes’ Buddhism by doubting his reincarnation 

The Dalai Lama, who fled his Tibetan homeland in 1959 after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule, has said he thinks the title could end when he dies. Photo: AP

Padma Choling, the Chinese-appointed governor of Tibet, has accused the Dalai Lama of hypocrisy. Photo: Reuters 

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The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, is profaning Buddhism by suggesting he will not be reincarnated when he dies, the Chinese-appointed governor of Tibet said yesterday
