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14th Dalai Lama

14th Dalai Lama
14th Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama is the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was born in 1935 and was selected as the 14th Dalai Lama at the age of two. Many Tibetans around the world regard the Dalai Lama as their spiritual leader. He fled from China in 1959 and has not returned since. He is known as a charismatic speaker and lifelong advocate for human rights and religious freedom for Tibetans inside Tibet.
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6 Jul 1935
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14th Dalai Lama
A file picture of the guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins, which has entered the South China Sea, according to the PLA Southern Theatre Command. Photo: Getty Images
SCMP Highlights

Chinese families in ‘broken houses’; PLA’s warning: SCMP daily highlights

From China sanctioning two European banks to a Chinese-owned aircraft detained in Russia, here’s a round-up from today’s coverage.

Diplomacy

China cuts ties with Czech president over his birthday visit to Dalai Lama

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China-India relations

India’s Modi urged to attend China’s victory parade. What would it mean at home?

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China-India relations

China and India to restart direct flights after more than five years

Resumption comes as India’s foreign minister makes first trip to Beijing since 2020, meets counterpart Wang Yi and Vice-President Han Zheng.

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Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in Beijing on Monday. Photo: Xinhua
China-India relations

Will Dalai Lama succession row put China-India thaw at risk?

Tibet is a red line that cannot be crossed, one observer warns, while another says ‘young and weak’ thaw will survive reincarnation dispute.

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China-India relations

China protests over Indian PM Narendra Modi’s birthday greetings to Dalai Lama

Beijing’s second warning in a week cautions India on Tibet issues, advising New Delhi not to ‘meddle’ in Chinese internal affairs.

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Tibet

Beijing says Dalai Lama’s succession plan breaks tradition, tensions set to rise

Beijing’s foreign ministry responds to the exiled spiritual leader who says his office has sole authority to recognise next Dalai Lama.

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The Dalai Lama at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala, India, on Monday. Photo: AP
China’s Communist Party

Chinese religious groups warned of ‘hidden danger’ from foreign infiltration

United Front chief Li Ganjie’s message to faith groups follows Xi Jinping’s call to ‘Sinicise’ religion in meeting with Tibet’s Panchen Lama.

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Tibet

Dalai Lama to issue July 2 message, expected to address succession

The video message will be shown just days before the Nobel Peace Prize-winning monk is expected to celebrate his 90th birthday.

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China’s Communist Party

China warns against separatism ahead of Dalai Lama’s expected succession decree

During inspection tour, Chen Wenqing says political and legal bodies must fully understand Qinghai’s unique geopolitical position.

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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has sparked concerns in China of social instability with the statement that his successor may be born outside China. Photo: AP
China-EU relations

In human rights talks, EU warns of ‘deterioration’ of basic freedoms in China

Brussels cites ‘interference’ in Dalai Lama succession plan and jailed Uygur and Tibetan activists as examples of erosion of freedoms.

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The Dalai Lama (centre) arrives at a temple in Dharamsala, India on March 14 to deliver a sermon. The EU has called for the Tibetan spiritual leader’s successor to be selected without “government interference”. Photo: AP
US-China relations

Open Questions | Ex-CIA official Dennis Wilder on why US-Europe rift is ‘highly exaggerated’

The national security specialist and former CIA official on US-China ties and the group chat discussion that shocked the world.

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US-China relations

Open Questions | Xi-Trump meeting is ‘far away’: former CIA official says China needs to take steps on fentanyl

Dennis Wilder says China needs to stop using the fentanyl issue as a political card. He says that before Trump and Xi meet, negotiations are in order and that the US stance towards Taiwan hasn’t changed.

Tibet

Overseas Dalai Lama reincarnation ‘could not be recognised’ by Beijing

The Drepung Monastery in Lhasa has the capacity to look for the exiled spiritual leader’s successor under Beijing’s supervision, Tibetology researcher says.

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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will turn 90 in July. Photo: AP
Tibet

Explainer | Why the choice of the next Dalai Lama is such a sensitive issue for Beijing

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader has hinted his successor may be born outside China, setting the scene for intense controversy.

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The Dalai Lama has promised to resolve the reincarnation issue this year. Photo: Reuters
India

Dalai Lama’s brother, architect of talks with China, dies at 97

Gyalo Thondup began discussions between Dharamsala and Beijing in 1979, in a departure from his earlier approach of armed struggle.

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China’s Communist Party

China’s ideology tsar signals to Dalai Lama at Buddhism reincarnation exhibit

China’s fourth senior official Wang Huning visits China Tibetology Research Centre, as officials vow national unity and ethnic solidarity.

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China’s Communist Party

Buddhists urged to obey reincarnation rules as Dalai Lama mulls successor

Top monks and religious experts gather for seminar aimed at making Tibetan Buddhism ‘compatible with socialist society’.

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Monks and religious experts attend a meeting in Lanzhou, Gansu province on Tuesday about policies and regulations governing the “reincarnation of living Buddhas” in Tibetan Buddhism. Photo: Weibo/琼布活佛
Hong Kong Basic Law

Opinion | Deng Xiaoping and the Tibet factor in ‘one country, two systems’

With hindsight, the one country, two systems framework bears a certain resemblance to a Qianlong policy Deng and others studied in 1957.

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Tibet

Opinion | Deng Xiaoping and the Tibet factor in ‘one country, two systems’

With hindsight, the one country, two systems framework bears a certain resemblance to a Qianlong policy Deng and others studied in 1957.

Tibet

China warns US not to allow ‘separatist activities’ by Dalai Lama

Beijing protests to Washington after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader meets senior American officials in New York.

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The Dalai Lama (centre) has been visiting the US since June, when he travelled to New York for medical treatment. Photo: Kyodo
Tibet

Tibet, Summer Davos and more

A US delegation’s visit to the Dalai Lama prompted denunciation from Beijing. Also in the news, China rolled out measures to support its tech-laden Star Market, and economic data was mixed. Next week, “Summer Davos” kicks of in Dalian and a mitigation trial of Hong Kong opposition figures convenes.

Senior US lawmakers including former House speaker Nancy Pelosi pose with Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama at his residence in Dharamsala. Photo: Handout via AFP
China-India relations

US lawmakers meeting Modi after Dalai Lama signals India shift on China: analysts

India, one expert says, has ‘indicated that it is willing to gradually ramp up pressure on issues like Tibet and Taiwan’.

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China’s Communist Party

Xi visits Tibetans and temple in China, calls for ethnic unity

Xi urges provincial leaders to make Qinghai a national clean-energy highland, international ecotourism destination and green export base.

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US-China relations

US lawmakers meet Tibet’s Dalai Lama, pressure China on talks

The group, which includes ex-House speaker Nancy Pelosi, says it won’t let China influence the spiritual leader’s choice of successor.

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The Dalai Lama exchanges greetings with former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi during their meeting at Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India, on Wednesday. Photo: Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama via Reuters
US-China relations

China warns US over congressional delegation’s trip to meet with the Dalai Lama

Washington should ‘have no contact with the Dalai group in any form, and stop sending the wrong signal to the world’, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman says.

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Representative Nancy Pelosi, the former US House speaker, addressing the Tibetan parliament-in-exile at Dharamshala, India on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

US lawmakers to meet Dalai Lama on India trip next week

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among a group of US lawmakers visiting Dharamsala – where the 88-Tibetan spiritual leader lives in exile – on June 18 and 19.

US-China relations

US lawmakers pass bill that questions China’s claims over Tibet

Bill that frames Beijing’s control over Tibet for centuries as ‘disinformation’ will head to President Joe Biden’s desk.

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