The 90 -year -old Buddhist leader writes it in a book
The Dalai Lama provides that his successor will reincarnate out of China, in the “free world”: he writes it in a new book, in which he denies his previous prediction, that the line of succession of the spiritual leaders of Tibetan Buddhism could have exhausted at his death. A new statement, writes the Guardian, who continues the challenge with Beijing on Tibet, from which the 89 -year -old Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama and Monarch, fled at the age of 23 with thousands of Tibetan followers after the military military annexation of the great region by the Communist China of Mao Zedong in 1959. For over 60 years, the Dalai Lama, rewarded in 1989 with the Nobel Peace and considered a “separatist” by Beijing, lives in exile in the monastery of Kirirti in Dharamshala, in the north of India.
In his book, the Dalai Lama claims to have received numerous petitions for more than a decade from many Tibetans, including monks, elderly and exiles abroad, “who all ask me to guarantee that the descent of the Dalai Lama continuous”.
Tibetan tradition claims that the soul of an elderly Buddhist monk reincarnates in a child’s body at his death. The current Dalai Lama was identified as the reincarnation of his predecessor when he was two years old. In the book it prophesies that his successor for the first time will be born in what he calls the “free world”, that is, outside of China. “Since the purpose of reincarnation is to continue the work of the predecessor, the new Dalai Lama will be born in the free world so that the traditional Dalai Lama mission, that is, to be the voice of universal compassion, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and the symbol of Tibet that embodies the aspirations of the Tibetan people, continuous”, writes the Dalai Lama, which will turn 90 next July.
The book, which the author defines a report of his relations with Chinese leaders over seven decades, is published today in the United States by William Morrow and in Great Britain by Harpernonfiction, with Harpercollins editions to follow in India and other countries.
The Guardian asked a question about the statements in the book to a spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, who replied that the Dalai Lama “is a political exile engaged in anti-cenis separatist activities cloaked in religiosity”.
