(TibetanReview.net, Dec09’19) – On the occasion of their third conference, held at Yeunten Ling, Huy, Belgium, Tibetan Buddhist leaders in Europe have on Dec 8 urged the Dalai Lama to continue his reincarnation institution while condemning China for meddling in the reincarnation process. The conference issued a declaration, expressing deep […]

The Tibetan reincarnation tradition is more then 800 years old.  Communist-ruled China is only 70 years old while the offering of a golden urn by a ruler of the Manchu dynasty, historically seen by the Chinese as foreign rulers, for suggested use in the reincarnation recognition process happened only sometime between […]

(TibetanReview.net, Nov30’19) – In keeping with his previous remarks that he would consider laying down instructions on the question of his reincarnation only in his 90’s, the Dalai Lama has said Nov 29 that he was in great health and there was no hurry for him to address the matter. […]

(TibetanReview.net, Nov28’19) – Not that it will sway the Chinese leadership’s resolved to appoint its own figurehead for the position when the time comes, but the heads of the different religious branches of Tibet, who all live in exile, have made it clear Nov 27 that there will be a […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct30’19) – China has expressed bitter anger Oct 29 over the fact that Sam Brownback, the US ambassador at large for international religious freedom, had met Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, at Dharamsala, India, and strongly criticized its interference in the Dalai Lama reincarnation process. Responding to […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct29’19) – Severely criticizing China for its “persecution of the Tibetan people’s faith”, US Ambassador at large for International Religious Freedom Mr Samuel D Brownback made it clear Oct 28 that his government was fully with the Tibetan people, and opposed to atheist Beijing, on the issue of the […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct26’19) – In a remark that China may be hard put to digest, the Dalai Lama has suggested Oct 25 that the tradition of reincarnation had its origins in a feudal set up and “should end now”. China claims to have liberated Tibet from imperial subjugation and its people […]

(TibetanReview.net, Sep20’19) – David Stilwell, Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the US state department, has made clear his government’s stand that Tibetans, like all faith communities, must be able to practice their faith freely and select their leaders without interference. Testifying at a […]

(TibetanReview.net, Sep17’19) – A bill has been introduced in the US Congress which if passed will require Chinese officials who attempt to interfere in the reincarnation process of the Tibetan Buddhists to be subjected to targeted sanctions. The bill was introduced in the House of Representatives on Sep 13 and […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug26’19) – Contending that the reincarnation system was “never a religious-only issue or a living Buddha’s personal right”, China said Aug 25 that it carried out a training session on reincarnation for “living Buddhas” in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Some 100 Tibetan Buddhist monks attended the training session launched […]