(TibetanReview.net, Apr11’20) – The European Union has reaffirmed its position that China should respect the Dalai Lama’s succession in accordance with Tibetan Buddhist standards. The assurance was given Apr 3 by Mr Joesp Borrell, the EU Foreign Affairs Chief and Vice President of the European Commission, reported the Central Tibetan […]

(TibetanReview.net, Feb05’20) – The governments of Belgium and the Netherland had made it clear in late 2019 that the reincarnate succession to Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, should be determined by the Tibetan believers themselves without any sort of interference from the Chinese state, said Washington-based International Campaign for […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jan14’20) – The Dalai Lama has on Jan 11 reiterated his position that any reincarnation of him chosen by the Chinese government will not be accepted by the Tibetan people. Despite professing atheism, China has made it clear that it will determine and choose his reincarnate successor from within […]

(TibetanReview.net, Dec24’19) – A group of prominent overseas Chinese intellectuals and democracy activists have on Dec 21 issued a declaration at a meeting in the United States, making it clear that the Communist Party of China had no right to interfere in the process for the recognition of the reincarnation […]

(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 […]