(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 […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul15’19) – China has reiterated its atheist policy-assertion that the next Dalai Lama shall not be a reincarnation of the present one but someone appointed by it as such. “On reincarnation of Dalai Lama, the position of Chinese government is clear. It’s not his personal decision to make,” dnaindia.com […]

(TibetanReview.net, Apr23’19) – A Chinese government scholar has expressed confidence that India will side with China, not USA or Tibetan Buddhists, on the issue of the Dalai Lama reincarnation question. Beijing has already made it clear that the religious belief system on which the reincarnation system is fundamentally based is […]

(TibetanReview.net, Apr11’19) – The United States will only go by the Dalai Lama’s own plan for his succession and will in no way accept China’s claim to determine who his reincarnate is, a key Congressional body that oversees US policy in Asia was reported to have been told on Apr […]

(TibetanReview.net, Mar20’19) – China presumably accepts that the next Dalai Lama can only be the reincarnation of the current one, the 14th, but has made it clear that he cannot choose to reincarnate in a place outside its jurisdiction. What it does not explain, however, is whether and if so […]

(TibetanReview.net, Nov14, 2018) – The Dalai Lama has reiterated Nov 13 that there was no urgency to deal with the issue of his reincarnation or successor but that the matter may be put up for discussion at this month-end’s meeting of Tibet’s top religious leaders in Dharamshala, India. The meeting […]

(TibetanReview.net, Nov06, 2018) – The Dalai Lama has made it clear Nov 5 that he is still open to how his reincarnation or, as the case may be, successor, may be recognized or instituted, including the possibility of nominating a successor by himself or by way of voting like in […]