Author: Ourwon Ta Sholsh.
Dharamshala, India (Reuters) -Dals Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, often called himself a simple monk, but his more than 60 years armed with a little more than charm and belief, he managed to maintain the cause of his people in the international horizon.
The 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso fled to exile in India in 1959. With thousands of other Tibetans after an unsuccessful uprising against China’s rule. Since then, he has advocated the non -violent “Middle Road” to the people of independence and religious freedom of Tibetan in 1989. The Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.
He met with many world leaders, while inspiring millions of his fun attitude and attitude to life, such as “be pleasant whenever possible. Always possible.”
But his popularity China, who views him as a dangerous separatist, and one former communist party boss describes him as a “jackal” and has a “beast heart”.
The Dalai Lama on Sunday marks the 90th anniversary of a birthday because he noted that he could say more about the then potential heir. The Tibetan tradition states that the soul of the elder Buddhist monk is reincarnated in the child’s body.
In the book “Voices for the Voice” published earlier this year, published earlier, the Tibetans around the world want the Dalai Lama institution to continue after their death and stated that his successor would be born in the “free world”, which he described outside China.
The statements were the strongest, but about the probability of the heir. In previous years, he also said his successor could be a girl and may be that there may be no heir.
However, he stated that any of the heir chosen by China, who had put pressure on foreign governments to avoid it, would not be respected.
Flight to exile
The Dalai Lama was born in 1935. Lhamo dhondupo buckwheat and barley family family in the province of Northwest China. At the age of two, he was considered a search party as the 14th of Tibet’s spiritual and temporary leader, establishing several of his predecessor’s wealth.
1950 China took control of Tibetan control called “peaceful liberation”, and the Dalai Lama, a teenager, took a political role shortly after traveling to Beijing to meet Mao Zedong and other Chinese leaders. After nine years, the fear that the Dalai Lama could be kidnapped has led to a great rebellion.
The subsequent coping of the Chinese army forced him to escape for hidden as a ordinary soldier from the Lhasa Palace, where his predecessors had absolute power.
The Dalai Lama fled to India, living in Himalayan, Himalayan, Dharamshala, where he lives in a compound near the temple, which was ringed by the Green Hills and the Snowy Mountains. There, he opened his operations government for ordinary Tibetans with elected parliament.
Frustrated with how little he had gained from his efforts to communicate with Beijing, in 1988. Announced that he had abandoned his total independence from China, and instead he would look for cultural and religious autonomy in China.
2011 The Dalai Lama has announced that she will abandon its political role by passing on to the leader of the Tibetan government’s elected Extraction.
However, it remains active and these days the Dalai Lama, covered with conventional chestnut and saffron bathrobes, continues to receive a constant flow of visitors.
He had a number of health problems, including knee surgery and difficulty walks. Nevertheless, he expects to live for a long time.
“According to my dream, I can live for 110 years,” he told Reuters in December.
(Krishna daso reports; additional Tanvi Mehta Report; Writing Edwina Gibbs; Edited by Raju Gopalakrishnan)