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New Delhi: The Dalai Lama on Wednesday entrusted the full responsibility of selecting his reincarnation to a foundation based in Zurich – a move to counter Beijing’s bid to influence the process and to fizzle out the global movement against the occupation of Tibet by China.
Beijing, however, underlined that the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama must have its approval. Four days ahead of his 90th birthday, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, confirmed that the institution of the Dalai Lama would continue beyond his lifetime and also announced that no one else but the Gaden Phodrang Foundation, which he had set up in Switzerland in 2015, would have the sole authority to recognise his future reincarnation.
The move by the spiritual leader of the Tibetans came even as Beijing planned to make Gyaincain Norbu, whom it had declared ‘Panchen Lama’ in 1995, play a key role in selecting the 15th Dalai Lama, using the ‘Golden Urn’ process of lottery, with the approval from the government of China.
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