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A Dalai Lama representative to India on Wednesday criticised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at length over its interference in the selection process to appoint a new successor to His Holiness.
According to Dhundup Gyalpo, Bureau Secretary (New Delhi) for the Dalai Lama, the Chinese Communist Party's actions essentially “reduced this inviolable spiritual system (the Tibetan Dalai Lama selection process) to nothing more than a state-controlled lottery”.
His comments come amid the CCP's insistence that the golden urn—a Qing dynasty ritual in which names are drawn, lot-style, from a ceremonial urn—was the only legitimate method to recognise reincarnated lamas. The CCP had also insisted that the final selection was subject to its express approval.
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