Dalai Lama’s successor needs to be permitted by China: Beijing white paper on Tibet

China on Friday stated that any successor to the current Dalai Lama must be permitted by it, ruling out recognition to any inheritor nominated by him or by his followers.
The reincarnation of the Dalai Lama and different grand Living Buddhas has been subjected to approval by the central authorities because the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), claimed an official white paper issued by the Chinese authorities right here.
The doc has additionally asserted that Tibet was an inseparable a part of China since historic occasions.
“In 1793, after dispelling Gurkha invaders, the Qing government restored order in Tibet and promulgated the Imperially Approved Ordinance for Better Governance of Tibet, improving systems by which the central government-administered Tibet,” the white paper titled ‘Tibet Since 1951: Liberation, Development and Prosperity” stated.
The ordinance stipulated that the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama and different grand Living Buddhas needed to comply with the process of “drawing lots from the golden urn” and that the chosen candidate could be topic to approval by the central authorities of China, the doc stated.
The 14th Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 following a Chinese crackdown on an rebellion by the native inhabitants in Tibet. India granted him political asylum and the Tibetan government-in-exile has been primarily based in Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh since then.
The Dalai Lama is 85 years previous now and the problem of his successor has gained prominence within the final couple of years as a result of his superior age.
The Dalai Lama’s succession subject was within the limelight, particularly in the previous couple of years after the US has stepped up marketing campaign that the best regarding the reincarnation of Dalai Lama’s successor must be throughout the unique authority of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan individuals.

The Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020 (TPSA) handed by the US Congress makes it official United States coverage that selections relating to the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama are solely throughout the authority of the present Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist leaders and the Tibetan individuals.
Chinese Foreign Ministry officers have been asserting again and again that whereas the establishment of reincarnation of the Dalai Lama has been in existence for a number of hundred years, the 14th (current) Dalai Lama himself was discovered and recognised following non secular rituals and historic conventions, and his succession was permitted by China’s central authorities.
The white paper stated by 2020, a complete of 92 reincarnated Living Buddhas had been recognized and permitted via conventional non secular rituals and historic conventions for temples in Tibet.
Traditional non secular actions are carried out commonly in accordance with the legislation and examination on scriptures and subsequent promotion in educational levels are additionally held in monasteries frequently, it stated.
The white paper termed the demand for Tibetan independence as a product of imperialist aggression towards China.

In the center of the nineteenth century, the UK-led imperialist powers started to domesticate the concept of “Tibet independence,” deliberately undermining China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, it stated.
It slammed the Dalai Lama group for selling “Tibetan independence”.
“Over the years, the 14th Dalai Lama and his supporters have continued to try to promote “Tibetan independence” by upsetting incidents to jeopardise peace and stability in Tibet,” it stated.
After the failure of their armed revolt in 1959, the reactionaries of Tibet’s ruling class fled to India and subsequently started to marketing campaign for “Tibetan independence” by pressure, it stated.
No nation or authorities on the earth has ever acknowledged the “independence of Tibet,” it stated.
China makes it necessary to stick to the ‘One China’ coverage, recognising Tibet and Taiwan as an integral a part of the nation.
Beijing made the ‘One-China’ coverage a prerequisite for nations to determine diplomatic ties with it.
About the incidents of over 100 Tibetans setting themselves on hearth since 2011 demanding the return of the Dalai Lama from his exile, the white paper stated the Dalai Lama and his supporters have incited Tibetan lamas into self-immolations.
It additionally blamed the western anti-China forces for persevering with to intrude in Tibetan affairs in an try to sabotage its social stability.
Justifying China’s taking up of Tibet in 1951, it stated with the peaceable liberation of Tibet 70 years in the past, the individuals of Tibet broke free from the fetters of invading imperialism for good and launched into a vibrant highway of unity, progress and growth with all the opposite ethnic teams in China.
China is a unified multi-ethnic nation with an extended historical past. The Chinese nation is a group of shared future. Tibet has developed via the mixed efforts of all of the ethnic teams in China, it stated.
Rejecting allegations of curbs on faith, it stated the province has greater than 1,700 websites for Tibetan Buddhist actions with 46,000 monks and nuns moreover 4 mosques serving 12,000 native Muslims, and a Catholic church with greater than 700 followers, it stated.
“Following the peaceful liberation, all ethnic groups in Tibet, united under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, have worked together and stood firm in safeguarding national sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity,” it stated.
China is constructing a brand new trendy socialist Tibet, it stated.
It additionally refuted criticism that the Tibetan language is being undermined to advertise the official Chinese language. The Tibetan spoken and written language is broadly utilized in Tibet, the white paper stated.
The research and use of the Tibetan language are protected by legislation.
Tibet now has 16 periodicals and 12 newspapers within the Tibetan language and has printed greater than 40 million copies of seven,185 Tibetan-language books, it stated.
Tibet can be economically thriving and prospering within the new period, it stated.
All these counties previously categorised as poor have risen out of poverty, and the individuals are main higher lives in each respect.
The system of regional ethnic autonomy has been absolutely applied in Tibet it stated.
The common life expectancy in Tibet has reached 71.1 years in 2019 from 35.5 years in 1951, as a result of growth of well being infrastructure, it stated
It additionally stated the variety of Tibetans within the legislature has elevated.
Of the 439 deputies to the eleventh People’s Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region, 289 — or nearly two-thirds — are from the Tibetan and different ethnic minorities, it stated.