In a recent statement from US Ambassador Sam Brownback strongly condemned Chinese interference in choosing the next Dalai Lama. Ambassador Brownback declared at a virtual international conference that only Tibetan Buddhists can choose the successor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and not China.
During the International Religious Freedom Conference in the State Department, Washington last week, US Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom expressed serious concerns over religious persecutions carried out by China on Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kong people and Falung Gong practitioners etc.
“The Tibetan Buddhists have successfully picked their leader for hundreds of years, if not longer, and they have the right to do that now”, Ambassador Sam Brownback explained that the US will continue to oppose China’s allegation over the concern of reincarnation. during the 2020 Ministerial to Advance Freedom of Religion or Belief video conference.
On China’s proclamation over the right to select the successor of the next Dalai Lama, Ambassador Brownback told that the matter of reincarnation of the next Dalai Lama is the concern of Tibetan Buddhists only and China has no religious base to pass judgements in that matter.
Chinese Foreign Ministry had earlier declared that the Chinese government has a policy of freedom of religious beliefs. They said that they have the regulation of religious affairs and regulations on the reincarnation of Tibetan Buddhism including their spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama during most recent interviews explained that his successor could come from India or a free country. His Holiness explained the possibility that China would appoint a candidate for the next Dalai Lama to assert their authority over the Tibetan Buddhists.
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