5 that currently regulate the reincarnation of Tibetan ‘living Buddhas’. Thus, Beijing is all set to pick the next Dalai Lama as per the Qing-era norms and in compliance with China’s state laws and regulations under Order No. Those were followed by the Chiang Kai-shek government for appointing the current Dalai Lama in 1940. Beijing cites the Qing-era norms, comprising a set of religious rituals and historical conventions as criteria for recognising the Dalai Lamas. Claiming to be the successor to the imperial state, the communist regime insists that determining the reincarnation lineage was never a purely religious or personal affair, but a sovereign one.Ĭhina will not dispute the search for the Dalai Lama’s soul in another body as long as it is found according to the Chinese law and within China’s territory. It tasks his private office to carry out the search and recognition as per past practices.īeijing, which has never got along with the current Dalai Lama, claims a sovereign right to determine his lineage on the ground that it was China’s Qing dynasty that had instituted the Dalai Lama’s seat in 1653. The Dalai Lama’s own edict of September 2011 had envisaged a reincarnation plan after he turns 90. They also said any China-imposed candidate would not be accepted. The clergy heads met recently in Dharamshala to urge the Dalai Lama to take a call on his reincarnation. The exiled Central Tibetan Administration has a roadmap on reincarnation to be anchored by the heads of major Tibetan religious sects. Reincarnation is critical to the Tibetans’ identity politics. In an interview with THE WEEK in July 2019, he had mused on ending the tulku reincarnation system, which has created a “feudal system”. The Dalai Lama has been making conflicting statements over the issue of his reincarnation-that he simply “would not be reborn” that there could be a “female reincarnate” and so on.
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