China urges to have its role in process to select Dalai Lama's successor

 China on Friday said any successor to the current Dalai Lama should be approved by it, issuing a decree to honor any successor chosen by him or his successors.

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The rebirth of the Dalai Lama and other great Living Buddhas has been sanctioned by the central government since the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), demanded an official white paper issued by the Chinese government here.

The document also asserts that Tibet has been an integral part of China since ancient times.

"In 1793, after eliminating the Gurkha invaders, the Qing government restored order to Tibet and declared the Imperially Approved Ordinance for Better Governance of Tibet, improving the Tibetan central government," a white paper entitled 'Tibet Since 1951: Liberation, Development and Development "he said.

The law stipulates that the rebirth law of the Dalai Lama and other Living Buddhas must follow the process of "casting lots of gold" and that the candidate will be approved by the Chinese central government, the statement said.

The 14th Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 following a Chinese attack on the Tibetan uprising. India has granted him political asylum and the exiled Tibetan government has settled in Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh since then.

The Dalai Lama is now 85 years old and the issue of his replacement has come to light in recent years due to old age.

The issue of the Dalai Lama's succession was clear, especially a few years after the US launched a campaign that the right to be reborn in the reins of the Dalai Lama should be under the special authority of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people.

The Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020 (TPSA) passed by the US Congress makes it the official policy of the United States that decisions regarding the rebirth of the Dalai Lama fall under the current authority of the Dalai Lama leaders, Bibetan Buddhist leaders and Tibetans.

Officials in China's Foreign Ministry have repeatedly stressed that while the Dalai Lama's reincarnation center existed for several hundred years, the 14th (current) Dalai Lama was found and revered according to religious traditions and historical rallies, and the succession was adopted by China's central government.

The white paper said that by the year 2020, a total of 92 reborn Living Buddhas have been identified and endorsed with traditional religious practices and historical meetings of Tibetan temples.

Traditional religious activities are carried out regularly in accordance with the law and the examination of the scriptures and subsequent promotion of academic qualifications are also regularly observed in monasteries, it said.

The white paper said the need for Tibetan independence was a product of imperialist oppression with China.

In the middle of the 19th century, the power of the UK-led imperialist regime began to develop the concept of "Tibetary independence," with the aim of undermining China's sovereignty and local integrity.

He criticized the Dalai Lama faction for promoting "Tibetan freedom".

Over the years, the 14th Dalai Lama and his followers have continued to try to promote "Tibetan independence" by creating events to bring peace and stability to Tibet, "it said.

After the failure of their armed rebellion in 1959, respondents of the Tibetan ruling class fled to India and began campaigning for "Tibetan independence" forcibly, it said.

No country or government in the world has ever acknowledged "Tibetan independence," it said.

China makes it compulsory to follow the 'China One' policy, seeing Tibet and Taiwan as an important part of the country.

Beijing has made the 'One-China' policy a requirement for countries to build relations with it.

In the wake of the more than 100 Tibetan people who have set themselves on fire since 2011 demanding the reinstatement of the Dalai Lama, a white paper claims that the Dalai Lama and his followers have encouraged Tibetan Lama to commit suicide.

It also blamed western forces for China for continuing to interfere in Tibetan affairs with the aim of undermining social stability.

He apologized for the occupation of Tibet in China in 1951, saying that with the peaceful liberation of Tibet 70 years ago, the Tibetan people broke free from the shackles of total imperialism and embarked on a brighter path of unity, progress and development for all other races in China.

China is a multinational corporation with a long history. The Chinese nation is a community of a shared future. Tibet has developed through the combined efforts of all races in China, it said.

Dismissing allegations of religious extremism, he said the province has more than 1,700 places of activity in the Buddhist Buddhist monastery with 46,000 monks and nuns besides four Muslims serving 12,000 Muslims, and a Catholic church with more than 700 followers, the province said.

"Following the liberation of peace, all races in Tibet, united under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, work together and stand firm in defending national sovereignty, unity and local integrity," the organization said.

China is building a new modern socialist Tibet, it said.

It also challenged criticism that Tibetan language was undermined in order to improve the official Chinese language. Tibetan spoken and written language is widely used in Tibet, says white paper.

The study and use of the Tibetan language is protected by law.

Tibet now has 16 books and 12 newspapers in the Tibetan language and has published more than 40 million copies of 7,185 Tibetan-language publications, it said.

Tibet is also thriving economically and thriving in the new era, he said.

All those regions that were once considered poor were impoverished, and people were leading a better life by all means.

The system of regional autonomy has been fully implemented in Tibet.

The average life expectancy in Tibet has reached 71.1 years in 2019 from 35.5 years in 1951, due to the development of health infrastructure, it said.

It also said the number of Tibetans in the legislature had increased.

Of the 439 supporters of the 11th People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region, 289 - or about two-thirds - are Tibetans and other minority ethnic groups, he said.