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The Dalai Lama will have a successor after his death – Dalai lama will have successor
On the occasion of the celebrations of his 90th anniversary. Meanwhile, the Dalai Lama confirmed that he would have a successor to his death.
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The Dalai Lama during a prayer ceremony for longevity at the main temple of McLeod Ganj. Meanwhile, near Dharamsala, on June 30, 2025.
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The Dalai Lama confirmed on Wednesday that a successor would be appointed to his death to Ensure the continuity of his function dalai lama will have successor of spiritual leader of the Tibetan community. Nevertheless, in a declaration published on the occasion of its 90th anniversary.
“I assert that the institution of the Dalai Lama will be perpetuated. ” he said in this text during a religious meeting at McLeod Ganj, in northern India, where he lives in exile. Born on July 6. 1935, Tenzin Gyatso for civil status became from the age of 2 years the 14th spiritual and political leader of the Tibetans, duly identified, as required by the Buddhist tradition, as the reincarnation of its predecessor.
He fled Chinese repression in 1959. has spent most of his time in a monastery of McLeod Ganj, in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. The question of his succession is crucial because the Tibetans suspect China. whose troops invaded Tibet in 1950 to make dalai lama will have successor it a Chinese province, to want to name a successor to his hand.
“Born in the free world”
“The responsibility (of the appointment of a successor. editor’s note) will be based exclusively on the members of the Gaden Phodrang Trust, the office of His Holiness Le Dalai-Lama,” said the message made public on Wednesday. “They will conduct research and recognition procedures (from the successor) in accordance with past tradition,” he added.
The current Dalai Lama. considered as a dangerous separatist by Beijing, had already publicly dismissed the idea that his successor could be appointed by the Chinese. He will necessarily be “born in the free world,” he promised publicly on numerous occasions.
In 2011. the Dalai Lama had renounced the political power of its office, entrusted to a Prime dalai lama will have successor Minister, elected by the diaspora, and a government.
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