Since the year 2011, the Dalai Lama is politically retired.
BY: DPA
domingo, 21 June of 2015
Nueva Delhi, India.- In April he left for Japan, At the beginning of June he traveled to Australia and the United Kingdom, In July he will visit the United States and then return to India: The Dalai Lama's agenda resembles a backpacker's trip around the world.
everywhere, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans appears in a burgundy toga, some old timeless glasses and with his characteristic smile on his lips. "Hermanos y hermanas míos. Which hoy day we really need is a feeling of unity between all 7,000 millones de personas en el mundo", says the most famous Buddhist monk in the world. This is the mission of your life: create harmony. Now, the Dalai Lama meets 80 years.
The 14th Dalai Lama was born Lhamo Dhondup, son of simple peasants, In the Tibetan Altiplano. However, He will not be able to celebrate his round birthday in his homeland., ofthat Tibet has been occupied for several decades by China. in 1959, The Dalai Lama was forced to flee and tens of thousands of other Tibetans followed him into exile.. The Tibetan spiritual leader has lived since then in the Indian town of Dharamshala., at the foot of the Himalayas.
Now, Guests from all over the world are coming to that pilgrimage center to pray this Sunday with the Dalai Lama, who long ago became something more than the symbol of the peaceful resistance of his people against the Chinese government. According to the Tibetan government in exile, el Dalai Lama es "un simbolo global para la paz y la renuncia a la violencia".
The Nobel Peace Prize winner dedicates his energy to the great questions of our times: religious conflicts, climate change, refugee policy, the economic crisis, the fight against poverty and the search for the meaning of life in science. And always calls on his neighbors to show compassion, amor, tolerance and forgiveness. For this reason he has become one of the most beloved men of our times throughout the world..
He handed over the responsibility of management to his people a long time ago.. Since the year 2011, the Dalai Lama is politically retired. From then on, the government of the approximately 128,000 exiled Tibetans headed by a Sikyong, a prime minister.
Hoy, Lobsang Sangay es el responsable de la vieja lucha por una "genuina autonomía", I mean, for the cultural and religious freedoms of Tibetans within the People's Republic of China. At first, the Dalai Lama was still advising the government in exile, not recognized by any country in the world. However, "con el paso del tiempo esas reuniones fueron escaseando cada vez más", says a confidant of the Dalai Lama.
Maybe, the institution called Dalai Lama will disappear soon. The leaders of the Tibetans are chosen by high-ranking Buddhist sages. In the same way, The current Dalai Lama was chosen in 1937 when I was two years old. However, this tradition, which has been around for almost 500 years, it could end now, because the Dalai Lama has renounced political power, as he himself recently said in several interviews.
It is possible that with this decision the Dalai Lama tried to get out of the way of the Chinese authorities, that after his death they could look for a child as a new reincarnation of the Dalai Lama and raise him under their control. Or it could even be worse, as demonstrated by the case of the eleventh Panchen Lama: the second most important leader of the Tibetans, six years old, He disappeared a few days after being recognized by the Dalai Lama, probably kidnapped by Chinese authorities. Beijing designated another child as reincarnation of the Panchen Lama in his place.
Organizations defending human rights have since accused
Chinese authorities have long been repressing culturally and religiously the six million Buddhists in Tibet.. Several refugees from the highlands claim that the extensive relocation programs promoted by the Chinese regime have turned Tibetans into a minority in their own country.. Teaching in schools and universities in Tibet is in Chinese and several Buddhist monasteries have been closed.. They already add up to more than 100 the Tibetans who, as a sign of protest against Chinese rule, have burned themselves to death.
The Dalai Lama has said that he wants to remain on Earth until the suffering of living beings in this world has disappeared., not in the same body but as the same spirit. Tibetan spiritual leader hopes world will be a more peaceful place when reincarnated again. ¿When will it be? "Según los médicos que han examinado mi constitución física, I will fulfill 100 años", said in an interview, to add: "En mis sueños llego a cumplir 113 years, but 100 they are safe, creo".
The Dalai Lama on Twitter: http://dpaq.de/8dPe3
Official website on the Internet: http://dpaq.de/hh6yA
Entrevista del periódico "The Sunday Times" with the Dalai Lama: http://dpaq.de/eoVjd
By Sunrita Sen and Doreen Fiedler/DPA
