{"id":21016,"date":"2026-05-27T07:16:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/dalai-lama-attends-swearing-in-of-tibetan-exile-government-leader-in-dharamshala\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:16:01","slug":"dalai-lama-attends-swearing-in-of-tibetan-exile-government-leader-in-dharamshala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/dalai-lama-attends-swearing-in-of-tibetan-exile-government-leader-in-dharamshala\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama attends swearing-in of Tibetan exile government leader in Dharamshala"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DHARAMSALA, May 27 — Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama prayed as the leader of the elected government of Tibetans in exile was sworn in for a second term today.<\/p>\n

The India-based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) — condemned by China as “nothing but a separatist political group” — is a key institution for the exiles, especially after the Dalai Lama handed over political power in 2011.<\/p>\n

Elections took place in February and April in 27 countries — but not China.<\/p>\n

The government’s “sikyong”, or leader, Penpa Tsering, was elected for a second term, after taking 61 per cent in the preliminary round — a high enough threshold to win outright.<\/p>\n

Tsering, like the government, does not seek full independence for Tibet, in line with the Dalai Lama’s long-standing “Middle Way” policy seeking autonomy.<\/p>\n

He took the oath of office in front of justice officials, and watched by the Dalai Lama, a live broadcast by CTA showed.<\/p>\n

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Groups of traditional dancers performed, as crowds including red robed monks and nuns watched the ceremony in India’s northern hilltown of Dharamshala.<\/p>\n

The 91,000 registered voters include Buddhist monks in the high Himalayas, political exiles in South Asia’s megacities and refugees in Australia, Europe and North America.<\/p>\n

The five-year parliament, which sits twice a year, has 45 members from across the world: 30 representing three traditional provinces, 10 representing five religious traditions and five representing the diaspora.<\/p>\n

It functions as a representative body for an estimated 150,000 Tibetans living in exile worldwide.<\/p>\n

Exiled voters represent only a fraction of ethnic Tibetans — whom the CTA estimates at six million worldwide, compared with more than seven million China counted in its 2020 census.<\/p>\n

Beijing, which in 1950 sent troops to the vast high-altitude plateau it describes as an integral part of China, calls the exiled government an “illegal organisation that completely violates the Chinese constitution and laws”.<\/p>\n

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The 90-year-old Dalai Lama, based in India since fleeing the Tibetan capital Lhasa after Chinese troops crushed an uprising in 1959, insists he has many more years to live.<\/p>\n

But supporters of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate are acutely aware that self-declared atheist and Communist China said last year that it must approve the Buddhist leader’s eventual successor.<\/p>\n

The Dalai Lama says only his India-based office has that right.<\/p>\n

Tibetan Buddhists believe he is the 14th reincarnation of a spiritual leader first born in 1391. — AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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DHARAMSALA, May 27 — Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama prayed as the leader of the elected government of Tibetans in exile was sworn in for a second term today. The India-based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) — condemned by China as “nothing but a separatist political group” — is a key institution for the exiles,…<\/p>\n

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