{"id":958,"date":"2025-06-19T03:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/dalai-lama-to-deliver-message-july-2-ahead-of-90th-birthday-and-succession-talks\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T03:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:46:29","slug":"dalai-lama-to-deliver-message-july-2-ahead-of-90th-birthday-and-succession-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/dalai-lama-to-deliver-message-july-2-ahead-of-90th-birthday-and-succession-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama to deliver message July 2 ahead of 90th birthday and succession talks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW DELHI, June 19 — The Dalai Lama will issue a message on July 2, Tibet’s government in exile said yesterday, days ahead of his 90th birthday and a hugely anticipated decision as to whether he will have an eventual successor.<\/p>\n

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning monk is expected to celebrate his 90th birthday on July 6 with huge crowds in northern India, his base since leaving his homeland fleeing Chinese troops in 1959.<\/p>\n

He has said his landmark birthday will also be a time to encourage people to plan for an eventual future without him and to address whether the Tibetan people want, in time, another Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n

While China condemns him as a rebel and separatist, the internationally-recognised Dalai Lama describes himself as a “simple Buddhist monk”.<\/p>\n

Many exiled Tibetans fear China will name a successor to bolster control over a territory it poured troops into in 1950.<\/p>\n

The Dalai Lama stepped down as his people’s political head in 2011, passing the baton of secular power to a government chosen democratically by 130,000 Tibetans around the world.<\/p>\n

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‘Free world’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Penpa Tsering, the sikyong<\/em> or head of the government based in India’s Himalayan hill town of McLeod Ganj, said that on July 2 there would be a meeting of the most senior Tibetan religious elders, or lamas.<\/p>\n

“There will be a brief meeting of all the head lamas, which is about nine of them, meeting with His Holiness (the Dalai Lama)”, Tsering told reporters, adding that after that, they would open a religious meeting.<\/p>\n

“At the opening of the religious conference there will be a video message from His Holiness”, he added.<\/p>\n

No details were given as to what the message will be, but there is widespread support among Tibetans in exile for the post of Dalai Lama to continue.<\/p>\n

The Dalai Lama has already said that if there “is a consensus that the Dalai Lama institution should continue”, then the Office of the Dalai Lama — the Gaden Phodrang Trust in McLeod Ganj — would hold the responsibility for the recognition of the next leader.<\/p>\n

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He has also made it clear that any successor would by necessity be “born in the free world”.<\/p>\n

The Dalai Lama has said it does not seek full independence for Tibet, but rather to pursue a long-standing “Middle Way” policy seeking greater autonomy.<\/p>\n

The current Dalai Lama was identified in 1936 when, aged two, he passed a test by pointing to objects that had belonged to the post’s previous occupier.<\/p>\n

He was hailed as the 14th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, a role that stretches back more than 600 years. — AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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NEW DELHI, June 19 — The Dalai Lama will issue a message on July 2, Tibet’s government in exile said yesterday, days ahead of his 90th birthday and a hugely anticipated decision as to whether he will have an eventual successor. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning monk is expected to celebrate his 90th birthday on July…<\/p>\n

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