Will the Tibetan spiritual leader reveal the continuity plan when he turns 90?

Hundreds of Dalai -Lama followers gathered in Northern India for the 90th anniversary of the Tibetan Spiritual leader, against the background of the expectation that he could tell about his possible successor.

Dalai -Lama must release a video message and statement on Wednesday, his office told the BBC, though the clarity is what he will say.

Dalai -Lama escaped across the border to India in 1959 after the unsuccessful uprising against Chinese government in Tibet.

He created the exile of the government in the North Indian hill Darasla and was considered an alternative source of power for those who resent Beijing’s tight control.

A birthday on Sunday will be preceded by a three-day 15th Tibetan Religious Conference, starting on Wednesday morning. The celebrations began on Monday – the birthday of the Dalai -Lama according to the Tibetan lunar calendar.

More than 7,000 guests, including a number of Indian ministers, will be solemn. On Monday, photos showed that Dalai Lama blessed Hollywood actor Richard Ger, a long-standing follower.

Dalai -Lama, who previously stated that to release the details of his continuity on his 90th birthday, said on Monday that “there will be some basis in which we can talk about the continuation of the Dalai Lamas Institute.” He did not specify.

In the past, the Nobel spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, which received the Nobel Prize, was a gap between whether or not to continue the 600-year institution. A few years ago he said that his successor could be a girl or that the successor may not be.

But in recent years he also stated that in the case of widespread support among the Tibetans in exile – which is – then he will continue, and his office will select the successor.

He always insisted that his successor was born outside China, which caused Beijing dissatisfaction.

Despite the fact that Dalai -Lama always advocated the “average way” to solve the status of Tibet – true self -government in China – Beijing considers him a separatist. It states that the standard of living of people in Tibet has improved significantly.

This week, Judon Aukatsan, a Member of the Tibetan Parliament in exile, said he did not expect a clear procedure. “

“I think everyone is waiting for some opening from his holiness regarding his reincarnation. But I do not expect a very specific association,” he said the BBC.

He said that Dalai -Lama is a mandatory and unification force for the Tibetan movement, “and some Tibeters believe that someone should be recognized soon by its successor because they are worried that it can affect the society and the movement that goes forward.

“The Dalai -Lama Institute is very important for the Tibetan struggle. It is also a symbol of the Tibetan identity and the lighthouse of our spiritual asylum. It will continue. I think there will be a vacuum, but we have to continue, we have no choice,” he said.

“We have very very big shoes, but we have to fill them, huh? I think many will have to enter this role, one person will not be enough.”

However, experts say that if he announces the successor, China is expected to call his own Dalai.

“China will say that only the Communist Party of China, based in Beijing, has the powers to find reincarnation of the Dalai -Lama,” said the BBC Dibyesh Anand, a professor of international relations at the University of Westminster.

“In a few months or a few years, they will have their own deepest, identifying the little boy as the next Dalai and impose this. Of course, most Tibetians throw it away, and most people in the world are going to make fun of it. But remember that China has great resources to try to impose it.”

Mr. Akatsan says that “despite all these years, attempts to control the hearts and minds of Tibetan in Tibet,” Beijing “completely failed.”

He says that the Dalai -Lama, elected by China, “will not be recognized not only by the Tibetans, but also the world does not recognize it, because in China there is no legitimacy to find the future Dalai.”

“We are concerned, but we know that regardless of our concern, China will come up with our own Dalai-Lama, we will call it Chinese, recognized by Dalai Lama. I don’t worry that Dalai Lama will have trust in the Tibetan world or Buddhist world.”

Tibetan Buddhists believe that their older monks are reincarnated, and Buddhist officials choose the Dalai -love when they are convinced that the one they choose carries the soul of their predecessor.

The present – 14th – Dalai -Lama was born on July 6, 1935 in a small Tibetan village in the family of farmers and was named Lhama Dhondub. When he was two years old, the Search Party of Buddhist officials recognized it by reincarnation of 13 previous Dalai Lomas.

According to his official biography, evidence came when officials showed him a number of possessions belonging to his predecessor. The kid correctly identified the items belonging to the 13th Dalai -Lom, saying, “This is mine. This is mine.”

Failed before he was four, he was educated in the Tibetan monastery and has a doctoral studio of Buddhist philosophy.

But in 1950, when he was 15, the troops of the recently established communist government Mao Zedun moved to Tibet. A year later, China attracted a 17-point agreement that legitimized Tibet’s inclusion in China.

The Tibetan uprising in 1959, which sought to stop the Chinese language, was crushed, and thousands of participants were killed.

The Dalai Lama fled to India along with 10,000 followers and settled in Dharamsale, having spent the government from there in exile. In 2011, he abandoned his political role, but remains the main spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.

Some of those who escaped near him still dream of going home to Tibet.

“My belief is that I will return to Tibet. If not me, my younger generations are sure to return,” said 84 -year -old Lobsang Chodon, who attended the festivities on Monday.

Chadan’s daughter and grandchildren were born – and spent all their lives in India. However, her 15-year-old grandson Ngawang Lundup feels deeply linked to her eternal homeland.

He listened to Tibet’s stories as a child, and says he would consider visiting Tibet, though it is under Chinese power.

“But if it were free from Chinese invasion, I would be more than glad to return to Tibet.”